History of Astronomy : What's new

History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on March 8, 1999

Several URLs have been updated.

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• Site map (complete Table of Contents)
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• Acknowledgements
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History of astronomy

Persons

• A
  • Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi (1070-1136)
    • Short biography and references
  • Adams, John Frank (1930-1989)
    • Short biography and references
  • Ardenne, Manfred von (1907-1997)
    Physicist, amateur astronomer
    • Very short biography
    • Short biography (in German)
    • Biographical data (in German)
    • Sternwarte "Manfred von Ardenne", Dresden, Germany (in German)
    • Manfred-von-Ardenne Gymnasium, Riesa-Weida, Germany (in German)
    • Find more about Ardenne with Alta Vista
  • Artin, Emil (1898-1962)
    • Short biography and references
  • Aryabhata the Elder (476-550(499?))
    • Short biography and references
    • Short biography
• B
  • Barocius [Barozzi], Franciscus [Francesco] (1537-1604)
    • Short biography and references
  • Benedetti, Giovanni Battista (1530-1590)
    • Short biography and references
  • Billy, Jacques de (1602-1679)
    • Short biography and references
  • Bliss, Gilbert Ames (1876-1951)
    • Short biography and references
  • Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962)
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
      Including a short biography
  • Bourgainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811)
    • Short biography and references
  • Bruno, Giordano
    • Short biography
    • Britannica Online entries
    • Very short biography
    • The Folly of Giordano Bruno, by Richard W. Pogge
    • Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher, by John J. Kessler
    • Bibliographies
    • Bruno Award
• C
  • Chapman, Sydney (1888-1970)
    • Short biography and references
  • Chrysippus (280 BC - 206 BC)
    • Short biography
  • Conon of Samos (c. 280 BC - c. 220 BC)
    • Short biography and references
• D
  • Debeaune [de Beaune], Florimond (1601-1652)
    • Short biography and references
  • Dechales, Claude Francois Milliet (1621-1678)
    • Short biography and references
  • Dee, John (1527-1608)
    • Short biography and references
  • Diophantus of Alexandria [Diophantos von Alexandrien] (c. 200 - c. 284)
    • Short biography
  • Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie (1861-1916)
    • Short biography and references
• E
  • Ezra, Abraham ben Meir ibn (1092-1167)
    • Short biography and references
• F
  • Fraenkel, Adolf Abraham Halevi (1891-1965)
    • Short biography and references
  • Francoeur, Louis Benjamin (1773-1849)
    • Short biography and references
  • Frenet, Jean Frédéric (1816-1900)
    • Short biography and references
• G
  • Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee (1848-1928)
    • Short biography and references
  • Gompertz, Benjamin (1779-1865)
    • Short biography and references
• H
  • Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)
    • Biography and references
    • Very short biography and links
    • Britannica Online entries
    • Bibliography (Library of Congress entries for Halley, Edmond)
    • Bibliography (Library of Congress entries for Halley, Edmund)
    • Bibliography (ADS entries)
    • References (Library of Congress entries for Halley, Edmond)
    • References (Library of Congress entries for Halley, Edmund)
    • References (ADS entries)
    • Halley's House, Oxford, UK
    • Halley's comet (Library of Congress entries)
    • Comet, Halley's (Library of Congress entries)
    • Sir Edmond Halley's Restaurant & Freehouse, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
    • Links to WWW sources (Lycos)
    • Links to WWW sources (Yahoo! Or see mirror in Canada, or mirror in Asia, or mirror in UK, or mirror in Australia.)
  • Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976)
    • Short biography and references
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
      Including a short biography
  • Hermann of [von] Reichenau [Hermann the Lame; Hermann Contractus] (1013-1054)
    • Short biography and references
  • Heron of Alexandria (c.65-c.125)
    • Short biography and references
  • Holmboe, Bernt Michael (1795-1850)
    • Short biography and references
  • Humbert, Pierre Marie (1891-1953)
    • Very short biography and references
• L
  • Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1736-1813)
    • Short biography and references
  • Lohrmann, Wilhelm Gotthelf (1796-840)
    • Very short biography (in German)
  • Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902
      Including a short biography
• Z
  • Zeeman, Pieter (1865-1943)
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902
      Including a short biography
• Index of all persons from A to Z
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Items

• Solar System
  • Halley's comet--History (Library of Congress entries)
  • Halley's comet--Early works to 1800 (Library of Congress entries)
• Stellar Astronomy
  • The First Known Variable Stars, by Hartmut Frommert and Christine Kronberg

Museums, memorials, historical places and exhibits

• Paris, France
  • Eiffel Tower
    Mathematicians commemorated, including astronomers.
  • Tour Eiffel (in French)
    Noms des 72 savants disposés sur la frise des quatre façades

Publications

• Journals
  • General Relativity and Gravitation
    With Tables of Contents.

Meetings

• Fourth Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop
  July 1-4, Notre Dame, IN, USA
• Oxford VI International Conference on Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture and the S.E.A.C. 1999 Annual Meeting
  June 21-29, 1999, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
• History of Astronomy Conference Calendar 1999 (updated)

Historians of astronomy

• Magruder, Kerry (KVMagruder@aol.com)

IAU Commission 41 (History of Astronomy)

• Members (Detailed address information had to be deleted - see explanation.)

Working Group for the History of Astronomy

• Publications
  • Electronic newsletters
    • Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
      Number 34, March 8, 1999

Wolfgang R. Dick