RECENT PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
R. S. Freitag
Library of Congress
February 2001
Books and Pamphlets
- Agar, Jon. Science and spectacle: the work of Jodrell Bank in post-war
British culture. Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998. xx, 260 p. illus.
(Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine, v. 5)
- Ancient astronomy and celestial divination. Edited by N. M. Swerdlow.
Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1999. 378 p. illus. (Dibner Institute studies in the
history of science and technology)
- Contents: Swerdlow, N. M. Introduction.--1. Reiner, E. Babylonian celestial
divination.--2. Rochberg, F. Babylonian horoscopy: the texts and their relations.--3. Walker,
C. B. F. Babylonian observations of Saturn during the reign of Kandalanu.--4. Hunger, H.
Non-mathematical astronomical texts and their relationships.--5. Grasshoff, G. Normal star
observations in late Babylonian astronomical diaries.--6. Brack-Bernsen, L. Goal-year tablets:
lunar data and predictions.--7. Aaboe, A. A new mathematical text from the astronomical
archive in Babylon: BM 36849.--8. Britton, J. P. Lunar anomaly in Babylonian
astronomy.--9. Swerdlow, N. M. The derivation of the parameters of Babylonian planetary
theory with time as the principal independent variable.--10. Jones, A. A classification of
astronomical tables on papyrus.--11. Goldstein,B. R., and A. C. Bowen. The role of
observations in Ptolemy's lunar theories.--12. Tihon, A. Theon of Alexandria and Ptolemy's
Handy Tables.
- The Art of time. [Greenwich, Conn., Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 1999?] 44 p.
illus. (part col.)
- Exhibition checklist and errata slip laid in.
- Contents: Sturges, H. Acknowledgments.--Smith, M. The art of time.--Snellenburg, J.
Measuring time.--Ehlinger, C. Connecticutclocks.--Bartky, I. R. Nineteenth-century
American timekeeping.--Adams, G. Time in art.
- Astronomical amusements. Papers in honor of Jean Meeus. Edited by Fabrizio Bònoli, Salvo De Meis,
Antonio Panaino. Roma, IsIAO; Milano, Mimesis, 2000. 158 p. illus., port.
- Contents: Bònoli, F., S. De Meis, and A. Panaino. [Foreword]--Bezza, G. Le tavole del
primum mobile nel medioevo.--Casanovas, J. A new approach to spherical
astronomy.--Chapront-Touzé, M., and J. Chapront. Analytical ephemerides of the moon in the
20th century.--De Meis, S., and A. Vitagliano. Some unusual Meeus portraits.--Denoyelle, J.
My joint venture with Jean Meeus.--Goffin, E. Orbit determination without Gauss.--Huber,
P. J. Modeling the length of day and extrapolating the rotation of the earth.--Magni, T.
L'integrazione numerica di alta precisione per i non professionisti.--Marsden, B. G.
Astronomical collisions.--Mucke, H. Zu der Entwicklung der Planetariums-Hauptprojektoren
neueste Modelle von Zeiss nützen Daten von J. Meeus.--Panaino, A. An "Avestan" planetary
order?--Romano, G. Matematica maya: ipotesi sulle operazioni aritmetiche.--Sinnott, R. W.
A line of planets.
- Bartky, Ian R. Selling the true time: nineteenth-century timekeeping in America. Stanford, Calif.,
Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi, 310 p. illus., facsims., group port., maps.
- Besomi, Ottavio, and Michele Camerota. Galileo e il Parnaso Tychonico. Un capitolo inedito del
dibattito sulle comete tra finzione letteraria a trattazione scientifica. Firenze, L. S. Olschki, 2000.
274 p. facsims. (Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studi e testi, 41)
- Contents: pt. 1. Camerota, M. Galileo e il Parnaso Tychonico. 1. "Gran portento di
foco." 2. "Un assemblea fatta in Parnaso avanti Apollo." 3. Parnaso Tychonico. 4.
Assemblea celeste. 5. Academico Danico. 6. Esopo in Parnaso.--pt. 2. Testi. Edizione
critica e note a cura di Ottavio Besomi. 1. Assemblea celeste. 2. Abbozzi di Mario Guiducci
in risposta all'Assemblea celeste (Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms. Conv. Soppr. A.5.
1443).--Appendice. Discorso sopra il gran Cometa che si vede dal principio di Novembre di
quest'anno 1618. Glossario dell''Assemblea Celeste.'
- Borel, Pierre. Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralité des mondes. Ristampa anastatica dell'edizione
Genève 1657 a cura di Antonella Del Prete. Lecce, Conte editore, 1998. xxiii, 80 p. (Aurifodina
philosophica)
- Brunier, Serge, and Jean P. Luminet. Glorious eclipses: their past, present, and future. Translated by
Storm Dunlop. Paris, Bordas; Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 192
p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.), maps (part col.)
- First published as Éclipses, les rendez-vous célestes in 1999.
- Contents: Brunier, S. Journeys of an eclipse chaser.--Luminet, J. P. The story of eclipses,
the story of people.--Luminet, J. P. The dance of the Sun and Moon.--Brunier, S. The great
cosmic clockwork.--Luminet, J. P. By the light of eclipses.--Bruner, S. 11 August 1999: the
last eclipse of the millennium.--Atlas of eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
- Includes information on occultations and transits.
- Buffo, Alberto. Ouranos theorema. Cambridge, Mass., Bovolo Press, 2000. 338p. illus.
- "A Dialogue on the subject of how the distances to the farthest reaches of the Universe have
been measured and on the many attempts since Antiquity to understand the architecture of the
Cosmos, with a digression or two on a few related matters."
- Carvalho, Rómulo de. Colectânea de estudos históricos
(1953-1994); cultura e actividades científicas em
Portugal. Évora, Universidade de Évora, 1997. xxi, 538 p.
illus., facsims., ports.
- Partial contents: I. Temas e personalidades de ciência: actividade e pensamento
científico em Portugal. Portugal nas "Philosophical Transactions," nos
séculos XVII e XVIII (1956). Posição histórica da invenção
de nónio de Pedro Nunes (1960). Relações científicas do
astrónomo francês Joseph-Nicolas de l'Isle com Portugal (1965). Os nomes
portugueses na carta da Lua (1967). A doutrina heliocêntrica de Copérnico e a
sua aceitação em Portugal (1973). A aceitação, em Portugal,
da filosofia newtoniana (1991).
- Casati, Roberto. La scoperta dell'ombra; da Platone a Galileo, la storia di un enigma
che ha affascinato le grandi menti dell'umanità. Milano, Mondadori, 2000. 278 p.
illus., facsims.
