Book ID: CBB000033305

The Peripatetic Astronomer: The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth (1988)

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Brück, H. A. (Author)
Brück, M. T. (Author)


Hilger


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: xii + 274 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Crowe, M.J. (1990) Review of "The Peripatetic Astronomer: The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 360-62). unapi

Review Schaffer, S. (1988) Review of "The Peripatetic Astronomer: The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth". Nature (pp. 405-6). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Warner, Brian
Anderson, Katharine M.
Barany, Michael J.
Brück, Mary T.
Gamble, Susan
Glass, I. S.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the History of Science
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
History of Photography
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Publishers
A. A. Balkema for the Univ. of Cape Town
Routledge
Concepts
Photography
Astronomy
Science
Spectroscopy
Visual representation; visual communication
Photographs
People
Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Barthes, Roland
Calvino, Italo
Foucault, Michel
Herschel, John Frederick William
Latour, Bruno
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
British Isles
Egypt
United States
Scotland
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
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