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Title: The Role of Ephemerides from Ptolemy to Kepler
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2017ASSP...50...17G Altcode:
Celestial timekeeping relied in the first instance on the movements of
the stars and planets. The principal systematic positions of planets
are recorded in ephemerides, which are primarily predictions, not
observations. Prior to the invention of printing, ephemerides are
extremely rare, which gives lie to the widespread mythology that
astronomers before the days of printing were eagerly observing the
heavens to add epicycles to improve the accuracy of the tables.
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Title: Book Review: The Abridged Almagest
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2016JHA....47..448G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Copernicus: A Very Short Introduction
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2016cvsi.book.....G Altcode:
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was the astronomer whose shocking vision
of a sun-centered universe turned out to be the essential blueprint for
a physical understanding of celestial motions. Copernicus: A Very Short
Introduction offers a fascinating portrayal of the man who launched
the modern vision of the universe. It sets Copernicus in the context
of a rapidly changing world, where the recent invention of printing
with movable type not only made sources more readily available to
him, but also fueled Martin Luther's transformation of the religious
landscape. Copernicus's heliocentric revolution is revealed as an
aesthetic achievement not dictated by observational "proofs," but
another new way of looking at the ancient cosmos.Less
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Title: Book Review: Longitude for the Coffee Table
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2016JHA....47..224G Altcode:
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Title: Letter: On Galileo and the Moon
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2016JRASC.110...95G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Studien zur "Sphaera' des Johannes de Sacrobosco
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2015JHA....46..101G Altcode:
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Title: Recreating Galileo's 1609 Discovery of Lunar Mountains
Authors: Pasachoff, Jay M.; Needham, Paul S.; Wright, Ernest T.;
Gingerich, Owen
2014DPS....4610606P Altcode:
The question of exactly which lunar features persuaded Galileo that
there were mountains on the moon has not yet been definitively answered;
Galileo was famously more interested in the concepts rather than the
topographic mapping in his drawings and the eventual engravings. Since
the pioneering work of Ewen Whitaker on trying to identify which
specific lunar-terminator features were those that Galileo identified
as mountains on the moon in his 1609 observations reported in his
Sidereus Nuncius (Venice, 1610), and since the important work on the
sequence of Galileo's observations by Owen Gingerich (see "The Mystery
of the Missing 2" in Galilaeana IX, 2010, in which he concludes that
"the Florentine bifolium sheet [with Galileo's watercolor images] is
Galileo's source for the reworked lunar diagrams in Sidereus Nuncius"),
there have been advances in lunar topographical measurements that
should advance the discussion. In particular, one of us (E.T.W.) at the
Scientific Visualization Studio of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
has used laser-topography from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
to recreate what Galileo would have seen over a sequence of dates in
late November and early December 1609, and provided animations both
at native resolution and at the degraded resolution that Galileo would
have observed with his telescope. The Japanese Kaguya spacecraft also
provides modern laser-mapped topographical maps.
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Title: God's Planet
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2014gopl.book.....G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The first published chart of the Andromeda Nebula, 1667
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2014AAS...22430605G Altcode:
The Parisian astronomer Ismaél Bullialdus (1605-1694) is known
for his planetary tables (Astronomia philolaica, 1645) based on
a geometrical approximation to the Keplerian ellipse, and for his
long correspondence with the Danzig astronomer Johannes Hevelius and
with Christiaan Huygens. Bullialdus became interested in the nascent
study of variable stars, and in 1667 published a small pamphlet with
two contributions, one on Mira Ceti and the other on the nebula in
Andromeda. He found a manuscript portraying the nebula with the date
1428, and because Tycho Brahe never mentioned a nebula in Andromeda,
Bullialdus conjectured that this object was a variable that had
disappeared in the intervening era. “We conclude this since this
conglomeration was observed neither by Hipparchus nor anyone else
in antiquity, nor in the previous age by Tycho, nor in the age of
our forefathers like Bayer.” His publication included a handsome
engraving of the image of Andromeda and the position of the nebula,
its first printed chart. I recently acquired a copy of this rare
pamphlet, Ad astronomos monita duo, and realized that the image matched
a manuscript now in the Gotha Research Library, a 15th-century Latin
version based on the work of the tenth-century Islamic astronomer,
al-Sufi. The manuscript does not carry the name of al-Sufi, and
hence Bullialdus had no real clue about its origin or its date of
composition. Paul Kunitzsch (The Arabs and the Stars, 1989, Article XI,
“The Astronomer Abu ’l-Husayn al-Sufi”) has identified a group
of eight “Latin al-Sufi” manuscripts from this period, scattered
in European libraries, but only the one now in Gotha is an exact match
to Bullialdus’ engraving. The al-Sufi manuscript was given to the
Gotha Library in 1798 by Duke Ernst II of Saxonia-Gotha-Altenburg,
who must have acquired it from France sometime in the 18th century.
