The Victorian amateur astronomer : independent astronomical research in Britain 1820-1920 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; New York :
Wiley,
1998
Chichester ; New York : Chichester : Wiley ; Published in association with Praxis Pub., 1998 Chichester ; New York : Wiley published in association with Praxis Publishing, Chichester, 1998 Chichester ; New York : 1998 Chichester ; New York : 1998 |
| Series: | Wiley-Praxis series in astronomy and astrophysics
Wiley-Praxis series in astronomy and astrophysics Wiley-Praxis series in astronomy and astrophysics |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The Grand Amateurs. 1. Amateur astronomy in the Romantic Age. 2. Gentlemen and players: amateurs and professionals in 1840. 3. An inheritance, a wife, a benefice, or a brewery: financing fundamental research. 4. Sir John Herschel: a model for the independent scientist. 5. An astronomical house-party: the Bedford-Aylesbury axis. 6. The brotherhood of the big reflecting telescope. 7. The new sciences of light: spectroscopy, photography, and the Grand Amateurs. 8. The astronomers' gentlemen: the Grand Amateurs' professional assistants
- Pt. 2. Poor, obscure and self-taught: astronomy and the working class. 9. A penny a peep: the astronomical lecturers of the people. 10. Astronomy and the modest master-craftsman. 11. The day-labourer astronomer
- Pt. 3. The rise of the leisured enthusiast. 12. A goodly pursuit for a Godly mind: Thomas Webb and his influence. 13. That clubbable passion: the amateur astronomical society. 14. Now ladies as well as gentlemen. 15. Conclusion and postscript: the amateur astronomer into the twentieth century
- Pt. 1 Grand Amateurs
- 1. Amateur astronomy in the Romantic Age
- 2. Gentlemen and players: amateurs and professionals in 1840
- 3. inheritance, a wife, a benefice, or a brewery: financing fundamental research
- 4. Sir John Herschel: a model for the independent scientist
- 5. astronomical house-party: the Bedford-Aylesbury axis
- 6. brotherhood of the big reflecting telescope
- 7. new sciences of light: spectroscopy, photography, and the Grand Amateurs
- 8. astronomers' gentlemen: the Grand Amateurs' professional assistants
- Pt. 2. Poor, obscure and self-taught: astronomy and the working class
- 9. penny a peep: the astronomical lecturers of the people
- 10. Astronomy and the modest master-craftsman
- 11. day-labourer astronomer
- Pt. 3. rise of the leisured enthusiast
- 12. goodly pursuit for a Godly mind: Thomas Webb and his influence
- 13. That clubbable passion: the amateur astronomical society
- 14. Now ladies as well as gentlemen
- 15. Conclusion and postscript: the amateur astronomer into the twentieth century.
- Pt. 1 The Grand Amateurs. 1. Amateur astronomy in the Romantic Age. 2. Gentlemen and players: amateurs and professionals in 1840. 3. An inheritance, a wife, a benefice, or a brewery: financing fundamental research. 4. Sir John Herschel: a model for the independent scientist. 5. An astronomical house-party: the Bedford-Aylesbury axis. 6. The brotherhood of the big reflecting telescope. 7. The new sciences of light: spectroscopy, photography, and the Grand Amateurs. 8. The astronomers' gentlemen: the Grand Amateurs' professional assistants
- Pt. 2. Poor, obscure and self-taught: astronomy and the working class. 9. A penny a peep: the astronomical lecturers of the people. 10. Astronomy and the modest master-craftsman. 11. The day-labourer astronomer
- Pt. 3. The rise of the leisured enthusiast. 12. A goodly pursuit for a Godly mind: Thomas Webb and his influence. 13. That clubbable passion: the amateur astronomical society. 14. Now ladies as well as gentlemen. 15. Conclusion and postscript: the amateur astronomer into the twentieth century.