Famous for his metal prosthetic nose, and for being associated with 'unlucky' days in Scandinavian folklore, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) made the most accurate naked-eye astronomical measurements of his day. Cataloguing more than 1,000 new stars, his stellar and planetary observations helped lay the foundations of early modern astronomy. John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852-1926) was a fellow Dane, but he spent much of his working life in Ireland. When he was fourteen, he had read a book about Brahe and this inspired him to 'be an astronomer and nothing else'. First published in 1890, Dreyer's biography of his hero remained the definitive work for more than a century. He sets out to illuminate not simply the life of his subject, but also the lives and work of Brahe's contemporaries and the progress of science in the sixteenth century.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781108068710
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-108-06871-0
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.01.2014
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2014
- Serie: Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 609 g
- Seiten: 434
- Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 26 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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