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Civic Astronomy

Albany’s Dudley Observatory, 1852–2002

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Authors:
  1. George Wise

    1. Dudley Observatory, Schenectady, USA

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 316)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Seeing from and being Seen

    • George Wise
    Pages 1-7

  3. Star War

    • George Wise
    Pages 9-45

  4. Time of Troubles

    • George Wise
    Pages 47-55

  5. Disciplined Dreamer

    • George Wise
    Pages 57-85

  6. Scientific Sweatshop

    • George Wise
    Pages 87-113

  7. Harvest

    • George Wise
    Pages 115-126

  8. Consumed by the Catalogue

    • George Wise
    Pages 127-152

  9. Dust Collectors

    • George Wise
    Pages 153-187

  10. Afterlife

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    Pages 189-195

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-215
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About this book

The founding of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N.Y., in 1852 was a milestone in humanity's age-old quest to understand the heavens. As the best equipped astronomical observatory in the U.S. led by the first American to hold a Ph.D. in astronomy, Benjamin Apthorp Gould Jr., the observatory helped pioneer world-class astronomy in America. It also proclaimed Albany's status as a major national center of culture, knowledge and affluence. This book explores the story of the Dudley Observatory as a 150 year long episode in civic astronomy. The story ranges from a bitter civic controversy to a venture into space, from the banks of the Hudson River to the highlands of Argentina. It is a unique glimpse at a path not taken, a way of doing science once promising, now vanished. As discoveries by the Dudley Observatory's astronomers, especially its second director Lewis Boss, made significant contributions to the modern vision of our Milky Way galaxy as a rotating spiral of more than a million stars, the advance of astronomy left that little observatory behind.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dudley Observatory, Schenectady, USA

    George Wise

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Civic Astronomy

  • Book Subtitle: Albany’s Dudley Observatory, 1852–2002

  • Authors: George Wise

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2678-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2677-5Published: 18 October 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6702-9Published: 08 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2678-2Published: 07 November 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 216

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, History, general

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