Author: Tracy Daugherty
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300239890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo's time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and then recast in Einstein's theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.
Author: Mary Acworth Orr
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Category : Astronomy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: M. A. Orr Evershed
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 507
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Author: M. A. Orr
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Author: Mary Acworth Orr
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Author: Mary Ackworth Orr (pseud.: Mrs. John Evershed.)
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Author: M. A. ORR
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Author: Mary Acworth Orr Evershed
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Category : Astronomy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Author: M. A. Orr
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331838947
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Excerpt from Dante and the Early Astronomers In a beautiful passage of the Convivio Dante describes how he first began to devote himself diligently to science and philosophy. When the gentle soul Of Beatrice had passed to heaven, a great darkness fell upon him: the Streets Of Florence were to him as a deserted city, and his life empty and purposeless. It was long before he could find any comfort, but at last he bethought himself Of studying a book by Boethius, who When exiled, imprisoned, and unjustly condemned to death, had strengthened his soul With the Con solations Of Philosophy. This led him on to Cicero's book On Friendship, in which Laelius explains how he is consoled for the death Of Scipio. Books in. Those days could only be had in manuscript, full Of abbreviations, and often also Of errors, and at first the young student found the Latin hard to master; but as he struggled on, half deciphering and half divining the meaning, the mists cleared a little, and the weight was lifted from brain and heart. With elation he discovered that Obscure passages were becoming luminous, and to the exhilarating sense of conquest was added the joy Of finding, beautifully expressed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Tracy Daugherty
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867–1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Was Dante’s astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo’s time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and then recast in Einstein’s theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.
