History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on April 17, 2000

Some URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

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

History of astronomy

Persons

• D
  • Doppelmayr, Johan Gabriel (1671-1750)
    • The Atlas Coelestis (1742) of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, by Robert H. van Gent
• H
  • Habash al-Hasib (?-c.870)
    • Very short biography
  • Hadley, John (1682-1744)
    • Very short biography
  • Hagen, Johann Georg (1847-1930)
    • Very short biography
  • Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938)
    • Short biography
  • Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)
    • Short biography and references
  • Hamilton, William Rowan (1805-1865)
    • Short biography and reference
  • Harriot, Thomas (c.1560-1621)
    • Very short biography and references
  • Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831)
    • Short biography and references
  • Heracleitus [Heraclitus] of Ephesus (c. 540 BC - c. 475 BC)
    • Very short biography and references
  • Herschel, Caroline [Karoline] Lucretia (1750-1848)
    • Very short biography and reference
  • Herschel, John Frederick William (1792-1871)
    • Short biography and references
  • Herschel, William [Friedrich Wilhelm; Frederick William] (1738-1822)
    • Short biography and references
  • Hertzsprung, Ejnar (1873-1967)
    • Very short biography
  • Hess, Victor Franz (1883-1964)
    • Very short biography
  • Hevelius [Hevel; Hewel; Hewelcke], Johannes [Jan] (1611-1687)
    • Very short biography
  • Hipparchus [Hipparchos; Hipparch] of Rhodes [of Nicaea; von Nikäa] (c. 190 BC - c. 120 BC)
    • Very short biography
  • Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
    • Very short biography and references
  • Horrocks, Jeremiah (1619[1618?]-1641)
    • Very short biography
  • Hough, George Washington (1836-1909)
    • Very short biography
  • Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889-1953)
    • Short biography
  • Huggins, William (1824-1910)
    • Very short biography
  • Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)
    • Short biography and references
  • Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695)
    • Very short biography and references

Items

• Arts, Poetry and Fiction
  • Ceramic Comets, by Robert H. van Gent
    About cometary depictions on porcelain.
  • The "Dutchman'a Log" or the Seaman's Tobacco Box of Pieter Holm, by Robert H. van Gent
    These tobacco boxes feature a perpetual calendar on the lid and a ship's speed table on the bottom.
• Calendars, Time and Chronology
  Gregorian and Julian Easter Sunday Coincidences
• Constellations, Maps and Atlases
  • The Atlas Coelestis (1742) of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, by Robert H. van Gent
  • Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web
• Solar System
  • Unknown Dutch Print with a Lunar Map, by Robert H. van Gent
  • Ceramic Comets, by Robert H. van Gent
    About cometary depictions on porcelain.

Meetings

• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2000 (updated)
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2001 (updated)

Historians of astronomy

• Martins, Roberto de Andrade
  Including a list of publications

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
      Number 40, April 17, 2000

Wolfgang R. Dick