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Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research

Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research

Cunningham, Clifford

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Sports GeneralAstronomy & SpaceGeology

ISBN10: 3319328468
ISBN13: 9783319328461
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 22 2016
Pages: 477
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the discovery of Pallas as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the second of a previously unknown group of celestial objects. Cunningham, a dedicated scholar of asteroids, includes a large set of newly translated correspondence as well as the many scientific papers about Pallas in addition to sections of Schroeter's 1805 book on the subject.

It was Olbers who discovered Pallas, in 1802, the second of many asteroids that would be officially identified as such. From the Gold Medal offered by the Paris Academy to solve the mystery of Pallas' gravitational perturbations to Gauss' Pallas Anagram, the asteroid remained a lingering mystery to leading thinkers of the time. Representing an intersection of science, mathematics, and philosophy, the puzzle of Pallas occupied the thoughts of an amazing panorama of intellectual giants in Europe in the early 1800s.

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