James Carpenter (1840–1899) was a British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. During the 1860s he performed the first observations of stellar spectra at the observatory, under the direction of the Astronomer RoyalGeorge Airy.[1] In 1861–62 he was one of three astronomers to successfully observe the dark underside of the rings of Saturn, the other two astronomers being William Wray and Otto Struve.[2]
The moon considered as a planet, a world and a satellite
In 1871, the engineer James Nasmyth partnered with James Carpenter to produce a book about the Moon titled, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite.[3] This work was illustrated by photographs of plaster models representing the lunar surface, with the illumination from various angles. The result was more realistic images of the lunar surface than could be achieved by telescope photography during that period.[4] The authors were proponents for a volcanic origin of the craters, a theory that was later proved incorrect.[5]
^"The Assistant grades". The Royal Observatory Greenwich.
^Richard Anthony Proctor (1865). Saturn and Its System. Longman, Roberts, & Green. pp. 65–67.
^James Nasmyth, James Carpenter (1885). The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. Scribner & Welford. The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite.
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