Michael Hoskin
Biographic Data
| ID | 961059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Hoskin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoskin |
| SIGNATURE | HOSKIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Churchill College, Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Construction of the Heavens
The astronomical observations of William Herschel (1738–1822) made him question the accepted model of the clockwork universe. This volume explains the development of Herschel's thoughts on what he called 'the construction of the heavens' and reprints his principal papers on this subject. The preliminary chapters provide an introduction to Herschel, including his unusual path to astronomy, the discovery of Uranus and his work on the evolution of s…
Construction of the Heavens
William Herschel and Herschelian Reflectors
It would not have been pardonable to neglect such an advantage, when there was a particular object in view; and wondered why it had no struck me sooner.1The astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822) was not only a great observer and theoretician, but also the undisputed master-craftsman in the construction of great reflectors, both for his own use and for sale. For the largest instruments he devised an unorthodox configuration of mirror and eyepiec…
Unfinished Business
Vocations in Conflict
L'A. analyse la place de William Herschel dans l'histoire de l'astronomie au XVIII e siecle tel que Roy Porter l'a decrit a partir de nombreux exemples
Roy Porter (31 December 1946-4 March 2002)
The Leviathan of Parsonstown
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) est reconnue par les historiens comme etant l'assistante devouee de son frere William, qui a transforme l'astronomie en la faisant evoluer d'une etude du systeme solaire a l'exploration de l'univers dans sa totalite. Il fut a la base de la construction du plus grand telescope de son epoque qui lui permit d'observer et d'accroitre le nombre de nebuleuses connues, observations qui lui permit plus tard d'echaffauder ses…
Astronomy through the Ages
Hegel and the Seven Planets
The History of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Catalogues of Archives of Scientists, Compiled by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre. 1973-1978, and Continuation . Jeannine Alston
Swineshead on Falling Bodies
The “Scientific Revolution” of the seventeenth century cannot adequately be assessed without an appreciation of the achievements and limitations of those, whether giants or dwarfs, on whose shoulders Galileo and his contemporaries stood. And since for many historians Galileo's main contribution lies in the mathematization of the natural world and especially of time and motion, particular interest attaches to medieval treatises dealing with these …
Essay Review
Critical Problems in the History of Science
Wandering Stars and Flying Arrows
That the earth is a sphere was already known to the Greeks by the time of Plato; and most of them were agreed that the sky too is spherical, as suggested by the daily wheeling motion systematically shared by all but seven of the stars. So far so good, but with the seven exceptions, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the attempt to understand the structure of the universe ran into difficulties. These seven circled the earth every…
The Individual and the Universe
For a number of years, cosmology has been a favourite science with the British public, and, with the development of radio astronomy and the recent launching of earth- satellites, the choice of a cosmologist to give the recent Reith Lectures was not surprising. Professor A. C. B. Lovell, who is well-known for the part he played in the development of the great Jodrell Bank radio telescope, took as his title 'The individual and the universe', and in…
William Harvey
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Automation
The flood of literature on automation which has appeared in recent months has left no one in doubt as to the importance of the subject. Most of the discussion, unfortunately, has been of the effects of automation rather than of automation itself; the public has not been allowed to acquire any background knowledge, with the result that automation remains mysterious and menacing. I came across an example of this recently, when I was asked to take p…
Sidelights on Electronic Computers
Electronic digital computers or 'brains' were originally designed, as we saw previously, for use in the computations which occur in business and in scientific research; they carry out at great speed 'programmes' of elementary arithmetical and logical instructions which have been precisely formulated in advance. But there are many scientists, from linguists on the one hand to neurologists on the other, who are not confronted with heavy computation…
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) est reconnue par les historiens comme etant l'assistante devouee de son frere William, qui a transforme l'astronomie en la faisant evoluer d'une etude du systeme solaire a l'exploration de l'univers dans sa totalite. Il fut a la base de la construction du plus grand telescope de son epoque qui lui permit d'observer et d'accroitre le nombre de nebuleuses connues, observations qui lui permit plus tard d'echaffauder ses…