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Title: Book Review: Kepler on Astrology: Kepler's Cosmological
Synthesis: Astrology, Mechanism and the Soul, Kepler's Astrology,
Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2014JHA....45..137G Altcode:
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Title: Offusius, Jofrancus
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2014bea..book.1600G Altcode:
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Title: Copernicus, Nicolaus
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2014bea..book..462G Altcode:
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Title: Transits in the Seventeenth Century and the Credentialling
of Keplerian Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2013JHA....44..303G Altcode:
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Title: The Critical Importance of Russell's Diagram
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2013ASPC..471..205G Altcode: 2013arXiv1302.0862G
The idea of dwarf and giants stars, but not the nomenclature, was
first established by Eijnar Hertzsprung in 1905; his first diagrams in
support appeared in 1911. In 1913 Henry Norris Russell could demonstrate
the effect far more strikingly because he measured the parallaxes of
many stars at Cambridge, and could plot absolute magnitude against
spectral type for many points. The general concept of dwarf and
giant stars was essential in the galactic structure work of Harlow
Shapley, Russell's first graduate student. In order to calibrate
the period-luminosity relation of Cepheid variables, he was obliged
to fall back on statistical parallax using only 11 Cepheids, a very
sparse sample. Here the insight provided by the Russell diagram became
critical. The presence of yellow K giant stars in globular clusters
credentialed his calibration of the period-luminosity relation by
showing that the calibrated luminosity of the Cepheids was comparable to
the luminosity of the K giants. It is well known that in 1920 Shapley
did not believe in the cosmological distances of Heber Curtis' spiral
nebulae. It is not so well known that in 1920 Curtis' plot of the
period-luminosity relation suggests that he didn't believe it was a
physical relation and also he failed to appreciate the significance of
the Russell diagram for understanding the large size of the Milky Way.
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Title: Obituary: Curtis Alan Wilson (1921-2012)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2013JHA....44...93G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2012JHA....43..359G Altcode:
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Title: Centennial Highlights in Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2012JAVSO..40..438G Altcode: 2012JAVSO.tmp..194G
Remarks presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, October
8, 2011.
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Title: Book Review: Uranometria von Johann Bayer 1603.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2012JHA....43..257G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: The Origins of the Telescope
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2012JHA....43..252G Altcode:
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Title: Astronomy: On the track of the transit
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2012Natur.485..305G Altcode:
Owen Gingerich enjoys two histories of the expeditions that aimed to
measure the passage of Venus across the face of the Sun.
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Title: Obituary: John Allen Eddy (1931-2009)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2011BAAS...43..008G Altcode:
Jack Eddy, who was born 25 March 1931 in Pawnee City in southeastern
Nebraska, died after a long battle with cancer in Tucson, Arizona, on
10 June 2009. Best known for his work on the long-term instability of
the sun, described in a landmark paper in Science titled "The Maunder
Minimum," he also deserves recognition as one of the triumvirate
who founded the Historical Astronomy Division of the AAS. <P />His
father ran a cooperative farm store where Jack worked as a teenager;
his parents were of modest means and there were concerns whether he
could afford college, but one of the state senators, also from Pawnee
City, nominated him for the U.S. Naval Academy. A course in celestial
navigation gave him a love of the sky. After graduation in 1953, he
served four years on aircraft carriers in the Pacific during the Korean
War and then as a navigator and operations officer on a destroyer in
the Persian Gulf. In 1957, he left the Navy and entered graduate school
at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where in 1962 he received a
Ph.D. in astro-geophysics. His thesis, supervised by Gordon Newkirk,
dealt with light scattering in the upper atmosphere, based on data
from stratospheric balloon flights. He then worked as teacher and
researcher at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder. <P />Always
adventuresome and willing to explore new frontiers, on his own time
Eddy examined an Amerindian stone circle in the Big Horn mountains
of Wyoming, a so-called medicine wheel, concluding that there were
alignments with both the solstitial sun and Aldebaran. His conjectures
became a cover story on Science magazine in June of 1974. <P />In
1971 Jack privately reproduced for his friends a small collection of
his own hilarious cartoons titled "Job Opportunities for Out-of-work
Astronomers," with an abstract beginning, "Contrary to popular belief,
a PhD in Astronomy/Astrophysics need not be a drawback in locating work
in this decade." For example, under merchandising, a used car salesman
advertises, "This Mercury is Hot! Red Shift, Black Body, and a Perfect
Radiator." Ironically, within a few years he was laid off from his
HAO position as a result of budget cuts at its parent organization,
the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). In an interview
a quarter of a century later Eddy remarked, "I found out how hard it
is for a person with a Ph.D. to get another job at that time, and
often wished I didn't have one, for I was often told, true or not,
that I was overqualified for the few jobs that turned up." <P />Eddy
found a temporary job writing a book for NASA as part of a series
on the Skylab spacecraft; the book, The New Sun, was published in
1979. Again, working on his own time, he revived an earlier finding,
namely, that between 1645 and 1715 the sun was almost devoid of spots,
and he greatly extended the previous work of Gustav Spörer and
Walter Maunder by showing during that period a dearth of aurorae and
atmospheric carbon-14, a diminution of the solar corona during eclipses,
and probably a correlation with cooling of the earth. For onomatopoiec
reasons, the rhythm of the m's, Eddy chose the title "the Maunder
Minimum" for the phenomenon, and for his unusually long cover story
in the 18 June 1976 issue of Science. The paper was well received,
and for a while Eddy was an invited speaker fifty times a year. In
1977, Eddy scored yet again, with his third cover story in Science, a
jointly authored paper on solar rotation in the early 17th century. <P
/>In 1977-78 Eddy had a fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics in Cambridge, and during that time Ken Brecher and
I had a series of conversations with Jack in which we worked out a
proposal for a historical astronomy division within the AAS; since I
had just been an AAS Councilor, I negotiated with the Society for its
actualization, and Eddy became the first HAD president, in 1981-83. He
introduced the logo, Dürer's ancient astronomer, and at the end of his
term, the plaque with the motto "Ich bin HAD," which has been passed
on to every subsequent division president. At the IAU meeting in New
Delhi, Eddy became president of the IAU Commission 41 on the history
of astronomy (1985-88). <P />While at the CfA Eddy received a tenure
offer from the director, George Field. But Eddy's wife, Marjorie Bratt
Eddy, and four children had remained behind, and Jack felt obliged to
return to Colorado. With the offer from the Smithsonian Observatory
and his considerable fame, HAO and NCAR were eager to rehire him. <P
/>Eddy soon became increasingly interested in interdisciplinary
sciences, turning away from his earlier enthusiasm for the history
of astronomy. He became the first chairman of a National Academy of
Sciences committee for an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program,
which later became the U.S. Global Change Program. Early in 1986, UCAR
(the University Corporation for Atmospheric research, which managed
NCAR) formalized its response to the challenge of global change with
a new Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies, which Eddy founded
and directed. The office focused efforts to bring the atmospheric
sciences and other relevant disciplines together to study the earth's
living and inanimate elements as a single system. <P />In 1987 Eddy
received the Arctowski medal from the National Academy of Science,
an honor awarded triennially for studies in solar physics and solar
terrestrial relationships. <P />In 1992 Eddy found a new opportunity
as chief scientist and vice president of the Center for International
Earth Science Information Network, which he described as a federally
funded pork barrel project in Michigan. Meanwhile Eddy had divorced;
he remarried in 1992 to a fellow worker at UCAR, and he and his new
wife, Barbara, relocated to Saginaw, Michigan. After two years he was
"extremely frustrated" by the bureaucracy, so he and Barbara struck
out on their own, founding the newsletter Consequences (with support
from five federal agencies) to explain in popular terms the nature
and eventual impacts of environmental changes of all kinds. In 2004
they moved to Tucson, where Eddy worked for NASA at the National
Solar Observatory until the time of his death. <P />Author's
Note: A principal source of information is the interview with
John A. Eddy by Spencer Weart on 21 April 1999, Niels Bohr Library
& Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA,
www.aip.org/history/ohilist/22910.html. See also the obituary by Peter
Foukal in Physics Today, January 2010, pp. 60-61.
