購物比價找書網找車網
FindBook  
 有 1 項符合

Herschel at the Cape

的圖書
Herschel at the Cape Herschel at the Cape

出版社:University of Texas Press
出版日期:2013-12-06
語言:英文   
圖書選購
型式價格供應商所屬目錄
電子書
$ 1339
樂天KOBO 樂天KOBO
參考
圖書介紹 - 資料來源:樂天KOBO   評分:
圖書名稱:Herschel at the Cape
Sir John Herschel, one of the founders of Southern Hemisphere astronomy, was a man of extraordinarily wide interests. He made contributions to botany, geology, and ornithology, as well as to astronomy, chemistry, and mathematics. Throughout his scientific career he kept a diary, recording his public and private life. The diaries from 1834 to 1838, years spent making astronomical observations at the Cape of Good Hope, are reproduced in this book and prove to be much more than an ordinary scientist's logbook. They present personal and social history, literary commentaries, the results of close observations of nature and numerous scientific experiments, the excitement of travel, political intrigues, gossip, and philosophical reflections—all interpreted through an alert and versatile mind. In the present transcription, the material has been enriched with selected correspondence of Sir John and his wife Lady Herschel (neé Margaret Brodie Stewart). Sir John devoted his working time at the Cape primarily to a systematic observation of the southern sky, complementing his earlier "sweeping" of the northern sky at Slough, England. He later became one of the founders of photography, but at the Cape he used a simple optical device, the camera lucida, in the production of numerous landscape drawings. Many of these, along with reproductions of sketches contained in the diaries and botanical drawings made by Sir John and Lady Herschel, are used to illustrate this book. Sir John was also a leading spirit in the foundation of the educational system of the Cape and a supporter of exploratory expeditions into the interior. As the son of Sir William Herschel, in his day the most famous British astronomer and the discoverer of the planet Uranus, Sir John was already celebrated when he arrived from England. Every individual of note, resident at the Cape or visiting, went to see him. He was supported in his work by his wife, who ran an enormous establishment and bore a huge family, but who nevertheless found time to travel in the country round the western Cape with him and to assist in his observations. The diaries and letters are supplemented by especially valuable editorial notes that provide much needed and highly interesting information concerning persons and events mentioned and described by Sir John. All the original manuscript material used in this volume is held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Sir John's camera lucida drawings are from the South African Public Library in Cape Town.
贊助商廣告
 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
失控的焦慮世代︰手機餵養的世代,如何面對心理疾病的瘟疫
作者:強納森.海德特
出版社:網路與書股份有限公司(台灣分公司)
出版日期:2024-11-29
$ 379 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
制度基因:中國制度與極權主義制度的起源(平裝版)
作者:許成鋼
出版社:國立臺灣大學出版中心
出版日期:2024-11-29
$ 647 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
世界上最透明的故事(日本出版界話題作,只有紙本書可以體驗的感動)
作者:杉井光
出版社:皇冠
出版日期:2024-09-30
$ 284 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
你願意,人生就會值得:蔡康永的情商課3
作者:蔡康永
出版社:如何
出版日期:2024-08-01
$ 316 
 
金石堂 - 新書排行榜
BLEACH死神 愛藏版 (首刷限定版) 02
作者:久保帯人
出版社:東立出版社
出版日期:2024-12-31
$ 281 
金石堂 - 新書排行榜
雷雷雷 (首刷限定版) 01
作者:ヨシアキ
出版社:東立出版社
出版日期:2024-12-12
$ 204 
金石堂 - 新書排行榜
甜蜜的男子11完
作者:Haejin
出版社:平心出版(欣燦連)
出版日期:2024-12-26
$ 253 
博客來 - 新書排行榜
咒術迴戰 28 (首刷限定版)
出版日期:2024-12-16
$ 133 
 

©2024 FindBook.com.tw -  購物比價  找書網  找車網  服務條款  隱私權政策