- "Eppure le ombre sono state la chiave per risolvere alcuni grandi problemi scientifici: il
perché delle eclissi, le distanze tra terra, luna e sole, la forma e la dimensione della terra, la
struttura del sistema solare. Contemplando le ombre si è riusciti, tra l'altro, a determinare la
latitudine di un luogo, si è visto che la luna è costellata di valli e montagne, si è capito che
Saturno è circondato da straordinari anelli e che la luce viaggia a velocità
finita."
- Chabás, José, and Bernard R. Goldstein. Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula:
Abraham Zacut and the
transition from manuscript to print. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 2000. 196 p.
facsims. (American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Transactions, v. 90, pt. 2)
- Contents: Preface.--Introduction.--1. Abraham Zacut: supplementary notes for a
biography.--2. Setting the scenes.--3. The Hibbur.--4. The Almanach Perpetuum.--5. The
influence of Zacut's astronomical works.--Appendix 1. Zacut's Judgments of the astrologer.
- Coles, Peter. Einstein and the total eclipse. Duxford, Cambridge, Icon Books; New York, Totem Books,
1999. 71 p. illus. (Postmodern encounters)
- Constructions of time in the late Middle Ages. Edited by Carol Poster and Richard Utz. Evanston, Ill.,
Northwestern University Press, 1997. 206 p. illus. (Disputatio, an international transdisciplinary
journal of the late Middle Ages, v. 2)
- Partial contents: Travis, P. W. Chaucer's Chronographiae, the confounded reader, and
fourteenth-century measurements of time.--Laird, E. S. Astrolabes and the construction of time
in the late Middle Ages.--Cárdenas, A. J. A learned king enthralls himself: escapement and the
clock mechanisms in Alfonso X's Libro del saber de astrologia.--Vilhjalmsson, T. Time and
travel in Old Norse society.--Akkach, S. Ibn Arabî's cosmogony and the Sufi concept of space
and time.
- Conti, Giovan Stefano. Lettere a Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich. A cura di Edoardo Proverbio. Roma,
Accademia nazionale delle scienze detta dei XL, 1996-98. 2 v. facsims. (Scritti e documenti, 18,
22) (Documenti boscovichiani, 4-5)
- Contents: v. 1. 1760-1771.--v. 2. 1771-1784.
- Couteau, Paul. Le ciel est mon jardin. Paris, Flammarion, 2000. 225 p.
- Des astres et des hommes. Sous la direction de Pierre Erny. Paris, L'Harmattan, 1996. 205 p. illus.
(Collection Culture et cosmologie)
- Contents: Erny, P. Liminaire.--1. Erny, P. De l'ethnoastronomie.--2. Navet, E.
Quelques réflexions sur l'idée d' "ethnoastronomie" et les
"ethno ... quelque chose" à partir de
la cosmologie des Indiens Ojibwé (Amérique du Nord).--3. Navet, E., and N. Mohia. Le
proche et la lointain: éléments d'ethnoastronomie émérillon
(Guyane Française).--4. Zahan,
D. La lune "sale." Un thème cosmologique en Afrique méridionale et
orientale.--5. Köhler,
U. Le cycle lunaire et sa signification chez les Indiens mexicains.--6. Molet, L. Durée et
temps à Madagascar.--7. Verdier, P. Les calendriers indo-européens.--8. Maillard, C. Dans
le procès de l'astrologie, le rationalisme est-il tout à fait rationnel?--9. Viret, J. Musique et
astronomie au Moyen Age: le cryptogramme "solaire" des notes de la gamme et la "musique
céleste."--10. Triomphe, R. Le communisme et la lune. Contribution à
une étude de la relance
cosmique de l'idéologie soviétique.
- Seven of these papers first appeared in the Série Astronomie et sciences
humaines, published
by the Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg.
- DeVorkin, David H. Henry Norris Russell, dean of American astronomers. Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 2000. xix, 499 p., [8] p. of plates.
- Dick, Steven J. Extraterrestrial life and our world view at the turn of the millennium. Dibner Library
Lecture, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, May 2, 2000. [Washington, Smithsonian Institution,
2000] 47 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., col. port.
- Drake, Stillman. Essays on Galileo and the history and philosophy of science. Selected and introduced
by N. M. Swerdlow and T. H. Levere. Toronto, Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1999. 3
v. illus., facsims., plates, ports.
- Contents: v. 1. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Prologue. Drake's speech on
receiving the international Galileo Prize for History of Italian Science. pt. 1. Galileo:
biographical and general. pt. 2. Galileo: bibliographical and textual studies. pt. 3. Galileo:
scientific method and philosophy of science. pt. 4. Galileo: astronomy.--v. 2. pt. 5. Galileo:
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. pt. 6. Galileo: motion and mechanics,
including the Discourses on Two New Sciences.--v. 3. pt. 7. Galileo: instruments. pt. 8.
History of science: ancient, medieval, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century. pt. 9. Philosophy of
science and language. A bibliography of the writings of Stillman Drake. Index.
- Drevniaia astronomiia: nebo i chelovek. Tezisy dokladov mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-metodicheskoi
konferentsii (19-24 noiabria 1997 goda); programma konferentsii. Moskva, Komissiia po
paleoastronomii EAAS, 1997. 68 p.
- Drössler, Rudolf. 2000 Jahre Weltuntergang; Himmelserscheinungen und Weltbilder in apokalyptischer
Deutung. Würzburg, Echter, 1999. 184 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.)
- Contents: Das Jahr 2000 und der Weltuntergang.--Der lichte Tag wird zur Nacht.--Der
Mond schwimmt in seinem Blut.--Kometen verkünden Unheil.--Planeten machen Geschichte.
- Ducrocq, Albert. L'éclipse. Monaco, Éditions du Rocher, 1999. 259 p., [8] p. of plates. illus. (part
col.), facsims. (part col.), port. + 1 éclipsographe.
- Contents: 1. Quand une vague d'obscurité déferle.--2. Chaldéens et
chinois observent
longuement.--3. Une architecture conforme de l'univers: l'astronomie.--4. Le mouvement de
la Lune fait le désespoir des astronomes.--5. Pourquoi une éclipse totale de
Soleil est un
phénomène critique.--6. Les ressources de l'informatique et de la
règle à éclipse.--7. L'Éclipse
la plus courte: beaucoup de grains de Baily.--8. La fantastique couronne du Soleil.--9.
Planètes et étoiles d'un ciel étrange.--10. Les éclipses d'Einstein.--11. Quand finira le temps
des éclipses.--12. Si la Lune n'avait pas existé.
- Elst, Koenraad. Update on the Aryan invasion debate. New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 1999. 342 p.
- Partial contents: 2. Astronomical data and the Aryan question. 2.1. Dating the Rg-Veda.
