*************************************************************************** * * * ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY * * * * Published by the Working Group for the History of Astronomy * * in the Astronomische Gesellschaft * * * * Number 26, March 6, 1998 * * * * Edited by: Wolfgang R. Dick * * * *************************************************************************** Contents -------- 1. Colloquium: Harmony of the Heavens 2. Exhibitions 3. Conferences 1998/99 4. New Books Acknowledgements Imprint ........................................................................... Item 1 ENHA No. 26, March 6, 1998 ........................................................................... Colloquium: Harmony of the Heavens ---------------------------------- (From: "Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 28, 6. Maerz 1998, Item 2.) 13th and 14th March 1998 The British Museum and the Warburg Institute, London This interdisciplinary colloquium will consider the interaction of astronomy and other disciplines, the crafts of mathematical practitioners, music and art, and how this interaction contributed to changing perceptions of the world. It will involve the discussion of both text-based and object-based studies. THE BRITISH MUSEUM LECTURE THEATRE Friday 13 March 1998 9.30 Doors open: registration 10.00 FIRST SESSION Welcome by Robert Anderson Chaired by Nicholas Mann Rob van Gent The unknown author of the 'Harmonia Macrosmica' (1600); the life and career of the Dutch cosmographer Andreas Cellarius 10.45 Coffee 11.15 Benno van Dalen Islamic astronomical tables and their transmission to Europe and China Silke Ackermann Heaven and earth in harmony: calendars on scientific instruments 12.45 Lunch 2.00 SECOND SESSION Chaired by W.F. Ryan David King Sacred geography of Islam: from folk astronomy to Mecca-centred world maps Anthony Turner Henrician heavens: clocks, instruments and alien craftsmen at the court of Henry VIII 3.30 Tea 4.00 Koen Van Cleempoel The Louvain school of instrument makers, 1540-1600 Gerard Turner Humphrey Cole and Elizabethan instrument-making 5.30 Reception (Gallery 69a, with view of the Humphrey Cole exhibition) 7.00 Buffet supper (Warburg Institute, for invited guests) THE WARBURG INSTITUTE LECTURE ROOM Saturday 14 March 1998 9.45 Doors open: registration 10.00 THIRD SESSION Chaired by Silke Ackermann Bruce Stephenson Musica mundana in Kepler's astronomy Penelope Gouk Changing musical models: cosmic and human harmonies in the Scientific Revolution 11.30 Coffee 11.45 John North Holbein's The Ambassadors. Is time really out of joint? Kristen Lippincott Astronomy, astrology and the problem with pictures 1.15 Lunch 2.15 FOURTH SESSION Chaired by Martin Kemp Alison Morrison-Low A heavenly library: early instruments in the Crawford Library Liba Taub Astrometeorology in antiquity: tradition and prediction 3.45 Tea Guenther Oestmann In the service of astrology: instruments belonging to Count Heinrich Rantzau (1526-1598) Final discussion Full fee: GBP 20; students and unwaged: GBP 10 (proof required). Lunch, Friday 13 March: GBP 10 Conference fee includes coffee, tea and biscuits on both days, entry to reception and exhibition on Friday and lunch on Saturday. Lunch on Friday 13 March is by ticket only and must be booked by 1 March. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title (Prof., Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms): Name (capital letters): Institution (if applicable): Home address: daytime tel no: I wish to attend the colloquium/*and the lunch on Friday 13 March/ and enclose my cheque for GBP made payable to "British Museum". *delete as appropriate Signed: Date: Please return completed form and payment to: Sovati Smith, Dept of Medieval and Later Antiquities, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG tel. 0171 323 8626 fax 0171 323 8496 email MLA@British-museum.ac.uk ........................................................................... Item 2 ENHA No. 26, March 6, 1998 ........................................................................... Exhibitions ----------- (From: "Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 25, 16. Januar 1998, Item 5. Translations by Donald Bellunduno and the editor.) On May 11, 1998, during the conference of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Gotha, two exhibits will be opened. In the Spiegelsaal [Mirror Hall] of the Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek Gotha [Research and State Library Gotha] in Schloss [Palace] Friedenstein, the exhibit "Gotha Astronomers" will be on display approximately until the 31st of August. The biographies of the most important astronomers and their work pertaining to the Gothaer observatories will be on display both in manuscript and publication form. The materials for the exhibit come from the library's collection. For more information about the library and its collection of globes, please see also ENHA 14, Item 2.) Opening hours of the library: Monday 1-5 pm, Tuesday-Thursday 9 am - 5 pm, Friday 10 am - 7 pm. With exception of lunch time (12 am - 1 pm) the exhibit can be visited up until 4 pm. Entrance is free of charge. For more information: Forschungs-und Landesbibliothek Gotha, Postfach 30, 99851 Gotha, Germany, Phone: (03621) 3080-0, Fax: (03621) 3080-38 "Sternstunden in Gotha" [Great Moments in Gotha] is the title of the second exhibit in the Museum der Natur [Natural Museum] in Gotha which is devoted to the history of the observatories. Observational instruments, as well as original documents from the Thueringer Staatsarchiv [Thuringian State Archives] in Gotha and from other institutions will be on display. The exhibition focuses on the astrometric research carried out at Gotha. Another item will be the first astronomical conference held at Gotha in 1798. The exhibit can be seen up until August 23. For more information: Museum der Natur, Parkallee 15, Gotha, Germany, Phone (03621) 8230-0. Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday 10 am -5 pm At least up until the end of February 1998 the small exhibition "Astronomische Instrumente - gestern und heute" [Astronomical instruments - yesterday and today] will be on display in the Zeiss-Grossplanetarium in Berlin. Historical instruments from the collection of the Archenhold Observatory are among the items shown. For more information: Zeiss-Grossplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, D-10405 Berlin, Germany, Phone (030) 42 18 45 12 The Heimat- und Palitzsch-Museum [Local and Palitzsch Museum] in Dresden celebrates its 10th anniversary on June 6, 1998. For information: Heimat-und Palitzsch-Museum, Gamigstr. 24, D-01239 Dresden, Germany, Tel. (0351) 2843030 "Poder y Tecnologa en el Siglo XVI: Lovaina como centro de difusion de los instrumentos cientificos" [Power and Technology in the XVIth Century: Louvain as the centre of diffusion of scientific instruments] was the title of an exhibition at the Real Diputacion San Andres de Los Flamencos, Fundacion Carlos de Amberes, Claudio Coello 99, 28006 Madrid, Spain, which was open from November 25, 1997, to February 2, 1998. Several scientific books, engravings and manuscripts formed the backdrop for about 60 Flemish and Spanish scientific instruments from the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries. A catalogue is available in Spanish, possibly also in English. Further information: Phone +34 (9) 1 4352201, Fax +34 (9) 1 5781092. From April 16 to May 30, 1998 , the Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Hamburg [State and University Library in Hamburg] will house an exhibition displaying information and events on the life of Johann Georg Repsold. The exhibition was formed by Juergen Koch. Inauguration: April 15, 5 pm. Place: Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany, Phone (040) 4123-2233; for information, please contact Frau Dr. Engelhorn, Phone 4123-5857. Opening hours: Mo - Fr 9 am - 9 pm, Sa 10 am - 1 pm From May 28 and up until October 1998 the special exhibition "The Art of Mapmaking - of Globemaking - and of Instrument Making from the 16th to the 18th centuries", a choice of artifacts from the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, the State