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Author Dick, Steven J.

Title Discovery and Classification in Astronomy : Controversy and Consensus.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (476 pages)
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Contents Dummy_cover.pdf; Discovery and Classification in Astronomy; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Entrée; 1 The Pluto Affair; 1.1 The Discovery of Pluto: Prediction and Observation; 1.2 The Discovery of Charon: Pluto's Mass at Last; 1.3 Discovery of the Kuiper Belt: Bad News for Pluto; 1.4 Pluto Demoted: Prague 2006; Part II Narratives of Discovery; 2 Moons, Rings, and Asteroids: Discovery in the Realm of the Planets; 2.1 Moons and Rings: A Very Strange Wonder; 2.2 Planets and Minor Planets: A Species Hitherto Unknown; The Discovery of Uranus.
The Discovery of Minor PlanetsThe Discovery of Neptune; 2.3 Delineating Planetary Classes: A Semi-Nebulous Condition; 2.4 Trans-Neptunian Objects: The Hypothesized Population; 3 In Herschel's Gardens: Nebulous Discoveries in the Realm of the Stars; 3.1 A Shining Fluid: Separating Star Clusters from Nebulae; 3.2 Dust in the Gardens: Dark Nebulae, Reflection Nebulae, and the Composition of Gaseous Nebulae; 3.3 Two New Classes of Gaseous Nebulae -- Cool Hydrogen Clouds and Molecular Clouds; 4 Dwarfs, Giants, and Planets (Again!): The Discovery of the Stars Themselves.
4.1 Giants and Dwarfs: Making Sense of the Natural History of the Stars4.2 Subgiants and Subdwarfs: The Road to Evolutionary Understanding; 4.3 White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars: Evolutionary Endpoints; 4.4 Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets; 4.5 The Discovery of Stellar Systems; 5 Galaxies, Quasars, and Clusters: Discovery in the Realm of the Galaxies; 5.1 Discovering a New Realm and Its Classes: Islands in the Universe; 5.2 Where the Action Is: Quasars, Blazars, and Black Holes; 5.3 The Discovery of Structure: Clusters, Superclusters, Filaments, and Voids; Part III Patterns of Discovery.
6 The Structure of Discovery6.1 Macrostructure: Detection, Interpretation, and Understanding; 6.2 Microstructure: Real People and Their Social Roles in Discovery; 6.3 How Discoveries End: Demarcating Post-Discovery; 7 The Varieties of Discovery; 7.1 Before the Telescope: Demarcating Pre-Discovery; 7.2 Indirect Discovery: Evidence of Things Unseen; 7.3 Discovery of New Members of a Known Class; 7.4 "Object" Discovery vs. "Phenomena" Discovery in Astronomy; 8 Discovery and Classification; 8.1 On Class and Classification.
8.2 Discovery and Classification in Astronomy: In Search of "The Thing Itself"Phenomenology: Classification as a Pre-Discovery Activity; The Thing Itself: Classification as a Post-Discovery Activity; Astronomy's Three Kingdoms: A Comprehensive Classification System for Astronomy; 8.3 Negotiation and Utility in Discovery and Classification; Part IV Drivers of Discovery; 9 Technology and Theory as Drivers of Discovery; 9.1 Telescopes as Engines of Discovery; 9.2 Discovery and the Opening of the Electromagnetic Spectrum; 9.3 Theory as Prediction and Explanation in Discovery.
Note Part V The Synthesis of Discovery.
Summary This book shows that astronomical discovery is a complex and ongoing process comprising various stages of research, interpretation and understanding.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Astronomy -- Methodology.
Astronomy -- Methodology.
Astronomy.
Astronomy -- Observations -- History.
Astronomy -- Observations.
History.
Discoveries in science.
Discoveries in science.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dick, Steven J. Discovery and Classification in Astronomy : Controversy and Consensus. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2013 9781107033610
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