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Classics in Radio Astronomy (Studies in the History of Modern Science) by W.T. Sullivan, 1982-06-30 A History of Nautical Astronomy by Charles H. Cotter, 1968-04 Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy by Raymond Haynes, Roslynn D. Haynes, et all 2010-08-26 Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy (Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science) Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A, Tycho Brahe to Newton (General History of Astronomy) (v. 2) The General History of Astronomy: Volume 4, Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950: Part A From Eudoxus to Einstein: A History of Mathematical Astronomy by C. M. Linton, 2008-01-21 Discovering the Universe: A History of Astronomy. by Colin Ronan, 1972 Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus: A History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus Together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the Sizes and Distan (Studies Relating to Ancient Philosophy) by Thomas L. Heath, 1996-12 The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous Inventions and Discoveries : And a Brief Sketch of the History of Astronomy Previous to His Time, Compiled from Authentic Documents by George Grant, 2010-02-27 The Young Man's Book of Knowledge Containing a Familiar View of the Importance of Religion the Works of Nature Logic Eloquence the Passions Matter and ... Astronomy History Chronology &C 1st American by Thomas Tegg, 2009-04-27 A Short History of Astronomy: -1899 by Arthur Berry, 2009-07-24 Science and Objectivity: Episodes in the History of Astronomy by Norriss S. Hetherington, 1988-02-28 Awestruck by the Majesty of the Heavens: Artistic Perspectives from the History of Astronomy Collection by Anna Felicity Friedman, 1997-01

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61. Articles About Astronomy History - Page 2 - Los Angeles Times
    Astronomy History News by Date. Find breaking news, commentary, and archival information about Astronomy History from the Los Angeles Times (Page 2 of 2)  
    http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/astronomy-history/recent/2

62. A Science Odyssey: People And Discoveries: Events And Discoveries
    PBS articles about 20th century astronomy and physics.  
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/physastro.html

63. Astronomy History Science
    Astronomy History Science Computer History Internet Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world.  
    http://sa25.msl-fn.com/astronomyhistoryscience.html
    
    Extractions: HOME Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy by Michael Hoskin, Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics. This is an essential text for students of the history of science and for students of astronomy who require a historical background to their studies. 35 line diagrams. 17 photos. CLICK HERE Modern Theories of the Universe: From Herschel to Hubble by Michael J. Crowe, This excellent book provides a solid introduction to the fundamentals of stellar astronomy, a history of astronomy and an account of how the emergence of the science of astronomy challenged traditional philosophical and theological beliefs. Throughout the text are readings from the classic writings of scientists who contributed most significantly to the development of stellar astronomy. Michael J. Crowe is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. CLICK HERE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was established in March 1994. Its research is primarily devoted to a theoretically oriented history of science, principally of the natural sciences, but with methodological perspectives drawn from the cognitive sciences and from cultural history.

64. Biennial History Of Astronomy Workshops
    Workshops at Notre Dame, papers presented, abstracts, group pictures of attendees.  
    http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/index.html
    
    Extractions: Welcome to the web page for the Biennial History of Astronomy Workshops held at the University of Notre Dame. On this site, you'll find some history of the workshops, archival information from the previous four workshops, web links, and other information. For a description of each section shown on the right, see below, or click on the words to go to that section. History of the Workshops through Pictures History of the Workshops through Programs Exhibits Links Recent and Upcoming Workshops History of the Workshops through Pictures

65. Read This: The Babylonian Theory Of The Planets
    A substantial look at the subject, and a review of N. M. Swerdlow s book.  
    http://www.maa.org/reviews/babplanets.html
    
