John Tebbutt

Rebuilding and Strengthening the Foundations of Australian Astronomy

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Wayne Orchiston

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Historical & Cultural Astronomy

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This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced with a foreword by Sir Patrick Moore. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Tebbutt was Australia's foremost astronomer. He devoted his time and funds to astronomy, and built a truly international reputation that far surpassed Australia's leading professional astronomers of the day. This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account. Tebbutt's remarkable record of achievement extends over more than half a century. Orchiston's book covers the whole of Tebbutt's career, from his yearly observatory reports and comet discoveries to his time as the first president of Sydney's branch of the British Astronomical Association.

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Professor Wayne Orchiston is a Senior Researcher at the National Astronomical Research Institute in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and formerly worked in optical and radio astronomy in Australia and New Zealand. He has published on the history of Australian, English, French, Georgian, Indian, Indonesian, Iraqi, Japanese, New Zealand and USA astronomy, and has supervised a large pool of graduate students. Like Tsuko Nakamura, Orchiston has played a leading role in developing history of astronomy through International Astronomical Union Commission 41, and was responsible for the formation of the Historic Radio Astronomy and Transits of Venus Working Groups. He is the Editor of the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage and is on the Editorial Board of Springer's Historical and Cultural Astronomy series.

Release date Australia

November 25th, 2016

Author

Wayne Orchiston

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2017

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111 Illustrations, color; 151 Illustrations, black and white; XLVII, 555 p. 262 illus., 111 illus. in color.

Pages

555

Series

Historical & Cultural Astronomy

Dimensions

155x235x36

ISBN-13

9783319445205

Product ID

25640423

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