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An asteroid scholar, Cunningham in this book picks up where his Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres left off in telling the story of the impact created by the discovery of this new class of object in the early 1800s. The best and brightest minds of mathematics, science, and philosophy were fascinated by Ceres, and figures as diverse as Gauss, Herschel, Brougham, Kant, and Laplace all contributed something to the conversation. The first few chapters deal with the mathematical and philosophical aspects of the discovery, and the rivalry between Germany and France that so affected science and astronomy of that era. The jockeying for glory over the discovery of Ceres by both Piazzi and Bode is examined in detail, as is the reception given to Herschels use of the word 'asteroid.' Archival research that reveals the creator of the word 'asteroid' is presented in this book. Astronomy was a truly cosmopolitan field at the time, spanning across various disciplines, and the discovery of Pallas, a story completely told in these pages, exemplifies the excitement and drama of early 1800s astronomy. All the private correspondence about the study of Ceres and Pallas in 1802 is given here, which helps to contextualize and personalize the discovery.… (plus d'informations)
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The phenomena are disemboweled and embalmed with numbers and signs, and on the scientific coffin are painted bizarre figures.
--Goethe's comment on the mathematical approach, which reminded him of Egyptian tombs. From a letter of November 24, 1817.
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In 1801 the discovery of Ceres presented astronomers with a challenge from physical reality that could only be answered by mathematics: Carl Gauss faced the task of extracting, from a sequence of symbols in the form of numbers (positional data by Giuseppe Piazzi, shown below), the unknown orbit of the new planet.
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Due to the lovely correspondence between the sky and Dr. Gauss' elements XI this year's rediscovery of this celestial body, if faint, will not be difficult.
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The original edition of this book was published in 2004 by Star Lab Press under the title "Jousting for Celestial Glory: The Discovery and Study of Ceres and Pallas." The second edition, published by Springer in 2016, has the title "Early Investigations of Ceres and the Discovery of Pallas: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research."
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An asteroid scholar, Cunningham in this book picks up where his Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres left off in telling the story of the impact created by the discovery of this new class of object in the early 1800s. The best and brightest minds of mathematics, science, and philosophy were fascinated by Ceres, and figures as diverse as Gauss, Herschel, Brougham, Kant, and Laplace all contributed something to the conversation. The first few chapters deal with the mathematical and philosophical aspects of the discovery, and the rivalry between Germany and France that so affected science and astronomy of that era. The jockeying for glory over the discovery of Ceres by both Piazzi and Bode is examined in detail, as is the reception given to Herschels use of the word 'asteroid.' Archival research that reveals the creator of the word 'asteroid' is presented in this book. Astronomy was a truly cosmopolitan field at the time, spanning across various disciplines, and the discovery of Pallas, a story completely told in these pages, exemplifies the excitement and drama of early 1800s astronomy. All the private correspondence about the study of Ceres and Pallas in 1802 is given here, which helps to contextualize and personalize the discovery.
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