LIBROS DEL AUTOR: wayne orchiston

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: wayne orchiston

  • Golden Years of Australian Radio Astronomy
    Peter Robertson / Wayne Orchiston / Woodruff T. Sullivan III
    The evolution of Australian radio astronomy from 1945 to 1960 has been studied in detail by numerous historians of science in recent years. This Open Access book is the first to present an overview of this remarkable chapter in Australian science. The book begins in the post-war period, as the Radiophysics Laboratory in Sydney switched from secret wartime research on radar to p...
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    47,86 €

  • Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century
    Stella Cottam / Wayne Orchiston
    Grabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in astronomy than ever before. At a time when the sciences were not yet as well established in the United States as they were in Europe, this public interest and suppor...
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    135,11 €

  • The New Astronomy
    Wayne Orchiston
    This is an unusual book, combining as it does papers on astrobiology, history of astronomy and sundials, but-after all-Woody Sullivan is an unusual man. In late 2003 I spent two fruitful and enjoyable months in the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington (UW) working on archival material accumulated over the decades by Woody, for a book w...
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    244,29 €