The Astronomer Jules Janssen
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4614-0696-9 (ISBN)
The story of this untiring and stubborn globe-trotter is enriched by extracts of the unpublished correspondence with his wife. One can thus understand why Henriette often complained of the solitude in which she was left by her peripatetic husband: “There are men who leave their wives for mistresses; you do it for journeys!” ...
Basking in the glow of his success, Janssen was able to undertake the construction of the great astrophysical observatory of which he had dreamed. It was at Meudon that he had it built.
Françoise Launay spent her whole career as a research engineer at the Meudon Observatory, where she was the technical head for a large spectrograph, installed in part of the Château’s outbuildings, in the very location where Janssen carried out his laboratory experiments. She has now joined the history team at the Paris Observatory as an associate researcher, and she devotes herself to discovering unpublished material that documents the lives and work of individuals involved in astronomy, no matter whether they used, conceived, or constructed observational instruments.
Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Dedication.- Foreword.- Childhood and education.- Spectral analysis and telluric lines.- Janssen and the solar flames: the key eclipse of 1868.- The eclipse of 1870, balloons and patriotic missions.- Janssen and the Sun in majesty: the eclipse of 1871.- Janssen and cinema: the transit of Venus of 1874 and the revolver photographique.- The foundation of the "Paris Observatory for Physical Astronomy"... located in the Meudon estate.- Janssen, the photographic technician.- From Caroline Island to Washington.- Janssen and Edison’s phonograph.- The saga of the observatory on the summit of Mont Blanc.- Literary salons and educational problems.- Janssen and communication.- Epilogue.- Chronology.- Bibliography.- Index.
| Reihe/Serie | Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 380 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XXII, 222 p. |
| Verlagsort | New York, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Schlagworte | 19th century astronomers • astronomer Janssen • discoverer of helium • French astronomers • Janssen biography • Jules Janssen • Pierre Jules César Janssen • Sun eclipses • Transits of Venus |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4614-0696-X / 146140696X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4614-0696-9 / 9781461406969 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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