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Title: Astronomy: Recasting the heavens
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2011Natur.477..276G Altcode:
Dava Sobel mixes fact and fiction to great effect in her biography of
Copernicus, finds Owen Gingerich.
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Title: Book Review: The Zodiac of Paris
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2011JHA....42..418G Altcode:
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Title: Kepler, Galileo and the birth of modern astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2011IAUS..260..172G Altcode:
The International Year of Astronomy marks the 400th anniversary
of Kepler's Astronomia nova and the first use of the telescope
for astronomy, most notably leading to Galileo's Sidereus nuncius
(1610). Kepler's book for the first time argued strongly for a physical
basis to astronomical explanations. Galileo's work showed that a
coherent understanding was more important for scientific progress
than specific proofs. The efforts of both astronomers undermined the
traditional geocentric cosmology and essentially brought about the
birth of modern astronomy.
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Title: How Galileo Constructed the Moons of Jupiter
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; van Helden, Albert
2011JHA....42..259G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Science and Theology in the Reformation:
Studies in Theological Interpretation and Astronomical Observation
in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2011JHA....42..267G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Astrum 2009: Astronomy and Instruments: Italian
Heritage Four Hundred Years after Galileo
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2011JHA....42..116G Altcode:
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Title: The great Martian catastrophe and how Kepler fixed it
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2011PhT....64i..50G Altcode:
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Title: Brian Marsden (1937-2010)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2010Natur.468.1042G Altcode:
The walking encyclopedia of comets.
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Title: 2010 WA
Authors: Sayers, L.; Housman, A. E.; Sekanina, Z.; Gingerich, O.;
Green, D. W. E.; Bopp, T.; Hale, A.; Herget, P.; Bardwell, C. M.;
Williams, G. V.
2010MPEC....W...10S Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Atlas of the Messier Objects
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2010JHA....41..419G Altcode:
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Title: The General History of Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2010gha..book.....G Altcode:
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Birth of Astrophysics
and Other Late Nineteenth-Century Trends (c.1850-c.1920); 1. The origins
of astrophysics A. J. Meadows; 2. The impact of photography on astronomy
John Lankford; 3. Telescope building, 1850-1900 Albert Van Helden;
4. The new astronomy A. J. Meadows; 5. Variable stars Helen Sawyer
Hogg; 6. Stellar evolution and the origin of the Hertzsprung-Russell
diagram David DeVorkin; Part II. Observatories and Instrumentation:
7. Astronomical institutions. Introduction Owen Gingerich, Greenwich
Observatory Philip S. Laurie, Paris Observatory Jacques Lévy, Pulkovo
Observatory Aleksandr A. Mikhailov, Harvard College Observatory
Howard Plotkin, United States Naval Observatory Deborah Warner,
Lick Observatory Trudy E. Bell, Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory
Dieter B. Herrmann; 8. Building large telescopes, 1900-1950 Albert
Van Helden; 9. Astronomical institutions in the southern hemisphere,
1850-1950 David S. Evans; 10. Twentieth-century instrumentation
Charles Fehrenbach, with a section on 'Early rockets in astronomy'
Herbert Friedman; 11. Early radio astronomy Woodruff T. Sullivan III;
Appendix: The world's largest telescopes, 1850-1950 Barbara L. Welther;
Illustrations: acknowledgements and sources; Index.
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Title: Book Review: Astrologia Opere a Stampa (1492-1900)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2010JHA....41..143G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Galileo: Images of the Universe from Antiquity
to the Telescope
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2010JHA....41..145G Altcode:
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Title: How Galileo and Kepler Countered Aristotle's Cosmological
Errors
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2009ASPC..409..242G Altcode:
Aristotle made two major common sense assumptions that ultimately had
to be refuted to open the way to modern science. One was the dichotomy
between celestial and terrestrial. The other was the separation of
astronomy from physics. Galileo, particularly with his examination
of the moon in the Sidereus nuncius, was a pioneer in destroying the
first assumption, while Kepler, whose Astronomia nova was subtitled
“based on causes, or celestial physics,” broke the stranglehold of
the second. The importance of these fundamental contributions toward
establishing the nature of modern science, which paved the way for Isaac
Newton, is often overshadowed by their more specific contributions in
optics or mechanics.
