Book ID: CBB382872949

Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research (2016)

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Cunningham, Clifford J. (Author)


Springer


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 490
Language: English

Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the discovery of Pallas as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the second of a previously unknown group of celestial objects. Cunningham, a dedicated scholar of asteroids, includes a large set of newly translated correspondence as well as the many scientific papers about Pallas in addition to sections of Schroeter's 1805 book on the subject.It was Olbers who discovered Pallas, in 1802, the second of many asteroids that would be officially identified as such. From the Gold Medal offered by the Paris Academy to solve the mystery of Pallas' gravitational perturbations to Gauss' Pallas Anagram, the asteroid remained a lingering mystery to leading thinkers of the time. Representing an intersection of science, mathematics, and philosophy, the puzzle of Pallas occupied the thoughts of an amazing panorama of intellectual giants in Europe in the early 1800s.

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Authors & Contributors
Sheehan, William
Cunningham, Clifford J.
Miguel Menezes De Sequeira
Darwin Correspondence Project, Editors
S. Mesquita
Cristina Castel-Branco
Concepts
Solar system; planets
Planetary science
Communication within scientific contexts
Correspondence and corresponding
Asteroids
Astronomy
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Modern
Places
United Kingdom
Madeira (Portugal)
East Asia
United States
North America
Italy
Institutions
Place
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lowell Observatory
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
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