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001433889 1001_ $$aKruit, Pieter C. van der,$$eauthor,$$etranslator.
001433889 24010 $$aInrichting van de hemel.$$lEnglish
001433889 24510 $$aPioneer of galactic astronomy :$$ba biography of Jacobus C. Kapteyn /$$cPieter C. van der Kruit.
001433889 264_1 $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bSpringer,$$c[2021]
001433889 300__ $$a1 online resource (xxi, 305 pages) :$$billustrations (some color)
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001433889 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001433889 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Boarding School and University -- Astronomy Around 1875 -- Astronomer and Professor -- Almost Half a Million Stars -- Laboratory and Statistical Astronomy -- Star Streams -- In the mean time in Groningen -- Mount Wilson -- Statistics and other matters -- First Attempt: the Kapetyn Universe -- Coda.
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001433889 520__ $$aThis non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. In telling Kapteyn's story the author weaves in astronomy basics and uses modern astronomical images to show the developments of astronomical research from Kapteyn's times to the present. In particular the study of the distribution of stars in space has now culminated with spectacular new insights coming from the astrometric satellite GAIA, which is receiving much public attention today. The biography shows how Kapteyn's ideas influenced prominent astronomers worldwide. He is prominent as designer of the Kapteyn Universe, the alternative to the large system found by Harlow Shapley. He is the discoverer of Kapteyn's Star, still the second fastest moving star in the sky, which is now one of the nearest stars with a planet in the habitable zone. This fascinating hybrid of astronomy history and popular astronomy tells the story of the astronomy professor without an observatory who founded the first astronomical laboratory specializing in measuring photographic plates exposed elsewhere. Kapteyn took astronomy out of cataloguing stars to measuring distances and velocities in order to study their spatial distribution, systematic motions (Kapteyn's Star Streams) and the equilibrium between their gravity and motions. His legacy includes, in addition to the first application of Galactic structure and dynamics, Jan Hendrik Oort, the famous astronomer from Leiden, who as a student was so impressed by Kapteyn's lectures that he decided to become an astronomer.
001433889 546__ $$aIn English; translated fromthe original Dutch by the author.
001433889 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 26, 2021).
001433889 60010 $$aKapteyn, J. C.$$q(Jacobus Cornelius),$$d1851-1922.
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