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The Astronomer Jules Janssen A Globetrotter of Celestial Physics
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The Astronomer Jules Janssen [electronic resource] : A Globetrotter of Celestial Physics / by Françoise Launay.
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9781461406976
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New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
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1 online resource (XXII, 222 p).
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Summary
Every aspect of the personality of Janssen (1824—1907) – that D’Artagnan of science, this bard of the Sun, and this audacious master builder – is covered here by Françoise Launay, his attentive and equally erudite biographer. A physicist, inventor and builder, Janssen was guided by his energy and curiosity. His research followed two directions: on the one hand the atmospheres of the Earth and the Sun, and on the other, two techniques: spectroscopy and photography. Among his numerous voyages across the globe, he went to Japan in 1874 to follow the transit of Venus in front of the Sun, the same year in which he invented his famous photographic revolver, which was, in truth, a great technical success. To observe the Sun during total eclipses he traveled to the Indies in 1868, to Oran in 1870 (escaping from besieged Paris by balloon!), returned to India in 1871, left for Siam in 1875 and, in 1883, for an island in the Pacific. One can thus understand why Henriette often complained of the solitude in which she was left by her peripatetic husband: “There are men who leave their wives for mistresses; you do it for journeys!” ... Basking in the glow of his success, Janssen was able to undertake the construction of the great astrophysical observatory of which he had dreamed. It was at Meudon that he had it built. From the Preface by Jean-Claude Pecker.
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English
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September 19, 2018
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 380
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Foreword
Childhood and education
Spectral analysis and telluric lines
Janssen and the solar flames: the key eclipse of 1868
The eclipse of 1870, balloons and patriotic missions
Janssen and the Sun in majesty: the eclipse of 1871
Janssen and cinema: the transit of Venus of 1874 and the revolver photographique
The foundation of the "Paris Observatory for Physical Astronomy"... located in the Meudon estate
Janssen, the photographic technician
From Caroline Island to Washington
Janssen and Edison’s phonograph
The saga of the observatory on the summit of Mont Blanc
Literary salons and educational problems
Janssen and communication
Epilogue
Chronology
Bibliography
Index.
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