History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on January 22, 1999

Some URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

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

History of astronomy

Observatories and other places

Berlin, Germany
• Astronomy in Berlin, by Brian Daugherty
• Potsdam, Germany
  • Einsteinturm (Einstein Tower) (Library of Congress entries)

Persons

• E
  • Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
    • Short biography and links
    • Short biography
    • Britannica Online entries
    • Einstein Revealed
    • Einstein-Galerie (in German)
    • Bibliography (Library of Congress entries)
    • Bibliography (ADS entries)
    • References (Library of Congress entries)
    • Reference (Library of Congress entry, misspelled)
    • Reference (Library of Congress entry, misspelled)
    • References (ADS entries)
    • Einstein-Haus, Caputh, Germany (in German)
    • Einstein field equations (Library of Congress entries)
    • Einstein manifolds (Library of Congress entries)
    • Einstein Observatory (Artificial satellite) (Library of Congress entries)
    • Einstein-Podolosky-Rosen experiment (Library of Congress entries)
    • Einsteinturm (Einstein Tower), Potsdam, Germany (Library of Congress entries)
    • Solar Observatory Einsteinturm, Potsdam, Germany
    • Albert-Einstein-Schule Bochum, Germany (in German)
    • Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Duisburg-Rumeln, Germany (in German)
    • Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Hameln, Germany (in German)
    • Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Kaarst, Germany (in German)
    • Einstein-Gymnasium Kehl am Rhein, Germany (in German)
    • Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Ravensburg, Germany (in German)
    • Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Reutlingen, Germany (in German)
    • Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Sankt-Augustin, Germany (in German)
    • Links to WWW sources

Items

• Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy and Ethnoastronomy
  • A Central Texas Sun Dagger (See also the figures.)
• Eclipses
  • Eclipses in History: From Fear to Fascination
• Education
  • AST 350L: History and Philosophy of Astronomy

Museums, memorials, historical places and exhibits

• Caputh, Germany
  • Einstein-Haus (in German)

Publications

• Books
  • Hamel, Jürgen: Die astronomischen Forschungen in Kassel unter Wilhelm IV., 1998 (in German, with English abstract)
  • The Message of the Angles - Astrometry from 1798 to 1998, 1998

Meetings

• Colloquium on the occassion of the 300th birthday of Erhard Weigel
  March 20, 1999, Jena, Germany (in German)
• The Legacy of J. C. Kapteyn
  June 9 - 11, 1999, Groningen, The Netherlands
• 111th Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, History Sessions
  July 4-5, 1999, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• One Hundred Years of Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics
  August 13-15, 1999, Tihany, Hungary
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 1999 (updated)
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2000
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2001

Societies

• Scientific Instrument Commission

Historians of astronomy

• Alpher, Ralph (alpherr@union.edu)
• Bratton, Timothy L. (bratton@acc.jc.edu)
• Daugherty, Brian (bd25@tutor.open.ac.uk)
• Deiss, Bruno M. (deiss@ph1.uni-koeln.de)
• Hatch, Robert A. (ufhatch@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu)
  Including a list of recent publications
• Hoffleit, Ellen Dorrit
• Jarrell, Richard A.
  Including a list of recent publications
• North, John (north@let.rug.nl)
  Including a list of books
• Plotkin, Howard (hplotkin@julian.uwo.ca)
  Including a list of recent publications
• Rauth, Michael (rauth@tyche.mat.univie.ac.at)
  Including a list of publications
• Ritschl, Wolfgang (ritschl@astro.ast.univie.ac.at)
• Robbins, R. Robert (rrr@astro.as.utexas.edu)
• Simonia, Irakli (simon55@hotmail.com, isimonia@post.net.ge)
• Sivin, Nathan (nsivin@mail.sas.upenn.edu)
  Including a list of publications
• Slechta, Miroslav (slechta@mbox.cesnet.cz, slechta@menza.mff.cuni.cz)
• White, Raymond E. (rwhite@as.arizona.edu)
  Including a list of publications

History of science

General

• History of Science on the Internet

Meetings

• Conferences [in history of science]
• 19th Baltic Conference on the History of Science
  January 15-17, Vinius-Kaunas, Lithuania
• "Science as Culture": 5th International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Conference and 8th European Physical Society History and Physics Teaching Conference
  September 15-19, 1999, Lake Como and Pavia, Italy
• Third International History of Philosophy of Science Conference (HOPOS 2000)
  July 6-9, 2000, Vienna, Austria
• XXIst International Congress of History of Science
  Mexico City, 8-14 July, 2001

Societies

• Division of History of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science

IAU Commission 41 (History of Astronomy) (updated)

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Meetings
  • Gotha, May 11-15, 1998 (updated: new versions of several abstracts implemented, some new abstracts added)
• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte
      Nr. 37, 22. Januar 1999
  • Acta Historica Astronomiae (updated: English version now available)
    • Introduction
    • Vol. 1: Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 1 [Contributions to the History of Astronomy, Issue 1] (updated: cover picture and German abstract added)
    • Vol. 3: The Message of the Angles - Astrometry from 1798 to 1998
    • How to order

Wolfgang R. Dick