History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on May 5, 1999

Some URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

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

History of astronomy

Persons

• B
  • Bobillier, Etienne (1798-1840)
    Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy known to us.
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Bobillier (lunar feature)
  • Borda, Jean Charles (1733-1799)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Borda (lunar feature)
  • Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Boyle (lunar feature)
  • Brouwer, Dirk (1902-1966)
    • Crater Brouwer (lunar feature)
  • Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881-1966)
    Solar system feature named after him (and Dirk Brouwer). No other relation to astronomy known to us.
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Brouwer (lunar feature)
  • Burckhardt, Johann Karl (1773-1825)
    • Crater Burckhardt (lunar feature)
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• C
  • Cajori, Florian (1859-1930)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Cajori (lunar feature)
  • Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp (1845-1918)
    • Crater Cantor (lunar feature)
  • Cantor, Moritz Benedikt (1829-1920)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Cantor (lunar feature)
  • Chaplygin [Tschaplygin], Sergej Alekseevich (1869-1942)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Chaplygin (lunar feature)
  • Chebyshev [Tschebyschew], Pafnutij [Pafnuty] L'vovich [Lwowitsch] (1821-1894)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Chebyshev (lunar feature)
• D
  • Desargues, Gérard (1591-1661)
    • Short biography and references
    • Biographical data and references
    • Crater Desargues (lunar feature)
• G
  • Galois, Evariste (1811-1832)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Galois (lunar feature)
    • Links to WWW sources
• H
  • Hermite, Charles (1822-1901)
    • Short biography and references
    • Short biography and references
      From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
    • Crater Hermite (lunar feature)
• K
  • Kästner [Kaestner], Abraham Gotthelf (1719-1800)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Kästner (lunar feature)
  • Krylov, Aleksej Nikolaevich (1863-1945)
    • Short biography and references
    • Crater Krylov (lunar feature)
• Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)

Items

• Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy and Ethnoastronomy
  • Babylonian Planetary Theory and the Heliocentric Concept, by John N. Harris
• Cosmology, Gravity and Relativistic Astrophysics
  • Ancient Cosmologies
    • The Cosmology of Tawantinsuyu, by Jan Sammer
    • An Ancient Latin name for Venus, by Jan Sammer
    • Venus and Sirius, by Jan Sammer
    • The Inconstant Heavens, by Livio C. Stecchini
• Education
  • Astronomy 100: Descriptive Astronomy, by Joe S. Tenn
    • The Copernican Revolution
    • Cosmology in the 20th Century

Museums, memorials, historical places and exhibits

• Naturwissenschaften in der Kurpfalz unter Carl Theodor (1742-1799) (in German)
  Mannheim, Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit, 28 April 1999 - 9 January 2000

Publications

• Journals
  • Scientific Instrument Society, Bulletin

Meetings

• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 1999 (updated)
• Perspectives on the Question of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
  July 1, 1999, Notre Dame, IN, USA

Societies

• Scientific Instrument Society

Historians of astronomy

• Sammer, Jan

History of science

Meetings

• On Time: History, Science, Commemoration
  September 18-19, 1999, Oxford, UK

Societies

• Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte e.V. (in German)

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
      Number 36, May 5, 1999

Wolfgang R. Dick