Library of Saxonia, Dresden, and the collections of Rudolf Schmidt and Heide Wohlschlaeger, Vienna, will be on display at the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden. Address: Staatlicher Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Zwinger, D-01067 Dresden, Germany, Phone: +49 (3 51) 4 95 13 64 Opening hours: Mon - Wed, Fri - Son: 9.30 am - 5.00 pm ........................................................................... Item 3 ENHA No. 26, March 6, 1998 ........................................................................... Conferences 1998/99 ------------------- (From: "Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 26, 18. Februar 1998, Item 3. Partially translated by the editor.) Further conferences in the years 1998 and 1999 were reported in previous issues of ENHA. For a complete list of all conferences announced see the following URL: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr/ha_meet.html 17-19 April 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Midwest Junto for the History of Science Contacts: Ed Layton, Chair of Local Arrangements, c/o Barbara Eastwold, Program in History of Science and Technology,148 Tate Laboratory of Physics, University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA, E-mail: eastwold@physics.spa.umn.edu URL: http://www.physics.umn.edu/groups/hsci/junto.html 17-21 May 1998, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA The Seventy Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science A scientific session "In Search of Extraterrestrial Life: Past, Present and Future" will take place on Wednesday, May 20. Contacts: Alexander A Gurshtein, E-mail: alex@MESA7.MESA.COLORADO.EDU 22-23 May 1998, Wittenberg, Germany "Geodesy, Surveying und Belief". The influence of religion and Reformation on education, science and technology. Working Meeting of the Fachgruppe Geschichte des Vermessungswesens [Division for the History of Surveying] in the Bildungswerk des Verbandes Deutscher Vermessungsingenieure [Education Foundation of the Association of German Surveying Engineers] Informationen: Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Juergen Lagoda, Westfaelische Str. 30, D-47169 Duisburg, Germany, Phone 0203/59 82 47 August 14-16, 1998, Paderborn, Germany International Conference on the History of Computing (ICHC'98) Contacts: Prof. Dr. Raul Rojas, ICHC'98, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Takustr. 9, 14195 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: 49/30/83875100, FAX: 49/30/83875109, E-mail: rojas@inf.fu-berlin.de URL: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~widiger/ICHC/ 14 September 1998, Heidelberg, Germany Splinter Meeting "History of Astronomy" in the framework of the Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft. The Annual Meeting of the AG will be held in Heidelberg on occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Landessternwarte [State Astronomical Observatory] Heidelberg-Koenigstuhl (1898 to 1998). Coordinator: Dr. Reinhold Bien, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Moenchhofstr. 12-14, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany, Phone: (06221) 405-120, Fax: (06221) 405-297, E-mail: reinhold@relay.ari.uni-heidelberg.de URL: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/aa/treffen1998.html September 17-20, 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Mephistos 1998: 17th Annual Graduate Student Meeting for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, Medicine, and related fields Contacts: Mark Largent, Program in History of Science and Technology, Tate Laboratory of Physics, 116 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA, Tel.: (612) 626-8722, Fax: (612) 624-4578, E-mail: larg0007@tc.umn.edu URL: http://home.att.net/~Olorin/mephistos/meph2.htm 28-29 September 1998, Stockerau, Austria Annual Meeting of the Working Group for Sundials in the Austrian Astronomical Society (Arbeitsgruppe Sonnenuhren im Oesterreichischen Astronomischen Verein) Information: Frau Dr. Ilse Fabian, Hietzinger Hauptstr. 