John Lankford
Biographic Data
| ID | 301652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Lankford |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Lankford |
| SIGNATURE | LANKFORD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eloge: Helen Wright, 1914-1997
American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940
American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940
Journal Article American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859–1940. By John Lankford with Ricky L. Slavings. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxvi, 447 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-226-46886-0.) Get access Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Sally Gregory Kohlstedt University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998…
Planets and Perception: Telescopic Views and Interpretations, 1609-1909. William Sheehan
James Lick’s Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory by Helen Wright, and: A Man Who Loved the Stars: The Autobiography of John A. Brashear by John A. Bras…
890 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND < i I i I RlJames Lick’s Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory. By Helen Wright. New York: Cambridge Uni versity Press, 1987. Pp. xvi + 231; illustrations, notes, index. $32.50. A Man Who Loved the Stars: The Autobiography ofJohn A. Brashear. By John A. Brashear. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Pp. xxv+ 190; illustrations, appendix. $19.95 (cloth); $…
James Lick's Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory
Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein
Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein: Vol. 1, The Torch of Mathematics, 1800-1870
Private patronage and the growth of knowledge: The J. Lawrence Smith fund of the National Academy of Sciences, 1884?1940
Photography and the 19th-Century Transits of Venus
Rings: Discoveries from Galileo to Voyager . James Elliot , Richard Kerr
Explicating an Autobiography Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections . Katherine Haramundanis
Science and Gender Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 . Margaret W. Rossiter
Amateurs versus Professionals: The Controversy over Telescope Size in Late Victorian Science
Amateurs and Astrophysics: A Neglected Aspect in the Development of a Scientific Specialty
Amateurs have been neglected in accounts of the rise of new specialties In science. This paper examines seven key amateurs and their relationship to the growth of astrophysics over a sixty-year period. These amateurs, five Britons and two Americans, are seen as the risk-takers of the new specialty. They pioneered m the application of photography and the use of reflecting telescopes, and amassed an Important body of observational material in such …
Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860
The Writing of American History in the 1960s: A Critical Bibliography of Materials of Interest to Sociologists
Citadel in the Wilderness: The Story of Fort Snelling and the Old Northwest Frontier
Journal Article Citadel in the Wilderness: The Story of Fort Snelling and the Old Northwest Frontier. By Evan Jones. (New York: Coward-McCann, 1966. 255 pp. Illustrations, maps, sources, and index. $5.95.) Get access John Lankford John Lankford University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 4, March 1967, Pages 813–814, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Congress and the Foundations in the Twentieth Century
(1965). Congress and the Foundations in the Twentieth Century. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 476-478
Amateurs and Astrophysics: A Neglected Aspect in the Development of a Scientific Specialty
Amateurs have been neglected in accounts of the rise of new specialties In science. This paper examines seven key amateurs and their relationship to the growth of astrophysics over a sixty-year period. These amateurs, five Britons and two Americans, are seen as the risk-takers of the new specialty. They pioneered m the application of photography and the use of reflecting telescopes, and amassed an Important body of observational material in such …
Photography and the 19th-Century Transits of Venus
Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein
Congress and the Foundations in the Twentieth Century
(1965). Congress and the Foundations in the Twentieth Century. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 476-478
Congress and the Foundations in the Twentieth Century
(1965). Congress and the Foundations in the Twentieth Century. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 476-478
Citadel in the Wilderness: The Story of Fort Snelling and the Old Northwest Frontier
Journal Article Citadel in the Wilderness: The Story of Fort Snelling and the Old Northwest Frontier. By Evan Jones. (New York: Coward-McCann, 1966. 255 pp. Illustrations, maps, sources, and index. $5.95.) Get access John Lankford John Lankford University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 4, March 1967, Pages 813–814, https://doi.org/10.2307…
The Writing of American History in the 1960s: A Critical Bibliography of Materials of Interest to Sociologists
Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860
Amateurs versus Professionals: The Controversy over Telescope Size in Late Victorian Science
Amateurs and Astrophysics: A Neglected Aspect in the Development of a Scientific Specialty
Amateurs have been neglected in accounts of the rise of new specialties In science. This paper examines seven key amateurs and their relationship to the growth of astrophysics over a sixty-year period. These amateurs, five Britons and two Americans, are seen as the risk-takers of the new specialty. They pioneered m the application of photography and the use of reflecting telescopes, and amassed an Important body of observational material in such …
Science and Gender Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 . Margaret W. Rossiter
Explicating an Autobiography Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections . Katherine Haramundanis
Rings: Discoveries from Galileo to Voyager . James Elliot , Richard Kerr
Private patronage and the growth of knowledge: The J. Lawrence Smith fund of the National Academy of Sciences, 1884?1940
Photography and the 19th-Century Transits of Venus
Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein
Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein: Vol. 1, The Torch of Mathematics, 1800-1870
James Lick’s Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory by Helen Wright, and: A Man Who Loved the Stars: The Autobiography of John A. Brashear by John A. Bras…
890 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND < i I i I RlJames Lick’s Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory. By Helen Wright. New York: Cambridge Uni versity Press, 1987. Pp. xvi + 231; illustrations, notes, index. $32.50. A Man Who Loved the Stars: The Autobiography ofJohn A. Brashear. By John A. Brashear. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Pp. xxv+ 190; illustrations, appendix. $19.95 (cloth); $…
James Lick's Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory
Planets and Perception: Telescopic Views and Interpretations, 1609-1909. William Sheehan
American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940
American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940
Journal Article American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859–1940. By John Lankford with Ricky L. Slavings. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxvi, 447 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-226-46886-0.) Get access Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Sally Gregory Kohlstedt University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998…
Eloge: Helen Wright, 1914-1997
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