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Title: Obituary: John David North (1934-2008)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2009JHA....40..335G Altcode:
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Title: Year of astronomy: Mankind's place in the Universe
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2009Natur.457...28G Altcode:
Technological developments in astronomy have long helped to answer some
of the greatest questions tackled by humanity, recounts Owen Gingerich.
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Title: Book Review: Mikołaj Kopernik Dzieła Wszystkie, iii
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2008JHA....39..416G Altcode:
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Title: Not so amateur
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2008Natur.453..156G Altcode:
Volunteer star-gazers tracking satellites at the start of the space
age often surpassed the professionals.
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Title: Publish or Perish: The Case of Thomas Harriot
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2007AAS...211.3401G Altcode: 2007BAAS...39..786G
In 1585 the 25-year old Thomas Harriot set foot on Roanoke Island,
just inside the barrier island of what is now North Carolina but what
was then called Virginia. Harriot, under the patronage of Sir Walter
Raleigh, was the cartographer and navigational expert on a colonizing
expedition, and he was perhaps the first scientist to take up temporary
residence in North America. On his return to Britain he published,
at the insistence of Raleigh, a now quite rare promotional pamphlet,
A briefe and true report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588). This
was the only thing he published in his lifetime, so his reputation
virtually perished. Centuries later his 10,000 pages of manuscripts
began to be investigated, so we now know that he anticipated Galileo
in the discovery of sunspots, though his telescopic drawings of the
moon were strongly influenced by what he saw in Galileo's Sidereus
nuncius. Harriot corresponded briefly with Kepler, and had he shared
his optical observations, the law of refraction might have become
available much earlier. Harriot died in 1621 of cancer of the nose,
possibly exacerbated by a habit he helped to import from America,
"drinking” tobacco fumes.
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Title: Revisiting The Fitness of the Environment
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2007fcl..book...20G Altcode: 2008fclb.book...20G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Quests of a theoretical astronomer
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2007Natur.450..480G Altcode:
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Title: Book review: Heinrich Rantzau und die Astrologie /
Disquisitiones Historiae Scientiarum, Braunschweiger Beiträge
zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Band 2; Braunschweig, 318 pp., 2004,
ISBN 3-927939-65-X.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2007JHA....38..510G Altcode:
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Title: Gutenberg's Gift
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2007ASPC..377..319G Altcode: 2007lisa.conf..319G
Printing with movable type provided a great impetus for astronomy, both
for preserving observations and for disseminating ideas. For example,
Copernicus relied almost entirely on printed sources for the data needed
in his De revolutionibus. Cheap textbooks helped bring knowledge of
basic astronomy to a widening literate audience, in the university
and beyond. Printed ephemerides were a major output from astronomers,
and an examination of the accuracy of their positions shows us the
gradual improvement in planetary theory. This “show-and-tell talk"
was illustrated with books from Prof. Gingerich's personal collection
of early astronomy books, including his particularly extensive group
of early ephemerides.
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Title: Book Review: le Conflit Entre L'astronomie Nouvelle et
L'ÉCRITURE Sainte aux Xvie et Xviie SIÈCLES : un Moment de
L'histoire des IDÉES : autour de L'affaire GALILÉE / Honore
Champion, 2005
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2007JHA....38..253G Altcode:
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Title: The Inside Story of Pluto's Demotion
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2006S&T...112e..34G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: THE TOLEDON TABLES / Historik-filosofiske Skrifter
24; Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2002
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2006JHA....37..166G Altcode:
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Title: Supplement to the Copernicus Census
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2006JHA....37..232G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: The Toledan Tables / Historisk-filosofiske
Skrifter 24; Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen,
1662 pp. in 4 volumes, 2002, ISBN 87-7876-267-7.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2006JHA....37..116G Altcode:
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Title: God's Universe
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2006goun.book.....G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Stars and Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in
the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds / Variorum, 2004
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2006JHA....37..363G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Die Korrespondenz des Astronomen und
Kalendermachers Gottfried Kirch / Verlag IKS Garamond, Jena, 2006
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2006JHA....37..485G Altcode:
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Title: A Titan of physics
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005Natur.438.1083G Altcode:
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Title: Tycho Brahe and the Nova of 1572
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2005ASPC..342....3G Altcode:
The brilliant Nova of 1572 marked the beginning of the end of
Aristotelian cosmology and provided the defining moment when the young
Tycho Brahe became a professional astronomer. He received more than a
ton of gold from the Danish king to build his Uraniborg Observatory. His
instruments, the finest produced in the pre-telescopic age, enabled him
to establish that both the nova and the Comet of 1577 lay beyond the
moon, contrary to Aristotle's teaching. His major attempt to establish
the distance to Mars (in order to distinguish between the Ptolemaic and
Copernican cosmologies) failed, but left in its wake a magnificently
accurate set of data that enabled Kepler to make the greatest advance
in celestial mechanics since Copernicus himself.
