Resolute and undertaking characters : the lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve
My interest in the history of the Struve family is long-standing but lay dormant until 1972, when I found myself organizing a symposium of the International Astronomical Union in memory of the second Otto Struve.
eBook, English, ©1988
D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, ©1988
Biographies
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1: Family Origins and Wilhelm’s Childhood.- 2: Student Days at Dorpat University.- 3: Astronomy at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century.- 4: Measuring the Earth.- 5: The Great Refractor.- 6: The Founding of Pulkovo.- 7: The Astronomical Capital of the World.- 8: Measuring the Sky.- 9: The Early Pulkovo Years.- 10: “Etudes d’astronomie stellaire”.- 11: Wilhelm’s Illness and Last Years.- 12: The Transition.- 13: The Companion of Procyon and the Transits of Venus.- 14: The 30-Inch Refractor.- 15: Mapping the Sky.- 16: Otto’s Retirement and Last Years.- Epilogue: The Family Tradition.- Name Index.