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  • Formaat: Hardback, 477 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x155 mm, kaal: 8572 g, 137 Illustrations, color; 189 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 477 p. 326 illus., 137 illus. in color., 1 Hardback
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  • ISBN-10: 3319328468
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Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the discovery of Pallas as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the second of a previously unknown group of celestial objects. Cunningham, a dedicated scholar of asteroids, includes a large set of newly translated correspondence as well as the many scientific papers about Pallas in addition to sections of Schroeter"s 1805 book on the subject.It was Olbers who discovered Pallas, in 1802, the second of many asteroids that would be officially identified as such. From the Gold Medal offered by the Paris Academy to solve the mystery of Pallas" gravitational perturbations to Gauss" Pallas Anagram, the asteroid remained a lingering mystery to leading thinkers of the time. Representing an intersection of science, mathematics, and philosophy, the puzzle of Pallas occupied the thoughts of an amazing panorama of intellectual giants in Europe i

n the early 1800s.

Chapter 1 A Disturbing Inclination.- Chapter 2 The Great Probability Debate.- Chapter 3 The Gold Medal.- Chapter 4 The Gauss Anagram.- Chapter 5 Hypothetical Planets.- Chapter 6 New Planets: The Transition from 1745 to 1804.- Chapter 7 The Olbers Letters.- Chapter 8 The Gauss Letters.-Chapter 9 The Harding Letters.- Chapter 10 Herschel"s Asteroids.- Chapter 11 Scientific Papers.- Chapter 12 Gauss: The Great Asteroid Treatises.- Appendices
1 A Disturbing Inclination
1(22)
Bernoulli and the First Orbital Properties of Ceres in 1681
1(3)
The End of Heavenly Harmony: The Perturbations of Pallas
4(3)
The Temple of Natural Philosophy
7(4)
The Orbit of Pallas and the Geometrical Structure of Space
11(5)
The Mass of Jupiter
16(3)
Laplace and the Grand Inequality
19(1)
References
20(3)
2 The Great Probability Debate
23(30)
The Legacy of Leibniz
23(5)
The Most Delicate of Mathematical Theories
28(2)
The Historical Development of Probability
30(5)
Equipossibility
35(2)
Analogy and Probability
37(1)
The Origin of the Asteroids and the Twilight of Probability
38(5)
The Invention of Least Squares
43(4)
Gauss and Laplace: The Mathematical Link
47(2)
References
49(4)
3 The Gold Medal
53(40)
Astronomy and the Republic of Letters
53(6)
Rivalry
59(1)
Reason and the Axiom of Solvability
60(5)
The Berlin Academy Prize
65(2)
The Paris Academy Prize
67(3)
The Pallas Prize
70(3)
The Prize Is Doubled
73(3)
The Prize and the Perturbation Calculations: A Timeline
76(1)
Lalande and the Asteroids
76(2)
The Lack of Theoretical Work in England
78(3)
Scottish Common Sense Realism: Brougham, Stewart, and Reid
81(2)
Contemporary Views on the State of Astronomy in Great Britain
83(6)
References
89(4)
4 The Gauss Anagram
93(12)
The Origin of the Anagram
93(2)
Concinnity
95(2)
The Solution of the Gauss Anagram
97(1)
Gauss and the Royal Society
98(2)
Gauss gives up
100(2)
The Royal Patrons
102(1)
References
103(2)
5 Hypothetical Planets
105(10)
Ludwig's Star
105(1)
Vidal's Planet
105(3)
Olbers' Giant Planet
108(1)
Huth's Moving Star
108(3)
Cassini's Planet of 1668
111(1)
Cacciatore's Planet
112(2)
References
114(1)
6 New Planets: The Transition from 1745 to 1804
115(34)
The Planetary Gap
115(3)
A Wild and Romantic Idea
118(8)
Olbers' Asteroid Lectures
126(1)
The First Lecture (October 25, 1802)
127(7)
The Second Lecture (Late 1803)
134(7)
Hypothesis and Theory
141(2)
Lalande's Planetary Nomenclature
143(2)
Pallas: Chemistry in 1803
145(2)
References
147(2)
7 The Olbers Letters
149(8)
Introduction to the Letters
149(1)
Magnitudes of Ceres of Pallas
149(2)
Mutual Orbital Properties of Ceres and Pallas
151(1)
The Letters
152(4)
References
156(1)
8 The Gauss Letters
157(58)
References
214(1)
9 The Harding Letters
215(20)
References
233(2)
10 Herschel's Asteroids
235(36)
Herschel's First Paper of 1802: Ceres
235(2)
Herschel's Second Paper of 1802: Ceres and Pallas
237(1)
Observations on the Two Lately Discovered Celestial Bodies
237(11)
The Definition of an Asteroid
248(3)
Critiques of Herschel's Paper on Ceres and Pallas
251(9)
Two Ladies and a Comet
260(7)
Thomas Kuhn's Paradigm Shift
267(1)
References
268(3)
11 Scientific Papers
271(140)
References
410(1)
12 Gauss: The Great Asteroid Treatises
411(38)
References
447(2)
Appendix A 449(18)
Appendix B 467(6)
Index 473
Clifford J. Cunningham did his Ph.D. work in the history of astronomy at James Cook University and the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, and he is affiliated with the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand. He has written or edited 13 books on the history of astronomy, and his papers have been published in many major journals, including Annals of Science, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Culture & Cosmos, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, The Asian Journal of Physics and The Milton Quarterly. Asteroid (4276) was named Clifford in his honor by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.