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Title: Book review: The church and Galileo / Ernan McMullin (ed.),
University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, 12 + [2] + 392 pp., 2005,
ISBN 0-268-03484-2.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005JHA....36R.443G Altcode:
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Title: Planetary Pretzels
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005S&T...110e..81G Altcode:
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Title: Book review: Retrying Galileo, 1633 - 1992 / University of
California Press Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 12 + 485 pp.,
2005, ISBN 0-520-24261-0.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005JHA....36Q.443G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Die Copernicus-Biographien des 16. bis
18. Jahrhunderts (nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe, Ix) / Akademie
Verlag, Berlin, 2004
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005JHA....36..343G Altcode:
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Title: Exploring Ancient Skies, by David H. Kelley and Eugene
F. Milone
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005S&T...110R..91G Altcode: 2005S&T...110b..91G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Credentialing Kepler: Transits in the Seventeenth Century
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2005DPS....37.0801G Altcode: 2005BAAS...37..629G
Kepler's successful prediction of the 1631 transit of Mercury spurred
an interest in his decidedly user-unfriendly Rudolfine Tables. Because
his Ephemerides went only to 1636, he did not draw attention to the
1639 transit of Venus, although the tables actually predicted the
phenomenon, and the observation by Horrocks again proved the superiority
of Kepler's work. By mid-century alternative user-friendly versions of
the Rudolfine Tables were published by V. Renieri in Italy, J.B. Morin
in France, Maria Cunitia in Germany, and (in a more modified form)
by J. Shakerley in England. Transits of Mercury were observed in 1651
(by Shakerley in Surat, India), 1661, 1667, 1690, and 1697, giving
astronomers opportunities to compare the predictions from these
tables as well as those of Lansbergen (which were a variant of the
Copernican Prutenic Tables). <P />Because of the subsequent interest
in transits for determining the length of the astronomical unit, the
18th-century French astronomer J-N. Delisle compiled for these early
transits extensive systematic records, which are now preserved at the
Paris Observatory. By his day, however, the as-yet-unpublished tables
of Edmond Halley gave the most successful predictions, and Delisle
showed little interest in further credentialing the Rudolfine Tables,
a process that had already taken place in the previous century.
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Title: Nicolaus Copernicus - Making the Earth a Planet
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; MacLachlan, James
2005ncme.book.....G Altcode:
Born in Poland in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet
revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of
our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church
official. In his quest to discover a beautiful and coherent system to
describe the motions of the planets, Copernicus placed the sun in the
center of the system and made the earth a planet traveling around the
sun. Today it is hard to imagine our solar system any other way, but for
his time Copernicus's idea was earthshaking. In 1616 the church banned
his book Revolutions because it contradicted the accepted notion that
God placed Earth in the center of the universe. Even though those who
knew of his work considered his idea dangerous, Revolutions remained
of interest only to other scientists for many years. It took almost
two hundred years for his concept of a sun-centered system to reach
the general public. None the less, what Copernicus set out in his
remarkable text truly revolutionized science. For this, Copernicus,
a quiet doctor who made a tremendous leap of imagination, is considered
the father of the Scientific Revolution.
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Title: Note: Was Horrocks a Curate? A Tangled Bibliographical Ramble
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005JHA....36..231G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: the Transit of Venus: the Brief, Brilliant Life
of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy / Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 2004
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005JHA....36..233G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Researching "The Book Nobody Read": The "De revolutionibus"
of Nicolaus Copernicus
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005PBSA...99..484G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A Second Book from Kepler's Library
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005mkfv.book..101G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: I Bernard Cohen
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005PAPhS.149..395G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Foreword
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005njs..book...13G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: In Praise of Contingency: Chance versus Inevitability in the
Universe We Know.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005spin.book...59G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE RAMPUR RAZA
LIBRARY / Rampur Raza Library, 2003
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005JHA....36..120G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Foreword
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2005coco.bookD...9G Altcode:
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Title: History of Astronomy Then and Now
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2004AAS...205.0106G Altcode: 2004BAAS...36.1339G; 2004AAS...205..106G
As one of the three founders of the Historical Astronomy Division, I
shall reflect on the progress of the history of astronomy over the past
three decades. This includes the success of the Journal for the History
of Astronomy and the proliferation of other venues for the history of
our discipline, the usefulness of Steve McCluskey's HASTRO e-mail list,
and the many reference works now available or forthcoming. The status
of archaeoastronomy and the ill-fated General History of Astronomy will
be mentioned. <P />Today history of astronomy is recognized as a serious
endeavor on the part of younger scholars, and is longer dismissed as an
activity best carried out by retired astronomers long past their prime!
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Title: Book review: Catalogue of orbs, spheres and globes / Giunti
for Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, 188 + 16
pp. of colour plates, 2004, ISBN 88-09-03589-5.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004JHA....35..489G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Jerzy Dobrzycki (1927 - 2004)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004JHA....35..371G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A radical reorientation
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004Natur.430..407G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Cytherean Rhythms
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004S&T...107f..78G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Hokuloa : the British 1874 Transit of Venus
Expedition to Hawaii / Bishop Museum Press, 2004
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004S&T...107f.108G Altcode: 2004S&T...107f.108C
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Galileo in Rome
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004Ast.....2...92G Altcode: 2004Astro...2...92G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Transit of Venus, by William Sheehan and John Westfall
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004S&T...107Q.108G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The transits of Venus / Prometheus Books, 2004
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004S&T...107R.108G Altcode: 2004S&T...107f.108S
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Truth in Science: Proof, Persuasion, and the Galileo Affair
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004SCB....16...13G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Dare a Scientist Believe in Design?
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004Omega...3...48G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Calvinist Copernicans
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004BJHS...37..471G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The book nobody read : chasing the revolutions of Nicolaus
Copernicus
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004bnr..book.....G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Spanning Longitude
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004mtm..book.....G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A celebration of the life and science of Fred Lawrence Whipple
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Lundquist, Charles A.; Marvin, Ursula B.;
Veverka, Joseph; Sekanina, Zdenek; Marsden, Brian G.
