*************************************************************************** * * * ELEKTRONISCHE MITTEILUNGEN ZUR ASTRONOMIEGESCHICHTE * * * * Herausgegeben vom Arbeitskreis Astronomiegeschichte * * in der Astronomischen Gesellschaft * * * * Nr. 52, 6. Oktober 2000 * * * * Redaktion: Wolfgang R. Dick * * * *************************************************************************** Inhalt ------ 1. Reisen fuer Astronomen, Astronomiehistoriker und Sternfreunde 2. Symposium "Michael Maestlin" 3. The Stewart Museum Globe Symposium - Programme 4. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Centenary Symposium 5. Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society 6. The Herbert C. Pollock Award 7. Errata Danksagung Impressum ........................................................................... Item 1 EMA Nr. 52, 6. Oktober 2000 ........................................................................... Reisen fuer Astronomen, Astronomiehistoriker und Sternfreunde ------------------------------------------------------------- * 14.-15.10.2000 Fahrt zur "International Solar Eclipse Conference", Antwerpen, Belgien. Die Konferenz versammelt international bekannte Sonnenfinsternisexperten, die ein Resumee aus vergangen Sonnenfinsternissen und Ausblicke auf die naechsten Sonnenfinsternis, insbesonderen der von 2001, geben. * 27.10.-1.11.2000 "Besichtigung des Neutrino-Observatoriums Gran Sasso": Aussergewoehnlich - diesmal wird eine Sternwarte 1000 m unter Tage besichtigt. In vielen Tunneln untergebracht liegen die modernen Forschungsinstrumente fuer die Experimente zur Aufdeckung der Neutrinos. Wir besichtigen auch Rom und Latium auf den astronomischen Spuren von Bruno, Copernicus, Galileo, Cassini und Giotto in Italien. * 3.-5.11.2000 "Radioteleskop Effelsberg": Besichtigung des Max-Planck-Instituts fuer Radioastronomie in Bonn und seiner Aussenstation mit dem groessten vollbeweglichen Radioteleskop der Welt. Inklusive Fahrt zu den interessantesten vulkanischen Staetten der Eifel. * 1.-3.12.2000 "Jaehrliches Wiedersehentreffen" in Darmstadt. An Astronomie Studienreisen Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen. Es wird u.a. ueber die Sonnenfinsternisreise in 2001 informiert. * Reiseziele 2001: - Polarlichtfahrt mit der Hurtigrute an der norwegischen Kueste: Die aktive Sonne beschert uns Polarlichter von bunter Schoenheit. Mit Besichtigung von Instituten zur Polarlichtforschung. Reisetermin: geplant 16. Februar-2. Maerz 2001. - Astronomie Studienreise nach Mexiko: Die Wege der Sonne - Eine Reise nach Mexiko zu seinen archaeoastronomischen Staetten der Azteken und Maya sowie der modernen Nationalen Sternwarte Tonanzintla. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Insel Yukatan mit seinen archaeoastronomischen Staetten. Der Licht-Schattenwurf der "Schlange" am Kukulkan-Tempel zur Tag-Nacht-Gleiche wird ein Hoehepunkt der Reise sein. Reisetermin: geplant 12.-26. Maerz 2001. - Sonnenfinsternisreise ins suedliche Afrika: Am 21. Juni 2001 erleben wir wieder eine totale Sonnenfinsternis, diesmal beobachten wir von Sambia aus. Das Rahmenprogramm sieht eine Reise durch Namibia vor, sowie eine Safari-Tour in Sambia. Reisetermin: geplant 10.-25. Juni 2001. - Astronomie Studienreise nach China: Die Anreise erfolgt je nach Wunsch per Transsibirischer Eisenbahn oder Flugzeug nach Peking. Dort erfolgt die Einfuehrung in die Astronomie Chinas. Es schliesst sich eine Rundreise zu den bedeutendsten astronomischen Staetten Chinas an. Reisetermin: geplant 10.-25. August 2001. - Auf den Spuren von Copernicus in Polen: Diese Reise fuehrt zu den Wirkungsstaetten von Copernicus mit Schwerpunkten in Thorn, Frauenburg und Krakau. Wir fahren in einem Kleinbus. Reisetermin: geplant 28. Mai-2. Juni 2001. Reiseforum im Internet: Aktuelle Reisetermine und Hinweise finden Sie auf der Homepage von Kultur-Astronomie&Reisen: http://www.astronomie.com/kultur-astro-reisen Anmeldung, unverbindliche Informationen, Auskuenfte, Anfordern von Reisebedingungen: Eckehard Schmidt, Kultur-Astronomie&Reisen, Maxfeldstrasse 50, D-90409 Nuernberg, Tel. +49-(0)911-4720978, Fax +49-(0)911-58655-49, E-Mail: Eckehard@orion.franken.de, Mobiltelefon +49-(0)171-5482230. [Quelle: ASTROTROTTER - elektronisch. Mitteilungen ueber Astronomie Studienreisen, Nr. 7, 31. Juli 2000, Redaktion: Eckehard Schmidt] ........................................................................... Item 2 EMA Nr. 52, 6. Oktober 2000 ........................................................................... Symposium "Michael Maestlin" ---------------------------- Tuebingen, 11. -13. Oktober 2000 Veranstaltet von der Fakultaet fuer Physik der Universitaet Tuebingen Programm Mittwoch, 11.10.2000 17.15 Hoersaal N 3, Hoersaalzentrum Auf der Morgenstelle Physikalisches Kolloquium. Oeffentlicher Vortrag: Keplers Lehrer Michael Maestlin und sein Lehrbuch der Astronomie (1582) Prof. Dr. Friedemann Rex, Tuebingen 19.15 Hoersaal N 3, Hoersaalzentrum Auf der Morgenstelle Oeffentlicher Vortrag: Die Rolle Maestlins in der Polemik um den gregorianischen Kalender Dr. J. Hamel, Berlin Donnerstag, 12.10.2000 9.15 Hoersaal M 1, Gebaeude C, Auf der Morgenstelle Zu den Beobachtungen von Maestlin Prof. Dr. M. Schramm, Tuebingen 10.00 Kaffeepause 10.15 Maestlins Rolle bei der Abfassung von Keplers Astronomia Nova Prof Dr. G. Grasshoff, Bern 11.00 Die Korrespondenz Kepler-Maestlin Dr. F. Seck, Tuebingen Mittagspause 14.00 - 15. 