Exploring the history of New Zealand astronomy : trials, tribulations, telescopes and transits /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Orchiston, D. Wayne (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Cham : Springer, [2016]
Series:	Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 422.
Subjects:	Astronomy > New Zealand > History. History. Astronomie > Nouvelle-Zélande > Histoire. Histoire. astronomy. history (discipline) History of science. Theoretical & mathematical astronomy. SCIENCE > Astronomy. Astronomy New Zealand Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Pre-European Astronomy in the Pacific
Chapter 2: The Skies over Aotearoa/New Zealand
Chapter 3: Mahutonga
Part II: Cook Voyage Astronomy and New Zealand
Chapter 4: Astronomy on Cook?s First Voyage
Chapter 5: Astronomy on Cook?s Second Voyage
Chapter 6: Astronomy on Cook?s Third Voyage
Part III: Fundamental Astronomy
Chapter 7: The?Cook? Gregorian Telescope in The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Chapter 8: Stephen Carkeek, the Wellington Time Ball, and New Zealand?s Oldest?Surviving? Observatory
Chapter 9: The Historic Astronomical Observatories in the Wellington Botanic Garden
Chapter 10: The Thames Observatory of John Grigg
Chapter 11: The Wanganui Refractor and its Remarkable English Equatorial Mounting
Chapter 12: Joseph Ward
Chapter 13: From Crossley to Carter
Part IV: Transits of Venus
Chapter 14: The 1874 and 1882 Transits of Venus
Chapter 15: Refining the Astronomical Unit
Part V: Stunning Spectacles
Chapter 16: An Amazing Public Spectacle
Chapter 17: John Grigg and the Genesis of Cometary Astronomy in New Zealand
Chapter 18: C.J. Westland and Comet C/1914 S1 (Campbell)
Chapter 19: A Catholic Approach to Astronomy
Part VI: Other Notable Astronomers and Their Activities
Chapter 20: Great Comets, and Wellington?s Earliest European Astronomers
Chapter 21: Henry Severn
Chapter 22: John Grigg and his Pioneering Astronomical Photography
Part VII: Opening a New Window on the Universe
Chapter 23: Dr Elizabeth Alexander and the Mysterious?Norfolk Island Effect?
Ch 24: John Bolton, Gordon Stanley, Bruce Slee and the Riddle of the?Radio Stars?
Index.