    Extractions: by N. M. Swerdlow One of the great discoveries of the nineteenth century was a discovery about the past -the existence of a highly sophisticated mathematical astronomy among the ancient Babylonians. Otto Neugebauer tells the story in The Exact Sciences in Antiquity , pp. 103105 (full references are given below). The discoverers were three Jesuit priests. The first, Johann Nepomuk Strassmaier, an Assyriologist, worked in the British Museum for nearly twenty years, patiently and tirelessly copying into his notebooks the contents of unpublished clay tablets from Babylon. Among these were many with astronomical contents, which Strassmaier was unable to comprehend. He invoked the help of Joseph Epping, a professor of mathematics and astronomy, then at Quito, Ecuador. Epping's first results were published in 1881, in an obscure Catholic theological periodical. He had been able to decipher the names of the planets and zodiacal signs and had uncovered the main aspects of the Babylonian lunar theory. After Epping's death, his work was continued by Franz Xaver Kugler. The Babylonian astronomers who created these tablets -the "Chaldeans" of the Book of Daniel: "The king [Belshazzar] cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers," (Daniel 5:7)- are referred to by Noel Swerdlow, in the book under review, as the "Scribes of Enuma Anu Enlil". The "Enuma Anu Enlil" is a vast series of seventy tablets containing thousands of omens, originally from the second millenium B.C., referring to the appearances of the sun, moon and planets, as well as meteorological phenomena. ("Enuma Anu Enlil" just means "when Anu and Enlil"; these are the opening words of the first tablet. Anu and Enlil were Sumerian gods.) For example, "If Jupiter [rises] in the path of the [Enlil] stars: the king of Akkad will become strong and [overthrow] his enemies in all lands in battle" (

66. Digital Archive Of Historical Astronomy Pictures
    Images from the history of astronomy, old telescopes, pictures of astronomers, observatories.  
    http://www42.pair.com/infolund/bolaget/DAHAP/

67. Women In Astronomy: History
    This image history was produced by the The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The text was written by Sally Stephens.  
    http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/cswa/history/history.html

68. INSAP3
    Excerpts and commentary with reproductions of some of Elihu Vedder s illustrations.  
    http://www.minaret.org/INSAP3.htm
    
    Extractions: ABSTRACT. Omar Khayyam was both an astronomer and a poet. We examine the astronomical references in different translations of his poetry and in Elihu Vedder's illustrations of the first American edition of Edward Fitzgerald's famous translation as the takeoff points for discussing the controversy as to the meaning of his poetry and the differences in culture between 11th-century Iran where he wrote them and 19th-century Britain and America where Fitzgerald and Vedder respectively were born. Coming from a society in which science and religion are viewed as antagonists, Fitzgerald misconstrued Omar’s poetry as a materialist diatribe against religious belief. Like all great poetry, Omar’s verse is so deep and so rich in meaning that it can be understood on many different levels and in different ways. Thus, many people from atheists to Christian clerics, from materialists to mystics, have professed that Omar is one of them. Speaking as an astronomer, I can say without fear of contradiction, that Omar was definitely "one of us." For that reason it is appropriate for this meeting to take a look at the astronomical allusions in his poetry and compare how their interpretation is affected by cultural context. I here focus on the literary translations of the Iranian-American scholar Ahmad Saidi (1991) and the British poet Edward Fitzgerald and the artistic interpretations of the American artist Elihu Vedder who illustrated the first American edition of the Rubaiyat (Fitzgerald 1884). Given the location of this conference, I should mention that Vedder executed his illustrations during his lengthy stay in Italy in the early 1880’s. My research has also been informed by reviewing a number of literal translations, notably those of Graves and Ali-Shah (1967) and Arberry (1952).

69. Astronomy History, Page: 2
    Your guide to the solar system and deep space from star gazing to astonomical research, planets, meteor showers, international shuttle missions, and galaxy science., Page 2  
    http://www.suite101.com/astronomyhistory/2

70. Archives Of HASTRO-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
    Archive of the History of Astronomy Discussion Group, the mailing list for scholars in this field.  
    http://listserv.wvu.edu/archives/hastro-l.html

71. Astronomy, History Of - Space Sciences | HighBeam Research - FREE Trial
    Astronomy, History of find Space Sciences articles. div id= bedoc-text h1Astronomy, History of/h1 pIn ancient times, people watched the sky and used its changin  
    http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3408800117.html

