The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364)
The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364)

Author: Jan Willem Drijvers

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0197600700

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"This book is the first modern scholarly monograph on the emperor Jovian (363-364). It offers a new assessment of his reign and argues that Jovian's reign was of more importance than assumed by most (ancient and modern) historians. This study argues that Jovian restored the Roman empire after the failed reign of Julian by returning to the policies of Constantius II and Constantine the Great. Jovian's general strategies were directed to get the Roman empire on its feet again militarily, administratively and religiously after the failed reign of his predecessor Julian (361-363) as well as to establish more peaceful relations with the Sasanid empire. For an emperor who ruled only eight months Jovian had an unexpected and surprising afterlife. The rarely studied and largely unknown Syriac Julian Romance offers a surprising and different perspective on person and reign of Jovian. In the Romance Jovian is presented as the ideal Christian emperor and a new Constantine. But the Romance is also an important source for Roman-Persian relations and the positioning of Syriac Christianity in the late antique world of Christendom"--

Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere
Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere

Author: A. J. Dessler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780521520065

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A valuable reference work for those doing research in magnetospheric physics and related disciplines.

The Jovian Legacy
The Jovian Legacy

Author: Lilla Nicholas-Holt

Publisher: The Jovian Legacy

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1877449903

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Jovian, a planet deep within the universe with an Earth-like atmosphere, is a world of genetically enhanced specimens. Lives are longer, knowledge is advanced, and everything is tuned for a greater sensory experience. Thirty-five light years away on Earth, Jack is a young man who has lived an ordinary New Zealand way of life, surfing the Internet on his computer and spending time with his new girlfriend Megan. Life has been uneventful, living with his aunt and uncle since the disappearance of his parents on their yacht in the Bermuda Triangle five years earlier. Suddenly Jack finds himself drawn into a world of virtual reality, interplanetary travel and Jovian scientists who express great interest in Jack. He is able to download scenes from his childhood and virtually revisit them, scenes which lead him to a new mission to discover the fate of his parents and Megan's strange connection to Jovian. Jack and Megan's lives are about to be radically changed. What does Jovian want with Jack's family, and should they trust this exciting but secretive new world?

On the Inference of the Physical Properties of the Jovian Atmosphere from Photometry of Eclipses of the Galilean Satellites
On the Inference of the Physical Properties of the Jovian Atmosphere from Photometry of Eclipses of the Galilean Satellites

Author: Michael J. Price

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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The frequent eclipses of the Galilean satellites provide an extremely simple yet extremely powerful method for monitoring the physical structure of the Jovian atmosphere in time, latitude, and longitude. In this paper, all theoretical and observational problems involved in the use of these eclipses to scan the Jovian atmosphere are discussed in detail. It is shown that a rather complete knowledge of the structure of the Jovian atmosphere immediately above the cloud layer may be obtained from multicolor photometry of the refraction tails of the ingress light curves of the satellites. The relevant observational data may be obtained readily using currently available ground-based astronomical equipment. This technique for inferring the physical structure of a planetary atmosphere may be applied to Saturn also. In that case, the relatively infrequent eclipses of Titan may be utilized.