2.2. Ancient Hindu astronomy. 2.2.1. Astronomical tables. 2.2.2. Ancient observation,
modern confirmation. 2.2.3. The start of Kali-Yuga. 2.3. The precession of the equinox.
2.3.1. The slowest hand on the clock. 2.3.2. Some difficulties. 2.3.3. Regulus at summer
solstice. 2.3.4. One Veda can hide another. 2.4. Additional astronomical indications. 2.4.1.
The Saptarshi cycle. 2.4.2. A remarkable eclipse. 2.4.3. Cosmic data in Vedic ritual. 2.4.4.
The Zodiac. 2.4.5. India as the metropolis. 2.5. Conclusion.
- Encyclopedia of the scientific revolution: from Copernicus to Newton. Editor, Wilbur Applebaum. New
York, Garland Pub., 2000. xxxv, 758 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Garland reference library of the
humanities, v. 1800)
- al-Fargahni. Astronomicheskie traktaty. Perevod s arabskogo, vvodnaia stat´ia i kommentarii B. A.
Rozenfel´da, I. G. Dobrovol´skogo, N. D. Sergeevoi; pri uchastii P. G. Bulgakova; pod nauchnoi
redaktsiei B. A. Rosenfel´da. Otv. redaktor A. Akhmedov. Tashkent, Glav. red. Izdatel´sko-poligraficheskogo
kontserna "Shark," 1998. 232 p. illus.
- 1543 and all that; image and word, change and continuity in the proto-scientific revolution.
Edited by
Guy Freeland, Anthony Corones. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. xv, 404
p. illus., facsims., plan, ports. (Australasian studies in history and philosophy
of science, v. 13)
- Partial contents: Kemp, M. Vision and visualisation in the illustration of anatomy and
astronomy from Leonardo to Galileo.--Freeland, G. The lamp in the temple: Copernicus and
the demise of a medieval ecclesiastical cosmology.--Corones, A. Copernicus, printing and the
politics of knowledge.--Thomason, N. 1543--the year that Copernicus didn't predict the phases
of Venus.--Brundell, B. Bellarmine to Foscarini on Copernicanism: a theologian's response.
- Gaspani, Adriano. La cultura di Golasecca; cielo luna e stelle dei primi Celti d'Italia.
Aosta, Keltia
editrice, 1999. 239 p. illus., maps, plans. (Le Antiche querce, v. 13)
- Contents: Introduzione.--1. L'astronomia dei Celti.--2. Gli eventi astronomici
straordinari.--3. L'astronomia e i luoghi sacri.--4. I tumuli del X secolo a.C.--5. I recinti
tombali.--6. Le necropoli.--7. Gli insediamenti.--Conclusione.
- Gassendi, Pierre. Institution astronomique. Suivi du Discours inaugural tenu dans
le Collège royal de
Paris. Traduit pour la première fois du latin en français, avec un
avertissement et des notes par
Jean Peyroux. Bordeaux, J. Peyroux; Paris, Diff. A. Blanchard, 1997. 163 p. illus.
- Translation of t. 4. of Gassendi's ‘uvres complètes (1658).
- Gee, Emma. Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: astronomy in Ovid's Fasti.
Cambridge, New York, Cambridge
University Press, 2000. 226 p. illus.
- Die Geschichte der Astronomie in Berlin. Hrsg.: Dieter B. Herrmann, Karl-Friedrich Hoffmann. Berlin,
Archenhold-Sternwarte und Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte Berlin [1998?] 159 p. illus., facsims.,
ports.
- Contents: Johann Carion und der Beginn der Astronomie in Berlin.--Kalendermacher und
der Beginn der akademischen Astronomie.--Johann Elert Bode.--Die Akademiesternwarte unter
dem Direktorat von Encke.--Wilhelm Julius Foerster--Forschungsorganisation und
Wissenschaftspopularisierung.--Arthur von Auwers und "Die Geschichte des
Fixsternhimmels."--Astrophysik--ein neues Forschungsgebiet an der Akademie der
Wissenschaften und der Berliner Sternwarte.--Die astronomische Forschung nach dem II.
Weltkrieg unter dem Dach der Akademie der Wissenschaften.--Universitäre Astronomie im
geteilten Berlin.--Hundert Jahre populärwissenschaftliche Arbeit in der Astronomie.
- Gingras, Yves, Peter Keating, and Camille Limoges. Du scribe au savant; les
porteurs du savoir de
l'Antiquité à la révolution industrielle. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2000. 361 p.
illus., facsims., maps. (Science, histoire et société)
- The first three chapters, on the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome, include brief sections
relating to the history of astronomy. See particularly chapters 7 and 8, "La révolution
astronomique: de l'humaniste au savant" (p. 211-244) and "De la
philosophie mécaniste à
l'univers mathématique" (p. 245-287).
- Giorgetti, Renzo. Gli orologi da torre nella provincia di Lucca.
Lucca, Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2000.
205 p. illus.
- Giovanni Schiaparelli: storico della astronomia e uomo di cultura. Atti del Seminario di studi organizzato
dall'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente e dall'Istituto di fisica generale applicata dell'Università
degli studi di Milano. Milano, 12-13 maggio 1997, Osservatorio astronomico di Brera. A cura
di Antonio Panaino e Guido Pellegrini. Milano, Mimesis--IsIAO, 1999. 193 p. illus., facsims.
(Collana Mimesis)
- Contents: Panaino, A., and G. Pellegrini. Prefazione.--Simili, R. Giovanni Schiaparelli
astronomo e uomo di scienza.--Casaburi, M. Giovanni V. Schiaparelli e l'astronomia antico-testamentaria.--De Meis, S. Il Planetarium Babylonicum di G. V. Schiaparelli: problematiche
astronomiche.--Hunger, H. Schiaparelli's notebook of Babylonian star names.--Mandrino, A.
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli archivista e l'archivio della Specola di Brera.--Panaino, A.
Giovanni V. Schiaparelli e la storia dei più antichi calendari iranici. Con tre inediti di G. V.
Schiaparelli ed una Nota di S. De Meis.--Pellegrini, G. Il Thema Mundi nell'Oriente e
nell'Occidente. Presentazione.--Pellegrini, G. Le configurazioni planetarie e la nascita di
Rma: una comunicazione di G. V. Schiaparelli ad A. Weber.--Bezza, G. Sulla tradizione del
Thema Mundi.--Raffaelli, E. G. Il tema del mondo
e il tema del Gayomard nel Bundahin.
- The papers by Casaburi, De Meis, and Panaino, and the first paper by Pellegrini, are
accompanied by short summaries in English.
