*************************************************************************** * * * ELEKTRONISCHE MITTEILUNGEN ZUR ASTRONOMIEGESCHICHTE * * * * Herausgegeben vom Arbeitskreis Astronomiegeschichte * * in der Astronomischen Gesellschaft * * * * Nr. 27, 3. Maerz 1998 * * * * Redaktion: Dr. Wolfgang R. Dick * * * *************************************************************************** Inhalt ------ 1. XVII International Scientific Instrument Symposium 2. Book Review: Thalheim, Klaus: Katalog der Meteoriten am Staatlichen Museum fuer Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden (Wolfgang Czegka) 3. Neue Buecher Impressum ........................................................................... Item 1 EMA Nr. 27, 3. Maerz 1998 ........................................................................... XVII International Scientific Instrument Symposium -------------------------------------------------- 20-25th July 1998, Soro, Denmark Conference announcement and call for papers (Aus: Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy, No. 25, January 28, 1998, Item 4) The Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC) will visit Scandinavia for the first time in 1998 when it holds its XVII International Scientific Instrument Symposium in Denmark. The Conference will be held at Soro Academy. Soro Academy houses Hauchs Physiske Cabinet, one of Europe's largest cabinets of physics and chemistry from about 1800. The conference will include three full days of papers, a full-day museum trip to Copenhagen, a post-conference tour to the Steno Museum in Aarhus, besides social activities. Participation by and contributions from persons who have not previously attended the meetings of the Commission are welcome and encouraged. Call for papers and posters: The Commission and the Local Organising Committee strongly encourage suggestions for papers and posters for the Conference. There will be two main themes for the Conference: 1. Cabinets of Physics and Chemistry, 2. Instruments- and Instrument Makers in Scandinavia. Although these themes will be given priority, we also welcome papers in other areas. The language of the conference is English, although papers in other languages may be accepted. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their paper, and there will be an additional 5 minutes for questions. There will be provisions for posters next to the conference room and recreational area. The titles and abstracts of papers and posters should be sent to the conference Office. They will be considered by the Academic programme Committee after the closing of the deadline. The deadline for submission of titles and abstracts is April 1st 1998. Please contact the Conference Office if you have any queries. The Scientific Instrument Commission The SIC is a commission under the Division of History, of the International Union of History and Philosophy, of Science, which is an organisation affiliated to UNESCO. The SIC seeks to promote interest and encourage research in the history of scientific instruments. President: Dr. Jim Bennett, Keeper, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Vice-president: Dr. Paolo Brenni, CNR - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze. Secretary: Dr. Peter de Clercq, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden The Local organising Committee: Chairman: Jan Tapdrup, History of Science Dept., Univ. of Aarhus/Magdalen College, Oxford. General Secretary: Jorgen From Andersen, Soro Academy. Secretary: Hanne Wagner, Soro Academy. Committee members: Mogens Bencard, Director, Rosenborg; Dr. Kristian Peder Moesgaard, Director, the Steno Museum; Professor Helge Kragh, History of Science Dept. Univ of Aarhus; Jon Villadsen, Soro Academy. Academic Programme Committee: Chairman: Professor G.L'E. Turner, Imperial College, London. Vice-chairman: Dr. Jim Bennett, Keeper, Museum of History of Science, Oxford. Secretary: Jan Tapdrup, History of Science Dept., University of Aarhus/Magdalen College, Oxford. Further information: Please write to the conference office for the first circular. Further information is also avaliable on the web-page for the conference. http://www.sic.iuhps.org/symposium98/ Deadlines: The second circular for the conference will be sent out in February 1998. The deadline for registration will be April 1st 1998. Registration after this date will be subject to a surcharge. Registration by letters received later than 20th June 1998 is unfortunately not possible due to booking of accommodation and staff considerations. The deadline for offering papers and posters is April 1st 1998 Conference Office: Please send any queries or letters to the conference office: XVII International Scientific Instrument Symposium, Soro Academy, Postbox. 