2004clsf.book.....G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: On the Copernican Trail (Interview)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004sad..book...76G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Kepler's Philosophy and the New Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2004AnSci..61..133G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: From "Occhiale" to printed page: the making of Galileo's
"Sidereus nuncius"
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; van Helden, Albert
2003JHA....34..251G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Nel segno di Galileo- erudizione, filosofia e
scienza a Firenze nel seculo XVII. I trattati accademici di Vincenzio
Capponi (In the signshadow of Galaleo - scholarship, pholosophy and
science in Florence in the XVII century) / Studio per Edizioni Scelte,
Florence, x + 346 pp., 1993.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Massarotti, Alessandro
2003JHA....34R.334G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Globes at Greenwich / Oxford University Press,
1999
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34..339G Altcode: 2003JHA....34..339D
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Nel Segno di Galileo =In the signshadow of
Galileo / Studio per edizioni scelte, 1993
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34..334G Altcode: 2003JHA....34..334C
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Nel segno di Galileo- erudizione, filosofia e
scienza a Firenze nel seculo XVII. I trattati accademici di Vincenzio
Capponi (In the signshadow of Galaleo - scholarship, pholosophy and
science in Florence in the XVII century) / Studio per Edizioni Scelte,
Florence, x + 346 pp., 1993.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Massarotti, Alessandro
2003JHA....34Q.334G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Isaac Newton
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003NYTBR.108...22G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Euclid's Phaenomena: a translation and study of
a Hellenistic treatise in sphaerical astronomy / Garland Publishing,
New York, xii + 132 pp., 1996, ISBN 0-8153-0493-5.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34..240G Altcode: 2003JHA....34..240B
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: From China to Paris: 2000 years transmission
of mathematical ideas / Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben,
Menso Folkerts, Benno van Dalen (eds.), Boethius, Band 46, Franz
Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, x + 470 pp., 2002, ISBN 3-515-08233-9.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34..247G Altcode: 2003JHA....34..247D
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Zwischen Copernicus und Kepler: M. Michael
Maestlinus mathematicus Goeppingensis 1550 - 1631 / Gerhard Betsch,
Jürgen Hamel (eds.), Acta Historica Astronomiae, xvii, Verlag Harri
Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main, 247 pp., 2002, ISBN 3-8171-1688-8.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34..246G Altcode: 2003JHA....34..246B
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Looking up to the stars
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003Natur.421..694G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Colluding with Galileo: on Mueller's critique of my analysis of
Galileo's sunspots argument. With a comment on "The Galileo sunspot
controversy: proof and persuasion" by Owen Gingerich
Authors: Topper, David; Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34...75T Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: New observations of heavenly and earthly objects
/ Translated from the Latin and annotated by Peter Fay and Sally
Beaumont, Peter Fay, Sonning Common, Reading, UK, vi + 130 pp., 2001.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34..115G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Hartmann's practika: a manual for making sundials
and astrolabes with compass and rule (written from 1518 to 1528 by
Georg Hartmann) / Translated and edited by John Lamprey, Bellvue,
CO, 312 pp., 2002, ISBN 1-931947-00-7.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34..117G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS / The Free Press, 2002
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003JHA....34..464G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Truth in Science: Proof, Persuasion, and the Galileo Affair
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003PSCF...55...80G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: God's Two Books
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003EScM....8...66G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Astrology: A History
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003Isis...94..347G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: "God's Goof," and the Universe That Knew We Were Coming
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003scre.book...51G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Neptune File
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003IJCT...10..487G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the
Birth of a World
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2003AmSch..72..148G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The forgotten star atlas : John Bevis's Uranographia
Britannica.
Authors: Kilburn, K. J.; Pasachoff, J. M.; Gingerich, O.
2003JHA....34..125K Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Planetary systems from the ancient Greeks to
Kepler / Seattle: University of Washington Press, XVI+256 pp., 1999
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002Isis...93..682G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The star of Bethlehem: the legacy of the Magi /
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick and London, xvi + 187 pp.,
1999.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Hoskin, Michael; Hughes, David W.; Birdsall,
J. Neville
2002JHA....33..386G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Episodes from the early history of astronomy /
Springer-Verlag New York, xvi + 172 pp., 2001.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002JHA....33..301G Altcode: 2002JHA....33..301A
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kepler's Singular Harmony
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002PhT....55h..76G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A right royal feud
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002Natur.418..128G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Donald H. Menzel, scientist, educator, builder, 11 April 1901 -
14 December 1976
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002JHA....33...93G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The trouble with Ptolemy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002Isis...93...70G Altcode:
Ptolemy's Almagest, a brilliant treatise on theoretical astronomy
combined with a practical handbook for computation, includes many
compromises to reconcile discordant observations. This defense of
Ptolemy examines in some detail a critical case concerning the model
for Venus, which has sometimes been used as evidence for Ptolemy's
perfidy. There the Alexandrian astronomer demonstrated his ingenuity
when orbital constraints made it impossible to obtain directly the
observed configurations he might have preferred.
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Title: Book Review: Against the donning of the gown; enigma /
Moon-Books, London 92 pp., 2000.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002JHA....33Q..77G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
/ Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 8 + 458 + 32 pp. +
accompanying booklet (32 pp.), 1999.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002JHA....33R..77G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Elizabethan instrument makers: the origins of
the London trade in precision instrument making / Oxford University
Press, Oxford, xiv + 305 pp., 2000.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002JHA....33...81G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: What Would It Have Taken for Galileo's Foes to Accept
Heliocentrism?
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002ChrHi..21...14G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kepler Then and Now
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002PeSci..10..227G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus
(Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566)
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2002accd.book.....G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Human Eschatology versus Cosmic Eschatology
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002ffu..book..225G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Copernican Revolution [Reprint]
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002srhi.book...95G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, First
Astronomer Royal, volume 3.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002Natur.418Q.128G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Recent notes on Tycho Brahe's library
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002AcHA...16..323G Altcode:
Wilhelm Norlind lists 216 books presumed to have been in Tycho's
library, but the actual count must have been much higher. The largest
block of surviving books are in the Clementinum in Prague, just over
50 volumes but nearly 100 titles. Tycho tried to acquire books in many
ways, and particularly by buying the library of Paul Wittich after the
death of this one-time visitor to Hven. This talk will also describe two
annotated volumes from Tycho's library that have recently come onto the
antiquarian market: Apianus' Astronomicum Caesareum (Ingolstadt, 1540)
and Cornelius Gemma's De naturae divinis characterismis (Antwerp, 1575).