- Giuseppe Toaldo e il suo tempo, nel bicentenario della morte. Scienze e lumi tra
Veneto e Europa. Atti
del convegno, Padova, 10-13 novembre 1997. A cura di Luisa Pigatto; presentazione di Paolo
Casini. Cittadella, Bertoncello Artigrafiche, 2000. xix, 1033 p. illus., facsims., maps, plans,
ports. (Contributi alla storia dell'Università di Padova, 33)
- Partial contents: Sessione 1. Maestri, amici, corrispondenti di Giuseppe Toaldo. Baldini,
U. La formazione scientifica di Toaldo. Ferrighi, A. Toaldo, Cerato e la fabbrica della
Specola astronomica di Padova: un sodalizio esemplare tra astronomo e architetto.--Sessione 3.
L'astronomia e i suoi strumenti, le discipline correlate (geodesia, geografia ecc.) e gli osservatori
pubblici nel Settecento. Bònoli, F. L'evoluzione degli strumenti d'osservazione astronomici
nel Settecento. Tucci, P. Brera astronomers' contributions to Celestial Mechanics from 1776
to 1821. Triarico, C. La Specola di Leonardo Ximenes a Firenze e la catalogazione dei suoi
strumenti. Casanovas, J. L'insegnamento dell'astronomia nei Collegi dei Gesuiti nel Settecento.
Calisi, M. Le Specole romane nel Settecento. Contardi, S. Concezioni museali e collezionismo
scientifico nella Toscana settecentesca: l'Imperiale e Regio Museo di fisica e storia naturale di
Firenze. Pagliari, M. La longitudine: una conquista del XVIII secolo attesa a lungo.--Sessione
6. La meteorologia e le sue relazioni con le scienze della natura (agricoltura, botanica,
medicina, fenomeni della natura). Casati, S. La meteorologia lunare di Toaldo.
- Gotteland, Andrée, and Georges Camus. Cadrans solaires de Paris.
Nouv. éd. rev. et corr. Paris, CNRS
Éditions, 1997. 223 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., maps.
- Hail, Raven. The Cherokee sacred calendar; a handbook of the ancient Native American tradition.
Rochester, Vt., Destiny Books, 1999. 141 p. illus.
- Hamou, Philippe. La mutation du visible; essai sur
la portée épistémologique des instruments d'optique
au XVIIe siècle. v. 1. Du Sidereus Nuncius de
Galilée à la Dioptrique cartésienne. Villeneuve
d'Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. 317 p., [8] p. of plates. illus., facsims.
(Histoire des sciences)
- Contents: Introduction. 1. ptie. La révélation galiléenne.
ch. 1. Un message des étoiles.
ch. 2. Vision télescopique et certitude sensible. ch. 3. L'optique de fortune. ch. 4. Le
manifeste empiriste. ch. 5. L'expérience télescopique
après Galilée--Gassendi, Hevelius,
Huygens.--2. ptie. La lunette dans l'ordre des raisons: Kepler et Descartes.
Avant-propos: "À
la honte de nos sciences." ch. 6. "Fait et cause":
la discussion képlerienne du message
télescopique. ch. 7. Le "panégyrique géométrique"
de l'instrument: Kepler, la Dioptrice de 1611.
ch. 8. L'invention méthodique de la lunette: Descartes, la Dioptrique de 1637.
- A History of science in the Netherlands: survey, themes and reference. Edited by Klaas van Berkel,
Albert Van Helden, Lodewijk Palm. Leiden, Boston, Brill, 1999. xxvii, 659 p. illus., facsims.,
ports.
- The history of astronomy is not separately treated, and there is no subject index. However,
the section of biographies includes sketches of Isaac Beeckman, Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Ejnar
Hertzsprung, Johannes Hudde, Christiaan Huygens, Frederik Kaiser, Jacobus Cornelius
Kapteyn, Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert, Jan Hendrik Oort, Antonie Pannekoek, Willem de Sitter,
Willibrord Snel, Jan Hendrick van Swinden, and Pieter Zeeman.
- Holmberg, Gustav. Reaching for the stars: studies in the history of Swedish stellar and nebular
astronomy, 1860-1940. Lund, Lund University, 1999. 243 p. illus. (Ugglan, Lund studies in
the history of science and ideas, 13)
- Contents: From classical astronomy to astrophysics: an introduction.--New technologies,
new astronomy.--Charlier and stellar statistics.--Lundmark and the Lund Observatory.--From
Uppsala and Stockholm to the stars.--The many cultures of astronomy.
- Homet, Jean M. Cadrans solaires en Queyras. Photographies de Franck Rozet. Aix-en-Provence,
Édisud, 2000. 117 p. col. illus., col. map.
- IAU Colloquium, 178th, Cagliari, 1999. Polar motion:
historical and scientific problems. Edited by
Steven Dick, Dennis McCarthy, and Brian Luzum. Historical sessions. San Francisco,
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series,
v. 208) p. 1-219. illus., facsims., maps, ports.
- Contents: Dick, S. J. Polar motion: a historical overview on the occasion of the centennial
of the International Latitude Service.--pt. 1. History of early polar motion research. Abalakin,
V. K. On Leonhard Euler's contribution to the theory of precession and nutation. Melchior,
P. J. Theories of polar motion from Tisserand to Poincaré (1890-1910). Verdun, A., and G.
Beutler. Early observational evidence of polar motion. Débarbat, S. V. Latitude observations
at Paris Observatory prior to the ILS. Stavinschi, M. Romanian contribution to the study of
polar motion. ...íma, Z. The observations of latitude changes measured in Prague. Brosche,
P. Küstner's observations of 1884-85: the turning point in the empirical establishment of polar
motion. Carter, M. S., and W. E. Carter. Seth Carlo Chandler Jr.: the discovery of variation
of latitude.--pt. 2. History of the International Latitude Service, Bureau international de l'heure,
International Earth Rotation Service and polar motion applications. Proverbio, E. The period
of organization of the International Latitude Service: 1889-1899. Höpfner, J. On the
contribution of the Geodetic Institute Potsdam to the International Latitude Service.
Ehgamberdiev, S. A., S. K. Eshonkulov, and E. A. Litvinenko. Kitab as one of the five stations
of the ILS: history and present. Uras, S., A. Poma, and P. Calledda. Browsing through the
observing books of Carloforte. Guinot, B. History of the Bureau international de l'heure.
Korsun, A. O. E. P. Fedorov as president of Commission 19 of the IAU during the period of
the reorganization of ILS. Wilkins, G. A. Project MERIT and the formation of the
International Earth Rotation Service. Mueller, I. I. The first decade of the IERS. Muller, P.
M. Time and polar motion in early NASA spacecraft navigation.
- Instrument--Experiment; historische Studien. Im Auftrag des
Vorstandes der Deutschen Gesellschaft für
Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik hrsg. von Christoph Meinel. Berlin,
Diepholz, Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2000. 423 p. illus.,
facsims.
