History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on November 27, 2000

Several URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

• Site map (complete Table of Contents)
  updated
• Acknowledgements
  updated

History of astronomy

Persons

• E
  • Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
    • Albert Einstein-Gesellschaft, Bern, Switzerland (in German)
    • Einstein-Haus, Bern, Switzerland
• L
  • Lynden-Bell, Donald (b. 1935)
    • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• S
  • Sunyaev, Rashid Alievich (b. 1943)
    • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)

Museums, memorials, historical places and exhibits

• Bern, Switzerland
  • Einstein-Haus
• Bremerhaven, Germany
  • Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven
    German Nautical Museum. Holds also portable sundials.
• Geneva (Genève, Genf), Switzerland
  • Musée d'histoire des sciences (in French and English)

Publications

• Books
  • Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 3, 2000 (mostly in German, with English abstracts)
  • The Role of Visual Representations in Astronomy, 2000

Societies

• Albert Einstein-Gesellschaft, Bern, Switzerland (in German)

Historians of astronomy

• Segre, Michael
• Teichmann, Jürgen
  Including a list of recent publications

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Publications
  • Acta Historica Astronomiae
    • Vol. 8: 300 Jahre Astronomie in Berlin und Potsdam
      • Sonnenforschung in Potsdam - Streiflichter aus der Geschichte
      • Bemerkungen zur Nachkriegsgeschichte der Sternwarte Babelsberg, 1950 - 1990
      • Das Astrophysikalische Institut Potsdam (AIP)
    • Vol. 9: The Role of Visual Representations in Astronomy: History and Research Practice
      • Table of contents
        • Drawing, engraving, photographing, plotting, printing: Historical studies of visual representations, particularly in astronomy
        • A Renaissance celestial globe as an analogue computer
        • Traces to the mechanic's workshop: Gottfried Teuber's copper engraving and woodcut illustrations for Erhard Weigel
        • On astronomical drawing [1846]
        • Did Struve observe the nucleus of Halley's comet in 1835?
        • Photography and labour history of astrometry: The Carte du Ciel
        • Karl Schwarzschild's investigations of 'out-of-focus photometry' between 1897 and 1899 at Kuffner Observatory in Vienna
        • Representation and transformation of Langley's map of the infrared solar spectrum
        • Working in a gold mine: Archival wide-field plates
    • Vol. 10: Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 3
      • Table of contents
        • Briefe und Mitteilungen Zachs an die Herzöge von Gotha 1786-1805
        • Die Gründung der Königsberger Sternwarte im Lichte der Akten des Preußischen Staates - 3.Teil: Die Baugeschichte der Sternwarte
        • Friedrich Paschen und die mecklenburgische Landesvermessung 1853 bis 1873
        • Gustav Adolph Jahn, ein Leipziger Astronom des 19. Jahrhunderts
        • In Edwin Hubbles Schatten: Frühe Arbeiten zur Expansion des Universums
        • Die Astronomische Gesellschaft zwischen internationaler Wirksamkeit und nationalen Schranken (1863-1933)
        • Die Sonnenuhren des Museums für Astronomie und Technikgeschichte Kassel - Bestandskatalog

Wolfgang R. Dick