Historical Astronomy Division

History of the American Astronomical Society

8. Bibliography

• AAS Constitution, early working copy. Newcomb Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Cited in Berendzen, 37.
• [AAS] Minutes of the Executive Council. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics. Hereinafter cited as American Institute of Physics.
• Bates, Ralph S., 1965. Scientific Societies in the United States. Pergamon Press.
• Berendzen, Richard, 1974. "Origins of the American Astronomical Society," Physics Today 27: 33-39.
• Bond, William Cranch to C.H.F. Peters, 20 Aug. 1858. Observatory Correspondence, Harvard University Archives. Cited in Rothenberg, 1981, 307.
• Brush, Stephen G., 1979. "Looking Up: the Rise of Astronomy in America," American Studies 20:41-67.
• Campbell, William Wallace to George C. Comstock, 5 March 1908, Campbell 1900-1916 (folder), AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Campbell to Philip Fox, 2 Feb. 1914, Supplemental Correspondence Folder. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Campbell to Stebbins, 25 Feb. 1919. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Clerke, Agnes M., 1903. Problems in Astrophysics. London.
• Comstock, George C. to Simon Newcomb, 27 Mar. 1899. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• "Concerning Proposed Mars Resolution-Comments by Members," AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Crowe, Michael J. , 1986. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750-1900. Cambridge.
• DeVorkin, David, 1977. "W.W. Campbell's Spectroscopic Study of the Martian Atmosphere," Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 18: 37-53.
• Dupree, A. Hunter, 1986. Science in the Federal Government. Johns Hopkins.
• Freeman, John R., to John A. Brashear, 7 Dec. 1918. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Frost, Edwin, 1899. "The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America," Science 10: 849.
• Frost to Joel Stebbins, 21 Feb. 1919. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Hale to Edward C. Pickering, 26 Mar. 1898. Hale Papers, Yerkes Observatory. Cited in Berendzen, 36.
• Hale to Edward C. Pickering, 31 Dec. 1918. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Hale to James E. Keeler, 11 Sept. 1897. Hale Papers, Yerkes Observatory. Cited in Berendzen, 35.
• Hale to James E. Keeler, 29 Aug. 1898, Lick Observatory Archives, Santa Cruz, California. Cited in Berendzen, 37.
• Hale to Samuel P. Langley, 28 Dec. 1898. Hale Papers, Yerkes Observatory. Cited in Berendzen, 37.
• Hale to Simon Newcomb, 2 Aug. 1898. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Hale to Simon Newcomb, 5 Jan. 1899. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Hale to Simon Newcomb, 16 Jan. 1899, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Hale to Simon Newcomb, 5 May 1898. Hale Papers, Yerkes Observatory. Cited in Berendzen, 37.
• Hale to Simon Newcomb, 8 Mar. 1900. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Hale to Simon Newcomb, 21 July 1898. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Hayford, John F. , 1899. "Section A - Astronomy and Mathematics," Science 10:331-333.
• Hoffleit, Dorrit, 1994. Astronomy at Yale 1701-1968. Connecticut Academy of Sciences.
• Holden to Simon Newcomb, 24 Feb. 1897. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Holden to Simon Newcomb, 31 Jan. 1900. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Hoyt, William Graves, 1976. Lowell and Mars, Tucson: U. Arizona Press.
• Hussey, W. J. to J.A. Parkhurst, 3 July 1909. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Hussey to Mrs. Nellie O. Fisk, 14 Oct. 1911. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Hussey to William Wallace Campbell, 26 Jan. 1914, Supplementary Correspondence Folder. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Keeler to George Ellery Hale, 1 Nov. 1898; Samuel P. Langley to George Ellery Hale, 12 Jan. 1899, Lick Observatory Archives, Santa Cruz, California. Cited in Berendzen, 37.
• Kevles, Daniel J., 1971. "`Into Hostile Political Camps': The Reorganization of International Science in World War I," Isis 62:47-60.
• Kohler, Robert E., 1991. Partners in Science, Foundations and Natural Scientists 1900-1945. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Lankford, John, 1981. "Amateurs and Astrophysics: A Neglected Aspect in the Development of a Scientific Specialty," Social Studies of Science 11:275-303.
• Littell, Frank B., 1905. "The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America," Science 21: 407.
• Mitchell, S. A. to Joel Stebbins, 26 Feb. 1919. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Moyer, Albert E., 1992. A Scientist's Voice in American Culture, Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method. University of California.
• Newcomb, Simon, 1901. "The Progress and Tendency of Astronomy," Address to the National Academy of Sciences (18 Apr. 1901). Newcomb Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Newcomb to George Ellery Hale, 24 Dec. 1898. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Cited in Berendzen, 37.
• Newcomb to George Ellery Hale, 30 Nov. 1899. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Osterbrock, Donald, 1980. "America's First World Astronomy Meeting: Chicago, 1893," Chicago History 9: 178-185.
• Osterbrock, Donald, 1985. "The Minus First Meeting of the American Astronomical Society: Williams Bay, Wisconsin, 1897," Wisconsin Magazine of History 68, No. 2 (Winter, 1984-85), 108-118.
• Pickering to George Ellery Hale, 3 Jan. 1919. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• [Pickering] to Schlesinger, 20 Dec. 1916. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Pickering to Secretary of State William J. Bryan, 22 Sep. 1914. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Pickering to Simon Newcomb, 30 Nov. 1898. Newcomb Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• Plotkin, Howard, 1978. "Astronomers versus the Navy: The Revolt of American Astronomers over the Management of the United States Naval Observatory, 1877-1902," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 122:385-399.
• Plotkin, Howard, 1978, "E. C. Pickering and the Endowment of Scientific Research in America, 1877-1918," Isis 69:44-57.
• Plotkin, Howard, 1990. "Edward Charles Pickering," Journal for the History of Astronomy 21:47-58.
• Reingold, Nathan, 1968. "National Aspirations and Local Purposes," Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 71:235-246.
• Reingold, Nathan, 1976. "Definitions and Speculations: The Professionalization of Science in America in the Nineteenth Century," reprinted as chapter 2 in Reingold, 1991. Science, American Style. Rutgers.
• Reingold, Nathan, and Ida H. Reingold, eds., 1981. Science in America: A Documentary History, 1900-1939. University of Chicago Press.
• Rothenberg, Marc, 1981. "Organization and Control: Professionals and Amateurs in American Astronomy, 1899-1918," Social Studies of Science 11: 305-325.
• Rothenberg, Marc, 1983. "Observers and Theoreticians: Astronomy at the Naval Observatory, 1845-1861," 29-43 in Steven J. Dick and LeRoy E. Doggett, eds., Sky with Ocean Joined. Washington, D.C.
• Schlesinger, Frank, 1910. "The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America," Science 32: 887.
• Snyder, M. B., 1898. "The Harvard Astrophysical Conference," Science 8:461.
• Stebbins, Joel., 1947. "The American Astronomical Society, 1897-1947," Popular Astronomy 55: 404-413.
• Stenographer's transcript, Tenth Annual Meeting of the A.&A.S.A., 21 Aug. 1909. AAS Records, American Institute of Physics.
• Wright, Helen, 1966. Explorer of the Universe, A biography of George Ellery Hale. Dutton; reprinted, AIP, 1994.