A Compendium Of Spherical Astronomy: With Its Applications To The Determination And Reduction Of Positions Of The Fixed Stars (1906) - Couverture rigide
Synopsis
""A Compendium Of Spherical Astronomy: With Its Applications To The Determination And Reduction Of Positions Of The Fixed Stars"" is a book authored by Simon Newcomb and published in 1906. The book is a comprehensive guide to spherical astronomy and its various applications in determining and reducing the positions of fixed stars. It covers a wide range of topics, including celestial mechanics, the measurement of time, the determination of latitude and longitude, and the calculation of planetary positions. The book is written in a clear and concise style, making it accessible to both amateur and professional astronomers. It is considered a classic work in the field of astronomy and is still widely used today as a reference for celestial navigation and other related applications.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
The present volume is the first of a projected series having the double purpose of developing the elements of Practical and Theoretical Astronomy for the special student of the subject, and of serving as a handbook of convenient reference for the use of the working astronomer in applying methods and formulae. The plan of the series has been suggested by the authors experience as a teacher at the Johns Hopkins University, and as an investigator. The first has led him to the view that the wants of the student are best subserved by a quite elementary and condensed treatment of the subject, without any attempt to go far into details not admitting of immediate practical application. As an investigator he has frequently been impressed with the amount of time consumed in searching for the formulae and data, even of an elementary kind, which should be, in each case, best adapted to the work in hand. The most urgent want which the work is intended to supply is that of improved methods of deriving and reducing the positions and proper motions of the fixed stars. Modifications of the older methods are made necessary by the long period, 150 years, through which positions of the stars now have to be reduced, and by the extension of astrometrical and statistical researches to a great and constantly increasing number of telescopic stars.
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