- Partial contents: Staley, R. Michelson's interferometer: experiment or instrument?--Keil,
I. Aus den Augsburger optischen Werkstätten des 17. Jahrhunderts.--Oestmann, G. Uhren- und
Instrumentenbau in Norddeutschland: die Dynastie der Hager in Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.--Voskuhl, A. Schein und Strahlung: die Anfänge der Messung von
Sonnenstrahlung im 19. Jahrhundert und ihre Replikation.
- International Congress on the History of Sciences, 20th,
Liège, 1997. Proceedings of the XXth
International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997). v. 5. The spread of the
scientific revolution in the European periphery, Latin America and East Asia. Edited by Celine
A. Lértora Mendoza, Efthymios Nicolaïdis and Jan Vandersmissen. pt. 3. East Asia. Turnhout,
Brepols, 2000. (De diversis artibus, t. 45) p. 145-192. facsims.
- Includes lists of the Chinese characters representing romanized terms used in the respective
papers.
- Contents: Fung, K.-W. Christopher Clavius and Li Zhizao.--Hashimoto, K. The earliest
evidence of the introduction of Kepler's laws into China as is
observed in the Lifa wenda.--Lu,
D. Guimao yuan calendar (1732-1911) and Isaac Newton's theory of the moon's
motion.--Cervera Jiménez, J. A. Dominican contributions to science in the 16th and 17th
centuries. The example of Fray Juan Cobo in East Asia.
- Istoriia astronomii v Rossii i SSSR. Pod red. V. V. Soboleva.
Moskva, "IAnus-K," 1999. 589 p., [16]
p. of plates. illus., ports.
- Contents: Predislovie.--1. Sobolev, V. V. Obshchii obzor.--2. Guliaev, A. P., and M.
S. Zverev. Astrometriia.--3. Kholshevnikov, K. V. Nebesnaia mekhanika.--4. Gurshtein,
A. A., and I. N. Minin. Fizika solnechnoi sistema.--5. Gel´freikh, G. B., and E. V.
Kononovich. Fizika solntsa.--6. Gorbatski, V. G. Fizika zvezd.--7. Voshchinnikov, N. V.,
and L. P. Osipkov. Galakticheskaia astronomiia.--8. Hagen-Thorn, V. A., and A. D. Chernin.
Vnegalakticheskaia astronomiia.--9. Guliaev, A. P., and A. K. Kolesov. Astronomiia v
universitetakh.--10. Hagen-Thorn, V. A., and A. K. Kolesov. Nauchnye uchrezhdeniia.
- Jachím, Frantiek. Tycho Brahe: hvezdárova odysea z Dánska do Cech. Praha, Eminent, 2000. 214 p.,
[32] p. of plates. illus., facsims., ports.
- Jackson, Myles W. Spectrum of belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics.
Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2000. 284 p. illus., facsims., ports.
- Jaki, Stanley L. The limits of a limitless science, and other essays. Wilmington, Del., ISI Books, 2000.
246 p.
- Partial contents: 2. Extraterrestrials, or better be moonstruck?--4. The Biblical basis of
Western science.--5. The inspiration and counter-inspiration of astronomical phenomena.--8.
The reality of the universe.--9. A telltale meteor [ALH 84001]--10. Cosmology: an empirical
science?
- Jordanus, Nemorarius. Il planisfero di Giordano Nemorario.
[A cura di] Rocco Sinisgalli, Salvatore
Vastola. Fiesole, Edizioni Cadmo, 2000. 95 p. illus. (Domus perspectivae, 6)
- Latin and Italian in parallel columns.
- Jungnickel, Christa, and Russell McCormmach. Cavendish: the experimental life. Rev. ed. Lewisburg,
Pa., Bucknell, 1999. xvi, 814 p. illus., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.
- In the third part, "Henry Cavendish," see particularly chapter 6,
"Earth," with sections
entitled "Philosophical Tours in Britain," "Entire Globe,"
"Weighing the World," and "The
Cavendish Experiment."
- Although the index contains no heading for astronomy, among the relevant topics treated or
touched on are the Greenwich-Paris triangulation, the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus, the
Hindu calendar, stars, double stars, comets, marine chronometers, and telescopes.
- This revision includes, as part four, "Henry Cavendish's Scientific Letters"
(p. 515-731).
Among his correspondents, listed on p. 527, were Nevil Maskelyne, William Herschel, Charles
Blagden, and John Michell.
- Karl Friedrich Zöllner and the historical dimension of
astronomical photometry. A collection of papers
on the history of photometry. C. Sterken, K. B. Staubermann [eds.] Brussels, VUB Press, 2000.
186 p. illus., facsims., map, ports.
- Contents: Sterken, C., and K. B. Staubermann. Preface.--I. Instruments of Zoellner's era.
1. Hearnshaw, J. B. Nineteenth century visual photometers and their achievements. 2. Geyer,
E. H. The reversion spectrometer of Karl Friedrich Zöllner. 3. Geyer, E. H. Friedrich
Magnus Schwerd (1792-1871) and his double-beam photometer. 4. Bartha, L. Zöllner and
Zöllner-type photometers in Hungary. 5. Staubermann, K. B., and others. The replication of
an original Zöllner-photometer. 6. Staubermann, K. B. Lessons from replicating Zöllner's
photometer.--II. Zoellner's photometric data. 7. Sterken, C. Astrophysical insights based on
archeo-photometry. 8. Sterken, C. The data content of Zöllner's catalogue. 9. Sterken, C.,
and K. B. Staubermann. Visual magnitudes based on Zöllner's catalogue.--III. Zoellner's
personality. 10. Dick, W. R. Friedrich Zöllner's personal papers. 11. Dick, W. R., and G.
Münzel. Friedrich Zöllner's correspondence with Wilhelm Foerster. 12. Münzel, G.
Friedrich Zöllner's relation to the staff of Leipzig observatory.--IV. Studies on K.-F. Zoellner.
13. Herrmann, D. B. Zöllner studies at Archenhold Obsrvatory 1974-1994. 14. Hamel, J.
Bibliography of publications by K.-F. Zöllner 1834-1882.
- Kertz, Walter. Geschichte der Geophysik. Hrsg. von Ruth Kertz und Karl-Heinz Glassmeier.
Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1999. 376 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. (Zur Geschichte der
Wissenschaften, Bd. 3)
- Covers the period 1600-1939.
