Amateurs and the Rise of Astrophysics 1840–1910

Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 9 (3):183-190 (1986)
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This essay examines the role of amateurs in founding the astronomical subdiscipline of astrophysics. During 1840–1870, they initiated many of the observing programs that came to comprise the new specialty. And during 1870–1910, they participated both in the ongoing research of the field and the campaign to provide it with an institutional base. These general trends are illustrated by examples from the lives of ten prominent amateur solar physicists.

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10.1002/bewi.19860090309

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