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Author
Somers
,
Hyrum
Austin
Title
Heber
Doust
Curtis
and the
Island
Universe
Theory
Degree Program
History
Subject keywords
Heber
Doust
Curtis
;
Island
Universe
Theory
;
Lick
Observatory
;
Twentieth
Century
American
Astronomy
;
American
Science
Abstract
The
beginning
of the
twentieth
century
was a
time
a
great
change
and
development
within
American
astronomy
. The
period
is
rife
with
astronomers
,
both
men
and
women
,
who
advanced
the
discipline
.
However
,
few
historians
have
looked
at the
lives
of these
astronomers
.
When
an
astronomer
is
chosen
for
closer
study
, they
tend
to be
one
who
contributed
to the
astronomical
discipline
with a
significant
discovery
.
Unfortunately
, those
astronomers
whose
careers
did
not
climax
with
discovery
have a
tendency
to be
forgotten
by
historians
,
even
though
their
lives
and
research
have
affected
our
modern
understanding
. This
thesis
looks
at
one
such
astronomer
named
Heber
Doust
Curtis
.
Curtis
did
not
make
a
grand
discovery
in the
cosmos
, but he
combined
his
research
with the
research
and
observations
of
other
astronomers
to
fundamentally
change
our
understanding
of the
scale
of the
universe.only
galaxy
but
one
of
many
within
the
universe
.
Curtis’
tenacious
support
of this
idea
would
fundamentally
change
our
understanding
of the
shape
and
scale
of the
universe
. For this
reason
, he
is
one
of the
most
important
American
astronomers
of the
early
twentieth
century
. To
understand
Curtis’
significance
, the
author
looked
at his
published
scientific
papers
and the
papers
of
other
astronomers
from the
era
. This was
done
to
see
how
Curtis’
research
fit
into
other
research
being
done
at the
beginning
of the
twentieth
century
. Also
important
in this
study
was the
writing
of
contemporary
authors
who
looked
back
on this
period
as a
time
of
discovery
,
especially
in
shaping
our
understanding
of the
shape
and
extent
of the
cosmos
. These
elements
combined
show
a
rounded
perspective
of
Curtis
,
during
an
epoch
of
great
and
significant
astronomical
discovery
. These
sources
show
Curtis’
importance
as
one
of the
main
driving
forces
behind
a
modern
return
to the
Island
Universe
theory
, the
belief
that the
Milky
Way
was not the
Date Original
2011
Publisher
Fort Hays State University
Relation
Digital reproduction of the Fort Hays State University Theses Collection.
Type
Text
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
SomersHyrum_2011.pdf
Source
LD2652 .T5 H5 S662 2011
Language
eng
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