- See particularly sections 6, "Streit um die Figur der Erde" (p. 69-81); 9, "Kurzzeitige
Variationen des Magnetfeldes und Polarlichter" (p. 116-129); 10, "Das Gravitationsgesetz
bewährt sich auf der Erde" (p. 130-138); 16, "Licht von der Sonne und aus den Polgebieten der
Erde" (p. 225-245); and 17, "Lord Kelvin und das Alter der Erde" (p. 246-255).
- Kirch, Gottfried. Astronomie um 1700. Kommentierte Edition des Briefes von Gottfried Kirch an Olaus
Römer vom 25. Oktober 1703. Von Klaus Dieter Herbst. Thun, Verlag H. Deutsch, 1999. 143
p. facsims., ports. (Acta historica astronomiae, v. 4)
- Kochhar, Rajesh K., and Jayant V. Narlikar. Astronomy in India, past, present and future. Pune, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics; Bangalore, Indian Institute of Astrophysics,
1993. 121 p., [12] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), facsims., ports. (part col.)
- Contents: Preface.--1. Historical perspective.--2. Observational facilities.--3. The
university sector.--4. Research in astronomy and astrophysics.--5. Professional societies.--6.
Amateur and popular astronomy.--Directory of addresses.
- Kraemer, Robert S. Beyond the moon: a golden age of planetary exploration, 1971-1978. Washington,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. xxix, 270 p., [8] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), group ports.
(Smithsonian history of aviation and spaceflight series)
- Langermann, Y. Tzvi. The Jews and the sciences in the Middle Ages. Aldershot, Hants, Brookfield, Vt.,
Ashgate Variorum, 1999. [318], 19 p. illus., facsims. (Variorum collected studies series,
CS624)
- Partial contents: 1. Science in the Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula: an interim
report (first publication).--2. Sa'adya and the sciences (first publication).--3. Some astrological
themes in the thought of Abraham ibn Ezra (1993).--4. Maimonides and astronomy: some
further reflections (first publication).--6. Gersonides on the magnet and the heat of the sun
(1992).--7. The astronomy of Rabbi Moses Isserles (1991).--9. The scientific writings of
Mordekhai Finzi (1988).--10. The Hebrew astronomical codex Ms. Sassoon 823 (with Karl A.
F. Fischer and Paul Kunitzsch, 1989).
- The Legacy of J. C. Kapteyn; studies on Kapteyn and the development of modern astronomy. [Edited] by
P. C. van der Kruit and K. van Berkel. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
xvii, 382 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Astrophysics and space science library, v. 246)
- Contents: Kruit, P. C. van der, and K. van Berkel. Preface.--1. Blaauw, A. Meeting
Kapteyn in the Kapteyn Room.--2. Heijden, P. van der. The 'lost letters' of J. C. Kapteyn.--3.
Krul, W. E. Kapteyn and Groningen: a portrait.--4. Sitter, W. R. de. Kapteyn and de Sitter;
a rare and special teacher-student and coach-player relationship.--5. Feast, M. W. Kapteyn and
South Africa.--6. DeVorkin, D. H. Internationalism, Kapteyn and the Dutch pipeline.--7.
Berkel, K. van. Growing astronomers for export: Dutch astronomers in the United States before
World War II.--8. Smith, R. W. Kapteyn and cosmology.--9. Gingerich, O. Kapteyn,
Shapley, and their universes.--10. Kinman, T. D. Kapteyn and the selected areas: a personal
perspective.--11. Sullivan, W. T. Kapteyn's influence on the style and content of twentieth
century Dutch astronomy.--12. Gilmore, G. F. Surveys and star counts: the Kapteyn
legacy.--13. Perryman, M. A. C. Modern astrometry.--14. Kruit, P. C. van der. The Milky
Way compared to external galaxies.--15. Schmidt, M. Kapteyn's (m, log r) table and
cosmology.--16. Woltjer, L. Kapteyn's unfortunate universe.--Appendix: A. J. H. Oort's
public lecture of 1926: "Non-Light-Emitting Matter in the Stellar System", introduced and
translated by P. C. van der Kruit.--Appendix: B. Berkel, K. van, and P. C. van der Kruit.
Note on E. R. Paul's translation of H. Hertzsprung-Kapteyn's biography of J. C. Kapteyn.
- Lippincott, Kristen. The story of time. With Umberto Eco, E. H. Gombrich, and others. London,
Merrell Holberton in association with National Maritime Museum, 1999. 304 p. illus. (part col.),
facsims. (part col.), ports. (part col.)
- Contents: Acknowledgements. Forewords. Preface.--Eco, U. Times.--1. The creation
of time.--2. The measurement of time. North, J. D. From observation to record: astronomy
in prehistory and the early civilizations. The movement of the sun and moon. Time in India.
Ackermann, S. The principles and uses of calendars; political and social implications. Aveni,
A. F. Mesoamerican and Andean timekeeping and calendars. King, D. A. Time and space in
Islam. Loewe, M. Cyclical and linear concepts of time in China. Hendry, J. Cycles, seasons
and stages of life; time in a Japanese context. MacDonald, J. Inuit time. Dekker, E. Of
spheres and shadows. Mechanical timekeeping in Europe: the early stages. Betts, J. The
growth of modern timekeeping; from pendulums to atoms.--3. The depiction of time. Gaskell,
I. The image of vanitas; efflorescence and evanescence. Campbell, L. Time and the portrait.
House, J. Seasons and moments; time and nineteenth-century art. Pointon, M. "These
fragments I have shored against my ruins." Ades, D. Art and time in the twentieth century.--4.
The experience of time. Fenlon, I. Music and time. Arnold, K. Does time heal? Time in the
history of medicine. Gombrich, E. H. The history of anniversaries: time, number and sign.
Fernández-Armesto, F. Time and history. Rudwick, M. Geologists' time: a brief history.
Morphy, H. Australian aboriginal concepts of time. Spalinger, A. Egyptian time.--5. The
end of time. Rees, Sir M. J. Understanding the beginning and the end.
- The essays are interspersed with catalog descriptions of 312 items displayed at the exhibition
held Dec. 1, 1999-Sept. 24, 2000, at the Queen's House, National Maritime Museum.
- Littlewood, Kevin, and Beverley Butler. Of ships and stars; maritime heritage and the founding of the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. London, New Brunswick, NJ, Athlone Press and the
National Maritime Museum, 1998. xxiii, 275 p., [41] p. of plates. illus., facsims., plan, ports.
- McGlone, Bill, Phil Leonard, and Ted Barker. Archaeoastronomy of southeast Colorado and the
Oklahoma Panhandle. Kamas, UT, Mithras, 1999. 156 p., [32] p. of plates. illus. (part col.)
- Mathesis. Festschrift zum siebzigsten Geburtstag von Matthias Schramm. Rüdiger Thiele (Hrg.). Berlin,
Diepholz, Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2000. 348 p. illus.,
facsims., port.