37, DK-4180 Soro, Denmark Phone: +45 5782 0135 E-mail: ievhjan@dfi.aau.dk Fax: +45 5782 0136 ........................................................................... Item 2 EMA Nr. 27, 3. Maerz 1998 ........................................................................... Book Review ----------- Thalheim, Klaus: Katalog der Meteoriten am Staatlichen Museum fuer Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden. Dresden: Staatliches Museum fuer Mineralogie und Geologie, 1997. 92 S., zahlr. farb. Abb., ISBN 3-91006-17-5, Broschur 49,- DM (Schriften des Staatlichen Museums fuer Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden; 7) The catalogue is divided in two parts. The first part contains a history of the Dresden meteorite collection from 1581 to 1997. In 44 pages Thalheim gives a survey on the historical development of the collection. Some repros with details of important older catalogues or handwritten meteorite-lists are added. The second part presents in 43 pages the details of every meteorite of the Dresden museum collection in an unusual form. Every data set is illustrated by a high-quality colour print. The collection includes unique samples like the Nenntmansdorf Iron. A detailed index and a list of references are added. Except of some misprints (in 1791 even Chladni didn't know anything about meteorites; misprint for 1797? see page 8) the book is a recommendable high quality product. Unfortunately, the reader will miss some detailed information on the lusatian tektites from Saxony, which could have been added thematically also to the catalogue. Wolfgang Czegka, Potsdam For more detailed information contact: Staatliches Museum fuer Mineralogie und Geologie Augustusstr. 2 D-01067 Dresden Germany Phone: +49-351-4952446 Fax: +49-351-4952468 e-mail: mmg@sik.de URL: http://hpkom21.geo.uni-leipzig.de/~mmg/ ........................................................................... Item 3 EMA Nr. 27, 3. Maerz 1998 ........................................................................... Neue Buecher ------------ Academy Building. The heart of Leiden University. Leiden: Leiden University, Press and Information Services, 1996. Pp. 16, NLG 5.00 [A short history of and guide through the Academy Building, now the main building of Leiden University, and the small University Museum inside. The use of the building as an observatory in the 17th century is shortly described. Distribution: Press and Information Services, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9500, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.] Baum, Richard; Sheehan, William: In search of planet Vulcan. The ghost in Newton's clockwork universe. New York: Plenum Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 310, 21.5 x 15 cm, ISBN 0-306-45567-6, $ 28.95 (hb) Rezension: P.Moore: J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 117 (1997) 4, 222 Rezension: E.A.Whitaker: Sky & Telescope 94 (1997) 4, 68-70 Rezension: P.Moore: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1141, 382-383 Chown, Marcus: Afterglow of creation: From the fireball to the discovery of cosmic ripples. Mill Valley, CA: University Science Books, 1996. Pp. xii, 222, 16.5 x 24 cm, ISBN 0-935702-40-7, $ 28.50, GBP 19.95 (hb) [Popular account of the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation and thirty years of progress in the field. The book begins with the 1920s and culminates with the flight of the COBE satellite.] Rezension: D.M.F.Chapman: J. Roy. Astr. Soc. Can. 91 (1997) 3, 141-142 Cornelius, Geoffrey: Was Sternbilder erzaehlen. Die Mythologie der Sterne. Stuttgart: Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, 1997. 176 S., 88 Abb., 16 x 23,5 cm, ISBN 3-440-07495-1, Br DM 29,80 Datnow, Claire L.: Edwin Hubble : Discovering of Galaxies. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishing, 1997. Pp. 128, illus., ISBN 0894909347, $ 18.95 (hb) (Great minds of science) [Juvenile book. Chronology: p. 113-115. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125) and index.] Diacu, F.; Holmes, P.: Celestial encounters. The origins of chaos and stability. Princeton (New Jersey, USA): Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 233, ISBN 0-691-02743-9, US$ 24.95 [Account of celestial mehanics, ranging from the birth of chaos theory to the latest work on the stability of the solar system. The book is leavened by anecdotes about the pioneering scientists and their discoveries.] Dimitrijevic, Milan S.; Milogradov-Turin, Jelena; Popovic, Luka C. (Eds.): Razvoj astronomije kod srba. Developments of astronomy among Serbs. Beograd (Belgrade): Astronomical Observatory, 1997. Pp. 276 (Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, No. 56) [Proceedings of a conference, Belgrade, 7-9 April 1997. In Serbian, abstracts in English.] Edmondson, Frank K.: AURA and its US National Observatories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 367, 25 x 18 cm, ISBN 0-521-55345-8, GBP 65, $ 80 (hb) Rezension: D.Stickland: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1140, 322-323 Eisfeld, Rainer: Mondsuechtig. Wernher von Braun und die Geburt der Raumfahrt aus dem Geist der Barbarei. Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 1996. 288 S., 24 Tafeln, ISBN 3-498-01660-1, Geb DM 42.00 Emter, Elisabeth: Literatur und Quantentheorie. Die Rezeption der modernen Physik in Schriften zur Literatur und Philosophie deutschsprachiger Autoren (1925-1970). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995. X, 358 S., ISBN 3-11-014873-0, Geb DM 168.00 (Quellen und Forschungen zur Literaturgeschichte und Kulturgeschichte, Bd. 2) [Zeigt u.a., wieviel Friedrich Duerrenmatts Literatur den philosophischen Studien von Arthur Eddington verdankt.] Rezension: M.Springer: Spektrum der Wissenschaft (1997) 7, 116-117 Fischer, Ernst Peter: Aristoteles, Einstein & Co. Eine kleine Geschichte der Wissenschaft in Portraets. Muenchen, Zuerich: R. Piper, 1995. 448 S.; 2., durchges. Aufl. 1996. 442 S., Abb., ISBN 3-492-03778-X, Geb DM 42.00 [Inhalt: Aristoteles, Almagest und Alchemie, Alhazen und Avicenna, Albertus Magnus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Antoine Lavoisier, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell, Hermann von Helmholtz, Gregor Mendel, Ludwig Boltzmann, Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Linus Pauling, John von Neumann, Max Delbrueck, Richard P. Feynman.] Rezension: T.Rubitzko: Spektrum der Wissenschaft (1997) 6, 141 Fischer, Ernst Peter: Aristoteles & Co. Eine kleine Geschichte der Wissenschaft in Portraets von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Muenchen: R. Piper, 1996. 235 S., 12 Abb., ISBN 3-492-22326-5, Kt DM 16.90 (Serie Piper, Bd. 2326) Fischer, Ernst Peter: Einstein & Co. Eine kleine Geschichte der Wissenschaft der letzten hundert Jahre in Portraets. Muenchen: R. Piper, 1997. 229 S., ISBN 3-492-22491-1, Kt DM 16.90 (Serie Piper, Bd. 2491) Fischer, Ernst Peter: Einstein. Ein Genie und sein ueberfordertes Publikum. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996. XIV, 243 S., 44 Abb., ISBN 3-540-61112-6, Br DM 36.00 Rezension: I.Derado: Phys. Bl. 53 (1997) 9, 907 Fox, Mary Virginia: Edwin Hubble: American Astronomer. New York: Franklin Watts, 1997. Pp. 112, ISBN 053111371X, $ 21.50 (hb) (Book Report Biographies) [Juvenile book. Includes bibliographical references and index.] Godwin, Francis: The Man in the Moon. With a modern introduction by Andy Johnson and Ron Shoesmith. Woonton Almeley, Herefordshire: Logaston Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 70 + 8 plates, 22 x 14 cm, ISBN 1-873-82764-4, GBP 8.95 (hb) [Francis Godwin (1562-1633) was Bishop of Hereford. He described the idea of a journey to the Moon, with surprising understanding of gravity. Distribution: Post free from Logaston Press, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herefordshire HR3 6QH, Great Britain.] Rezension: R.F.Griffin: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1138, 155-156 Rezension: J.H.Rogers: J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 107 (1997) 1, 42 Grundmann, S.: Einsteins Akte. Einsteins Jahre in Deutschland aus der Sicht der deutschen Politik. