Description On the reception of Shapley's theory of the size of the universe in the Netherlands. Kapteyn's traditional statistical approach to understanding galactic structure was rendered suspect and then incorrect by Shapley's theory.
Book
Belkora, Leila;
(2003)
Minding the Heavens: The Story of Our Discovery of the Milky Way
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Article
Paul, E. Robert;
(1986)
J.C. Kapteyn and the early 20th-century universe
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Pieter C. van der Kruit;
(2023)
Pieter Johannes Van Rhijn, Kapteyn's Astronomical Laboratory and the plan of Selected Areas
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Article
Pieter C. van der Kruit;
(2024)
Pannekoek’s Galaxy
(/isis/citation/CBB431558324/)
Article
Klaas van Berkel;
(2024)
Ferryman between two cultures: The calling of a historian of science
(/isis/citation/CBB250959348/)
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Smith, Robert W.;
(1983)
The great debate revisited
(/isis/citation/CBB000011299/)
Article
Bartolucci, Jorge;
(2005)
La modernización de la ciencia en México y la Política de Buena Vecindad en el caso de la astronomía
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Chapter
Bok, Bart J.;
(1974)
Harlow Shapley and the discovery of the center of our galaxy
(/isis/citation/CBB000019834/)
Article
Hoskin, M. A.;
(1976)
The “great debate”: What really happened
(/isis/citation/CBB000011918/)
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Palmeri, JoAnn;
(2009)
Bringing Cosmos to Culture: Harlow Shapley and the Uses of Cosmic Evolution
(/isis/citation/CBB001032622/)
Thesis
Palmeri, JoAnn;
(2000)
An Astronomer Beyond the Observatory: Harlow Shapley as Prophet of Science
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Article
Zakariya, Nasser;
(2012)
Making Knowledge Whole: Genres of Synthesis and Grammars of Ignorance
(/isis/citation/CBB001252329/)
Article
Gingerich, Owen;
Welther, Barbara;
(1985)
Harlow Shapley and the cepheids
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Article
Smith, Horace A.;
(2000)
Bailey, Shapley, and Variable Stars in Globular Clusters
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Chapter
DeVorkin, David;
(2006)
Serving the Muse in Shapley's Wake
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Chapter
Wolfschmidt, Gudrun;
(1994)
Die Grosse Debatte: “Big Galaxy” oder “Island Universe”?
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Article
Jones, Bessie Zaban;
(1984)
To the rescue of the learned: The Asylum Fellowship Plan at Harvard, 1938-1940
(/isis/citation/CBB000032713/)
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Stamhuis, Ida H.;
Seneta, Eugene;
(2009)
Pearson's Statistics in the Netherlands and the Astronomer Kapteyn
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Chapter
Robert W. Smith;
(2019)
Astronomy in the Time of Pannekoek and Pannekoek as an Astronomer of his Times
(/isis/citation/CBB971751337/)
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Hertzsprung-Kapteyn, Henrietta;
(1993)
The life and works of J.C. Kapteyn. An annotated translation with preface and introduction by Paul, E. Robert
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