The Planet Neptune
Author : John Pringle Nichol
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Neptune (Planet)
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Author : John Pringle Nichol
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Neptune (Planet)
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Author : John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.)
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : John Pringle Nichol
Publisher :
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Neptune (Planet)
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Author : John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.)
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : Elias LOOMIS
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Neptune (Planet)
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Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030542181
The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy. John Couch Adams and U.J. Le Verrier both investigated anomalies in the motion of Uranus and independently predicted the existence and location of this new planet. However, interpretations of the events surrounding this discovery have long been mired in controversy. Who first predicted the new planet? Was the discovery just a lucky fluke? The ensuing storm engaged astronomers across Europe and the United States. Written by an international group of authors, this pathbreaking volume explores in unprecedented depth the contentious history of Neptune’s discovery, drawing on newly discovered documents and re-examining the historical record. In so doing, we gain new understanding of the actions of key individuals and sharper insights into the pressures acting on them. The discovery of Neptune was a captivating mathematical moment and was widely regarded at the time as the greatest triumph of Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. The book therefore begins with Newton’s development of his ideas of gravity. It examines too the mathematical calculations related to the discovery of Neptune, using new theories and tools provided by advances in celestial mechanics over the past twenty years. Through this process, the book analyzes why the mathematical approach that proved so potent in the discovery of Neptune, grand as it was, could not help produce similar discoveries despite several valiant attempts. In the final chapters, we see how the discovery of Neptune marked the end of one quest—to explain the wayward motions of Uranus—and the beginning of another quest to fill in the map and understand the nature of the outer Solar System, whose icy precincts Neptune, as the outermost of the giant planets, bounds.
Author : Benjamin Apthorp Gould
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : Patrick Moore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Science
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Revised and updated to include recent data and photographs obtained by the Voyager 2 mission, this detailed study of the giant planet has been published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Neptune's discovery in 1846. It includes an historical survey
Author : Greg Roza
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Neptune (Planet)
ISBN : 1508103429
Author : Nancy Loewen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1543595812
Don't bother searching the night sky for Neptune without a telescope. It's the only planet that can't be seen with the naked eye. Explore the planet farthest from the sun in this book about Neptune.