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“barbara j becker”

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  • Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 1

    by Barbara J Becker ...
    William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. The letters and observatory notebooks contained in this edition allow Huggins’ important role in the development of astrophysics to fully emerge. Material comes from archives around the world and is previously unpublished. ... Read more

    $370.00 USD

  • Selected Correspondence of William Huggins Vol 2

    by Barbara J Becker ...
    William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. The letters and observatory notebooks contained in this edition allow Huggins’ important role in the development of astrophysics to fully emerge. Material comes from archives around the world and is previously unpublished. ... Read more

    $370.00 USD

  • Unravelling Starlight

    William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy

    by Barbara J. Becker ...
    Challenging traditional accounts of the origins of astrophysics, this book presents the first scholarly biography of nineteenth-century English amateur astronomer William Huggins (1824–1910). A pioneer in adapting the spectroscope to new astronomical purposes, William Huggins rose to scientific prominence in London and transformed professional astronomy to become a principal founder of the new ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

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  • Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics

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    How key concepts in modern physics came from the work of a New Zealander whom Einstein labelled ‘a second Newton’.By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the last secrets of the universe. Then a new world opened up: one of waves, particles, and new, fundamental forces. This mysterious world swiftly captured the public imagination, not least because of the technical ... Read more

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  • William Herschel

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