Kosmos : : Course of Six Lectures on the Development of our Inisght into the Structure of the Universe, Delivered for the Lowell Institute in Boston, in November 1931 / / Willem de Sitter.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1932 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (138 p.) :; 11 figures, 7 line illustrations |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Introduction: Aims and Methods of Scientific Research · The Ancients; Ptolemy and Copernicus -- II. Birth of Modern Astronomy · Kepler, Galileo, Newton · The Eighteenth Century -- III. The Beginning of Sidereal Astronomy · William Herschel and His Successors -- IV. Further Observational Advances · The Survey of the "Local System" · Life-Work Of J. C. Kapteyn -- V. Photography and Spectroscopy · The Great Telescopes · The Galactic and the Extra-Galactic Systems -- VI. Relativity and Modern Theories of the Universe · Conclusion |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780674331471 9783110353488 9783110353549 9783110442212 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674331471 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Willem de Sitter. |