Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres [E-Book] : Historical Studies in Asteroid Research / by Clifford Cunningham.
Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the origins of Ceres as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the first of a previously unknown group of celestial objects. Cunningham opens this critic...
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| Personal Name(s): | Cunningham, Clifford, author |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2016. |
| Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2016
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| Physical Description: |
XIII, 333 pages 92 illustrations, 19 illustrations in color (online resource) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783319217772 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-21777-2 |
| Subject (LOC): |
- The Unseen Planet
- The Discovery of Ceres
- The Recovery of Ceres
- The Great Nomenclature Controversy of 1801
- The Physical Properties of Ceres
- How Did The Public Learn About Ceres?
- Piazzi's Monographs
- Bode's Book of 1802
- Schroeter's Book of 1805
- British Correspondence About Ceres
- Letters between Piazzi and Oriani
- Letters Between Olbers and Bode
- Zach's Ceres Correspondence
- Other Ceres Correspondence
- Appendix 1: A Description of the Ramsden Circle.-Appendix 2: The Events of 1801
- Appendix 3: The Historical Development of the Orbital Elements of Ceres
- Appendix 4: Star Atlases.