History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What was new at this site, November 6, 2002 - September 18, 2003

Some URLs have been updated.

Welcome / About

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

History of astronomy

Persons

• A
  • Abiosi [Abbiosi], Giovanni Battista [Jean-Baptiste] (fl. 1494-1498)
    • Libraries entries (Search in KVK)
    • Find more about Abiosi with Google
    • Find more about Abiosi with Alta Vista
  • Al-Baghdadi, Abu Mansur ibn Tahir (c.980-1037)
    • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Al-Khalili, Shams al-Din Abu Abdallah (c.1320-c.1380)
    • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • al-Maghribi, Muhyi l'din (c.1220-c.1283)
    • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• B
  • Brahe, Tycho [Brahe, Tyge; Brahe, Tycho de] (1546-1601)
    • Tynsky chram, kde je pohrben Tycho Brahe - Tyn - the church in which Tycho Brahe is buried, Prague
    • Pomnik Tychona Brahe a Johanna Keplera - Memorial of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, Prague
• C
  • Carathéodory, Constantin (1873-1950)
    • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
    • Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• G
  • Guldin, Paul (1577-1643)
    • Biographical data and references (Cat. Scient. Comm.)
    • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
    • Short biography and references (Jesuit Scientists)
    • Find more about Guldin with Google
• H
  • Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695)
    • Christiaan Huygens Web
      Biography, references and links
• J
  • Jabir ibn Aflah [Gabir ben Aflah; Geber Hispalensis], al-Ishbili Abu Muhammad (c.1100-c.1160)
    • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• K
  • Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)
    • Kepler-Gesellschaft e.V. (in German)
    • Auf den Spuren J. Keplers in Graz (in German)
    • Porträt des Johannes Kepler in der Sternwarte Kremsmünster (in German)
    • Keplerhaus and other Kepler places, Linz (in German)
    • Griffith Observatory - Astronomers Monument - Kepler, Los Angeles
    • Kloster Maulbronn: Kepler, Hölderlin und Hesse lernten in Maulbronn (in German)
    • Kepleruv dum - Kepler's house, Prague
    • Pomnik Tychona Brahe a Johanna Keplera - Memorial of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, Prague
    • Kepler in Regensburg (in German)
    • Keplerwohnhaus, Regensburg (in German)
    • Keplerdenkmal, Regensburg (in German)
    • Solar Stairs: Homage to Kepler
      The Levi and Fortuna Eskenazi Sculpture Garden, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
    • Kepler w Zaganiu 1628-1630 (in Polish)
      Kepler in Sagan (now Zagan, Poland)
    • Memorial plaque for Kepler in Zagan (Sagan), Poland (in Polish)
    • Memorial plaque for Kepler at the Kepler High School, Zagan (Sagan), Poland (in Polish)
    • Kepler-Museum, Weil der Stadt, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes-Kepler-Sternwarte am Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland (in German)
    • Kepler-Oberschule, Berlin, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Chemnitz, Germany (in German)
    • Kepler-Gymnasium Freiburg, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Hainburg, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Heddesheim, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Lübeck, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Magstadt, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Mannheim, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Viersen-Süchteln, Germany (in German)
    • Publiczne Gimnazjum Nr 2 im. Jana Keplera, Zagan (Sagan), Poland (in Polish)
      Johannes Kepler High School
    • Kepler-Apotheke, Weil der Stadt, Germany (in German)
    • Johannes Kepler Heim, Linz, Austria (in German)
    • Inne strony o Janie Keplerze (comments in Polish)
    • Find more about Kepler with Google
• N
  • Noether, Max (1844-1921)
    • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
    • Short biographies, references and links
  • Newton, Isaac (1643-1727)
    • Isaac Newton and Astrology, by Robert H. van Gent
• T
  • Tannery, Paul (1843-1904)
    • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
    • Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, 1893
      Online edition (scanned)
    • Links (Geometry.Net)
• Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)

Museums, memorials, historical places and exhibits

• Zeugnisse über Mathematiker - Monuments on mathematicians
• British Isles
  • Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles
    "information about where mathematicians were born, lived, worked, died, or are buried or commemorated"
• Graz, Austria
  • Auf den Spuren J. Keplers in Graz (in German)
• Linz, Austria
  • Keplerhaus and other Kepler places (in German)
• Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Astronomers Monument
• Prague, Czech Republic
  • Prochazka astronomickou Prahou - Virtual walk in astronomical Prague, by Petr Hadrava
• Regensburg, Germany
  • Keplerwohnhaus (in German)
  • Keplerdenkmal (in German)
• Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • Solar Stairs: Homage to Kepler
    The Levi and Fortuna Eskenazi Sculpture Garden, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv University
• Weil der Stadt, Germany
  • Kepler-Museum (in German)
  • Keplerdenkmal (in German)
• Zagan [Sagan], Poland
  • Memorial plaque for Kepler in Zagan (Sagan), Poland (in Polish)
  • Memorial plaque for Kepler at the Kepler High School (in Polish)

Publications

• Books
  • Tannery, Paul: Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, 1893
    Scanned version

Other sources of information

• Historia Coelestis
  Discussion group and resource for all those with an interest in the history of astronomy.

Societies

• Kepler-Gesellschaft e.V. (in German)
• Society for the History of Astronomy

IAU Commission 41 (History of Astronomy)

• Meetings (updated)
  • IAU GA 2003: The C41/ICHA History of Astronomy Program
  • Past Meetings

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Meetings (updated)
• Publications (updated)
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Elektronische Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte
      Nr. 63, 14. Juni 2003
    • Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
      Number 51, June 15, 2003
  • Acta Historica Astronomiae (updated)

Wolfgang R. Dick