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(0)John Lankford
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Depending upon and interacting with colleagues and competitors, scientists build their careers and power within communities of their peers. To understand scientists and the institutions they construct (such as the reward system), one must first unravel the complex structures and relationships that define scientific communities. In this collective biography of the more than 1,200 individuals who engaged in astronomical research, teaching, or practice...
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Requiring no advanced knowledge of mathematics or physics, this Encyclopedia brings together current scholarly thinking and the state of the art of astronomy in over 300 carefully researched and easy-to-grasp essays -- each written and signed by an expert. Major entries explore the historical development of the major fields of astronomy: astro-physics, celestial mechanics, solar system astronomy, and the study of variable stars, comets, double stars,...