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

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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

HOME Astronomy History Science 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

This web page holds archived material from the Biennial History of Astronomy Workshops held at the University of Notre Dame. It is complete up through NDVII; some material, such as pictures, from more recent workshops can also be found here. Materials related to the more recent workshops, as well as the upcoming workshop, can be found at the new History of Astronomy Workshop web page 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 In this section, you'll find pictures from past workshops.

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

Read This! The MAA Online book review column The Babylonian Theory of the Planets by N. M. Swerdlow Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton 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/

Technoscience News About DAHAP DAHAP: Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy Pictures A collection of pictures from the history of astronomy. 35 pictures are currently available. Choose from the following categories: Solar system Stellar astronomy Telescopes and other instruments Observatories ... Comments? Add them here

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

The History of Women in Astronomy This image history was produced by the The Astronomical Society of the Pacific . The text was written by Sally Stephens. Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) Maria Mitchell circa (1878) Women Computers (circa 1912) Annie J. Cannon (1863-1941) ... Sidney Wolff Back to the Women In Astronomy Homepage

68. INSAP3 Excerpts and commentary with reproductions of some of Elihu Vedder s illustrations. http://www.minaret.org/INSAP3.htm

ASTRONOMICAL REFERENCES IMAD-AD-DEAN AHMAD Minaret of Freedom Institute 4323 Rosedale Avenue Bethesda, MD 20814 USA Delivered to the Third International Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Mondell, Sicily, January, 2001 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

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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

Science Tribune - Article - December 1998 http://www.tribunes.com/tribune/art98/bros.htm Understanding tidal friction: A history of science in a nutshell Peter Brosche Observatorium Hoher List, Institute of Astronomy, University of Bonn, Daun, Germany E-mail : pbrosche@astro.uni-bonn.de Summary 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. Today, the precise mechanism of energy dissipation is still an open question and, despite a better knowledge of time-scales and sophisticated mathematical modelling techniques, ocean tides are still not known with the desired accuracy.

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

Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1 Little Green Men, White Dwarfs or Pulsars? By S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell "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

HOME Astronomy History Science 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

Astronomy History Archaeoastronomy Astronomy Biography Astronomy Classics General Astronomy History ... Eric W. Weisstein 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

UPPSALA NEWSLETTER: HISTORY OF SCIENCE nr 26 (1997) Astronomy in Sweden 1860-1940 by Gustav Holmberg 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

middle - Michael Oates, left - Anthony W Cross, right - Kevin J Kilburn ATLAS CELESTE John Bevis' proposed 'Uranographia Britannica' An extremely rare atlas compiled by John Bevis, in the eighteenth century, 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

The Manchester Astronomical Society History Presidential Lecture by M. Duckworth, F.R.A.S., 17th Oct 1974, published in Oct. 1978 as a history of the Manchester Astronomical Society., 1903 - 1978 . (75 years). Additions to the MAS history 1903 - 1978 by K. Brierley. Programme and ticket for the 75th Anniversary Meeting. 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 Maintained by Michael Oates Page modified 18 January, 2005

80. Russell A. Hulse - Nobel Lecture The discovery of the binary pulsar. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1993/hulse-lecture.html

Home FAQ Press Contact Us ... Nobel Prize in Physics Russell A. Hulse - Nobel Lecture About the Nobel Prizes Facts and Lists Nobel Prize in Physics All Nobel Prizes in Physics ... Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies 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 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993 Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993 Summary Press Release Illustrated Information ... Other Resources Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1993 The Discovery of the Binary Pulsar The Lecture in Text Format Pdf 1.19 MB From Nobel Lectures , Physics 1991-1995 , Editor Gösta Ekspong, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997 In order to read the text you need Acrobat Reader TO CITE THIS PAGE: MLA style: "Russell A. Hulse - Nobel Lecture". Nobelprize.org. 31 Oct 2010 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1993/hulse-lecture.html About Nobelprize.org

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