[DOWNLOAD] "Astronomical Discovery" by Herbert Hall Turner ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

February 28, 2021

eBook details

Title: Astronomical Discovery
Author : Herbert Hall Turner
Release Date : January 03, 2010
Genre: Science & Nature,Books,Young Adult,
Pages : * pages
Size : 993 KB

Description

Discovery is expected from an astronomer. The lay mind scarcely thinks of a naturalist nowadays discovering new animals, or of a chemist as finding new elements save on rare occasions; but it does think of the astronomer as making discoveries. The popular imagination pictures him spending the whole night in watching the skies from a high tower through a long telescope, occasionally rewarded by the finding of something new, without much mental effort. I propose to compare with this romantic picture some of the actual facts, some of the ways in which discoveries are really made; and if we find that the image and the reality differ, I hope that the romance will nevertheless not be thereby destroyed, but may adapt itself to conditions more closely resembling the facts.