30 Stadtrundgang: Schloss. Wohnhaeuser von Michael Maestlin, Nikodemus Frischlin, Leonhart Fuchs. Stiftskirche (Grabstein von Ph. Apian). Portraets von Stoeffler, Maestlin, Schickard in der Alten Botanik bzw. Neuen Aula. Stadtfriedhof. 16.00 Kaffeepause 16.15 Maestlins Stellung zu Galilei Dr. J. Smolka, Prag 17.00 Parerga Maestlini Dr. G. Betsch, Tuebingen 17.45 Die Kreisquadratur Matthias Hafenreffers Prof. Dr. K. Reich, Hamburg 19.15 Hoersaal N 3, Hoersaalzentrum Auf der Morgenstelle, Oeffentlicher Vortrag: "Nicht mit fremden Augen sehen wollen " - Maestlins Stellung zum Wissenschaftsfortschritt seiner Zeit Prof. Dr. Volker Bialas, Muenchen Freitag, 13.10.2000 9.30 - 10.30 Grosser Uebungsraum, Hegelbau Erdgeschoss Praesentation von Maestliniana aus UeB und Universitaetsarchiv. (R. Mueller, Dr. F. Seck, Dr. M. Wischnath) 11.15 Oeffentlicher Vortrag: Maestlin als Tuebinger Professor Dr. M. Wischnath, Tuebingen Schlussdiskussion Grundsaetzlich sind alle Veranstaltungen des Symposiums oeffentlich. Nur der Teilnehmerkreis der Praesentation ist begrenzt. (Anmeldung erforderlich). Auskuenfte ueber das Symposium erteilen: 1. Universitaet Tuebingen, Dekanat der Fakultaet fuer Physik. 2. Dr. G. Betsch, Furtbrunnen 17, 71093 Weil i.S., Tel. 07157-64059, E-Mail: Gerhard.Betsch@t-online.de ........................................................................... Item 3 EMA Nr. 52, 6. 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The Stewart Museum Globe Symposium - Programme ---------------------------------------------- Stewart Museum, Ile Sainte-Helene, Montreal 19-22 October 2000 (Programme as of 20 July 2000) Thursday - 19 October 2000 6:00 p.m. Registration and reception (1195 Sherbrooke Street West) Friday - 20 October 2000 8:30 a.m. Symposium registration and opening (Grande Poudriere, Ile Sainte-Helene) 9:15 a.m. "Looking at the Earth from Outer Space: Ancient Views on the Power of Globes" Christian Jacob, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 10:30 a.m. "'The Doctrine of the Sphere': A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Terrestrial and Celestial Globes" Elly Dekker, Linschoten, The Netherlands 12:00 noon Introduction to the globe exhibition, viewing and lunch 2:00 p.m. "La symbolique du globe dans les arts graphiques en Occident, XVIe-XVIIIe siecle : la lecon des livres d'emblemes et d'iconologie" Catherine Hofmann, Departement des cartes et plans, Bibliotheque nationale de France (to be presented in French; English translation will be available) 3:20 p.m. "An Art Historian's Approach to Globes" Robert Derome, departement d'histoire de l'art, Universite du Quebec a Montreal 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Viewing of exhibition 7:00 p.m. Dinner (Festin du Gouverneur) Saturday - 21 October 2000 9:00 a.m. "Globe Production in the Low Countries and Its Impact in Europe, 1525-1650" Peter van der Krogt, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 10:30 a.m. "Celestial Globes: Origins and Innovations" Elly Dekker, Linschoten, The Netherlands 1:30 p.m. "La restauration des globes anciens : la reintegration des lacunes" Alain Roger, restaurateur, chef de travaux d'art, Bibliotheque nationale de France (to be presented in French; English translation will be available) 4:00 p.m. Leave by bus for the Laurentian Mountains, north of Montreal 7:00 p.m. Reception and dinner Sunday - 22 October 2000 9:30 a.m. "More than just Spheres: A Curator's Vision for a New Globe Museum in Vienna" Jan Mokre, Curator of the Globe Museum, Austrian National Library, Vienna 11:00 a.m. Symposium wrap-up session and discussion 12:30 p.m. Farewell lunch The registration fee, which will include lunches and dinners during the symposium, is $285 (Canadian). This fee also includes a complimentary copy of the lavishly illustrated book, _Sphaerae Mundi: Early Globes at the Stewart Museum_ (retail: $50 CDN). The registration deadline is 8 September 2000. (If space is still available after that date, the fee will be $325). Participation will be limited to 75 persons. English will be the principal language of the symposium. For further information concerning such matters as accommodation, and in order to receive the registration form, please contact the globe symposium secretary: Nadia Hammadi - nhammadi@stewart-museum.org Stewart Museum, PO Box 1200, Station A, Montreal (Qc), H3C 2Y9, Canada Tel: (514)861-6703, ext. 260 / Fax: (514)284-0123 Please feel free to contact one of the three symposium organizers for further information: Ed Dahl - edahl@iosphere.net Jean-Francois Gauvin - jfgauvin@stewart-museum.org Eileen Meillon - emeillon@stewart-museum.org [Text provided by Jean-Francois Gauvin.] ........................................................................... Item 4 EMA Nr. 52, 6. Oktober 2000 ........................................................................... Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Centenary Symposium -------------------------------------------- On 26-27 October 2000 a centenary symposium in honor of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin will be held at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin was the second woman to become a fully tenured professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard (the first in the natural sciences), and simultaneously the first woman department chairman. Born and educated in England, she came to America in 1923 to seek wider opportunities in her chosen science, astronomy. At Harvard College Observatory she wrote what the eminent astrophysicist Otto Struve later called "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy," and in 1934 the dean of American astronomers, Henry Norris Russell, wrote that the best candidate in America to be his successor at Princeton "alas, is a woman!", an obvious reference to Cecilia Payne in an age when neither Harvard nor Princeton would have dared to consider a woman faculty member. Not until the 1950s would Harvard finally have the temerity to appoint a woman to a regular Arts and Sciences faculty position. This autumn, in the centennial year of her birth, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will host a symposium in her honor. The program of speakers includes former students, family, old friends, and experts on topics related to her astrophysical interests, which encompassed among others stellar spectroscopy, variable stars and photometry, galactic structure and stellar evolution. The proceedings will be published by the L. Davis Press. The organizing committee consists of Owen Gingerich, Andrea Dupree, Kathy Haramundanis, Dave Latham, Dave Philip, and Virginia Trimble. Registered participants are invited to join us for a reception and banquet on Thursday evening at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge. The reception starts at 6:00 p.m. and the meal will be served at 7:00 p.m. The meal choices are Grilled Chilean Seabass, Seared Lambchops, or Vegetarian. This event is partially sponsored, so the cost to participants is only $45. Please register at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cpg/regform.html if you wish to participate. The deadline is 18 October 2000. - $5 for a name badge and Friday morning coffee - $8 late registration for a name badge and Friday morning coffee after 18 October - $30 for badge, coffee, Friday box lunch, and symposium volume - $45 for the Thursday evening reception and banquet at the American Academy (actual cost $115) If you have difficulty with the registration form, mail your check and registration information to CPG Centenary Registration MS-15 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 More information is available at the Symposium Website: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cpg/ More information about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) can be found at: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_payne-gaposchkin.html [This text is based on the symposium's website. Thanks to Larry Klaes for drawing my attention to this symposium by sending a CfA Press Release to HASTRO-L.] ........................................................................... Item 5 EMA Nr. 52, 6. Oktober 2000 ........................................................................... Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society ------------------------------------------------ The annual meeting of the History of Science Society will be held in Vancouver, Canada, November 2-5, 2000. Among the sessions scheduled are three which should appeal to historians of astronomy: "Cultures of 20th-Century Astronomy," with papers by Matthew Stanley, Keith R. Lafortune, Abha Sur, David P.D. Munns, and JoAnn Palmeri, Friday, November 3 "Astronomy and Its Histories: A Session in Honor of Owen Gingerich," with papers by Robert S. Westman, Sara Schechner, James R. Voelkel / Owen Gingerich, and Joann Eisberg, Saturday, November 4 "Theory Comes West: The Beginnings of Theoretical Astrophysics in Western America," with presentations by David DeVorkin, Donald Osterbrock, and Karl Hufbauer, Saturday, November 4 Contact address: HSS Executive Office Attn: Vancouver Meeting University of Washington, Box 351330 Seattle, WA 98195-1330 USA Telephone: (206) 543-9366 (during regular business hours, Pacific Coast time) FAX: (206) 685-9544 E-mail: hssexec@u.washington.edu More information on the meeting can be obtained from the website at