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- Continues the story of early asteroid discovery begun in other volumes, moving on from the discovery of Ceres to the discovery of Pallas, the second asteroid discovered
- Includes the first English translations of multiple primary sources, including two major papers in Latin, one by Regner, the other by Gauss
- Extensively examines the problem caused by the perturbations of Pallas' high orbital inclination, which led to Gauss' creation of the method of least squares
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
It was Olbers who discovered Pallas, in 1802, the second of many asteroids that would be officially identified as such. From the Gold Medal offered by the Paris Academy to solve the mystery of Pallas' gravitational perturbations to Gauss' Pallas Anagram, the asteroid remained a lingering mystery to leading thinkers of the time. Representing an intersection of science, mathematics, and philosophy, the puzzle of Pallas occupied the thoughts of an amazing panorama of intellectual giants in Europe in the early 1800s.
Authors and Affiliations
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Fort Lauderdale, USA
Clifford J. Cunningham
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century
Book Subtitle: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research
Authors: Clifford J. Cunningham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32848-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32846-1Published: 22 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81383-7Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32848-5Published: 14 November 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIII, 477
Number of Illustrations: 189 b/w illustrations, 137 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, History of Science, Planetology, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)