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Island Studies Journal, 2009 A global review of islands and their connections with astronomy throughout history up to the contemporary times suggests eight compelling, distinct yet interlocking reasons why islands have been and remain so important to astronomy and astronomers ...
Godfrey Baldacchino, Alexander Gatt
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Cahiers François Viète, 2017 This volume is dedicated to the Portuguese history of astronomy, from the Discoveries to the middle of the 20th century. It is composed of research articles by six recognised Portuguese scholars and its main objective is to place the history of ...
Stéphane Tirard
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Nature, 1955 The History of Astronomy By Prof. Giorgio Abetti. (Translated from the Italian “Storia dell' Astronomia” by Betty Burr Abetti.) Pp. xviii+345+34 plates. (London: Sidg-wick and Jackson, Ltd., 1954.) 25s. net.
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Modeling the History of Astronomy: Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho
, 2013 This paper describes a series of activities in which students investigate and use the Ptolemaic, Copernican, and Tychonic models of planetary motion. The activities guide students through using open source software to discover important observational ...
Timberlake, Todd
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Overview of the History of Vilnius University Observatory
Open Astronomy, 2003 An overview of the early history of the Astronomical Observatory of Vilnius University from its foundation in 1753 to 1878 is presented.
Klimka L.
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Cahiers François Viète, 2017 This volume is dedicated to the Portuguese history of astronomy, from the Discoveries to the middle of the 20th century. It is composed of research articles by six recognised Portuguese scholars and its main objective is to place the history of ...
Fernando B. Figueiredo
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A History and Informal Assessment of the Slacker Astronomy Podcast [PDF]
, 2006 Slacker Astronomy is a weekly podcast that covers a recent astronomical news event or discovery. The show has a unique style consisting of irreverent, over-the-top humor combined with a healthy dose of hard science. According to our demographic analysis,
Aaron Price +6 more
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41. History of Astronomy [PDF]
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, 1970 The investigations on the history of astronomy proceed rapidly and concern all branches, viz. the history of astronomy in particular countries, the historical development of the astronomical problems, biographies of astronomers, history of observatories and of astronomical instruments etc.
E. Rybka +7 more
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The astrophysical gravitational wave stochastic background [PDF]
, 2010 A gravitational wave stochastic background of astrophysical origin may have resulted from the superposition of a large number of unresolved sources since the beginning of stellar activity.
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In Pursuit of the Least Luminous Galaxies [PDF]
, 2009 The dwarf galaxy companions to the Milky Way are unique cosmological laboratories. With luminosities as low as 10^-7 L_MW, they inhabit the lowest mass dark matter halos known to host stars and are presently the most direct tracers of the distribution ...
Willman, Beth
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