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The Royal Observatory Greenwich A Glance at its History and Work

By: E Walter Maunder(Author)
326 pages
The Royal Observatory Greenwich
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  • The Royal Observatory Greenwich ISBN: 9781108065061 Paperback Aug 2013 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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About this book

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

When this highly illustrated work first appeared in 1900, the day-to-day business of an astronomer was prone to misapprehension; the reality tended to be clouded by the temptation to imagine observatories as preoccupied with making awe-inspiring discoveries and glimpsing distant worlds. Describing himself as a hybrid between an engineer and an accountant, astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851 - 1928) explodes the romantic myths and takes the reader on an entertaining tour of the history and real purposes of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Founded with the sole aim of advancing navigation at sea, the observatory originally confined its activities to the accurate compilation of celestial charts. In exploring the observatory's various departments and the lives of its Astronomers Royal, Maunder shows how its remit slowly expanded into heliography, meteorology, spectroscopy and the study of magnetism, which transformed it from a tool of the Navy to a major institution in contemporary astronomy.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Flamsteed
3. Halley and his successors
4. Airy
5. The observatory buildings
6. The time department
7. The transit and circle departments
8. The altazimuth department
9. The magnetic and meteorological departments
10. The heliographic department
11. The spectroscopic department
12. The astrographic department
13. The double-star department

Index

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By: E Walter Maunder(Author)
326 pages
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