John Tebbutt Rebuilding and Strengthening the Foundations of Australian Astronomy /

• Main Author: Orchiston, Wayne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
• Subjects: Physics.; Islands of the Pacific > History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Australasian History.

This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced with a foreword by Sir Patrick Moore. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Tebbutt was Australia's foremost astronomer. He devoted...