The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting - Hardcover

Standage, Tom

 
9780802713636: The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802713637 ISBN 13: 9780802713636
Verlag: Walker & Co, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Describes the dramatic events surrounding the discovery of Neptune, the eighth planet in the solar system, and profiles the two men, British mathematician John Couch Adams and French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier who predicted where the planet would be based on mathematical calculations rather than on observation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Standage is technology editor at The Economist magazine and the author of four history books, "A History of the World in Six Glasses" (2005), "The Turk" (2002), "The Neptune File" (2000) and "The Victorian Internet" (1998), two of which have been serialized as "Book of the Week" on Radio 4. "The Victorian Internet was made into a Channel 4 documentary, "How The Victorians Wired the World". Tom has previously covered science and technology for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Wired and Prospect. He holds a degree in engineering and computer science from Oxford University, and is the least musical member of a musical family. He is married and lives in Greenwich, London, with his wife and daughter.

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Verlag
Walker & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802713637
ISBN 13 
9780802713636
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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