Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science

• Main Author: Taibi, Richard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Biographies,
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Science.

This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about...