株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox: To Which is Appended a Translation of his Celebrated Discourse Upon the Transit of Venus Across the Sun.
商品詳細
Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox: To Which is Appended a Translation of his Celebrated Discourse Upon the Transit of Venus Across the Sun.
・ISBN 978-1-108-01441-0 paper GB£ 27.00
￥8,553.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
お気に入り
★★★
| 著者・編者 | Whatton, Arundell Blount / Horrox, Jeremiah, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy) |
| 出版社 | (Cambridge University Press, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2010 |
| ページ数 | 248 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A00-3190＞ |
解説
Jeremiah Horrox (1618-1641) was one of the most interesting astronomers Britain has ever produced, and his tragically early death deprived the field of one of its most brilliant talents. In his short life he achieved much, having mastered the current state of astronomy at Cambridge University and going on to make important new calculations about the diameter and position of known planets, moons and stars. In the 1660s and 70s several prominent scientists, including Huygens, Newton and Flamsteed, took an interest in Horrox's discoveries and published his surviving treatises. This memoir of 1859 was part of a Victorian revival of interest in Horrox. It includes translation of his major work, Venus in Sole Visa, a draft of a treatise on the transit of Venus, in which he describes the conjunction of Venus with the sun, which he correctly calculated and observed in 1639.