Galileo's planet : observing Jupiter before photography
Title:
Galileo's planet : observing Jupiter before photography
Author:
Hockey, Thomas A.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., [1999]
©1999
Physical Description:
xvii, 217 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
A Jupiter primer -- Before the telescope -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The first half of the nineteenth century -- The 1860s and the 1870s -- The modern discovery of the Great Red Spot -- Theories of Jupiter -- Observations, conclusions, and final thoughts.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9780750304481
Format :
Book
