Observing by hand
Subtitle: sketching the nebulae in the nineteenth century
By: Omar W. Nasim
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226084374; 9780226084404
Subjects: Astronomers; Observations; Astronomy; Nebulae; History
Other titles: Sketching the nebulae in the nineteenth century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Consolidation and coordination : Lord Rosse and his assistants; title: Use and reception : biography of two images; title: Conception and perception : E.P. Mason and Sir John F.W. Herschel; title: Skill and instrumentation : William Lassell and Wilhelm Tempel.