Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century Historical Studies in Asteroid Research /

• Main Author: Cunningham, Clifford J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Planetology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History of Science.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the discovery of Pallas as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the second of a previously unknown group of celestial objects. Cunningham, a dedicated...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 A Disturbing Inclination
• Chapter 2 The Great Probability Debate
• Chapter 3 The Gold Medal
• Chapter 4 The Gauss Anagram
• Chapter 5 Hypothetical Planets
• Chapter 6 New Planets: The Transition from 1745 to 1804
• Chapter 7 The Olbers Letters
• Chapter 8 The Gauss Letters.-Chapter 9 The Harding Letters
• Chapter 10 Herschel's Asteroids
• Chapter 11 Scientific Papers
• Chapter 12 Gauss: The Great Asteroid Treatises
• Appendices.