152/2/8, A-1130 Vienna, Austria, Phone: 01 - 713 44 23/Kl. 29; Mag. Franz Vrabec, Giessergasse 4/16, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, Phone: 01-408 40 98 (at evenings only) 10 October 1998, Weida, Germany Colloquium about Georg Samuel Doerffel Information: Georg-Samuel-Doerffel-Gymnasium, Ernst-Thaelmann-Str. 23, D-07570 Weida, Germany, Phone: (036603) 62272 15-17 January 1999, Vinius-Kaunas, Lithuania 19th Baltic Conference on the History of Science Among the subjects: History of mathematics and astronomy Language: English, other languages in special cases (in workshops if motivated by the subject matter) Deadline: May 1, 1998 Contacts: Prof. J.A. Krikstopaitis, Saltoniskiu 58, 2600 Vilnius, Lithania, Fax: 370-2-751898, 370-2-749719, e-mail: lfsi@ktl.mii.lt ........................................................................... Item 4 ENHA No. 26, March 6, 1998 ........................................................................... New Books --------- (From: "Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 26, 18. Februar 1998, Items 4 and 5. Partial translations by the editor.) Baiada, Enrica; Bonoli, Fabrizio; Braccesi, Alessandro: Museo della Specola. Catalogo. Italiona - Inglese. Bologna: Bologna University Press, 1995. Pp. 204, numerous illus., partly in colour, ISBN 88-7794-073-5, Lire 40,000 [Catalogue of the museum of the Bologna Astronomical Observatory. With an introduction on the history of astronomy in Bologna. All texts in Italian and English. Distribution: Editrice Compositori s.r.l., via Stalingrado 97/2, I-40128 Bologna, tel. (0039) 51 327811, fax 327877. Credit cards are accepted.] Bialas, Volker: Vom Himmelsmythos zum Weltgesetz. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Astronomie [From the celestial myth to the world law. A cultural history of astronomy; in German] Wien: Ibera Verlag, 1998. ca. 600 pp., ISBN 3-900436-52-5, DM 75.00 (hb) Brack-Bernsen, Lis: Zur Entstehung der babylonischen Mondtheorie : Beobachtung und theoretische Berechnung von Mondphasen. [On the origin of the Babylonian lunar theory : Observations and theoretical calculations of lunar phases; in German] Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. VIII, 142 pp., ISBN 3-515-07089-3, DM 48.00 (pb) (Boethius, vol. 40) [Also: Frankfurt (Main), University, Habilitations-Schrift (Dissertation for the Venia Legendi), 1997.] Chapman, Allan: Astronomical instruments and their users. Aldershot: Variorum, 1996. Pp. 332, 23 x 15 cm, ISBN 0-860-78584-X, GBP 52.50 (hb) [Collection of previously published papers.] Review: C.Jenkins: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1140, 318-319 Christianson, Gale E.: Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. 420, ISBN 0226105210, $ 18.95 (pb) Christianson, Gale E.: Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997. Pp. xi, 420, 24 x 16.5 cm, ISBN 0-7503-0423-5, GBP 19.50 (hb) Review: I.Howard-Duff: J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 107 (1997) 5, 288-289 Review: D.Stickland: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1140, 325-326 Cocks, E.E.; Cocks, J.C.: Who's who on the Moon. A biographical dictionary of lunar nomenclature. Greensboro, NC (USA): Tudor Publishers, 1995. Pp. ix, 600, ISBN 0-936389-27-3, US$ 45.00 [Biographical sketches, 1,586 entries. Appendix: Key lists, including the women who have been honored, the countries of birth and the professions of all the honorees; two lists of lunar features by size and by location; maps of the Moon.] Doering, Detlef: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Gottfried Kirch und Adam A. Kochanski : 1680-1694. Ein Beitrag zur Astronomiegeschichte in Leipzig und zu den deutsch-polnischen Wissenschaftsbeziehungen. [The correspondence between Gottfried Kirch and Adam A. Kochanski : 1680-1694. A contribution to the history of astronomy in Leipzig and the German/ Polish scientific relations; in German] Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1997. 94 pp., 3 illus., ISBN 3-05-003223-5, ca. DM 48.00 (pb) (Abhandlungen der Saechsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Bd. 74, H. 5) Fischer, Daniel; Duerbeck, Hilmar W.: Hubble: A new window to the Universe. