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Cyclopaedia Of Physical Sciences

Comprising Acoustics, Astronomy, Dynamics, Electricity, Heat, Hydrodynamics, Magnetism, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Meteorology, Optics, Pneumatics, Statics &c. &c

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

553 kr

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Cyclopaedia Of Physical Sciences

Comprising Acoustics, Astronomy, Dynamics, Electricity, Heat, Hydrodynamics, Magnetism, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Meteorology, Optics, Pneumatics, Statics &c. &c

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

455 kr

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Planet Neptune

An Exposition and History

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

385 kr

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Planet Neptune

An Exposition and History

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

216 kr

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Views Of The Architecture Of The Heavens

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

375 kr

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Views Of The Architecture Of The Heavens

In A Series Of Letters To A Lady

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

386 kr

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Memorials From Ben Rhydding

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

398 kr

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Views Of The Architecture Of The Heavens

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

235 kr

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Views Of The Architecture Of The Heavens

In A Series Of Letters To A Lady

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

262 kr

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Memorials From Ben Rhydding

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

270 kr

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Views of the Architecture of the Heavens

In a Series of Letters to a Lady

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

381 kr

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John Pringle Nichol (1804-59) was a Scottish polymath whose major interests were economics and astronomy; he did much to popularise the latter by his writings. He became Regius Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow in 1836, and in the following year published Views of the Architecture of the Heavens which was immediately successful. George Eliot wrote in a letter of 1841, 'I have been revelling in Nichol's Architecture of the Heavens and Phenomena of the Solar System, and have been in imagination winging my flight from system to system, and from universe to universe ...' Nichol was a supporter of the nebular hypothesis - that stars form in massive and dense clouds of molecular hydrogen which are gravitationally unstable, and coalesce to smaller denser clumps, which then collapse and form stars - which in modified form is the model most widely accepted today.

The Planet Neptune

An Exposition and History

AvJohn Pringle Nichol

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

314 kr

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J. P. Nichol (1804-59), astronomer and political economist, was Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He brought astronomy to a non-scientific audience through his enthusiastic public lectures and astronomy books. His works include the popular Views of the Architecture of the Heavens (1837; also reissued in this series) in which he supported the nebular hypothesis, which in modified form is the model of star formation most widely accepted today. Neptune was (in 1846) the first planet to be discovered by mathematical prediction rather than empirical observation, and in this book, first published in 1855, Nichol describes that discovery to a lay readership. Part 1 is an exposition of the then current view of the solar system and the research and discoveries which led to that view; Part 2 is dedicated to Neptune; while the third part explains the controversies over the planet's discovery.