Swineshead on Falling Bodies
The “Scientific Revolution” of the seventeenth century cannot adequately be assessed without an appreciation of the achievements and limitations of those, whether giants or dwarfs, on whose shoulders Galileo and his contemporaries stood. And since for many historians Galileo's main contribution lies in the mathematization of the natural world and especially of time and motion, particular interest attaches to medieval treatises dealing with these …
Automation
The flood of literature on automation which has appeared in recent months has left no one in doubt as to the importance of the subject. Most of the discussion, unfortunately, has been of the effects of automation rather than of automation itself; the public has not been allowed to acquire any background knowledge, with the result that automation remains mysterious and menacing. I came across an example of this recently, when I was asked to take p…
Sidelights on Electronic Computers
Electronic digital computers or 'brains' were originally designed, as we saw previously, for use in the computations which occur in business and in scientific research; they carry out at great speed 'programmes' of elementary arithmetical and logical instructions which have been precisely formulated in advance. But there are many scientists, from linguists on the one hand to neurologists on the other, who are not confronted with heavy computation…
William Harvey
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Wandering Stars and Flying Arrows
That the earth is a sphere was already known to the Greeks by the time of Plato; and most of them were agreed that the sky too is spherical, as suggested by the daily wheeling motion systematically shared by all but seven of the stars. So far so good, but with the seven exceptions, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the attempt to understand the structure of the universe ran into difficulties. These seven circled the earth every…
The Individual and the Universe
For a number of years, cosmology has been a favourite science with the British public, and, with the development of radio astronomy and the recent launching of earth- satellites, the choice of a cosmologist to give the recent Reith Lectures was not surprising. Professor A. C. B. Lovell, who is well-known for the part he played in the development of the great Jodrell Bank radio telescope, took as his title 'The individual and the universe', and in…
Critical Problems in the History of Science
Essay Review
Swineshead on Falling Bodies
The “Scientific Revolution” of the seventeenth century cannot adequately be assessed without an appreciation of the achievements and limitations of those, whether giants or dwarfs, on whose shoulders Galileo and his contemporaries stood. And since for many historians Galileo's main contribution lies in the mathematization of the natural world and especially of time and motion, particular interest attaches to medieval treatises dealing with these …
The Catalogues of Archives of Scientists, Compiled by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre. 1973-1978, and Continuation . Jeannine Alston
The History of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hegel and the Seven Planets
Astronomy through the Ages
The Leviathan of Parsonstown
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) est reconnue par les historiens comme etant l'assistante devouee de son frere William, qui a transforme l'astronomie en la faisant evoluer d'une etude du systeme solaire a l'exploration de l'univers dans sa totalite. Il fut a la base de la construction du plus grand telescope de son epoque qui lui permit d'observer et d'accroitre le nombre de nebuleuses connues, observations qui lui permit plus tard d'echaffauder ses…
Vocations in Conflict
L'A. analyse la place de William Herschel dans l'histoire de l'astronomie au XVIII e siecle tel que Roy Porter l'a decrit a partir de nombreux exemples
Roy Porter (31 December 1946-4 March 2002)
Unfinished Business
William Herschel and Herschelian Reflectors
It would not have been pardonable to neglect such an advantage, when there was a particular object in view; and wondered why it had no struck me sooner.1The astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822) was not only a great observer and theoretician, but also the undisputed master-craftsman in the construction of great reflectors, both for his own use and for sale. For the largest instruments he devised an unorthodox configuration of mirror and eyepiec…
The Construction of the Heavens
The astronomical observations of William Herschel (1738–1822) made him question the accepted model of the clockwork universe. This volume explains the development of Herschel's thoughts on what he called 'the construction of the heavens' and reprints his principal papers on this subject. The preliminary chapters provide an introduction to Herschel, including his unusual path to astronomy, the discovery of Uranus and his work on the evolution of s…
Construction of the Heavens
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