On the Minute Structure of the Solar Photosphere.

Series: American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. VII, February, 1874. 4to. 15 pp. 1 original photographic plate showing the sun [3-inch square section of plate clipped and missing]. Disbound. Good [noting plate damage]. Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation, took his education at the Boston Latin School, and graduated from English High School of Boston, took a position at the Harvard College Observatory. "Langley's well-known paper 'On the Minute Structure of the Solar Photosphere,' illustrated with his unrivalled drawings, is still our best source of information regarding the structural details of the photosphere and sun-spots." :: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. II, 1916, p.103. "Langley devoted his time at the Observatory initially in researching the sun. He used his draftsman skills (from his first job right out of high school) to produce hundreds of drawings of solar phenomena, many of which were the first the world had seen. His 1873 remarkably detailed illustration of a sun spot, observed while using the observatory's 13-inch Fitz-Clark refractor became a classic." :: Wikip.

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Publisher: AJSA, 1874.

Year: 1874

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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