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Celsius
The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–44) was arguably the world's first true Earth scientist. In Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees, Ian Hembrow reveals what his extraordinary, but tragically short, life and career can teach us about our today and humanity's tomorrow. Our modern understanding of many of the Earth's most awe-inspiring phenomena owes much to a modest and quietly spoken, eighteenth-century Swedish astronomer, who died of tuberculosis aged just 42. From the Northern Lights, air pressure and magnetism to the shape of the planet, sea levels and early studies of climate change, Celsius unravelled some of the greatest mysteries of his time. Best known for inventing the 100-point ' centi-grade' scale, Celsius' name also now frames humanity's future in the international targets to limit average global temperature increases to no more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. As our world faces this life-or-death struggle, there's much we can learn from Celsius – if we will listen.
Beyond Public Engagement
University collections have unquestionably played a central role in the production of knowledge. They are valuable resources for studying the construction of traditions and identities, proving particularly interesting for understanding how universities have shaped societies. Furthermore, they have also been mobilised as cultural mediators to legitimise academic institutions and bring the results of their activities into the public sphere. As such, academic collections undoubtedly enable reflection on the complex relationships between heritage, knowledge, scholars, and the public. Given their importance, the development of successful strategies in terms of public engagement has recently become a major concern for those working with these academic collections. However, the complexity of university heritage encompasses a diversity of issues that are connected with more than just the public sphere. This volume discusses some of the problems, challenges, and opportunities of academic heritage, beyond the mere concern for engaging with the public.
Genesis Revealed
The lines have been drawn. On one side are young earth creationists, who assert that God created the universe in six days and-based on calculations derived from the Bible-that the earth is six thousand years old. On the other side are secular scientists, who claim the universe has existed for over thirteen billion years, the earth for 4.5 billion. Scientists claim that no miracles were necessary to form the universe, and that everything is explained by natural causes. However, young earth creationists point to verses at the beginning of the Bible and the beginning of the book of John that clearly claim that God created the universe. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The...
Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun
The series of ‘Cool Star’ meetings concentrates on the astrophysics of low-mass stars (with masses similar to that of the Sun and lower), including the Sun. The meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland, was the 15th in this series, and focused in particular on the origin of low-mass stars and their planets, as well as the properties of their atmospheres. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the science presented by the 350 participants of this meeting. The book is suitable for researchers and graduate students interested in the astrophysics of cool stars and the Sun.
Swedish Dissertations and their Subjects, 1600–1820 (Volume Two)
This book challenges earlier understandings of early modern dissertations as unimaginative academic exercises. It argues for their continuous importance in scholarly and scientific discourse, and describes the richness and diversity of their subjects and themes. The book contains a complete catalogue of the almost 20,000 Swedish dissertations defended in Uppsala, Lund and Åbo, 1600 to 1820. The catalogue includes longer comments and descriptions of a few thousand of these dissertations, and also gives an analysis of how different subjects have evolved over time.
Swedish Dissertations and their Subjects, 1600–1820 (Volume One)
This book challenges earlier understandings of early modern dissertations as unimaginative academic exercises. It argues for their continuous importance in scholarly and scientific discourse, and describes the richness and diversity of their subjects and themes. The book contains a complete catalogue of the almost 20,000 Swedish dissertations defended in Uppsala, Lund and Åbo, 1600 to 1820. The catalogue includes longer comments and descriptions of a few thousand of these dissertations, and also gives an analysis of how different subjects have evolved over time.
14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun
"Cool Stars 14 (CS14) was held in Pasadena, 5-10 November 2006, and was jointly hosted by the Spitzer Science Center and the Michelson Science Center. CS14 also doubled as the 2006 Spitzer Science Center November Workshop. Topics that were central to the previous Cool Stars Meetings -- stellar activity indicators, the solar-stellar connection, PMS stars and stellar evolution, brown dwarfs, and helio-and asteroseismology -- continued to be high on the agenda for CS14. Enhanced emphasis was also placed on topics such as mid-IR observations (debris disk evolution; protostar formation) and high-angular resolution observations (PMS disk imaging, PMS binary orbits, future space astrometry missions...
Eta Carinae and Other Mysterious Stars
Annotation Observational data, laboratory measurements, and modeling efforts are reported in these papers from a conference on the massive star Eta Carinae and other stars with peculiar spectroscopic signatures. Organized in sections on the spectroscopy of Eta Carinae from X-rays to radio, questions from spectroscopy of other peculiar emission line stars, fluorescence and radiative processes, and spectra of Eta Carinae and Weigelt blobs BD, the papers deal with aspects of the field such as Raman scattering and symbiotic stars, the origin of strings in the outer regions in Eta Carinae, selective emission lines in O-type spectra, and cool star chromospheres and the sun. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Fiber Optics in Astronomy III
The proceedings of the December 1997 conference reflect its emphasis on instrumentation and instrumental techniques, though some recent scientific results also are discussed. The 46 papers are divided into six parts--new advances in fiber technology and testing, multi-object spectroscopy, two-dimensional fiber spectroscopy, projects for large telescopes, multi-object and 2-D infrared fiber spectroscopy, and other applications. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
