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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Edmond Halley, Martin Ryle, Nevil Maskelyne, James Bradley, John Pond, George Biddell Airy, Martin Rees, John Flamsteed, Frank Watson Dyson, William Henry Mahoney Christie, Nathaniel Bliss, Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal, Richard Van Der Riet Woolley, Francis Graham Smith. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Edmond (ou Edmund) Halley (29 octobre 1656, Haggerston, borough de Hackney à Londres - 14 janvier 1742, Greenwich) est un astronome et ingénieur britannique. Ingénieur et scientifique pluridisciplinaire, il est surtout connu pour avoir le premier déterminé la périodicité de la comète de 1682, qu'il fixa par calcul à 76 ans environ. Lors du retour de cette comète en 1758, elle fut baptisée de son nom. C'est l'une des rares comètes qui portent un autre nom que celui de leur découvreur. La date de sa naissance est incertaine : Halley croyait pour sa part qu'il s'agissait du 29 octobre 1656. Il naquit dans le village de Hackney, petit village des environs de Londres, aujourd'hui absorbé par la capitale. De sa mère nous ne connaissons que le nom, Anne Halley, née Robinson. Son père se prénommait également Edmond, et c'était un riche savonnier et marchand de sels qui avait bâti sa fortune sur les récentes horreurs de la peste bubonique, qui avait donné aux londoniens le goût de l'hygiène corporelle. Cet homme n'eut jamais peur de consacrer tout l'argent nécessaire à l'éducation de son fils, qui se révéla très tôt un garçon curieux et plein d'intérêt pour la science. De son enfance, on ne sait que peu de choses, hormis ce qu'Halley lui-même a bien voulu confesser : , écrit-il dans ses mémoires. Sans en avoir aucune preuve directe, il est toutefois probable que Edmund Halley, à peine âgé de 10 a...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Kapitel: George Biddell Airy, Cuno Hoffmeister, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Alfred Wegener, Fritz Loewe, Erich Von Drygalski, Johannes Georgi, Friedrich Hopfner, Ernst Sorge, Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt, Ludwig Weickmann, Wilhelm Filchner, Robert Mallet, Emil Wiechert, Franz Linke, Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz, Hans Ertel, Oskar Niemczyk, Walter Munk, Leo Wenzel Pollak, Beno Gutenberg, Arthur Louis Day, Keith Edward Bullen, Siegmund Günther, Pierre Bouguer, Harold Jeffreys, Friedrich Bidlingmaier, Loránd Eötvös, August Heinrich Sieberg, Carl Weyprecht, Rudolf Meinhold, Andrija Mohorovičić, Erhard Wielandt, Albert Francis Birch, Sydney Chapman, Ralf Jaumann, Inge Lehmann, Bernhard Brockamp, Adolf Schmidt, Eigil Friis-Christensen, Marion King Hubbert, Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, John Tuzo Wilson, Kurt Wölcken, Carl Mainka, Alfred de Quervain, Don L. Anderson, Georg Von Neumayer, Ernst Von Rebeur-Paschwitz, Ludger Mintrop, Hugo Benioff, Robert Elmer Horton, Ulrich Schmucker, Waldo E. Smith, Adam Dziewoński, Willi Dansgaard, Walter Dieminger, Heinz Kohnen, Michail Iwanowitsch Budyko, Gustav Angenheister, Karl Jung, Julius Bartels, Wolfgang Rabbel, Hans Berckhemer, Leon Knopoff, Friedrich Seifert, Hans Oeschger, Keiiti Aki, William Jason Morgan, Franz Kossmat, Joseph Stepling, Marcia Mcnutt, Maurice Ewing, Winfried Otto Schumann, Colin Maclaurin, Michail Sergejewitsch Molodenski, Wolfgang Brauch, Heinz Kautzleben, Adrian Scheidegger, Charles Francis Richter, Timoteo Bertelli, Osmond Fisher, Conrad Schlumberger, George Wetherill, Gerhard Neukum, Karl Fritsch, Otto Meißer, Rainer Fornahl, Walter Zürn, Felix Maria Von Exner-Ewarten, Victor Conrad, Jean Jacques D'ortous de Mairan, Gerhard Jentzsch, Heinrich Von Ficker, Erich Etienne, Ferhat Özcep, Gerhard Krumbach, Hermann Fritz, Andrei Ippolitowitsch Wilkizki, Wladimir Isaakowitsch Keilis-Borok, Peter Giese, Hiroo Kanamori, Peter Steinhauser, Edward C. Bullard, Max Esch...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

T217431

With a half-title.Dated at head of the drop-head title on p. [1]: January 13th, 1762.

[Edinburgh, 1762]. [2],21,[1]p. ; 4° ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

T217427

Dated in square brackets at head of the drop-head title: January 5th, 1762.

[Edinburgh, 1762]. 35,[1]p. ; 4° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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T217430

Dated at head of the drop-head title: August 3. 1761.

