Information and several thousand links on all aspects of history of astronomy and related fields: observatories, people, items, archives and libraries, museums and exhibitions, publications, research, meetings, societies, historians.

Native American constellations. Lakota constllations related to Black Hills features, ceremonial observations. Stone medicine wheels -- solar-stellar observatories -- the first (analog) computers. Naked-eye astronomy. Crab nebula supernova. Sun Dagger. Star Stories. Teacher sources for native-centered astronomy.

A history of lunar explorations and expeditions, including a timeline.

Home page and index of tutorial/historical exposition of the motion of Earth in space, Newtonian mechanics and spaceflight, on a high school level.

Astronomy in Japan ...

Introduction to the astrolabe.

Franz Niklaus K nig: Celestial atlas (1826) The diaphanous Atlas celeste (plate 1-27, 30) Great show 26 images (254 KB) Little show 3 images (33 KB) Diaphanous images about 6 - 12 KB Remark: You can't see the images with a white background ( Options !) e.g.: Little Bear Tables 1-27 and 30 in about 133 - 204 KB e.g.: Table The northern celestial hemisphere Northern celestial hemisphere (1) Pole ...

History of Astronomy : Working Group for the History of Astronomy : Electronic newsletters ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Published by the Working Group for the History of Astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft If you are located outside Europe, you may have faster access to ENHA through the ENHA archives at Low Bandwidth, established in 1998. Number 1, February 23, 1994 ...

An extensive directory of web sites devoted to the history of astronomy.

The following is a list of many important dates in the history of high-energy astrophysics and astronomy in general. Wherever possible links are included to the appropriate WWW pages giving further details.

Find out about the Sixth Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop on the NDVI page. Welcome to the web page for the Biennial History of Astronomy Workshops held at the University of Notre Dame. On this site, you'll find some history of the workshops, archival information from the previous four workshops, web links, and other information. For a description of each section shown on the right, see ...

Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1 Little Green Men, White Dwarfs or Pulsars By S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell We did all the work ourselves and cheerfully sledgehammered all one summer. Burnell and the antenna. In all the history of radio astronomy the pulsing signals discovered at Cambridge, England, in 1967 were the most suggestive of an extraterrestrial intelligent origin that have ever been detected. In ...

History of the Leander McCormick Observatory When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia, he intended it to include an observatory and a center for astronomical study. While Jefferson did not see those plans come to fruition during his lifetime, in 1877 Leander J. McCormick donated a 26-inch telescope to the University, and an observatory, which now bears the name of its ...

Officers Meetings Membership in HAD Newsletter Bylaws Leroy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy Recent Publications Relating to the History of Astronomy History of the AAS Index to AAS Members' Obituaries In 1980 the Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) was established as one of the special subject divisions of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Its purpose is to advance interest in ...

Scholars debate whether the Star of Bethlehem is a legend manufactured by the early church or a miracle which marked the advent of Christ. But if the Star was a real astronomical event, what could it have been

Northern California History of Astronomy Luncheon and Discussion Association ...

Historical Resources and Information A Short History of Armagh Observatory by C.J. Butler An Historical Account ... by J.L.E. Dreyer The Architecture of Armagh Observatory by C.J. Butler Historical Archives by C. J. Butler Inventory of the Historical Instruments by J. McFarland Scientific Instruments and their Related Correspondence by J. McFarland Armagh's Longcase Regulators - PostScript or ...

The SETI League, Inc. is a membership-supported, nonprofit [501(c)(3)] educational and scientific organization, devoted to privatizing the electromagnetic Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

Physics and Astronomy People Jocelyn Bell Niels Bohr Albert Einstein Jim Gates Murray Gell-Mann Werner Heisenberg Edwin Hubble Henrietta Leavitt J. Robert Oppenheimer Max Planck Ernest Rutherford Erwin Schrodinger Steven Weinberg Discoveries 1900 Planck discovers the quantum nature of energy 1905 Einstein publishes the special theory of relativity 1912 Leavitt discovers a correlation between ...

Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1 A Reminiscence of Project Ozma By Frank D. Drake Independently of Cocconi and Morrison, Frank D. Drake, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, West Virginia, was formulating plans to conduct an actual search. Drake was 29 when, on April 8, 1960, he turned the 85-foot Howard Tatel telescope of the observatory toward the star Tau Ceti.

Astronomy in Israel: From Og's Circle to the Wise Observatory Yuval Ne'eman#+ Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel # Supported in part by the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation + Wolfson Chair Extraordinary, Tel Aviv University M. Livio and G.Shaviv (eds.) Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects, 323-329. Copyright, 1983 by D. Reidel Publishing Company. INTRODUCTION Colloquium IAU 72 ...

History and Philosophy of Western Astronomy Chapter index in this window Chapter index in separate window This material (including images) is copyrighted!. See my copyright notice for fair use practices. Now that you have some feeling for the scales of time and space that astronomy This chapter covers the development of western astronomy and modern science. I focus on the rise of modern science ...

Read This! --- The MAA Online book review column: review of The Babylonian Theory of the Planets, by N. M. Swerdlow ...

A discussion of the oldest known exactive astronomic constant, the ratio of earth rotations to lunar orbits in Aryabhata's AD 498 writing.

History of Astronomy Pages F. Kaiser (1808-1872) Frederik Kaiser and the modernisation of Dutch 19th C. astronomy J.C. Kapteyn (1851-1922) A search for the correspondence of the astronomer J.C. Kapteyn To my collection of History of Astronomy Links Petra van der Heijden heijden@strw.leidenuniv.nl Last modified: Mon May 27 17:48:40 2002 A short history of Leiden Observatory ...

RUNDETAARN www.rundetaarn.dk search HISTORY Centuries of Astronomy Astronomy in Denmark Erling Poulsen Make Bookmark Prehistoric astronomy&#63 Apart from the Vikings, who without doubt navigated and kept track of time by means of the stars, the first important Danish astronomer was Peder Nightingale. In 1274 he observed the sunlatitude from Roskilde where he was a canon, and based on these ...

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Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1 Twenty Years After.... By Philip Morrison In those days the big dish at Jodrell Bank was in the news. A magnificent piece that links the past to the future with some very sage advice.-Eds. Twenty years may be long enough to justify a few personal reminiscences. They begin during a chamber music performance in the Cornell Student Center when I first came to think about ...