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Informationen zum Autor John Hearnshaw is Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has won the Mechaelis Prize for astronomy, and has twice been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. He chairs the International Astronomical Union Program Group for the World-wide Development of Astronomy. Klappentext Indispensable reference on the historical development of spectrographs for advanced amateur and professional astronomers, graduate students, and historians of science. Zusammenfassung An indispensable reference for advanced amateur and professional astronomers! graduate students! and historians of science! this book provides a comprehensive account of spectrographs from their theory and development over the last two hundred years! to the recent advances of the early twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The historical development of astronomical spectroscopes and spectrographs; 2. The theory of spectroscopes and spectrographs; 3. High resolution spectrographs; 4. Solar spectrographs and the history of solar spectroscopy; 5. Objective prism spectrographs; 6. Ultraviolet and nebular spectroscopy; 7. Multi-object spectrographs; 8. Ten pioneering spectrographs of the late twentieth century; Subject index; Name index.
