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Studies of Pallas in the early nineteenth century : historical studies in asteroid research / Clifford J. Cunningham.
Van Pelt Library QB653.P35 C86 2016
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cunningham, Clifford J., 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy.
- History.
- Astronomers.
- Asteroids--Research.
- Asteroids.
- Pallas (Asteroid).
- Asteroids--Research--History--19th century.
- Asteroids--Research--History--Sources.
- Astronomers--History.
- Astronomy--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 477 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
- Contents:
- A disturbing inclination
- The great probability debate
- The gold medal
- The Gauss anagram
- Hypothetical planets
- New planets : the transition from 1745-1804
- The Olbers letters
- The Gauss letters
- The Harding letters
- Herschel's asteroids
- Scientific papers
- Gauss : the great asteroid treatises
- Notes:
- Book available in 2016.
- "This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page.
- First edition published under title: The Pallas problem. 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3319328468
- 9783319328461
- OCLC:
- 945231302
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