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• catalog abstract ""Nineteenth-century European astronomers tried for decades to explain the variations in their careful astronomical observations. But where the best minds in Europe failed, an intellectual upstart from America succeeded. In 1891 Seth Carlo Chandler Jr., an actuary for a Boston insurance company with no formal education in astronomy, shocked the international scientific community by announcing that he had solved the problem and that an inexpensive instrument he had designed could detect the variation. Another American, Simon Newcomb, compounded the Europeans' embarrassment. Working at the U.S. Naval Observatory Newcomb validated Chandler's findings and reconciled the difference between his observations and accepted theory." "Chandler's discovery, dubbed "the Chandler Wobble," had profound significance to astronomers of the time and later played an important role in space exploration and the development of the revolutionary Global Positioning System (GPS). The authors, a father-daughter team of scientists, tell the story of Chandler's life and scientific works with the aid of private correspondence, documents, and family photographs. In recounting both the historical and dramatic human aspects of the story, they help readers appreciate how Chandler's achievements gave America credibility in the world of serious scientific research."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12655320.
• catalog contributor b12655321.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""Nineteenth-century European astronomers tried for decades to explain the variations in their careful astronomical observations. But where the best minds in Europe failed, an intellectual upstart from America succeeded. In 1891 Seth Carlo Chandler Jr., an actuary for a Boston insurance company with no formal education in astronomy, shocked the international scientific community by announcing that he had solved the problem and that an inexpensive instrument he had designed could detect the variation. Another American, Simon Newcomb, compounded the Europeans' embarrassment. Working at the U.S. Naval Observatory Newcomb validated Chandler's findings and reconciled the difference between his observations and accepted theory." "Chandler's discovery, dubbed "the Chandler Wobble," had profound significance to astronomers of the time and later played an important role in space exploration and the development of the revolutionary Global Positioning System (GPS). The authors, a father-daughter team of scientists, tell the story of Chandler's life and scientific works with the aid of private correspondence, documents, and family photographs. In recounting both the historical and dramatic human aspects of the story, they help readers appreciate how Chandler's achievements gave America credibility in the world of serious scientific research."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-241) and index.".
• catalog description "Seth Chandler Jr.'s Youth -- Benjamin Apthorp Gould Jr. -- Gould, Chandler, and the U.S. Coast Survey -- Seth Chandler--Husband, Father, and Actuary -- Seth Chandler--Amateur Astronomer -- Inventing the Almucantar -- Simon Newcomb's Youth -- Newcomb's Years at the U.S. Naval Observatory -- Seth Chandler--Editor -- Searching in Vain -- Discovery -- Controversy -- Observation and Theory Reconciled -- Going Too Far?".
• catalog extent "viii, 252 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Latitude.".
• catalog identifier "1557500169 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Latitude.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng eng".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
• catalog relation "Latitude.".
• catalog subject "526/.61 21".
• catalog subject "Almucantar.".
• catalog subject "Chandler, Seth Carlo, 1846-1913.".
• catalog subject "Latitude.".
• catalog subject "Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.".
• catalog subject "QB103 .C37 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents "Seth Chandler Jr.'s Youth -- Benjamin Apthorp Gould Jr. -- Gould, Chandler, and the U.S. Coast Survey -- Seth Chandler--Husband, Father, and Actuary -- Seth Chandler--Amateur Astronomer -- Inventing the Almucantar -- Simon Newcomb's Youth -- Newcomb's Years at the U.S. Naval Observatory -- Seth Chandler--Editor -- Searching in Vain -- Discovery -- Controversy -- Observation and Theory Reconciled -- Going Too Far?".
• catalog title "Latitude : how American astronomers solved the mystery of variation / Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter.".
• catalog type "text".