The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding our View of Planet Earth
- Springer Netherlands
- 2010
- Taschenbuch
- 352 Seiten
- ISBN 9789048169429
This is an unusual book, combining as it does papers on astrobiology, history of astronomy and sundials, but¿after all¿Woody Sullivan is an unusual man. In late 2003 I spent two fruitful and enjoyable months in the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington (UW) working on archival material accumulated over the decades by Woody, for a book we will co-author with Jessica Chapman on the early development of Australian astronomy. The only serious intellectual distraction I faced during this period was planning for an IAU colloquium on transits of Venus scheduled for June 2004 in England, where I was down to present the ¿Cook¿ paper. I
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