Briefe Xaver Freiherrn von Zach, Direktors der herzoglichen Sternwarte am Gotha-Seeberg und seines Nachfolgers Bernhards von Lindenau von 1791-1816 an P. Martin Alois David, Adjunkt und Direktor der königlich Prager Sternwarte

Title:

Briefe Xaver Freiherrn von Zach, Direktors der herzoglichen Sternwarte am Gotha-Seeberg und seines Nachfolgers Bernhards von Lindenau von 1791-1816 an P. Martin Alois David, Adjunkt und Direktor der königlich Prager Sternwarte

Creator:

Seydl, Otto

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:03b7bfed-1629-40a5-9e23-be0dc905c92d
uuid:03b7bfed-1629-40a5-9e23-be0dc905c92d

Subject:

astronomers, observatories, and correspondence

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

The title of this work is: The letters of Baron Francis X. Zach, Director of the Observatory of Gotha-Seeberg, and his successors Bernard von Lindenau to Father Martin Alois David, Assistant Astronomer and Director of the Royal Observatory of Prague from 1791 till 1816. The study contains a) 62 letters of Zach, b) 9 letters of Lindenau, all of them being of astronomical interest and kept in the records of the Observatory of Prague (IV.), and c) notes of David (III.) as they were written during his visit at Zach 1789 and 1801. - In his introduction, the editor follows the personal and literary contacts of David with Zach (I.). The statistics of the correspondence (II.) reports on a) the letters published in the work, b) on the letters of Zach and Lindenau mentioned only in David´s diaries or partly published in the reviews on account of their scientific value, an c) on a list of letters of David sent to Zach and Lindenau that have nor been found till today, being known from David´s diaries only. In the V. part there is a list of essays written by David and Adam Bittner. Assistant Astronomer of Prague Observatory, which were published in reviews edited by Zach and Lindenau, and a list of Zach´s reports on David´s essays.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

[1]-198

Source:

Publications of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | 1938 Volume:11 | Number:11

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