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Title: Dare a Scientist Believe in Design?
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002strc.book..225G Altcode:
Revised version of an essay originally published in 1994.
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Title: Did the Reformers Reject Copernicus?
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002ChrHi..21...22G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Is the Cosmos All There Is?
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002refl.book....2G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Tycho Brahe: Observational Cosmologist
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2002AcHA...16...21G Altcode:
The most astonishing aspect of Tycho Brahe's legacy is the sheer bulk
of observations that he acquired. These completely overwhelmed the
sparse existing measurements of planetary and stellar positions, and,
in Kepler's hands, made possible a major reform of astronomy. The second
remarkable aspect is the precision of the observations, which came about
largely because Tycho Brahe was an astronomer with a plan. Tycho did
not simply collect observations for the sake of making measurements,
but to solve specific astronomical or cosmological problems. For this
reason he can truly be called an observational cosmologist. This
keynote lecture will address some of the problems Tycho attacked,
and will show how his program of building instruments was guided by
his visionary research agenda.
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Title: Book Review: The Bible, protestantism, and the rise of natural
science / Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xii + 313 pp., 1998
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32..369G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Giovanni Antonio Magini's "Keplerian" tables of 1614 and
their implications for the reception of Keplerian astronomy in the
seventeenth century
Authors: Voelkel, James R.; Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32..237V Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: The magic furnace: the search for the origins
of atoms / Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, New York, 2001,
viii + 232 pp.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32..181G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The melon-shaped astrolabe in Arabic astronomy /
Kennedy, E. S.; Kunitzsch, P.; Lorch, R. P. (eds.), Franz Steiner
Verlag, Stuttgart, viii + 235 pp., 1999
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32..173G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Donald H. Menzel: Scientist, Educator Builder
Authors: Pasachoff, J. M.; Gingerich, O.; Layzer, D.; Noyes, R. W.;
Parkinson, W. H.; Welther, B.
2001AGUSM..SH41B26P Altcode:
A centennial symposium in honor of Donald H. Menzel was held at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on May 11, 2001. Menzel
was known especially for his studies of the solar chromosphere, for
his theoretical work on gaseous nebulae, and for his role in founding
the Sacramento Peak and High Altitude observatories and in bringing the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to Cambridge. Menzel received his
Ph.D. at Princeton, where he was fascinated and excited by the lectures
of Henry Norris Russell about the new theoretical astrophysics. At
Lick Observatory, Menzel investigated the solar chromosphere using
solar eclipse spectra, and published the results in a major volume
in 1931. The value for the mean molecular weight he deduced for the
lower chromosphere helped persuade Russell and others that hydrogen
was the major constituent of the solar atmosphere, as Cecilia Payne had
intimated earlier. Menzel's studies of solar eclipse spectra also led
him to propose, in a paper written with R. T. Birge, that hydrogen had
an isotope of mass 2, a suggestion that motivated Harold Urey to isolate
the isotope (deuterium) chemically. Menzel joined the Harvard faculty
in 1932. His interest in investigating the sun led him to observe
more than a dozen solar eclipses, to exploit the coronagraph, and to
found two solar observatories: at Climax, Colorado, and at Sunspot, New
Mexico. He served as Director of the Harvard College Observatory from
1952 to 1966. During this time he suggested bringing and arranged to
bring the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to Harvard. Speakers at
the symposium on Menzel's life, times, and scientific legacy included
Donald Osterbrock, David DeVorkin, David Layzer, Jay Pasachoff,
Barbara Welther, Thomas Bogdan, Jack Zirker, and France Cordova. The
organizing committee was Owen Gingerich, David Layzer, Robert Noyes,
William Parkinson, Jay Pasachoff, and Barbara Welther.
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Title: Book Review: The Port Orford, Oregon, meteorite mystery /
Clarke Jr., Roy S. (ed.), Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth
Sciences, No. 31; Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC,
43 pp., 1993
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32R..87G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The mapping of the heavens / The British Library,
London, x + 134 pp., 1995
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32Q..86G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Tucson meteorites: their history from frontier
Arizona to the Smithsonian / (originally published by Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, 1987); University of Arizona Press,
47 pp., 1997
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32Q..87G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Kalendarium of John Somer / Mooney, Linne
R. (ed.) University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, xii + 224
pp., 1998
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32...84G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Landmarks in Western Science: from Prehistory to
the Atomic Age / The British Library, London; Routledge, New York,
256 pp., 1999
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32R..86G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The universe unveiled: instruments and images
through history / Adler Planetarium and History Museum, Chicago;
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 152 pp., 2000
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32S..86G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Anno Domini: the origins of the Christian era /
Brepols Turnhout, Belgium, 206 pp., 2000
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001JHA....32...81G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Star Struck: A Historical Perspective
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001ssot.book....7G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Most Brilliant Ph.D. Thesis Ever Written in Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001stun.conf....3G Altcode: 2001LDP....25....3G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Sun in the Church
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001ScChB..13...88G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Sun in the Church
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001AnSci..58..325G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001GoCBu..86....7G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Seeing and Believing
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001Endvr..25...89G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Labyrinth
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001Endvr..25...45G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhyncus
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001MatRv..10.1009G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Scientific Cosmology Meets Western Theology
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2001NYASA.950...28G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Henry Norris Russell
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000NYTBR.......39G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Plotting the pyramids
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000Natur.408..297G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Nicolaus Copernicus
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Hoskin, M.