- Partial contents: Mathematik. Knobloch, E. Archimedes, Kepler, and Guldin: the role of
proof and analogy.--Astronomie. Maeyama, Y. Zur geozentrischen Planetenbewegung;
Methoden zum Studien der Astronomiegeschichte. Oestmann, G. Das Chronometer des Bremer
Uhrmachers Johann Georg Thiele (1714-1784). Hamel, J. Die erste deutsche Übersetzung des
Hauptwerkes von Nicolaus Copernicus um 1586.
- Mazzucotelli, Mauro. Cultura scientifica e tecnica del monachesimo in Italia. Seregno, Abbazia San
Benedetto, 1999. 2 v. (338 p., [8] leaves of plates) facsims. (Orizzonti monastici, 22)
- Partial contents: IV. Astronomia. 1. Studi astronomici nei monasteri prima di Galileo.
2. Astronomia monastica nel XVII secolo. 3. I monaci della cerchia di Galileo. 4. Giovanni
Alberto Colombo insegnante di astronomia e meteorologia.--V. Astronomia applicata. 1.
Scienze nautiche. 2. Costruzione di strumenti ottici. 3. Trattatisti di gnomonica e costruttori
di orologi solari. 4. Monaci e riforme del calendario. Cronologia.--X. Astrologia e alchimia.
1. Placido Titi: "l'Astrologia è vero scienza."
2. Benedetto Mazzotta astrologo e alchimista.
- Relevant illustrations appear on plates 1, 2, and 4 in v. 1.
- Mijangos Díaz, Eduardo N. Felipe Rivera. Astrónomo michoacano [1852-1920] In Sánchez Díaz,
Gerardo, and Eduardo N. Mijangos Díaz. Las contribuciones michoacanas a la ciencia mexicana
del siglo XIX. Morelia, Michoacán, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad
Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morevallado Editores, 1996. p. 113-120. ports.
- Four articles by Rivera are reprinted, with illustrations, on p. 191-208. These are:
"Uranografía" (1901); "La fotografía como auxiliar del estudio de la
astronomía" (1906); "El
eclipse total del 28 de mayo de 1900. Descripción del gran
fenómeno" (1900); and "Reseña
histórica de los principales eclipses totales de Sol en el siglo XIX" (1905).
- Milbrath, Susan. Star gods of the Maya: astronomy in art, folklore, and calendars. Austin, University
of Texas Press, 1999. 348 p., [23] p. of plates. illus., map. (The Linda Schele series in Maya
and pre-Columbian studies)
- Contents: Introduction.--1. Contemporary Maya images of the heavens.--2. Naked-eye
astronomy.--3. Precolumbian and Colonial period Maya solar images.--4. Precolumbian and
Colonial period lunar images and deities.--5. Venus and Mercury: the body doubles.--6. The
celestial wanderers.--7. Stars, the Milky Way, comets, and meteors.--Appendix 1. Guide to
astronomical identities.--Appendix 2. Table of Classic period dates, monuments, and associated
astronomical events.--Appendix 3. Table for calculating the Tzolkin intervals.--Glossary.
- Millburn, John R. Adams of Fleet Street, instrument makers to King George III. With the kind support
of the Scientific Instrument Society, London. Aldershot, Hants, Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2000.
xix, 420 p. illus., facsims., geneal. tables, map.
- The instruments made by George Adams Sr. and his two sons include armillary spheres,
celestial globes, quadrants, sextants, octants, orreries, and telescopes.
- Montgomery, Scott L. Science in translation: movements of knowledge through cultures and time.
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000. 325 p. facsims.
- Contents: Introduction. Transfers of learning, questions of influence.--pt. 1. The heavens
through time and space; a history of translating astronomy in the West. 1. The era of Roman
translation; from Greek science to medieval manuscript. 2. Astronomy in the East; the Syriac
and Persian-Indian conversions. 3. The formation of Arabic science, eighth through tenth
centuries; translation and the creation of intellectual traditions. 4. Era of translation into Latin;
transformations of the medieval world.--pt. 2. Science in the non-Western world; levels of
adaptation. 5. Record of recent matters; translation and the origins of modern Japanese science.
6. Japanese science in the making; of texts and translators. 7. Issues and examples for the
study of scientific translation today. 8. Conclusion; gained in translation.
- Mosello, Rosario. Orologi solari nell'arco alpino: le meridiane della Val d'Ossola. Domodossola,
Edizioni Grossi, 1999. 260 p., [16] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), facsims., maps.
- Summary in English: p. 229-237.
- Nautical Almanac Office Sesquicentennial Symposium, Washington, D.C., 1999. Proceedings, Nautical
Almanac Office Sesquicentennial Symposium, U.S. Naval Observatory, March 3-4, 1999. Edited
by Alan D. Fiala and Steven J. Dick. [History] Washington, D.C., U.S. Naval Observatory,
1999. p. 9-177. illus., ports.
- Contents: Fiala, A. D. Dedication of the history session to Leroy E. Doggett,
1941-1996.--Dick, S. J. History of the American Nautical Almanac Office.--Wilkins, G. A.
The history of H.M. Nautical Almanac Office.--Waff, C. B. Navigation vs. astronomy:
defining a role for an American nautical almanac.--Moyer, A. E. Simon Newcomb at the
Nautical Almanac Office.--Gutzwiller, M. C. Wallace Eckert, computers, and the Nautical
Almanac Office.--Carter, M. S., P. Cook, and B. J. Luzum. The contributions of women to
the Nautical Almanac Office, the first 150 years.
- Navarro Brotóns, Víctor, and Enrique
Rodríguez Galdeano. Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en
la España del siglo XVI. Los Comentarios al segundo libro
de la Historia Natural de Plinio de
Jerónimo Muñoz. Valencia, Instituto de Estudios
Documentales e Históricos sobre la Ciencia,
Universitat de València-C.S.I.C., 1998. 664 p.
(Cuadernos valencianos de historia de la medicina
y de la ciencia, ser. A, 54)
- The edition of the Comentarios (p. 254-659) is presented in Latin with Spanish translation
on facing pages.
- Le Nuove stelle. Il dialogo tra scienza e letteratura nella cultura moderna. Atti del convegno di S.
Giovanni in Persiceto, 22 novembre 1997. A cura di Bruno Capaci. San Giovanni in Persiceto,
Comune di San Giovanni in Persiceto, 1998. 95 p. illus., port.
- Supplement to Strada maestra, n. 43, 2. semestre 1997.
