Frases de Agnes Mary Clerke

Agnes Mary Clerke foi uma astrónoma e escritora britânica, autora de livros centrados no campo da astronomia. Nasceu em Skibbereen, Condado de Cork, Irlanda, e morreu em Londres.A cratera lunar Clerke leva este nome em sua memória.Em 2002, a conferenciante de astronomia reformada Mary Brück escreveu um livro sobre Clerke, titulado "Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics" . Wikipedia

✵ 10. Fevereiro 1842 – 20. Janeiro 1907

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Agnes Mary Clerke: Frases em inglês

“Thus, not merely what it can do, but the rate at which it can do it, has to be considered in estimating the value of photography as an ally in astronomy.”

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Agnes Mary Clerke livro The System of the Stars

Fonte: The System of the Stars (1890), p. 33.

“Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.”

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Agnes Mary Clerke livro The System of the Stars

Of the nature of any planetary system round the double star Alpha Centauri; p. 168.
The System of the Stars (1890)

“Is it not reasonable to think that by far the greater part is solid and dark, and that this immense globe is encompassed with a thin covering of that resplendent substance from which the sun would seem to derive the whole of his vivifying heat and energy?”

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Agnes Mary Clerke

Of the Sun; p. 64-5.
History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1885; 3rd ed 1893)

“The planets revolved in circles because it was in their nature to do so, just as laudanum sends to sleep because it possesses a virtus dormitiva.”

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Agnes Mary Clerke

Of the Greek approach to astronomy; p. 1.
History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1885; 3rd ed 1893)