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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth
    sub title: A Meeting to Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday
  name:
    name part: Orchiston, Wayne.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 334 p. online resource.
  abstract: This unique work celebrates the 60th birthday of Professor Woodruff Sullivan III (University of Washington, Seattle). The ‘Woodfest’ conference attracted some of the world’s leading astrobiologists and historians of astronomy, so it is no surprise this book provides a collection of key papers and reviews on the history of astronomy, astrobiology and sundials. The emphasis on radio astronomy in the historical papers is a fitting reminder that Woody is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading authority in this field. But there are also papers on astrobiology, which reflect his intimate involvement in this exciting multidisciplinary field. The papers on sundials reveal another passion and his quest to make Seattle the sundial capital of North America! This book will appeal to professional and amateur astronomers, and is a tribute to one of the world’s most remarkable astronomers.
  table of contents: Points of View: Shadows, Photons, Planets, and Life -- The Biological Universe Revisited -- Contingency and the Cosmic Perspective -- Grote Reber (1911–2002) -- Dr Elizabeth Alexander: First Female Radio Astronomer -- Radio Astronomy in Holland Before 1960 -- Jodrell Bank and the Meteor Velocity Controversy -- The Radiophysics Field Stations and the Early Development of Radio Astronomy -- Dark Matter and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory -- The Discovery of Sgr A* -- Radio Astronomy, Whatever that May be -- Telescopes Lofted to Space -- The History of Space Astronomy -- SAO During the Whipple Years -- The Transits of Venus and New Technologies -- And the Remaining 22 Photons -- Gn?monik? Techn? -- Light Work.
  note: edited by Wayne Orchiston.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 334
  identifier: 9781402037245
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3724-4
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204152249.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-3724-5