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ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES IN ASTRONOMY
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| By: |
Andre Heck (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0792366719 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780792366713 |
| Publisher: |
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS |
| Series: |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library v. 256 |
| Pages: |
231 |
| Description: |
Offers a collection of chapters dealing with socio-dynamical aspects of the astronomy community. This book includes a bibliography of publications related to socio-astronomy and to the interactions of the astronomy community with society at large. It is intended for researchers, teachers, editors, publishers, librarians, and science sociologists. |
| Synopsis: |
Research and publications in the field of Astronomy have undergone dramatic changes in the last half-century. While activities just slowed down during World War II in the US and in Latin America, they were very strongly affected by the difficult conditions prevailing among the European belligerent nations. Half a century ago, re- search activities were mostly confined to observatories (linked or not to universities) and usually separated from the teaching of physical sciences. Hence, directors of observatories played an important role in the choice of the research fields, and "schools" of research appeared at various places, de- veloping specific instrumentation, reduction techniques and mathematical methods to achieve their scientific goals. Reorganising the research activities after the war was no minor under- taking, specially because communications were interrupted for over five years and isolated continental Europe from overseas activities. Scarcity of observing instruments (some of them being requisitioned by occupy- ing armies) , enormous gaps in the available litterature led to local research activities, conducted independently of similar efforts undertaken elsewhere. |
| Illustrations: |
biography |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |