| 书目名称 | The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics | | 编辑 | Biman B. Nath | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Tells the true story behind the discovery of helium while explaining how the curiously distorted narrative of its discovery came into existence.Includes interesting facts and anecdotes in the narrativ | | 丛书名称 | Astronomers‘ Universe | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | What if one of the most thrilling stories in the history of science turned out to be wrong? Can urban legends creep into the hallowed grounds of scientific history? As incredible as it may sound, the story of one of the most important elements in modern times – helium - has been often misrepresented in books, encyclopedias, and online sources, despite the fact that archival materials tell a different story. Open the entry for Helium in any encyclopaedia and you will read a false story that has been repeated over the years. ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’, for example, says that helium was discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Janssen while observing a total solar eclipse from India in 1868. Apparently he noticed something new in the spectrum of the sun, which he thought was the signature of an undiscovered element. .The truth is that Janssen never saw any sign of a new element during his observations in India. His reports and letters do not mention any such claim. .Other sources would have you believe that helium was jointly discovered by Janssen and Norman Lockyer, a British scientist, and that their discovery letters reached Paris the same day, one sent from India, and the other | | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | | 关键词 | Birth of astrophysics; Cosmic hieroglyphics; Discovery of helium; Helium properties; History of science; | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5363-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4614-5362-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-5363-5Series ISSN 1614-659X Series E-ISSN 2197-6651 | | issn_series | 1614-659X | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 |
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