72. Science Tribune - 1998-
    Article by Peter Brosche on gaining understanding of changes in the Moon s orbit.  
    http://www.tribunes.com/tribune/art98/bros.htm
    
    Extractions: For a long time, two separate lines of thought governed our perceptions of tidal friction. Empirical evidence from observations of solar eclipses made as early as in Antiquity pointed to a secular acceleration of the mean angular motion of the Moon amongst the stars which was first noted by Edmund Halley in 1695. However, according to the solitary theoretical speculations of the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1754), oceanic tides retarded the rotation of the earth. When did these two lines of thought converge? In 1786, Simon Laplace showed that conservative celestial mechanics could explain empirical observations on the acceleration of the lunar orbit. Some 70 years later, Adams (1853) and Delaunay (1859) demonstrated that Laplace's explanation was only half an explanation. The other half was buried in the work of Isaac Newton who thought that the apparent acceleration of the moon could be due to a change in the earth's rotation. Robert Mayer was the first to link the ideas that the moon acts on the earth and the earth on the moon by introducing the concept of angular momentum transfer in the earth-moon-system. He was followed by G.H. Darwin, the son of the famous biologist.

73. Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1 - Little Green Men, White Dwarfs Or Pulsars?
    A personal account by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on the discovery of pulsars.  
    http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm
    
    Extractions: "We did all the work ourselves and cheerfully sledgehammered all one summer." Burnell and the antenna. In all the history of radio astronomy the pulsing signals discovered at Cambridge, England, in 1967 were the most suggestive of an extraterrestrial intelligent origin that have ever been detected. In this article, Jocelyn Bell Burnell tells a delightful, personal story of how she first encountered the signals and what ensued.-Eds. Ladies and Gentlemen: Before you discover for yourselves let me tell you that I am no expert at after dinner speeches. The nearest I have come was writing a Ph.D. thesis; my supervisor kindly read a draft of it and advised me that it read more like an after-dinner speech than a Cambridge University dissertation. He was right, of course, but it has taken me years to see the funny side of his remark. There has been a lot of interest shown in the discovery of pulsars, and also some misunderstanding. I would like to take this opportunity of setting the record straight. However, it all happened 8 or 9 years ago, and after such a time there is some difficulty in remembering it all accurately. The story began in the mid-1960's, when the technique of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) was discovered. IPS is the apparent fluctuation in intensity of the radio emission from a compact radio source. It is due to diffraction of the radio waves as they pass through the turbulent solar wind in interplanetary space. Compact radio sources, e.g. quasars, scintillate more than extended radio sources. Professor Tony Hewish realized this technique would be a useful way of picking out quasars, and designed a large radio telescope to do this. I joined him as a Ph.D. student when construction of this telescope was about to start.

74. Astronomy History Science
    Astronomy History Science Science Education at Jefferson Lab Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of  
    http://na89.msl-fn.com/astronomyhistoryscience.html
    
    Extractions: HOME Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy by Michael Hoskin, Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics. This is an essential text for students of the history of science and for students of astronomy who require a historical background to their studies. 35 line diagrams. 17 photos. CLICK HERE Modern Theories of the Universe: From Herschel to Hubble by Michael J. Crowe, This excellent book provides a solid introduction to the fundamentals of stellar astronomy, a history of astronomy and an account of how the emergence of the science of astronomy challenged traditional philosophical and theological beliefs. Throughout the text are readings from the classic writings of scientists who contributed most significantly to the development of stellar astronomy. Michael J. Crowe is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. CLICK HERE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was established in March 1994. Its research is primarily devoted to a theoretically oriented history of science, principally of the natural sciences, but with methodological perspectives drawn from the cognitive sciences and from cultural history.

