History for Ready Reference
History for Ready Reference

Author: Josephus Nelson Larned

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13:

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"This work has two aims : to represent and exhibit the better Literature of History in the English language, and to give it an organized body--a system--adapted to the greatest convenience in any use, whether for reference, or for reading, for teacher, student, or casual inquirer."--v. 1, Preface.

Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn

Author: Pieter C. van der Kruit

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 331910876X

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Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1851-1922) was a Dutch astronomer who contributed heavily to major catalogs of star positions, such as the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung and the Harvard-Groningen Durchmusterung, and arranged extensive international collaboration through his Plan of Selected Areas. He contributed to the establishment of statistical astronomy and structure and dynamics of the Sidereal System. All aspects of Kapteyn’s life are discussed, from his birth in Barneveld, the Netherlands, to his death in Amsterdam, and his entire resume of scientific achievements in between. Kapteyn had some conflicts with others in his field, especially after the world became divided on how to handle scientific contributions from Germany post-World War I. Both Kapteyn's struggles and achievements are written against the backdrop of both the historical context of the world at that time as well as the scientific one.