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100 1 Whiting, Alan B.
245 10 Hindsight and popular astronomy /|cAlan B. Whiting.
264 1 New Jersey :|bWorld Scientific,|c[2011]
264 4 |c©2011
300 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) :|billustrations
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262) and
index.
505 0 Preface; Contents; 1. One Question and Two Ironies; 2.
Positions, Orbits and Calculations; 3. Sir John Herschel,
Treatise on Astronomy, 1833; 4. Sir George Biddell Airy,
Popular Astronomy, 1848; 5. Heat, Light and Three Bodies;
6. Sir John Herschel, Outlines of Astronomy, Tenth Edition,
1869; 7. Simon Newcomb, Popular Astronomy, 1878; 8. Sir
Robert S. Ball, In the High Heavens, 1893; 9. Simon
Newcomb, Astronomy for Everybody, 1902; 10. Things Get
Strange: Quanta and Relativity; 11. Sir James Jeans, The
Universe Around Us, First Edition, 1929.
520 There are many books that endeavor to bridge the gap
between scientists and laymen, yet too many overemphasize
the presentation of scientific findings as hard facts and
end up alienating readers from the critical thinking
processes involved in science. Whiting attempts to break
away from the norm in this revolutionary review of popular
astronomy books written from 1833 to 1944. He examines
these important works by acknowledged authorities in the
field to see how they have stood the test of time. Where
the luminaries have failed, he looks for clues that the
layman reader could have used to rais.
588 0 Print version record.
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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648 7 19th century|2fast
648 7 20th century|2fast
648 7 1800-1999|2fast
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650 0 Communication in astronomy|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
/subjects/sh00000365|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://
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650 0 Communication in astronomy|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
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650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235
655 0 Electronic books.
655 4 Electronic books.
655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https://
id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635
655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
776 08 |iPrint version:|aWhiting, Alan B.|tHindsight and popular
astronomy.|dNew Jersey : World Scientific, ©2011
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