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Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1831
Brian Warner
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Hardback. The Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, was the first major astronomical observatory in the southern hemisphere, and this book presents an account of its origin, construction and use. It describes technical aspects, such as the instruments and their makers, the installation of the instruments and their initial problems. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; PGG; PHVB; UNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1190.
This book, which has been in the making for some eighteen years, would never have begun were it not for Dr. David Dewhirst in 1976 kindly having shown the author a packet of papers in the archives of the Cambridge Obser vatories. These letters and miscellaneous papers of Fearon Fallows sparked an interest in the history of the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope which, after the diversion of producing several books on later phases of the Observatory, has finally resulted in a detailed study of the origin and first years of the Observatory's life. Publication of this ... Read more
This book, which has been in the making for some eighteen years, would never have begun were it not for Dr. David Dewhirst in 1976 kindly having shown the author a packet of papers in the archives of the Cambridge Obser vatories. These letters and miscellaneous papers of Fearon Fallows sparked an interest in the history of the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope which, after the diversion of producing several books on later phases of the Observatory, has finally resulted in a detailed study of the origin and first years of the Observatory's life. Publication of this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792335276
SKU
V9780792335276
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1831
`... this is an absorbing and scholarly book by an erudite author, being one of a series he has written on the scientific and cultural life of the Cape colony. I can highly recommend it.' Journal for the History of Astronomy, 30:3 (1999)