Percival's Planet
Title | Percival's Planet PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Byers |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 2010-08-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429943203 |
A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical fortune has decided to go west to hunt for dinosaurs and in Cambridge, Massachussetts, the most beautiful girl in America is going slowly insane while her ex-heavyweight champion boyfriend stands by helplessly, desperate to do anything to keep her. Inspired by the true story of Tombaugh and set in the last gin-soaked months of the flapper era, Percival's Planet tells the story of the intertwining lives of half a dozen dreamers, schemers, and madmen. Following Tombaugh's unlikely path from son of a farmer to discoverer of a planet, the novel touches on insanity, mathematics, music, astrophysics, boxing, dinosaur hunting, shipwrecks—and what happens when the greatest romance of your life is also the source of your life's greatest sorrow.
Pluto and Lowell Observatory: A History of Discovery at Flagstaff
Title | Pluto and Lowell Observatory: A History of Discovery at Flagstaff PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Schindler and Will Grundy, Contributions by Annette & Alden Tombaugh, W. Lowell Putnam and S. Alan Stern |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1625859791 |
Pluto looms large in Flagstaff, where residents and businesses alike take pride in their community's most enduring claim to fame: Clyde Tombaugh's 1930 discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory. Percival Lowell began searching for his theoretical "Planet X" in 1905, and Tombaugh's "eureka!" experience brought worldwide attention to the city and observatory. Ever since, area scientists have played leading roles in virtually every major Pluto-related discovery, from unknown moons to the existence of an atmosphere and the innovations of the New Horizons spacecraft. Lowell historian Kevin Schindler and astronomer Will Grundy guide you through the story of Pluto from postulation to exploration.
Biography of Percival Lowell
Title | Biography of Percival Lowell PDF eBook |
Author | Abbott Lawrence Lowell |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752410205 |
Reproduction of the original: Biography of Percival Lowell by Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Mars as the Abode of Life
Title | Mars as the Abode of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Percival Lowell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Cosmogony |
ISBN |
Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet
Title | Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet PDF eBook |
Author | Percival Lowell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 142 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Planets |
ISBN |
Did You Know That...?
Title | Did You Know That...? PDF eBook |
Author | Marko Perko |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2016-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1504038177 |
Did You Know That . . . ?: “Revised and Expanded” Edition: Surprising-But-True Facts About History, Science, Inventions, Geography, Origins, Art, Music, and More is an uncommon compendium of knowledge that will astound, demystify, edify, and debunk. It is a book of ambitious design that is both eminently informative and vastly entertaining. Assiduously researched, it will be the arbiter of disagreements and will stand cherished misconceptions right on their heads. It will also expose factoids, unmask present-day orthodoxy, identify misinformation, clarify the confusing, and present new information. Did You Know That . . . ? is all you need to know . . . for knowledge is power!
Pluto's Secret
Title | Pluto's Secret PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Weitekamp |
Publisher | Abrams |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2013-03-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1613124961 |
People, children especially, have been baffled, bewildered, and even outraged by the fact that Pluto is no longer called a planet. Through whimsical artwork and an entertaining dialogue format, Pluto’s Secret explains the true story of this distant world. Providing a history of the small, icy world from its discovery and naming to its recent reclassification, this book presents a fascinating look at how scientists organize and classify our solar system as they gain new insights into how it works and what types of things exist within it. The book includes a glossary and bibliography. Praise for Pluto's Secret "Pairing a lighthearted narrative in a hand-lettered†“style typeface with informally drawn cartoon illustrations, this lively tale of astronomical revelations begins with the search for Planet X.†? —Kirkus Reviews "This picture book offers a fresh, positive perspective on Pluto, showing that its change of status is not a demotion but a correction." —Booklist "Light-hearted imagining of a gregarious Pluto.†? —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Fun reading... The book provides a factual history of our faraway 'dwarf,' and on its companion icy worlds, and on the discovery of Kuiper-like bands around other stars." —School Library Journal Award New York Public Library’s annual Children’s Books list: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2013