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Exploring the History of New Zealand Astronomy

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 The Skies Over Aotearoa/New Zealand: Astronomy from a Maori Perspective
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    Chapter 3 Mahutonga: Did Proto-Polynesian Astronomers Record the Supernova of AD 185?
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    Chapter 4 Astronomy on Cook’s First Voyage: Mercury Bay and Queen Charlotte Sound, 1769–1770
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    Chapter 5 Astronomy on Cook’s Second Voyage: Dusky Sound and Queen Charlotte Sound, 1773–1774
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    Chapter 6 Astronomy on Cook’s Third Voyage: Queen Charlotte Sound, 1777
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    Chapter 7 The ‘Cook’ Gregorian Telescope in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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    Chapter 8 Stephen Carkeek, the Wellington Time Ball, and New Zealand’s Oldest Surviving Observatory
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    Chapter 9 The Historic Astronomical Observatories in the Wellington Botanic Garden: A Brief Introduction
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    Chapter 10 The Thames Observatories of John Grigg
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    Chapter 11 The Wanganui Refractor and Its Remarkable English Equatorial Mounting
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    Chapter 12 Joseph Ward: Pioneer New Zealand Telescope-Maker
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    Chapter 13 From Crossley to Carter: The Life and Times of an Historic Cooke Refractor
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    Chapter 14 The 1874 and 1882 Transits of Venus: An Overview
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    Chapter 15 Refining the Astronomical Unit: Queenstown and the 1874 Transit of Venus
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    Chapter 16 The 1885 Total Solar Eclipse: An Amazing Public Spectacle
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    Chapter 17 John Grigg, and the Genesis of Cometary Astronomy in New Zealand
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    Chapter 18 C.J. Westland and Comet C/1914 S1 (Campbell): A Forgotten Episode in New Zealand Cometary Astronomy
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    Chapter 19 A Catholic Approach to Astronomy: The Remarkable Record of Ronald A. McIntosh
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    Chapter 20 Great Comets, and Wellington’s Earliest European Astronomers
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    Chapter 21 Henry Severn: Thames’ Talented Transitory Astronomer
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    Chapter 22 John Grigg, and His Pioneering Astronomical Photography
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    Chapter 23 Dr Elizabeth Alexander and the Mysterious ‘Norfolk Island Effect’
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    Chapter 24 John Bolton, Gordon Stanley, Bruce Slee and the Riddle of the ‘Radio Stars’
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Title
Exploring the History of New Zealand Astronomy
Published by
ADS, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22566-1
ISBNs
978-3-31-922565-4, 978-3-31-922566-1
Authors

Orchiston, Wayne, Wayne Orchiston

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Unknown 5 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 3 60%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 20%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 2 40%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 20%
Physics and Astronomy 1 20%
Engineering 1 20%
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