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Allan Chapman

The Victorian Amateur Astronomer

Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820 - 1920

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This is the first book to look in detail at amateur astronomy in Victorian Britain. It deals with the technical issues that were active in Victorian astronomy, and reviews the problems of finance, patronage and the dissemination of scientific ideas, including the relationship between the amateur and the professional in Britain. It contains a wealth of previously unpublished biographical and anecdotal material, and an extended bibliography with notes incorporating much new scholarship.This long-awaited new edition of the Victorian Amateur Astronomer brings Allan Chapman's ground-breaking research on the role of the amateur in the development o… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85244-544-0
  • EAN: 9780852445440
  • Produktnummer: 25178326
  • Verlag: Gracewing Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 454 S.
  • Masse: H26.4 cm x B17.2 cm x D3.0 cm 778 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 778

Über den Autor


Allan Chapman is a graduate of the Universities of both Lancaster and Oxford, and received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He is the author of two other books on the history of science and of more than 50 articles in international academic journals. He currently lecture in the Faculty of Modern History, Oxford University, and is a member of Wadham College, Oxford.

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