History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on April 8, 1999

Some URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

• Citation Index
  updated
• Acknowledgements
  updated

History of astronomy

Observatories and other places

• Cape Town, South Africa
  • South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
• Helsinki, Finland
  • Observatory, University of Helsinki (See also here.)
• Mesopotamia
  • Mesopotamian Year Names, by Marcel Sigrist and Peter Damerow

Persons

• B
  • Bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren (1862-1951)
    • Short biography and references
  • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Servinus (c.480-524)
    • Short biography and references
  • Bossut, Charles (1730-1814)
    • Short biography and references
  • Bruno, Giordano (data corrected)
    • Biographical data and references
    • Short biography and references
      From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
    • 450 Jahre Giordano Bruno (in German)
      Exhibition, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 3-28 February 1998. Including texts on Bruno's cosmology.
    • Istituto Statale "Giordano Bruno", Perugia, Italy
• C
  • Copernicus, Nicolaus
    • Copernicus-Denkmal, Niederkassel, Germany (in German)
• D
  • Dürer [Duerer], Albrecht (1471-1528)
    • Short biography and references
• F
  • Fatou, Pierre Joseph Louis (1878-1929)
    • Short biography and references
• H
  • Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925)
    • Short biography and references
  • Hoüel, Guillaume Jules (1823-1886)
    • Short biography and references
• K
  • Kaiser, Frederik [Frederick] (1808-1872)
    • Short biography (in Dutch)
  • Kármán, Theodore [Todor] von (1881-1963)
    • Short biography and references
  • Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius (1851-1922)
    • The `Lost Letters' of J.C. Kapteyn, by Petra van der Heijden
      Including a short biography, references and links.
    • Short biography
    • Kapteyn Instituut, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (See also here.)
    • Kapteyn Cottage at Mount Wilson Observatory
• L
  • Luzin, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1883-1950)
    • Short biography and references
• P
  • Playfair, John (1748-1819)
    • Short biography and references
• R
  • Richardson, Lewis Fry (1881-1953)
    • Short biography and references
• S
  • Stewart, Matthew (1717-1785)
    • Short biography and references
• Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)

Items

• Calendars, Time and Chronology
  • Mesopotamian Year Names, by Marcel Sigrist and Peter Damerow
• Constellations, Maps and Atlases
  • Carte du Ciel photo album
    Photographs related to the Helsinki Carte du Ciel project.
  • Not a Heavenly View: Women in the Helsinki Carte du Ciel Project, 1893-1930, by Eva Isaksson
• Other items (sorted by time)
  • Not a Heavenly View: Women in the Helsinki Carte du Ciel Project, 1893-1930, by Eva Isaksson

Museums, memorials, historical places and exhibits

• Cape Town, South Africa
  • South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
    A small museum displaying historic scientific instruments is mentioned.
• London, UK
  • Royal Observatory Greenwich
• 450 Jahre Giordano Bruno (in German)
  Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 3-28 February 1998

Meetings

• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 1999 (updated)
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2000 (updated)

Historians of astronomy

• Heijden, Petra van der (heijden@strw.leidenuniv.nl)
• Isaksson, Eva (eisaksso@cc.helsinki.fi)
  Including a list of publications

History of science

Meetings

• Reflections on XXth Century Sciences
  April 16-18, 1999, Brussels, Belgium
• Between Physics and Biology: Chemical Sciences in the Twentieth Century
  May 29-30, 1999, Munich, Germany
• Women in the History of Science: biography, autobiography, tasks, results, problems
  September 10-12, 1999, Cambridge, UK

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters (updated)
    • Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte
      Nr. 39, 8. April 1999

Wolfgang R. Dick