On the Determination of the Distance of a Comet from the Earth: And Other Works (Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy) - Softcover

Lubbock, J. W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108068626 ISBN 13: 9781108068628

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Even while professionally engaged in banking, Sir John William Lubbock (1803–65) applied his formidable mind to scientific questions. Several of his early writings on astronomy - his particular sphere of interest - are gathered together in this reissue, notably On the Determination of the Distance of a Comet from the Earth, and the Elements of its Orbit (1832), On the Theory of the Moon and on the Perturbations of the Planets (1833), and An Elementary Treatise on the Computation of Eclipses and Occultations (1835). Lubbock received a Royal Society medal for tidal research in 1834, and herein is his Elementary Treatise on the Tides (1839). Also included is Lubbock's On the Heat of Vapours and on Astronomical Refractions (1840), in which he relates celestial observations to Gay-Lussac's gas expansion law. The collection closes with On the Discovery of the Planet Neptune (1861), Lubbock's lecture discussing how John Couch Adams first predicted the planet's existence.

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Book Description

Even while professionally engaged in banking, Sir John William Lubbock (1803–65) applied his formidable mind to scientific questions. Originally published between 1832 and 1861, the pieces in this one-volume reissue include his writings on astronomy, gases and the tides, as well as a lecture discussing the discovery of Neptune.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108068626
• ISBN 13: 9781108068628
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368