History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on April 12, 2001

Several URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

• Site map (complete Table of Contents)
  updated

History of astronomy

Persons

• C
  • Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995)
    • Short biography and reference (Encycl. Brit.)
    • Short biography and references
    • Obituary note
      Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year in Review 1995
    • Chandra X-Ray Observatory
    • Find more about Chandrasekhar with Google
  • Chapman, Sydney (1888-1970)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Châtelet, Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Marquise du (1706-1749)
    • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Clark (family)
    • Very short biographies (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Coblentz, William Weber (1873-1962)
    • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Collins, Michael (b. 1930)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Columbus, Christopher [Span. Cristóbal Coloacute;n; Ital. Cristoforo Colombo; Germ. Christoph Kolumbus] (1451-1506)
    • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Conon of Samos (c. 280 BC - c. 220 BC)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Cook, James (1728-1779)
    • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)
    • Biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Cumont, Franz [Franz-Valéry-Marie] (1868-1947)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien (1619-1655)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• D
  • Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé (1787-1851)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Dallmeyer, John Henry (1830-1883)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Danjon, André-Louis (1890-1967)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)
    Solar system features named after him. No other relation to astronomy known to us.
    • Biography and extended bibliography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Darwin, George Howard (1845-1912)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Dawes, William Rutter (1799-1868)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Dee, John (1527-1608)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Delambre, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph [Jean Baptiste Joseph] (1749-1822)
    • Short biography and references (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Delaunay, Charles-Eugène [Charles Eugène] (1816-1872)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Delisle, Guillaume (1675-1726)
    • Very short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Delisle, Joseph-Nicolas (1688-1768)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Democritus of Abdera (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Dent, Edward John (1790-1853)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Descartes, René [Lat. Cartesius, Renatus [Renatius]] (1596-1650)
    • Biography and extended bibliography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Deslandres, Henri-Alexandre [Henri Alexandre] (1853-1948)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
  • Dicke, Robert Henry (1916-1997)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
    • Obituary note
      Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year in Review 1998
• W
  • Weber, Joseph (1919-2000)
    • Obituary, by Virginia Trimble
      Please not that this obituary was not published in Mercury vol. 30, 2001, issue 1, as indicated. This issue contains only a summary (p. 6).
• Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)

Topics

• Cosmology, Cosmogony, Gravity and Relativistic Astrophysics
  • Cosmology Since 1900, by Joseph S. Tenn

Meetings

• Cosmology through Time
  June 17-21, Monteporzio Catone, Rome, Italy
• Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East
  June 25-27, London, UK
• The Fifth Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop
  July 5-8, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
• SEAC 2001: Annual Meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture
  August 27-30, Stockholm, Sweden
• Tycho Brahe and Prague: Crossroads of European Science
  October 22-25, Prague, Czech Republic
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2001 (updated)
• Past history of astronomy meetings (updated)

History of science

Meetings

• 20th Scientific Instrument Symposium
  October 15-19, 2001, Stockholm, Sweden

IAU Commission 41 (History of Astronomy)

• Members (updated)

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte
      Nr. 54, 12. April 2001
    • Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
      Number 45, April 11, 2001

Wolfgang R. Dick