Books written by David Leverington
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A History of Astronomy: from 1890 to the Present
In 1951, Fred Whipple suggested that the nucleus of a comet was like a dirty Snowball, consisting of ices of water, ammonia (NH3), and methane (CH4), with grains of embedded meteoric material. Did the nucleus of a comet look like a ...
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Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy
Whipple's dirty snowball would have an albedo higher than either of these estimates , so was it correct ? Prior to the Halley spacecraft encounters , no - one had imaged the nucleus of a comet nor knew its size for certain .
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New Cosmic Horizons: Space Astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope
Gorbachev , Mikhail S. , 21n Gorenstein , P. , 343 Greenstein , Jesse L. , 331 , 424 , 425 Gregory , 346 Gregory , Philip ... Robert , 352 Hearn , 324 Heise , John , 318 Helfand , David J. , 342 , 407 , 408 Herbig , George , 451 Herman ...
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New Cosmic Horizons: Space Astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope
New Cosmic Horizons tells the extraordinary story of space-based astronomy since the Second World War.
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A History of Astronomy: From 1890 to the Present
The history of astronomy is, like most history, a multidimensional story, and when writing about a specific period, the author has to decide how to handle all the developments of...
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Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics
These are followed by articles on tools and techniques, from the history of spectroscopy to adaptive optics.