| 词条 | James Carpenter (astronomer) |
| 释义 |
James Carpenter (1840–1899) was a British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. During the 1860s he performed the first observations of stellar spectra at the observatory, under the direction of the Astronomer Royal George Airy.[1] In 1861–62 he was one of three astronomers to successfully observe the dark underside of the rings of Saturn, the other two astronomers being William Wray and Otto Struve.[2] In 1871, the engineer James Nasmyth partnered with James Carpenter to produce a book about the Moon titled, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite.[3] This work was illustrated by photographs of plaster models representing the lunar surface, with the illumination from various angles. The result was more realistic images of the lunar surface than could be achieved by telescope photography during that period.[4] The authors were proponents for a volcanic origin of the craters, a theory that was later proved incorrect.[4] The crater Carpenter on the Moon is jointly named after him and Edwin Francis Carpenter.[5] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php?article=999|title=The Assistant grades|publisher=The Royal Observatory Greenwich}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, James}}{{UK-astronomer-stub}}2. ^{{cite book|author=Richard Anthony Proctor|title=Saturn and Its System|publisher= Longman, Roberts, & Green|date=1865|pages= 65–67}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=James Nasmyth, James Carpenter|title=The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite|publisher=Scribner & Welford|date= 1885|url=https://books.google.com.ec/books?id=asJQAQAAIAAJ&dq=The+Moon:+Considered+as+a+Planet,+a+World,+and+a+Satellite&hl=it&source=gbs_navlinks_s}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Cesare Barbieri, Francesca Rampazzi|title=Earth-Moon Relationships|date=2001|publisher=Springer|pages=213|isbn= 9780792370895}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2006/06/Carpenter_crater|title=Carpenter crater|publisher=ESA|date= 2006}} 3 : 1840 births|1899 deaths|British astronomers |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。