William Frederick Denning : grand amateur and Doyen of British meteor astronomy / Martin Beech.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beech, Martin, 1959-

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Springer biographies

Springer Biographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Denning, William F. (William Frederick), 1848-.

Denning, William F.

Astronomers--Great Britain--Biography.

Astronomers.

Meteors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2023.

Contents:

Intro

Prologue

Contents

1 A Man of Parts

Bibliography

2 In Quest of Meteors

2.1 The Stationary Radiant Debate

2.1.1 The Epsilon Arietids: A Case Study

2.2 The Observer at Work

2.2.1 The Observations of Shooting Stars Notebook

2.2.2 Fireballs Galore

2.3 Correspondence

2.4 Meteor Physics

2.5 Meteorites

3 The Heavens Provide

3.1 Telescopes: Big Versus Small

3.2 Comets

3.3 The Planets

3.3.1 Jupiter and Its Red Spot

3.3.2 Saturn and Its White Spots

3.4 Novae and Nebulae

3.5 Wasps, Birds, and Natural History

3.6 Meteorology

4 The Amateur Astronomer

4.1 The Rise of the Professionals

4.2 The Professional Amateur

4.3 In Decline No More

4.4 On Work and Longevity

5 The Rise of Meteor Astronomy (1830-1930)

5.1 A Very Brief History of Meteors

5.2 Two-Station Observations

5.3 The 1833 Leonids and After

5.3.1 A Humbling Prediction

5.4 Rates and Variations

5.5 Cosmic Streams

5.6 Radiants Galore

5.7 The Luminous Meteors Committee

5.8 Meteor Spectroscopy

5.8.1 First Application

5.8.2 Further Refinements

5.8.3 Later Developments

5.8.4 Meteor Trains

5.9 The BAA Meteor Section

5.10 The Development of Instrumental Techniques

5.10.1 First Instruments

5.10.2 Photography

5.10.3 Radar

5.10.4 Taming the Hyperbolic Hare

5.11 Atmospheric Interactions

5.12 Chapter Summary

6 The Astronomical Register

6.1 Rise of the Register

6.2 The Subscribers

6.3 The Rise of the Amateur

6.4 For Sale and Wanted

6.4.1 Subscriber Advertisments

6.4.2 The Telescopes

6.4.3 Commercial Advertisers

6.4.4 The Liverpool Astronomical Society

6.5 Denning's Contributions to the Register

6.6 Chapter Summary

7 The Observing Astronomical Society

Epilogue

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 14, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Beech, Martin William Frederick Denning

ISBN:

9783031444432

3031444434

Publisher Number:

99995200107

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