Biografien von Astronomen

Stories of Astronomers and Their Stars (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)

Autor: David E. Falkner

Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens

Autor: Kitty Ferguson

Carl Sagan: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Autoren: Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser

Planer 2024: Eleganter Jahresplaner mit Monats- und Wochenansicht mit täglichen To Do's zum abhaken, extra Seiten für Notizen - erfolgreich ins neue Jahr!

Autor: ErfolgReich Planen Vierundzwanzig

The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe

Autor: Dr. Mukesh Gupta

Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane

Autor: Seth Shulman

The Man Who Ran the Moon: James Webb, JFK and the Secret History of Project Apollo

Piers Bizony

Celestial Revolutionary: Copernicus, the Man and His Universe

John Freely

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1610 LETTER TO THE GRAND DUCHESS CHRISTINA)

Galileo

Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother

James A. Connor

Great Astronomers: James Bradley Illustrated

Robert Stawell Ball

First Man

James R Hansen

The Man Who Painted the Universe: The Story of a Planetarium in the Heart of the North Woods

Ron Legro, Avi Lank

As a young boy Frank Kovac Jr. fell deeply in love with stargazing, painting glow-in-the-dark constellations on his bedroom wall and inviting friends to an observatory he built in his Chicago backyard. As he reached adulthood, Kovac did not let go of his childhood dreams of reaching the stars. He began scheming to bring the universe home. While working at a paper mill as a young man, Kovac tirelessly built a 22-foot rotating globe planetarium in the woods. Despite failures and collapses, the amateur astronomer singlehandedly built a North Woods treasure, painting more than 5, 000 glowing stars-dot by dot in glowing paints. Today, Kovac and his unique planetarium take visitors to the stars every day.

The Man Who Painted the Universe: The Story of a Planetarium in the Heart of the North Woods introduces listeners to the mild-mannered astronomy enthusiast whose creativity, ingenuity, fervor, and endurance realized a dream of galactic proportions. The story of this stargazer from Wisconsin's North Woods so inspired two newspapermen, authors Ron Legro and Avi Lank, that they sought to document the story of the Kovac Planetarium for a new generation of stargazers and dreamers.

Patrick Moore: 80 Not Out - The Autobiography by CBE, DSc, FRAS, Sir Patrick Moore (2003-03-06)

DSc, FRAS, Sir Patrick Moore CBE

The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543) by Pierre Gassendi (2002-10-01)

Pierre Gassendi;Oliver Thill

Harlow Shapley - Biography of an Astronomer: The Man Who Measured the Universe

Dr. Doug West

Harlow Shapley was an astronomer, humanitarian, and public figure in his day. Born in the hills of the Ozarks in Missouri, he went on to become the director of the Harvard College Observatory and discovered our place in the galaxy.

Because of the painstaking work of this tireless American astronomer, we were given a clearer picture of our place in the universe. Shapley was a prodigious astronomer who completed significant work on globular clusters, Cepheid variables, as well as key aspects of cosmology and stellar astronomy, including nebular and stellar spectroscopy and photometry.

Shapley also did important work on the Magellanic Clouds, which are neighbor galaxies to our own Milky Way. He made the deduction that the Sun is located at the central plane of the galaxy on a minor arm of the Milky Way about 30, 000 light years from the galactic center. This was in direct conflict with the prevailing view of the galaxy and caused quite a stir in the astronomical community.

At the peak of his career as an astronomer, he worked at the Mt. Wilson Observatory and afterward served at the helm of the Harvard College Observatory, eventually transforming it into an important training and observational facility. Shapley was to lead the development of the Harvard Astronomy program, which produced many prominent astronomers.

Shapley's work on international issues in astronomy lead him to multiple visits to Russia. This was at the early stages of the Cold War between the United States and Russia. Harlow Shapley had caught the eye of the F B I and the famed communist hunter Joseph Mc Carthy, and he was investigated by the Committee of Un-American activities.

Shapley was later cleared of any wrong doing, but it almost cost him the directorship of the Harvard College Observatory. Shapley became a prodigious writer for the general public so they could understand and appreciate the wonders of the universe.

Isaac Newton: The True And Surprising Story Of The Life Of Sir Isaac Newton (History Books) (English Edition)

Autor: Tom King

Introducing Newton: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides) (English Edition)

Autor: William Rankin

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