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Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century - Historical Studies in Asteroid Research (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2017)
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Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century - Historical Studies in Asteroid Research (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2017)
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Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously
translated into English, this is the definitive account of the
discovery of Pallas as it went from being classified as a new
planet to reclassification as the second of a previously unknown
group of celestial objects. Cunningham, a dedicated scholar of
asteroids, includes a large set of newly translated correspondence
as well as the many scientific papers about Pallas in addition to
sections of Schroeter's 1805 book on the subject. It was Olbers who
discovered Pallas, in 1802, the second of many asteroids that would
be officially identified as such. From the Gold Medal offered by
the Paris Academy to solve the mystery of Pallas' gravitational
perturbations to Gauss' Pallas Anagram, the asteroid remained a
lingering mystery to leading thinkers of the time. Representing an
intersection of science, mathematics, and philosophy, the puzzle of
Pallas occupied the thoughts of an amazing panorama of intellectual
giants in Europe in the early 1800s.
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