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It is said that a typical astronomer of the 19th century spent seven hours working at a desk for every hour spent at the telescope. That 's how long the routine analysis of data took with pencil, paper, and logarithmic tables. Thus when Wilhelm Olbers discovered the minor planet Vesta in 1807 and gathered the necessary observations, his friend Gauss needed almost 10 hours to hand calculate its orbit. That achievement astonished many less gifted astronomers of the time, who might have labored day

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Author

Oliver Montenbruck, Thomas Pfleger

Publisher

Springer Spektrum. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780387577005

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Physics, Mathematical & Computational

Updated

2026-03-24