Research Catalog

Title

Great astronomers [electronic resource] / by Robert S. Ball ; with numerous illustrations.

Author

Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), 1840-1913

Publication

London : Isbister and Co., 1901

Details

Description

1 online resource ([4], [vii]-xii, 372 p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill., ports., plan.

Series Statement

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Subject

• Astronomers
• Astronomy > History

Note

• Advertising: p. [1], 1st count.
• Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Local note

• Scanned copy defective: p. ix wanting.

Contents

Introduction -- Ptolemy -- Copernicus -- Tycho Brahe -- Galileo -- Kepler -- Isaac Newton -- Flamsteed -- Halley -- Bradley -- William Herschel -- Laplace -- Brinkley -- John Herschel -- The Earl of Rosse -- Airy -- Hamilton -- Le Verrier -- Adams.

OCLC

• 707185268
• NCCO2010759

Author

Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), 1840-1913.

Title

Great astronomers [electronic resource] / by Robert S. Ball ; with numerous illustrations.

Imprint

London : Isbister and Co., 1901 (H. Virtue and Co., Ltd.)

Series

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Local Note

Scanned copy defective: p. ix wanting.

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