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Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R4,222
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Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Richard Taibi

Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Richard Taibi

Series: Springer Biographies

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This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about meteor showers. Using careful observations, they restored the public's trust in predictions about periodic showers and renewed respect for meteor astronomy among professional astronomers in the United States. Charles Olivier and his society of observers who were passionate about watching for meteors in the night sky left a major impact on the field. In addition to describing Olivier's career and describing his struggles with competitive colleagues in a hostile scientific climate, the author provides biographies of some of the scores of women and men of all ages who aided Olivier in making shower observations, from the Leonids and Perseids and others. Half of these amateur volunteers were from 13 to 25 years of age. Their work allowed Olivier and the AMS to contradict the fallacious belief in stationary and long-enduring meteor showers, bringing the theory of their origin into alignment with celestial mechanics. Thanks to Olivier and his collaborators, the study of meteors took a great leap forward in the twentieth century to earn a place as a worthy topic of study among professional astronomers.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Springer Biographies
Release date: March 2017
First published: 2017
Authors: Richard Taibi
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 497
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-44517-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Observatories, equipment & methods
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Astrophysics
Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
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LSN: 3-319-44517-0
Barcode: 9783319445175

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