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. Pp. x, 175, ISBN 0-387-94672-1, DM 48.00 [Translation of: Hubble: Ein neues Fenster zum All (1995); contains also a short history of telescopes in general and of the HST.] Review: J.Rendtel: Sterne 72 (1996) 5, 306 Forbes, Eric G.; Murdin, Lesley; Willmoth, Frances (Eds.): The correspondence of John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal. Vol. 2: 1682-1703. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997. Pp. xlvii, 1095, 25 x 19 cm, ISBN 0-750-30391-3, $ 280.00, GBP 140.00 (hb) Review: D.W.Hughes: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1139, 234 Review: T.Mahoney: J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 117 (1997) 4, 223 Grant, Edward: Planets, Stars, and Orbs. The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxiii, 816 pp., 16 x 30 cm; ill., bibl., index, GBP 45.00/$ 69.95 (hb) Review: R.C.Brooks: J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Can. 91 (1997) 5, 233-234 Hentschel, Klaus: The Einstein Tower : an intertexture of dynamic construction, relativity theory, and astronomy. Translated by Ann M. Hentschel. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 226, ill., bibliographical references (p. [191]-219), index, ISBN 0-8047-2824-0, $ 45.00 (hb) (Writing science) [Extended and revised English translation of "Der Einstein-Turm", 1992] Hernschier, Wolfgang: Ich wollte, ich waere ein guter Schuhflicker: Das unglueckliche Leben des bayerischen Astronomen Johann Nepomuck Fischer (1749-1805). Eine dokumentarische Biographie. [I wished I was a good cobbler. The unfortunate live of the Bavarian astronomer Johann Nepomuck Fischer (1749-1805). A documentary biography; in German] Bassum: Verlag f. Geschichte d. Naturwiss. u. d. Technik, 1997. 77, XXIII pp., ISBN 3-928186-34-5, DM 25.00 (pb) Hoskin, Michael A. (Ed.): The Cambridge illustrated history of astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 392, 26 x 21 cm, ISBN 0-521-41158-0, GBP 24.95 (hb) Review: A.J.Kinder: J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 107 (1997) 2, 94-95 Review: P.D.Hingley: Astronomy and Geophysics 38 (1997) 1, 32 Review: R.Argyle: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1140, 323 Lankford, John; Slavings, Ricky L.: American astronomy : community, careers, and power, 1859-1940. John Lankford ; with the assistance of Ricky L. Slavings. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 447, ill. ; 24 cm, ISBN 0-226-46886-0, $ 65.00 (hb) Lorenz, Martina (Ed.): Im Turm, im Kabinett, im Labor. Streifzuege durch die Regensburger Wissenschaftsgeschichte. [In the tower, in the chamber, in the laboratory. Excursions through the history of sciences at Regensburg.] With contributions by Michaelo Haberkorn, Martin Kirschke, Michael Klein, Martina Lorenz, Petra Schachtner, Markus Tanne, Willi Unglaub, Sandra Wilde und Klaus Zeitler. Regensburg: Universitaetsverlag Regensburg, 1995. 183 pp., ISBN 3-930480-60-3, DM 19.80 (pb) [Contains also several remarks on the history of astronomy, as well as a chapter on "Johannes Kepler in Regensburg".] Luminet, Jean-Pierre (Ed.): Alexandre Friedmann, Georges Lemaitre : "Essais de Cosmologie". Preceded by Jean-Pierre Luminet : "L'invention du Big Bang". Paris: Ed. du Seuil, 1997. Pp. 320, ISBN 2-02-023284-7, 169 French Francs [Presentation, translation and comments on "The universe as space and time" by A. Friedmann (1923), Friedmann's cosmological articles (1922, 1924), cosmological papers by Georges Lemaitre (1927, 1931, 1946), various letters and historical material. General introduction by J.-P. Luminet. In French.] Mett, Rudolf: Regiomontanus. Wegbereiter des neuen Weltbildes. [Regiomontanus. Pioneer of the new world view; in German] Stuttgart, Leipzig: B.G.Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996. 204 pp., 38 illus., ISBN 3-8154-2510-7, DM 24.80 (pb) (Series: Einblicke in die Wissenschaft : Wissenschaftsgeschichte) [also: Zuerich: vdf, Hochschulverlag an der ETH. ISBN 3-7281-2311-0] Review: H.-J.Felber: Astron. Nachr. 