| 书目名称 | Pioneer of Galactic Astronomy: A Biography of Jacobus C. Kapteyn |
| 编辑 | Pieter C. van der Kruit |
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| 概述 | A fascinating biography of Jacobus C. Kapteyn who pioneered the study of the structure of the Milky Way culminating a century later with the GAIA satellite.Weaves astronomy basics and modern astronomi |
| 丛书名称 | Springer Biographies |
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| 描述 | .This non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. In telling Kapteyn’s story the author weaves in astronomy basics and uses modern astronomical images to show the developments of astronomical research from Kapteyn’s times to the present. In particular the study of the distribution of stars in space has now culminated with spectacular new insights coming from the astrometric satellite GAIA, which is receiving much public attention today..The biography shows how Kapteyn’s ideas influenced prominent astronomers worldwide. He is prominent as designer of the Kapteyn Universe, the alternative to the large system found by Harlow Shapley. He is the discoverer of Kapteyn’s Star, still the second fastest moving star in the sky, which is now one of the nearest stars with a planet in the habitable zone.. This fascinating hybridof astronomy history and popular astronomy tells the story of the astronomy professor without an observatory who founded the first astronomical laboratory specializing in measuring photographic plates exposed elsewh |
| 出版日期 | Book 2021 |
| 关键词 | Star counts: Kapteyn to Gaia; Habitable planet around Kapteyn’s Star; Photography, star catalogues; Cap |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55423-1 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-55425-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-55423-1Series ISSN 2365-0613 Series E-ISSN 2365-0621 |
| issn_series | 2365-0613 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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