2005: Past Meets Present In Astronomy And Astrophysics - Proceedings Of The 15th Portuguese National Meeting

Download or read book 2005: Past Meets Present In Astronomy And Astrophysics - Proceedings Of The 15th Portuguese National Meeting written by Jose Afonso and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers recent theoretical and observational developments in astronomy and astrophysics with contributions on solar system bodies, extrasolar planets, star formation, galaxy evolution and cosmology. A special section is dedicated to the history of astronomy including papers on the history of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon, time service and legal time, the 1870 solar eclipse expedition, and a comparison between Monteiro da Rocha and Wilhelm Olbers´ methods for the determination of the orbits of comets.