318 (1997) 3, 172 North, John D.: Viewegs Geschichte der Astronomie und Kosmologie. Braunschweig, Wiesbaden: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997. XIII, 463 pp., ISBN 3-528-06644-X, DM 78.00 (hb) [German translation of: "Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology", 1994] Review: T.Buehrke: Physik in unserer Zeit 28 (1997) 5, VIII-IX Schaldach, Karlheinz: Roemische Sonnenuhren. Eine Einfuehrung in die antike Gnomonik. Geschichte und Vielfalt der roemischen Sonnenuhren. [Roman sundials. An introduction into ancient gnomonics. History and variety of Roman sundials; in German] Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Harri Deutsch, 1997. 123 pp., 66 illus., tables, ISBN 3-8171-1537-7, DM 29.80 (pb) [This books gives an insight into the history and variety of the types of Roman sundials, as well as into the scientific foundations needed for an assessment of a Roman sundial. The possibilities and limits of a mathematical analyses are demonstrated with the help of selected examples.] Schroeder, Wilfried; Treder, Hans-Juergen (Ed.): Theoretical meteorology, weather prediction, cosmology, and general applications. Selected scientific papers by Hans Ertel. Bremen-Roennebeck, 1995. Pp. 156 (Newsletter of the Interdivisional commission on history of IAGA, No. 29) [p. 108-129: H.-J. Treder, W. Schroeder: Hans Ertel und die Kosmologie. p. 130-154: H. Ertel's publications in astronomy. All these publications are in German.] Taton, Rene; Wilson, Curtis (Eds.): Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics. Part B: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 281, ISBN 0-521-35168-5, GBP 45.00, US$ 69.95 (hb) (The General History of Astronomy, Vol. 2B) Review: S.J.Dick: Sky & Telescope 92 (1996) 2, 54-55 Review: M.Connors: J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Can. 90 (1996) 5/6, 365-366 Thurston, Hugh: Early astronomy. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. Pp. X, 268, 23.5 x 15.5 cm, ISBN 0-387-94822-8, DM 48.00, GBP 22.50 (pb) [Paperback edition; first published in 1994.] Review: A.F.Aveni: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1139, 244-245 Zenkert, Arnold: Bruno Hans Buergel (1875-1948). Ein Lebensbild. [A biography; in German] Velten: Reinhardt Becker Verlag, 1996. VIII, 221 pp., ISBN 3-89597-267-3, DM 25.00 (pb) Review: M.Iven: PUTZ. Die Potsdamer Universitaetszeitung (1996) 5, 26 Review: M.Iven: Sterne 72 (1996) 5, 304-305 Zenkert, Arnold: Zaehl die heitren Stunden nur: Sinnsprueche auf Sonnenuhren. [Count the bright hours only: aphorisms on sundials; in Latin/German] Illus. by Rudolf Peschel. 4th ed. Berlin: Eulenspiegel - Das Neue Berlin, 1996. 96 pp., ISBN 3-359-00317-9, DM 14.80 (hb) ........................................................................... Acknowledgements ---------------- For information we thank all authors and in addition: Silke Ackermann (London, UK), Volker Bialas (Munich, Germany), Juergen Blunck (Berlin, Germany), Lis Brack-Bernsen (Regensburg, Germany), Peter Brosche (Daun, Germany), Fabrizio Bonoli (Bologna, Italy), Detlef Doering (Leipzig, Germany), Hilmar W. Duerbueck (Muenster, Germany), Heino Eelsalu (Tartu, Estonia), Mrs. Engelhorn (Hamburg, Germany), Klaus Hentschel (Goettingen, Germany), Klaus-Dieter Herbst (Jena, Germany), Cornelia Hopf (Gotha, Germany), Juergen Koch (Hamburg, Germany), Siegfried Koge (Dresden, Germany), Heinz Juergen Lagoda (Duisburg, Germany), Jean-Pierre Luminet (Meudon, France), Guenther Oestmann (Hamburg, Germany), Elvira Pfitzner (Chemnitz, Germany), Karin Reich (Hamburg, Germany), Klaus Schillinger (Dresden, Germany), Oliver Schwarz (Gotha, Germany), Karl Schwarzinger (Sistrans, Austria), Museum der Natur Gotha. ........................................................................... Imprint ------- Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy (ENHA) Published by the Working Group for the History of Astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft Editor: Dr. Wolfgang R. Dick All items without an author's name are editorial contributions. 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