History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What was new at this site, 26 June - 23 August 2002

Some URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

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

History of astronomy

Observatories and other places

• Korea,
  • History of Astronomy in Korea
  • World Beat : Astronomy in Bloom, by Tae Seog Yoon, Wonyong Han, and Myung Gyoon Lee
    A history of astronomy in Korea. From Mercury, May/June 1999.
  • Korean History: A Bibliography: Scientific Matters: Astronomy

Persons

• B
  • Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter (1893-1960)
    • Short biography and references (in German)
• G
  • Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
    • Galileo's Grave in Santa Croce Church, Florence, Italy
• T
  • Tempel, Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht (1821-1889)
    • Biography, reference and links, by Lutz Clausnitzer
    • Biography and references
      From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
    • Short biography, by Don Yeomans
    • Short biography and links, by Hartmut Frommert and Christine Kronberg
    • Very short biographical data, by Yann Pothier
    • Comet 9P/Tempel 1
    • Comet 9P/Tempel 1
    • Comet 10P/Tempel 2
    • Comet 11P/Tempel-Swift
    • Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
    • Find more about with Alta Vista
    • Find more about Tempel with Google
• Z
  • Zach, Franz Xaver von (1754-1832)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
    • Short biography (in German)
    • Very short biographical data and links (in French)
    • Membership in Russian Academy of Sciences
    • Find more about F. X. v. Zach with Google

Publications

• General questions and bibliographies
  • Korean History: A Bibliography: Scientific Matters: Astronomy

Meetings

• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2001 (updated)
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2002 (updated)
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 2003 (updated)
• Past history of astronomy meetings (updated)

Unsorted and roughly sorted links

• Unsorted links (12)

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Meetings (updated)
  • Geschichte und Perspektiven der Astronomiegeschichtsschreibung (updated)
    Berlin, 27.-28. September 2002.
• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte
      Nr. 60, 17. August 2002

Wolfgang R. Dick