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1997. XIV, 550 S., 70 Abb., ISBN 3-540-63197-6, Geb DM 48.00 [Mit erstmals veroeffentlichten Zeitdokumenten und bisher unbekannten Einstein-Dokumenten.] Haas, M.R.; Davidson, J.A.; Erickson, E.F. (Ed.): From gas to stars to dust. Proceedings. Airborne Astronomy Symposium on the Galactic Ecosystem: From gas to stars to dust, Moffett Field, CA (USA), 5-8 July 1994. San Francisco, Ca.: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1995. Pp. xxxii, 737, ISBN 0-937707-92-9, US$ 38.00 (Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Vol. 73) [From the contents: 8. KAO history and education] Hetherington, Norriss S.: Hubble's cosmology: A guided study of selected texts. Tucson: Pachart Publishing House, 1996. Pp. xx, 218, ISBN 0-88126-287-0, $ 67.00 (pb) (Pachart History of Astronomy Series, v. 11) [Eight of Hubble's papers, reprinted in facsimile, with extensive commentary and annotations.] Isaac Newton and Woolsthorpe Manor. London: The National Trust, 1997. Pp. 30, GBP 1.95 Kafatos, Menas; Kondo, Yoji (Eds.): Examining the Big Bang and diffuse background radiations. Proceedings of the 168th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in The Hague, The Netherlands, August 23-26, 1994. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. Pp. xi, 586, ISBN 0-7923-3815-4, Dfl. 320.00 (International Astronomical Union, Symposium, No. 168) [Contains also: Virginia Trimble: Background and Big Bang: Some extracts from their history] Kaminski, Heinz: Sternenstrassen der Vorzeit. Von Stonehenge nach Atlantis. Muenchen: Bettendorf, 1995. 356 S., ISBN 3-88498-092-0, Geb DM 39.80 [Mit Vorsicht zu gebrauchen.] Rezension: W.Schlosser: Astron. Raumfahrt 33 (1996) 35 (5/96), 45 Kepler, Johannes: Gesammelte Werke, Band 15. Briefe, Band III: 1604-1607. Herausgegeben von der Kepler-Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2., unveraenderte Aufl. Muenchen: Verlag C.H.Beck, 1995. 563 S., ISBN 3-406-01667-7, Br DM 168.00 Klare, Gerhard (Ed.): Abstracts of contributed talks and posters presented at the scientific fall meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft at Bochum, September 27-October 1, 1993. Hamburg: Astronomische Gesellschaft, 1993. Pp. 212, illus. (Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, No. 9) [Contains also abstracts from the meeting of the Working Group for the History of Astronomy.] Kowal, C.T.: Asteroids. Their nature and utilization. 2nd edition Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1996. Pp. xvii, 153, 24.5 x 17 cm, ISBN 0-471-96039-X, GBP 30.00 (hb) [Includes a chapter on history.] Rezension: D.W.Hughes: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1138, 164 Rezension: A.J.Hollis: J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 107 (1997) 3, 149 Kragh, H.: Cosmology and controversy. The historical development of two theories of the universe. Princeton (New Jersey, USA): Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 500, ISBN 0-691-02623-8, US$ 35.00 Moore, Patrick: Eyes on the Universe. The story of the telescope. London: Springer-Verlag, 1997. Pp. viii, 114, ISBN 3-540-76164-0, GBP 9.95 (pb) Rezension: H.McGee: J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 117 (1997) 4, 221 Paturi, Felix R.: Harenberg Schluesseldaten Astronomie. Von den Sonnenuhren der Babylonier bis zu den Raumsonden im 21. Jahrhundert. Dortmund: Harenberg Lexikon Verlag, 1996. 616 S., zahlr. meist farb. Abb., ISBN 3-611-00537-1, Geb DM 68.00 [Chronologische Geschichte der Astronomie, ergaenzt durch thematische Tabellen. S. 585-595: Bedeutende Astronomen. Enthaelt Personen- und Sachregister. Enthaelt keine Quellenangaben und Literaturhinweise.] Ramsay, John T.; Licht, A. Lewis: The comet of 44 BC and Caesar's funeral games. Atlanta (Georgia, USA): Scholar's Press, 1996. Pp. 236, ISBN 0-7885-0274-3, $ 17.95 (pb) Rezension: D.W.Hughes: Astronomy and Geophysics 38 (1997) 3, 32-33 Rosen, Dennis; Rosen, Sylvia: London science. Museums, libraries, and places of scientific, technological & medical interest. London: Prion (Multimedia Books), 1994. Pp. 224, numerous illus., most in colour, ISBN 1-85375-140-5, GBP 9.99 (hb) [Describes museums, teaching centres, learned societies, libraries, laboratories, works of art, monuments, memorial plaques, graves, instrument and book dealers. The emphasis is on history of science rather than modern science. Includes many places of interest for historians of astronomy.] Schultz, Uwe (Hrsg.): Scheibe, Kugel, Schwarzes Loch. Die wissenschaftliche Eroberung des Kosmos. Frankfurt a.M., Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1996. 