History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on July 7, 2000

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• Site map (complete Table of Contents)
  updated

History of astronomy

Persons

• A
  • Aquila (fl. 2nd c.)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Arp, Halton Christian (b. 1927)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Augustus, Caesar (63 BC - AD 14)
    • Biography and extended bibliography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (c. 310-c. 395)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• B
  • Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
    • Biography and extended bibliography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bainbridge, John (1582-1643)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bar Hebræus [Bar 'Ebraya; Abu'l Faraj] (1226-1286)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Basov, Nikolay Gennadiyevich [Bassow, Nikolai Gennadijewitsch] (b. 1922)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964
      Including a short biography
  • Beda Venerabilis [Baeda; Engl. The Venerable Bede] (c.673-735)
    • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Berenice II (c. 269 BC-221 BC)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bernstein, Jeremy (b. 1929)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Berthoud, Ferdinand (1727-1807)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bessemer, Henry, Sir (1813-1898)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bilfinger, Georg Bernhard (1693-1750)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bliss, Nathaniel (1700-1764)
    • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bochart de Saron, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard (1730-1794)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Borman, Frank (b. 1928)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Born, Max (1882-1970)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
      Including a short biography
  • Bosch, Carl (1874-1940)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bose, Jagadis Chandra (1858-1937)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bose, Satyendra Nath [Satyendranath] (1894-1974)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Boskovic [Boscovich], Rudjer Joseph [Ruggiero Giuseppe; Rodger Joseph] (1711-1787)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Boss, Lewis (1846-1912)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bothe, Walther (1891-1957)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
      Including a short biography
  • Bouguer, Pierre (1698-1758)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Boulainvilliers, Henri de, Comte de (count of) Saint-saire (1658-1722)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bouvard, Alexis (1767-1843)
    • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773-1838)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bowdoin, James (1726-1790)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
    • Bowdoin College (Homepage)
    • Bowdoin College (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bowen, Ira Sprague (1898-1973)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
    • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bradley, James (1693-1762)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bragg, William Henry, Sir (1862-1942)
    • Short biography and reference (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brahe, Tycho [Brahe, Tyge; Brahe, Tycho de] (1546-1601)
    • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brahmagupta (c. 598 - c. 665)
    • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brander, Georg Friedrich (1713-1783)
    • Find documents about Brander with Alta Vista
  • Brandes, Heinrich Wilhelm (1777-1834)
    • Short biography (in German)
  • Brattle, Thomas (1658-1713)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Braun, Karl Ferdinand (1850-1918)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909
      Including a short biography
  • Braun, Wernher von (1912-1977)
    • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bréguet, Abraham-Louis (1747-1823)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brewster, David (1781-1868)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brianchon, Charles Julien (1783-1864)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brisbane, Thomas Makdougall (1773-1860)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brouwer, Dirk (1902-1966)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brown, Ernest William (1866-1938)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Brown, Robert Hanbury (b. 1916)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Browne, Thomas, Sir (1605-1682)
    • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600)
    • Biography and extended bibliography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de (1707-1788)
    • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bulgaris, Eugenius (1716-1806)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (1811-1899)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret, née Peachey (b. 1919)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Bürgi [Buergi], Joost [Jobst] (1552-1632)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Buridan [Buridano], Jean [John, Johann] (1300-1358)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Burney, Charles (1726-1814)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Buys-Ballot, Christophorus Henricus Didericus (1817-1890)
    • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)

Meetings

• XXIVth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union
  August 7-19, 2000, Manchester, UK
  • Joint Discussion 6 on "Applied Historical Astronomy"
    August 11
  • Comm. 41 "History of Astronomy" Business meeting
    August 15
  • Special session on the inventory and preservation of archives and artifacts
    August 16
• North American Sundial Society 6th Annual International Conference
  August 18-20, 2000, San Francisco, CA, USA
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2000 (updated)
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2001 (updated)

IAU Commission 41 (History of Astronomy)

• Members (updated)

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Meetings
  • Bremen/Lilienthal, September 18, 2000 (updated)
    • Announcement and Call for Papers (in German)
• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
      Number 43, July 7, 2000

Wolfgang R. Dick