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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: Astronomer Jules Janssen
    sub title: A Globetrotter of Celestial Physics
  name:
    name part: Launay, Françoise.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 222 p. online resource.
  abstract: Every aspect of the personality of Janssen (1824—1907) – that D’Artagnan of science, this bard of the Sun, and this audacious master builder – is covered here by Françoise Launay, his attentive and equally erudite biographer. A physicist, inventor and builder, Janssen was guided by his energy and curiosity. His research followed two directions: on the one hand the atmospheres of the Earth and the Sun, and on the other, two techniques: spectroscopy and photography. Among his numerous voyages across the globe, he went to Japan in 1874 to follow the transit of Venus in front of the Sun, the same year in which he invented his famous photographic revolver, which was, in truth, a great technical success. To observe the Sun during total eclipses he traveled to the Indies in 1868, to Oran in 1870 (escaping from besieged Paris by balloon!), returned to India in 1871, left for Siam in 1875 and, in 1883, for an island in the Pacific. 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. From the Preface by Jean-Claude Pecker.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Françoise Launay.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cultural heritage
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Heritage
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 380
  identifier: 9781461406976
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0697-6
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    record creation date: 111124
    record change date: 20151125211454.0
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