Overview
- Continues the story of early asteroid discovery begun in earlier volumes by covering the discoveries of the asteroids Juno (1804) and Vesta (1807)
- Based on extensive archival research of Juno and Vesta
- Includes extensive correspondence about these two discoveries, along with sections of two books by Schroeter dealing with Juno and Vesta and all the scientific papers of the day on their discovery and study, many translated into English for the first time
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Johann Bode developed a so-called law of planetary distances best known as Bode’s Law. The story of the discovery of Juno in 1804 by Karl Harding tells how Juno fit into that scheme and is examined as it relates to the philosopher Georg Hegel’s 1801 thesis that there could be no planets between Mars and Jupiter. By 1804 that gap was not only filled but had three residents: Ceres, Pallas and Juno!
When Juno was discovered no one could have imagined its study would call into question Newton’s law of gravity, or be the impetus for developing the mathematics of the fast Fourier transform by Carl Gauss. Clifford Cunningham, a dedicated scholar, opens to scrutiny this critical moment of astronomical discovery, continuing the story of asteroid begun in earlier volumes of this series.
The fascinating issues raised by the discovery of Juno take us on an extraordinary journey. The revelation of the existence of this new class of celestial bodiestransformed our understanding of the Solar System, the implications of which are thoroughly discussed in terms of Romantic Era science, philosophy, poetry, mathematics and astronomy.
The account given here is based on both English and foreign correspondence and scientific papers, most of which are translated for the first time.
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Book Title: Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno
Book Subtitle: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research
Authors: Clifford J. Cunningham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32875-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32873-7Published: 14 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81390-5Published: 11 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32875-1Published: 02 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 304
Number of Illustrations: 166 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, History of Science, Planetology, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)