History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on August 6, 1999

Some URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

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

History of astronomy

Persons

• A
  • Agricola, Georgius [Bauer, Georg] (1494-1555)
    Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy known to us.
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Airy, George Biddell (1801-1892)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d' (1717-1783)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Ambronn, Richard (1887-1954)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 585 BC - c. 525 BC)
    • Very short biography and links
  • Ångström, Anders Jonas (1814-1874)
    • Short biography and reference (in German)
  • Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786-1853)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
• B
  • Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Baeyer, Johann Jacob (1794-1885)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Benzenberg, Johann Friedrich (1777-1849)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Bernoulli (family)
    • Short biographies and references (in German)
  • Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Biot, Jean-Baptiste [Jean Baptiste] (1774-1862)
    • Short biography (in German)
  • Bohnenberger, Johann Gottlob Friedrich von (1765-1831)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Borda, Jean Charles [Jean-Charles de] (1733-1799)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Boskovic [Boscovich], Rudjer Joseph [Ruggiero Giuseppe; Rodger Joseph] (1711-1787)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Bouguer, Pierre (1698-1758)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Brahe, Tycho
    • Short biography and references (in German)
• C
  • Canton, John (1718-1772)
    • Kurzbiographie und Literaturhinweise Short biography and references (in German)
  • Cassini (family)
    • Short biographies and reference (in German)
  • Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Celsius, Anders (1701-1744)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713-1765)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir (1897-1967)
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951
      Including a short biography.
    • Very short biography and links
    • Very short biography and links
    • Very short biography and links
    • Britannica Online entries
    • Find more about Cockcroft with Alta Vista
  • Comenius, Johann Amos [orig. Komenský, Jan Amos] (1592-1670)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Cook, James (1728-1779)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Copernicus, Nicolaus
    • Short biography and references (in German)
• D
  • Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1749-1822)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Descartes, René [Lat. Cartesius, Renatus] (1596-1650)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm (1803-1879)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
• E
  • Erman, Adolf (1806-1877)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
• F
  • Fernel, Jean François (c.1497-1558)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
• G
  • George of Trebizond [Georg von Trapezunt] (c.1395-c.1486)
    • Short biography
      From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
    • Find more about George of Trebizond with Alta Vista
• K
  • Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)
    • Johannes Kepler, Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works)
• W
  • Warburg, Aby M. (1866-1929)
    • The Aby Warburg Collection at Hamburg Planetarium (updated)
    • Short biography and references
    • Short biography and reference (in German)
    • Bibliography (Library of Congress entries)
    • References (Library of Congress entries)
    • The Warburg Institute, London (See also here.)
      • Archives
        Holds also the papers of Aby M. Warburg.
    • Warburg-Haus Hamburg (in German)
    • Aby-Warburg-Stiftung (in German)
    • Warburg Electronic Library, Hamburg
    • Find more about Warburg with Alta Vista
    • Find more about Warburg and astronomy/astrology with Alta Vista
• Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)
• More biographies / Sources and other lists
  • Index to the Bibliographic Meteor Database
    • Biographies and Bibliographies
  • Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der Geophysik, by Walter Kertz (in German)
    Biographies of geophysicists, including many astronomers.

Items

• Solar System
  • Index to the Bibliographic Meteor Database
    • Biographies and Bibliographies
    • History

Archives and libraries

• London, UK
  • The Warburg Institute (See also here.)
    • Archives
      Holds also the papers of Aby M. Warburg.
    • Library
      Holds also a large history of science collection, among this many books on history of astronomy.

Publications

• General questions and bibliographies
  • Index to the Bibliographic Meteor Database
    • Biographies and Bibliographies
    • History
• Books
  • [Kepler, Johannes:] Johannes Kepler, Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works)
• Journals
  • WGN - Journal of the International Meteor Organization
    • Index to WGN Articles
      • Biographies
      • History

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte
      Nr. 43, 6. August 1999

Wolfgang R. Dick