Article ID: CBB001034815

Auguste Comte's Blunder: An Account of the First Century of Stellar Spectroscopy and How It Took One Hundred Years to Prove that Comte Was Wrong! (2010)

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Hearnshaw, John B. (Author)


Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Volume: 13
Pages: 90--104


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a a special issue: “The First Century of Astronomical Spectroscopy”
Language: English

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Article Tenn, Joseph S. (2010) Introduction. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (p. 88). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kragh, Helge S.
Stanley, Matthew
Yang, Xiaoming
Wesemael, François
Teichmann, Jürgen
Suer, Terry-Ann
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
Science and Education
Physics in Perspective
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Vuibert
Deutsches Museum
Concepts
Astronomy
Spectroscopy
Stars; stellar astronomy
Discovery in science
Cosmology
Scientific apparatus and instruments
People
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
Bradley, James
Winthrop, John
Stoner, Edmund Clifton
Russell, Henry Norris
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Argentina
Italy
China
Great Britain
Institutions
University of Leeds
Cambridge University
Università di Bologna
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