Converging Elements in the Development of Late Seventeenth-Century Disciplinary Astronomy: Instrumentation, Education, and the Hevelius-Hooke Controversy
In this dissertation, I examine astronomical practice in the second half of the seventeenth century by analyzing the nature of observation and instrumentation within an institutional and social context. I argue that astronomical practice was transformed by the convergence of several overlapping fact...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29611 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11162001-113447/ |