Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science
This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about...
Main Author: | Taibi, Richard. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut) |
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Corporate Author: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
Series: | Springer Biographies,
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44518-2 |
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