Dennis Rawlins
Biographic Data
| ID | 976724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Rawlins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawlins |
| SIGNATURE | RAWLINS D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To the Editor
Byrd's heroic 1926 North Pole failure
Richard E. Byrd's record of the 9 May 1926 flight on which he claimed to have reached the North Pole was unsealed several years ago by the archives of Ohio State University. A close examination of Byrd's writings, calculations, and erasures in this diary shows clearly that, although he and Floyd Bennett achieved a farthest-north-seen and made a heroic attempt to attain the Pole, they never reached that destination. Despite efforts by some organis…
Eratosthenes' Ratio for the Obliquity of the Ecliptic
Eratosthenes' Geodesy Unraveled
Eratosthenes' Geodesy Unraveled
Byrd's heroic 1926 North Pole failure
Richard E. Byrd's record of the 9 May 1926 flight on which he claimed to have reached the North Pole was unsealed several years ago by the archives of Ohio State University. A close examination of Byrd's writings, calculations, and erasures in this diary shows clearly that, although he and Floyd Bennett achieved a farthest-north-seen and made a heroic attempt to attain the Pole, they never reached that destination. Despite efforts by some organis…
Eratosthenes' Ratio for the Obliquity of the Ecliptic
Eratosthenes' Geodesy Unraveled
Eratosthenes' Ratio for the Obliquity of the Ecliptic
Byrd's heroic 1926 North Pole failure
Richard E. Byrd's record of the 9 May 1926 flight on which he claimed to have reached the North Pole was unsealed several years ago by the archives of Ohio State University. A close examination of Byrd's writings, calculations, and erasures in this diary shows clearly that, although he and Floyd Bennett achieved a farthest-north-seen and made a heroic attempt to attain the Pole, they never reached that destination. Despite efforts by some organis…
To the Editor
Astronomy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Algorithm (1 work) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Astrobiology (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work)