5 Citations
The Local Supercluster and Anisotropy of the Redshifts
- Physics
- 1989
This is a birthday party, so we must have a birthday card. Figure 1 is a birthday card for Gerard. It plots his published papers as a function of time, papers classified approximately according to…
Innovationsschübe durch Außenseiter: Das Beispiel des Amateur‐Astronomen William Herschel
- Political Science
- 1986
Innovatory advances by outsiders: The example of the amateur astronomer William Herschel. — Every scientific experience and perception has been gained from within a particular historical situation…
Das Werden des Kosmos Von der Erfahrung der zeitlichen Dimension astronomischer Objekte im 18. Jahrhundert
- Physics
- 1985
The Permanent ‘Becoming’ of the Cosmos: On Experiencing the Time Dimension of Astronomical Entities in the 18th Century. ‐ This paper deals with two of the initial stages through which the dimension…
Mayer, Herschel and Prévost on the solar motion
- Physics
- 1982
Summary It is traditionally held that Mayer denied the existence of a solar motion while Herschel and Prevost, using much the same data, demonstrated its presence. The existence of such diverse…
Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens
- Physics
- 1981
The history of astronomy knows great telescope builders, great observers, and great theorists; but only William Herschel falls indisputably into all three categories. When he became a professional…