75. Astronomy History -- From Eric Weisstein's Encyclopedia Of Scientific Books
    Eric Weisstein's Encyclopedia of Scientific Books 19952005 Eric W. Weisstein 2003-10-07 http//www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/AstronomyHistory.html  
    http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/AstronomyHistory.html

76. Astronomy In Sweden 1860-1940
    From the Uppsala University Newsletter for History of Science.  
    http://www.astro.uu.se/history/swehistory_1860-1940.html
    
    Extractions: The intellectual geography of Swedish astronomy and its international contacts has changed since the 19 th th century, astronomers turned westward. Large US observatories became important astronomical centres, and early in the century, English became the preferred language for PhD dissertations in astronomy. Photography entailed a division of labor in astronomy. The photographic astronomers exposed plates that sometimes registered thousands of celestial objects that later could be analysed, sometimes in other institutional contexts. The amount of data available to astronomers grew, and data became more mobile. One way to use this data was stellar statistics, a type of astronomy that used large datasets and analysed them statistically to get a picture of how stars were distributed throughout space. Stellar statistics was represented in Sweden most prominently at Lund Observatory, where the so-called Lund school of stellar statistics was formed around C.V.L. Charlier from about 1910. Charlier and his disciples made models of the distribution of stars in space based on emprirical materials, often observed in other parts of the world. The masses of data were handled by several women, working as computing assistants. Charlier also studied large-scale cosmological models. He argued that the universe was infinite. In two papers published in 1908 and 1922 he showed that if matter was distributed in the universe in a certain way, the problem of Olber's paradox was solved. The paradox states that if the universe is infinite and matter on the whole is distributed evenly throughout space, then the line of sight would in every direction reach a star, and hence the sky would be lit up like the sun in every direction. Charlier argued that the paradox was resolved by postulating a certain distribution of matter he called the convergence criterion of the universe.

77. Astronomy: Encyclopedia II - Astronomy - History Of Astronomy
    In early times, astronomy only comprised the observation and predictions of the motions of the nakedeye objects. Aristotle said that the Earth was the center of the Universe  
    http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Astronomy_-_History_of_astronomy/id/611952

78. ATLAS CELESTE - Home Page
    A rare celestial atlas discovered in the library of the Manchester Astronomical Society.  
    http://www.mikeoates.org/mas/bevis/home.htm
    
    Extractions: discovered at the Manchester Astronomical Society. The Manchester Astronomical Society have discovered that a star atlas that has been in their library since before the Second World War is one of only sixteen copies known to exist. This extremely rare atlas was compiled by John Bevis, an eighteenth century physician - turned astronomer, whose other claim to fame is as the discoverer of the Crab Nebula, the wreck of a star that became a supernova in the year 1054 and which is now regarded as a key object of interest with modern astronomers; in the UK particularly with radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank. An up-to date list of all known Bevis Atlase s, from the Journal for the History of Astronomy article by Kilburn, Pasachoff, and Gingerich, is available as a PDF file.. For more information see the links below.

79. The Manchester Astronomical Society: History
    The first hundred years, list of presidents, list of archived documents.  
    http://www.mikeoates.org/mas/history.htm
    
    Extractions: Syllabus 1978 - 1979 A History (The First Hundred Years) List of Presidents of the Manchester Astronomical Society. Past Events and Syllabus Archive List of documents held at the Manchester Central Library On 27th June 1996 members celebrated 50 years at the Godlee Observatory John H Hindle a short biography by Kevin Kilburn Other sites: The History of Astronomy A web site devoted to information not available else where. Also visit The Society For The History Of Astronomy Back to the M.A.S. Home Page

80. Russell A. Hulse - Nobel Lecture
    The discovery of the binary pulsar.  
    http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1993/hulse-lecture.html
    
    Extractions: Home FAQ Press Contact Us ... Nobel Prize in Physics Russell A. Hulse - Nobel Lecture Sort and list Nobel Prizes and Nobel Laureates Create a List All Nobel Prizes Nobel Prize Awarded Organizations Women Nobel Laureates Nobel Laureates and Universities Prize category: Physics Chemistry Medicine Literature Peace Economics Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1993 The Lecture in Text Format

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