| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Parallel lives of astronomers/ by William Sheehan. |
| Reminder of title: |
Percival Lowell and Edward Emerson Barnard / |
| Author: |
Sheehan, William. |
| Published: |
Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024., |
| Description: |
xiv, 687 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Chapter 1: The Flower and the Bee -- Chapter 2: Astronomy from the Top Down: Percival Lowell -- Chapter 3: Astronomy from the Bottom Up: Edward Emerson Barnard -- Chapter 4: Rivals of Mars -- Chapter 5: A Tale of Two Telescopes -- Chapter 6: The Spokes of Venus -- Chapter 7: Adventures with the Bruce -- Chapter 8: Percival Returns -- Chapter 9: Canali! Canali! -- Chapter 10: Wisps, Tores, and Good and Bad Reviews -- Chapter 11: A Barnard Ally Ups the Ante -- Chapter 12: Vale Percival -- Chapter 13: Ad Astra Edward -- Chapter 14: Lowell and Barnard Compared. |
| Contained By: |
Springer Nature eBook |
| Subject: |
Astronomers - Biography. - United States - |
| Online resource: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68800-3 |
| ISBN: |
9783031688003 |