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The First Successful Attempts To Determine Stellar Parallaxes In The Light Of The Bessel/Struve Correspondence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

W. R. Dick  and
G. Ruben
W. R. Dick
Affiliation:
Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik der, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, 1591 Potsdam-Babelsberg, German Democratic Republic
G. Ruben
Affiliation:
Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik der, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, 1591 Potsdam-Babelsberg, German Democratic Republic

Abstract

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Among other items, the Bessel/Struve correspondence reflects the competition between the two astronomers in deriving a value of a stellar parallax significantly differing from zero. This paper summarizes the letters written between 1837 and 1840.

Type
Part I: Historical Research
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 133: Mapping the Sky: Past Heritage and Future Directions , 1988 , pp. 119 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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