Resolute and undertaking characters : the lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve / by Alan H. Batten
- Bib ID:
- 1755084
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Batten, A. H. (Alan Henry), 1933-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Dordrecht ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Norwell, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1988
- xxv, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9027726523
- Series:
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- Astrophysics and space science library ; v.139.
- Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 139
- Full contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Preface. General Note. Bibliographical Note. Acknowledgements. Chronological Summary of the lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve. 1: Family Origins and Wilhelm's Childhood. 2: Student Days at Dorpat University. 3: Astronomy at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. 4: Measuring the Earth. 5: The Great Refractor. 6: The Founding of Pulkovo. 7: The Astronomical Capital of the World. 8: Measuring the Sky. 9: The Early Pulkovo Years. 10: `Etudes d'astronomie stellaire'. 11: Wilhelm's Illness and Last Years, 12: The Transition. 13: The Companion of Procyon and the Transits of Venus. 14: The 30-inch Refractor. 15: Mapping the Sky. 16: Otto's Retirement and Last Years. Epilogue: The Family Tradition. Name Index. Subject Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
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- Also Titled:
- Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1988
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