360 S., zahlr. Abb., ISBN 3-458-33504-8, Kt DM 19.80 (Insel-Taschenbuecher, Nr. 1804) [Taschenbuchausgabe. Erschien erstmals 1990. Populaerwissenschaftliche Aufsaetze zur Astronomie und ihrer Geschichte, mit Beitraegen von W.Schlosser, W.Saltzer, F.Krafft, P.Kunitzsch, D.King, H.M.Nobis, M.Schramm, F.Schmeidler, G.D.Roth, D.B.Herrmann, A.Wittmann, H.-H.Voigt, R.Kippenhahn u.a.] Sobel, Dava: Laengengrad. Die wahre Geschichte eines einsamen Genies, welches das groesste wissenschaftliche Problem seiner Zeit loeste. Berlin: Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, 1996. 239 S., ISBN 3-8270-0214-1, Geb DM 36.00 [Uebersetzung von: Longitude (1995); ueber John Harrison (1693-1776) und das Problem der Laengenbestimmung auf See.] Spitzer Jr., Lyman; Ostriker, Jeremiah P. (Eds.): Dreams, stars, and electrons. Selected writings of Lyman Spitzer, Jr.. Princeton (New Jersey, USA): Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. 536, 23.5 x 15 cm, ISBN 0-691-03702-7, $ 99.50 (hb) Rezension: P.W.J.L.Brand: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1141, 377 Springford, M. (Ed.): Electron. A centenary volume. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 330, 25 x 18 cm, ISBN 0-521-56130-2, GBP 37.50 (hb) [First chapter: details of J. J. Thomson's experiments. Next chapters: different aspects of the electron, tracing their development during this century (among these: the electron in the cosmos).] Rezension: E.A.Davis: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1141, 384 Stephenson, F. Richard: Historical eclipses and the Earth's rotation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 557, ISBN 0-521-46194-4, GBP 95.00 (hb) Rezension: J.E.Jones: J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 117 (1997) 4, 220 van Helden, Anne C.; van Gent, Rob H.: The Huygens Collection. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 1995. Pp. V, 32, ISBN 90-6292-107-8, NLG 10.00 (pb) (Communication / Museum Boerhave, 264) [Uebersetzung von: De Huygenscollectie. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 1995. (Mededeling / Museum Boerhave, 262)] Westfall, Richard S.: Isaac Newton - Eine Biographie. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 1996. 330 S., zahlreiche Abb., ISBN 3-8274-0040-6, geb. DM 58.00 Rezension: D.Hoffmann: Physik in unserer Zeit 28 (1997) 2, XIV Willis, Allan J.; Hartquist, Thomas W. (Eds.): Astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. A Festschrift for Professor Sir Robert Wilson. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. Pp. 399, 24.5 x 16 m, ISBN 0-792-34151-1, GBP 99, $ 156 (hb) [Originally published as Astrophysics and Space Science Vol. 237 (1996), No. 1-2.] Rezension: R.J.Tayler: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1137, 115 Wilson, Raymond N.: Reflecting telecope optics I. Basic design theory and its historical development. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996. Pp. xiv, 573, 214 figs., 24 x 16 cm, ISBN 3-540-58964-3, DM 128.00 (hb) (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) Rezension: J.Solf: Sterne Weltraum 35 (1996) 12, 980 Rezension: C.F.W.Harmer: The Observatory 117 (1997) 1138, 173 Rezension: [Anonymous:] Messenger (1997) 90, 35 Wright, Helen: Sweeper in the sky: The life of Maria Mitchell. Clinton Corners, NY: College Avenue Press, 1997. Pp. 270, ISBN 1-883551-70-6, $ 24.95 [First published in 1949. Unabridged text of the first edition, with new preface, epilogue, and numerous photographs.] ........................................................................... Impressum --------- Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte (EMA) Herausgegeben vom Arbeitskreis Astronomiegeschichte in der Astronomischen Gesellschaft Redaktion: Dr. Wolfgang R. Dick Alle nicht namentlich gekennzeichneten Mitteilungen sind redaktionelle Beitraege. Aufsaetze sowie Mitteilungen fuer die Rubriken werden gern entgegengenommen. Der Bezug der EMA ist kostenlos. Abonnenten und Leser werden um gelegentliche freiwillige Spenden an den Arbeitskreis gebeten. Die Elektronischen Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte duerfen unbegrenzt weiterverbreitet werden, sofern dafuer keine Gebuehr erhoben wird. Ein oeffentliches Abgebot in WWW-Servern, BBS etc. ist gestattet, sofern die Redaktion informiert wird. 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