Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics
M. T. Brück
Born in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Agnes Mary Clerke achieved fame as the author of A History of Astronomy during the nineteenth century. Through her quarter-century career, she became the leading commentator on astronomy and astrophysics in the English-speaking world. This biography describes not only the life and work of this extraordinary woman, but also chronicles the development of astronomy in the last decades of pre-Einstein science. Along the way, it introduces many of the great figures in astronomy of that age, including Huggins, Lockyer, Holden, and Pickering.
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Année:
2002
Edition:
1
Editeur::
Cambridge University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
286
ISBN 10:
0521808448
Fichier:
PDF, 1.93 MB
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english, 2002