On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity
In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to "weigh light" by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success.
The reader follows Eddington on his voyage to Africa through his letters home, and delves with Dyson into how the complex experiment was accomplished, through his notes. Other characters include Howard Grubb, the brilliant Irishman who made the instruments; William Campbell, the American astronomer who confirmed the result; and Erwin Findlay-Freundlich, the German whose attempts to perform the test in Crimea were foiled by clouds and his arrest.
By chronicling the expeditions and their enormous impact in greater detail than ever before, No Shadow of a Doubt reveals a story that is even richer and more exciting than previously known.
Описание: Luccarelli roots the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. He considers history in terms of categorical development of space - social, territorial and conceptual - looking at urban and regional contexts, and the work of artists, writers and public figures, including Jefferson, Thoreau and Olmsted.
On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity
In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to "weigh light" by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success. The reader follows Eddington on his voyage to Africa through his letters home, and delves with Dyson into how the complex experiment was accomplished, through his notes. Other characters include Howard Grubb, the brilliant Irishman who made the instruments; William Campbell, the American astronomer who confirmed the result; and Erwin Findlay-Freundlich, the German whose attempts to perform the test in Crimea were foiled by clouds and his arrest. By chronicling the expeditions and their enormous impact in greater detail than ever before, No Shadow of a Doubt reveals a story that is even richer and more exciting than previously known.
Автор: Satin, David G., MD. (Harvard Medical School, USA) Название: Eclipse of Community Mental Health and Erich Lindemann ISBN: 0367354365 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367354367 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These volumes present a theory of cycles of ideology as determining psychiatry, the Community Mental Health Movement as a segment, a biography of Erich Lindemann as a major contributor, context and individual in determining history, and the special contribution of social and community psychiatry.
Автор: Close Frank Название: Eclipse - Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon ISBN: 0198795491 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198795490 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In August 2017, 100 million will gather across the USA to watch a total solar eclipse. This book, written by the widely read popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this most beautiful natural phenomenon, taking the reader to a war zone in the Western Sahara, to the South Pacific, and to the African bush.
Автор: Satin, David G. Название: The Eclipse of Community Mental Health and Erich Lindemann ISBN: 0367354357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367354350 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These volumes present a theory of cycles of ideology as determining psychiatry, the Community Mental Health Movement as a segment, a biography of Erich Lindemann as a major contributor, context and individual in determining history, and the special contribution of social and community psychiatry.
Автор: Stephenson F. Richard, Houlden M. A. Название: Atlas of Historical Eclipse Maps: East Asia 1500 BC Ad 1900 ISBN: 0521267234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521267236 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 21384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This 1986 book presents a series of computer-drawn maps for all total and annular eclipses of the Sun calculated to have been observable in East Asia from 1500 BC to AD 1900. The study of past eclipses is useful, for example in determining the long-term behaviour of the Earth`s rate of rotation.
Автор: Michael Maunder; Patrick Moore Название: The Sun in Eclipse ISBN: 3540761462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540761464 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8489.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book contains everything the amateur astronomer needs to know about eclipses, including: what to look for, when and how to observe, what equipment is needed, and even how to mount an eclipse expedition.
Описание: Ron Cowen offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein`s general theory of relativity. He shows how we got from Eddington`s pivotal observations of the 1919 eclipse to the Event Horizon Telescope, aimed at starlight wrapping around the black hole at our galaxy`s center.
Автор: Stella Cottam; Wayne Orchiston Название: Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century ISBN: 3319083406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319083407 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Grabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in astronomy than ever before.
Автор: Jean-Paul Zahn; Magda Stavinschi Название: Advances in Solar Research at Eclipses from Ground and from Space ISBN: 0792366239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792366232 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 30606.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 9-20 August, 1999
Автор: Westfall, John Sheehan, William Название: Celestial shadows ISBN: 1493915347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493915347 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22359.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Celestial Shadows
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