http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/annual/ During the History of Science Society meeting the Special Interest Group for the history of astronomy will meet on the evening of Friday, November 3. Contacts: Marc Rothenberg, e-mail: rothenbergm@osia.si.edu [Based on the meeting's website and on a message sent by Marc Rothenberg to HASTRO-L.] ........................................................................... Item 6 EMA Nr. 52, 6. Oktober 2000 ........................................................................... The Herbert C. Pollock Award ---------------------------- The Herbert C. Pollock Award was established by the Dudley Observatory to honor the long service of Dr. Pollock as a member and past President of the Dudley Observatory Board of Trustees. The purpose of the Award is to provide encouragement and support for an innovative project in the history of astronomy or astrophysics, to be undertaken by a faculty member, research associate, or postdoctoral associated with a college, university, nonprofit research institution or observatory located in North America. Applications from persons meeting the other requirements, who are not currently affiliated with any institution will also be considered. Lists of past winners of the Pollock Award and their project titles may be found on the next page. Special consideration will be given to proposals that involve the use of the Dudley Observatory Archives, the Dudley Collection of early astronomical works housed at Union College or the Benjamin A. Gould, Jr. library held by Dudley Observatory. The Award consists of a maximum of $5,000 to be distributed in the year of the Award. A recipient of the Pollock Award may not reapply for a new award for three years. Application Procedures The application should include the following parts: 1.) A descriptive title with a brief account of the project, not to exceed four pages. The description should permit a selection committee of historians and other scholars to judge what is proposed and how completion of the project would contribute to historical knowledge. 2.) A one-page nontechnical "executive summary" of the project to be evaluated by non-historians. 3.) A budget showing how the Award funds would be spent, together with a description of the applicant's current funding and the funding agency, if any, for present work. - No Overhead Charges will be permitted. 4.) A biographical sketch and personal bibliography - not to exceed four pages. 5.) The names and affiliations of two scientists or other scholars who may be contacted by the Selection Committee, should the need arise, as well as the name of the applicant's supervisor or Department Chair. Letters of support should not be included with the application. The complete application must be received by Dudley Observatory by December 4, 2000. Applications should be mailed to: Dudley Observatory Suite 201 107 Nott Terrace Schenectady, New York 12308 USA Selection Procedures The Pollock Award Selection Committee will make recommendations to the Board of Trustees of the Dudley Observatory following review of the applications. The recipient of the Pollock Award will be announced in January, 2001. Fliers giving details for the Award will be available by the end of September, and will be sent to all who request them. To be added to our mailing list, contact George Wise, Administrator, Dudley Observatory, at Dudley@union.edu. For further information contact Dudley Observatory: Suite 201 107 Nott Terrace Schenectady, New York 12308 USA Phone: (518) 382-7583 Fax: (518) 382-7584 e-mail: dudley@union.edu URL: www.dudleyobservatory.org [Based on http://www.dudleyobservatory.org/pollock_award.htm . Thanks to Steve McCluskey who forwarded a message by Nancy Langford to HASTRO-L.] ........................................................................... Item 7 EMA Nr. 52, 6. Oktober 2000 ........................................................................... Errata ------ In "Neue Buecher", EMA Nr. 49, 28. April 2000, Item 4 muss es richtig heissen: Godwin, Francis: The man in the moon Kippenhahn, Rudolf; Knapp, Wolfram: Schwarze Sonne, roter Mond ........................................................................... Danksagung ---------- Fuer direkte Informationen sei gedankt: Gerhard Betsch, Jean-Francois Gauvin, Eckehard Schmidt. ........................................................................... Impressum --------- Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte (EMA) Herausgegeben vom Arbeitskreis Astronomiegeschichte in der Astronomischen Gesellschaft Redaktion: Dr. Wolfgang R. Dick Alle nicht namentlich gekennzeichneten Mitteilungen sind redaktionelle Beitraege. Aufsaetze sowie Mitteilungen fuer die Rubriken werden gern entgegengenommen. Der Bezug der EMA ist kostenlos. Abonnenten und Leser werden um gelegentliche freiwillige Spenden an den Arbeitskreis gebeten. 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