-
Contents: Marulli, F., and G. Nicoli. Presentazione.--Capaci, B. Prefazione.--Battistini,
A. Introduzione: Le ragioni di un dialogo.--Celli, G. Van Gogh e le stelle.--Battistini, A.
Galileo e il telescopio nell'immaginario barocco.--Barbieri, C. Il telescopio nazionale
Galileo.--Baffetti, G. Tradizione gesuitica e nuova astronomia: la ricezione del "Sidereus
Nuncius" presso il Collegio Romano.--Braccesi, A. Galileo, Torricelli, Cartesio e Pascal:
antefatti e discussioni sul pieno, il vuoto, il peso dell'aria e l'esperienza barometrica.--Capaci,
B. Da Conti a Rezzonico. La poesia del cielo nel Settecento.--Dragoni, G. Isaac Newton
(1642-1727): uno scienziato ai confini del pensiero.--Ferrarini, M. L'astrofilo in biblioteca:
le riviste divulgative della Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Astronomia date in deposito alla
Biblioteca "G. C. Croce" di San Giovanni in Persiceto.
- Panaino, Antonio. Titrya. Roma, Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1990-95. 2 v.
illus. (Serie orientale Roma, 68)
- Contents: pt. 1. The Avestan hymn to Sirius.--pt. 2. The Iranian myth of the star Sirius.
- Paschos, Emmanuel A., and P. Sotiroudis. The schemata of the stars; Byzantine astronomy from A.D.
1300. Singapore, River Edge, N.J., World Scientific, 1998. xiv, 213 p. illus. (part col.),
facsims.
- Provides Greek text, with English translation on facing pages, of [in Greek:
Peri ton schematon ton asteron], ascribed to Gregory Chioniades.
- Peebles, Curtis. Asteroids; a history. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. 280 p., [8] p.
of plates. illus., port.
- Perspectives arabes et médiévales sur
la tradition scientifique et philosophique grecque. Actes du colloque
de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire
des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et
islamiques), Paris, 31 mars-3 avril 1993. Édité par
Ahmad Hasnawi, Abdelali Elamrani-Jamal et
Maroun Aouad. Préf. de Roshdi Rashed. Leuven, Peeters;
Paris, Institut du monde arabe, 1997.
xiv, 665 p. illus. (Orientalia lovaniensia analecta, 79)
- Partial contents: Morelon, R. Le
Livre des hypotheses de Claude Ptolémée et la lecture de
cet auteur en langue arabe.--Saliba, G. A redeployment of mathematics in a sixteenth-century
Arabic critique of Ptolemaic astronomy.--Pingree, D. Masha'-allah: Greek, Pahlavi, Arabic and
Latin astrology.--Lemay, R. Acquis de la tradition scientifique grecque
confrontés aux réalités
des civilisations médiévales: cas particulier de
l'astrologie-cosmologie.--Federici Vescovini, G.
Perspectives médiévales sur l'astronomie ancienne:
l'astronomie arabe du IXe au XIIe siècle et
le témoignage de Pierre de Padoue (le Lucidator
dubitabilium astronomiæ, 1303-1310).
- Poirier, Jean P. Ces pierres qui tombent du ciel.
Paris, Éditions Le Pommier, 1999. 159 p. (Leçons
de choses)
- "Les météorites, du prodige à la science."
- Principio di secol novo; saggi su Galileo. A cura di L. A. Radicati di Brozolo. Pisa, Cassa di risparmio,
1999. xxi, 374 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.), ports. (part col.)
- Partial contents: Garin, E. Galileo filosofo.--Radicati di Brozolo, L. A. Il libro della
natura.--Maccagni, C. La cosmologia di Galileo.--Brandmüller, W. Galileo e la chiesa alla
luce della storia di pensiero.--Howald-Haller, M. Le meraviglie del cielo nel cannocchiale di
Galileo.--Maffei, L., and A. Fiorentini. Galileo al telescopio: che cosa il suo cervello disse al
suo occhio.--Baldo-Ceolin, M. Galileo e il telescopio.
- Riccobono, Nanni. Tunguska: un'avventura nella taiga siberiana per risolvere il mistero dei corpi celesti
che minacciano la Terra. Milano, Rizzoli, 2000. 239 p., [8] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), maps.
- On the 1999 Italian expedition led by Giuseppe Longo.
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de. Il Trattato de la spera. Volgarizzato da Zucchero Bencivenni. Edizione critica
a cura di Gabriella Ronchi. Firenze, Presso l'Accademia della Crusca, 1999. 212 p. (Quaderni
degli "Studi di filologia italiana," 15)
- Sakai, Masato. Reyes, estrellas y cerros en Chimor; el proceso de
cambio de la organización espacial y
temporal en Chan Chan. Lima, Perú, Editorial Horizonte, 1998. 139 p. illus. (part col.)
(Arqueología e historia, 11)
- Sanchez, Jean C. Le Pic du Midi de Bigorre et son observatoire; historie scientifique, culturelle et
humaine d'une montagne et d'un observatoire scientifique. Pau, éditions Cairn, 1999. 334 p.
illus., maps. (Lieux de mémoire pyrénéens)
- Contents: Coupinot, G. Préface.--Introduction.--1.
Légende et découverte géographique
d'un pic des Pyrénées centrales.--2. Les savants à la
conquête du Pic du Midi.--3. Le projet
d'Observatoire: les hommes et les sciences du XIXe siècle
à la conquête du Pic du Midi.--4.
La fondation de l'Observatoire, 1867-1882.--5. L'époque héroïque,
1892-1920.--6. Un très
actif établissement scientifique, 1920-1937.--7. Espoirs et rêves
dans une période troublée,
1937-1947.--8. Les "Trente Glorieuses."--9. Les menaces de fermeture.--En guise de
conclusion, ou à la recherche d'un observatoire perdu.--Chronologie de l'Observatoire du Pic
du Midi de Bigorre.--Annexes.--Sources et bibliographie.
- Sartori, Eric. Histoire des grands scientifiques français,
d'Ambroise Paré à Pierre et Marie Curie. Préf.
de Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. Paris, Plon, 1999. 425 p., [16] p. of plates. illus., ports.
- Partial contents: Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827). L'intelligence du
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Tre scritti di Schiaparelli su Marte e i "marziani."
A cura di Pasquale Tucci, Agnese Mandrino e Antonella Testa. Milano, Mimesis, 1998. 116 p.
illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.)
- Contents: Tucci, P. Premessa.--Elenco e didascalie delle tavole.--Tucci, P. Fu solo
illusione? I canali di Marte tra il 1877 e il 1910.--Mandrino, A. G. V. Schiaparelli, memoria
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[in Spanish]--Abry, J. Martianus Capella: la diffusion du livre 8 du De nvptiis dans les
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d'astronomie.--Abry, J. H. Les anaphorai des signes du zodiaque dans les écrits
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