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Chapters: George Biddell Airy, William Penney, Baron Penney, Bertram Ramsay, Derek Wyatt, Jan Pinkava, Andrew Sanger, David Clary, Kenneth Riches, John Stewart Went, David Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir George Biddell Airy FRS (27 July 1801 2 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich at the location of the prime meridian. His reputation has been tarnished by allegations that, through his inaction, Britain lost the opportunity of priority in the discovery of Neptune. Airy was born at Alnwick, one of a long line of Airys who traced their descent back to a family of the same name residing at Kentmere, in Westmorland, in the 14th century. The branch to which he belonged, having suffered in the English Civil War, moved to Lincolnshire and became farmers. George Airy was educated first at elementary schools in Hereford, and afterwards at Colchester Royal Grammar School. An introverted child, Airy gained popularity with his schoolmates through his great skill in the construction of peashooters. In 1819 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a sizar, meaning that he paid a reduced fee but essentially worked as a servant to make good the fee reduction. Here he had a brilliant career, and seems to have been almost immediately recognized as the leading man of his year. In 1822 he was elected scholar of Trinity, and in the following year he graduated as senior wrangler and obtained first Smith's prize. On 1 October 1824 he was elected fellow of Trinity, and in Decembe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=205497 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Friedrich Bessel, François Arago, Nevil Maskelyne, George Biddell Airy, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, James Dunlop, Camille Flammarion, James Challis, Christopher Hansteen, Maria Mitchell, Edward Emerson Barnard, Julius Bauschinger, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Charles Todd, Jérôme Lalande, George Forbes, James Edward Keeler, Auguste Charlois, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Willem de Sitter, Barnaba Oriani, John Pond, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Johann Gottfried Galle, William Harkness, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, John Birmingham, Heinrich Louis D'arrest, Thorvald N. Thiele, Benjamin Baillaud, Lewis A. Swift, James Craig Watson, Norman Robert Pogson, John Russell Hind, Hermann Carl Vogel, Judson B. Coit, Thomas William Webb, Temple Chevallier, Hermann Struve, Charles Dillon Perrine, Solon Irving Bailey, Guillaume Bigourdan, Marie-Charles Damoiseau, Alexis Bouvard, Rudolf Wolf, William Christie, Hervé Faye, Spiridon Gopčević, Giovanni Battista Donati, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Stephen Groombridge, Dominique, Comte de Cassini, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, A. Laurent, Ludwig Struve, Karl Theodor Robert Luther, Wilhelm Tempel, Antonio Abetti, Philip Herbert Cowell, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Annibale de Gasparis, James Ferguson, Walther Augustin Villiger, Alphonse Borrelly, Luigi Carnera, Joseph Bernard de Chabert, Gyula Fényi, Carl Theodor Anger, Andrew Graham, François Gonnessiat, Albert Marth, Nathaniel E. Green, Honoré Flaugergues, Samuel Oppenheim, Vincenzo Cerulli, Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart, Gustav Spörer, Hugo Gyldén, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues, Jean Chacornac, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Walter Frederick Gale, Casimir Marie Gaudibert, John M. Thome, Otto August Rosenberger, Edwin Holmes, Anders Donner, Ed...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=205497 ... Read more

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Airy wave theory. George Biddell Airy, Capillary wave, Stokes drift, Dispersion (water waves), Linear system, Gravity wave, Wind wave, Wind wave model, Cnoidal wave ... Read more

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Chapters: Expert Witness, Margaret Singer, Benjamin Baker, John Smeaton, Michael Behe, Peter Breggin, Rick Ross, George Biddell Airy, Richard Ofshe, Roy Meadow, Mark Geier, Evan Kohlmann, David S. Touretzky, Louis F. Budenz, Kenneth R. Miller, Benjamin Peirce, David Southall, Tom Meek, David A. Freedman, Paul Finkelman, John Haught, John Preston, Arthur Henry Douthwaite, Dugald Drummond, Bernard Spilsbury, Massad Ayoob, Bernie Farber, John B. Harman, Michael Levine, Donald Rubin, Henry N. Butler, Michael Ashby, Karen Mock, Robert Angus Smith, Nera Economic Consulting, Peter Donnelly, Martyn Thomas, W. G. Craig, Francis Camps, Robert Walser, Charles Chabot, James E. Aiken. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 235. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael J. Behe (born 1952) is an American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate. He currently serves as professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and as a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Behe is best known for his argument for irreducible complexity, which asserts that some biochemical structures are too complex to be adequately explained by known evolutionary mechanisms and are therefore more probably the result of intelligent design. Behe has testified in several court cases related to intelligent design, including the court case that resulted in a ruling that intelligent design was religious in nature. Behe's claims about the irreducible complexity of essential cellular structures have been rejected by the scientific community, and his own biology department at Lehigh University published an official statement opposing Behe's views and intelligent design. Behe is married to Celeste Behe, and they have nine children who are homeschooled by Celeste in Bethlehem, Pen...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=186205 ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

T217429

Dated at head of the drop-head title: July 1, 1761.

[Edinburgh, 1761]. 19,[1]p. ; 4° ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Edmond Halley, Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, Nevil Maskelyne, James Bradley, George Biddell Airy, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Martin Ryle, Frank Watson Dyson, Richard Van Der Riet Woolley, John Pond, Harold Spencer Jones, Nathaniel Bliss, Arnold Wolfendale, William Christie, Francis Graham-Smith, John Campbell Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Royal Astronomer of Ireland. Excerpt:Sir Arnold Wolfendale Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale FRS (born 25 June 1927, Rugby, Warwickshire ) is a British astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995. Early life His family moved to Flixton when he was 18 months. He attended Stretford Grammar School in Manchester. Wolfendale was graduated with a BSc in physics from the University of Manchester in 1948, followed by a PhD in 1953 and a DSc in 1970. Career During his career he held academic posts at the universities of Manchester (1951 6), Durham (1956 92), Ceylon and Hong Kong , and was head of department at Durham where he remains an emeritus professor. He was Professor of Physics at Durham from 1965 92. Recognition He was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1973, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977. He retired from teaching in 1992 and was knighted in 1995. In 1996 he became Professor of Experimental Physics with the Royal Institution of Great Britain . A lecture theatre in Durham University's new Calman Learning Centre has been named in his honour. Personal life He married Audrey Darby in 1951. They had twin sons. His wife died in 2007. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom . There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal datin... ... Read more