Galileo's planet : observing Jupiter before photography / by Thomas Hockey.
Pubblicazione:
Bristol : Institute of physics publishing, 1999.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 217 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Glossary. 1. Introduction 2. A Jupiter primer 3. Before the telescope 4. The seventeenth century 5. The eighteenth century 6. The first half of the nineteenth century 7. The 1860s and 1870s 8. The modern discovery of the great red spot 9. Theories of Jupiter 10. Observations, conclusions and final thoughts. A. Opposition of Jupiter. Index
Crowe, Michael J. 1936- Early observations of Jupiter.