2000eaa..bookE1921G Altcode:
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Polish astronomer whose De
Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1543) was the final achievement
under the agenda of the ancient Greek astronomers and—by its claim
that the Earth orbits the Sun—provided a major contribution to the
later development of a dynamics of inertial motion....
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Title: Book Review: June 8, 2004: Venus in Transit
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000TLS..5080...29G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Wacky Star of the Renaissance: Book Review of Cardano's
Cosmos : the Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer, Harvard
U Press, 2000
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2000Natur.404..928G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Why Make Fakes?
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000sioi.book...62G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Tycho and the ton of gold
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000Natur.403..251G Altcode:
Why a brilliantly conceived research programme failed.
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Title: Book Review: The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet, by G. E. Rumphius,
translated with commentary
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000AmCon..20...30G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000THES...14Q..23G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Let There Be Light: Modern Cosmogeny and Biblical Creation
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000npc..book..253G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The unmaking of the medieval Christian cosmos,
1500-1760 : from solid heavens to boundless aether / Ashgate, 1999
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000PhT....53f..58G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000MatRv..05.1005G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: La condamnation des livres coperniciens et
sa revocation
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000JTS....51..380G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kapteyn, Shapley, and their universes
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000ASSL..246..191G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Is There Design and Purpose in the Universe?
Authors: Gingerich, O.
2000srsc.conf..121G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Kepler's Tubingen
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000Isis...91..587G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Rash of Thefts of Copernicus' Scientific Treatise
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000IFARJ...3...9G. Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Great Stone Circles
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000THES...14R..23G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: World Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance
to Mecca
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000HisSc..38..245G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Do the Heavens Declare?
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000boco.book..522G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Ingredients for Life
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000gtfc.book...18G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Copernican Revolution
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000ehsr.book..334G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kepler
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000rghs.book..396G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Science of Eternity
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000RNOST...1....3G Altcode:
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Title: Copernicus and the Aesthetic Impulse
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
2000APSNe...9....8G Altcode:
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Title: Seth Atwood's vision.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999mtm..book...13G Altcode:
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Title: The Copernican Revolution Revisited
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999AAS...19512302G Altcode: 1999BAAS...31.1553G
The rapid pace of modern astronomy seems driven by technological
advances: larger telescopes, new detectors, a wider spectral range,
more powerful computers. In contrast, the revolution in astronomy
initiated by Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus seems slow and
unrelated to any new observations; it was an idea “pleasing to the
mind." On aesthetic grounds but without empirical proof Copernicus
argued for 1) the perfection of the circle, and 2) the elegance of
the heliocentric plan. This prize lecture will argue that in fact the
slow acceptance of Copernicus' radical heliocentric cosmology resulted
primarily because Copernicus was far in advance of the technological
developments needed to test his hypotheses. Tycho Brahe's precision
instruments (and his failed campaign to find the parallax of Mars)
produced the observational base for Kepler's physical astronomy,
while in Galileo's hands the telescope provided evidence from the
phases of Venus that disproved the Ptolemaic arrangement. Once the new
instrumentation opened the way for observational tests, Copernicus'
insistence on the uniform, circular motion fell by the wayside, but
his other grand aesthetic vision, the heliocentric cosmology, found
relatively rapid adoption. The lecture will include vignettes from our
three-decades-long search for annotated copies of Copernicus' book,
leading to the census of 270 copies of the first edition (Nuremberg,
1543) and nearly 320 copies of the second edition (Basel, 1566).
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Title: Shapley's Model of the Universe
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1999ApJ...525C.135G Altcode: 1999ApJC..525..135G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Report on the Progress in Stellar Evolution to 1950
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1999Ap&SS.267....3G Altcode:
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Title: Surfing the history of space
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1999Natur.400..730G Altcode:
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Title: Medieval Latin astronomy
Authors: Hoskin, Micael; Gingerich, Owen
1999ccha.book...68H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomy's widening horizons
Authors: Hoskin, Michael; Gingerich, Owen
1999ccha.book..306H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Islamic astronomy
Authors: Hoskin, Michael; Gingerich, Owen
1999ccha.book...50H Altcode:
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Title: A Brief History of Our View of the Universe
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1999PASP..111..254G Altcode:
Today's cosmological edifice is essentially the product of the 20th
century. This account, presented in the Baird Auditorium of the
National Museum of Natural History, begins with the Shapley-Curtis
debate of 1920, then describes some of its historical background
(including why cosmology was almost stillborn with the work of Newton),
and finally examines why in 1937 Hubble erred by an order of magnitude
in establishing the Hubble constant.
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Title: Benjamin Apthorp Gould and the Founding of the Astronomical
Journal
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1999AJ....117....1G Altcode:
On the sesquicentennial of the Astronomical Journal, we commemorate the
life of its founder, Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896), and examine
the precarious and heroic early days of this pioneering serial. The
first six volumes appeared between 1849 November 2 and 1861 February,
and after a hiatus of 25 years, Gould resumed the publication on 1886
November 2.
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Title: Why is the day 24 hours, and When will the millennium begin?
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999PlR....19d...4G Altcode: 1999PlR....19....4G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Shapley, Harlow
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999ANBio..19....4G Altcode:
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Title: Adventures of a Copernican sleuth.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999ABBW..104..559G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Copernican quinquecentennial and its
predecessors. Historical insights and national agendas
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1999Osir...14...37G Altcode:
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Title: Introduction to Nicolaus Copernicus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999droc.book.....G Altcode:
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Title: On Legado de Leonardo da Vinci a Ciencia
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999lvhe.book...59G Altcode:
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Title: Starry, starry night
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1999Natur.397...33G Altcode:
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Title: The future of homo sapiens.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999ChC...116.1159G Altcode:
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Title: The sun as a star.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999lsf..book...18G Altcode:
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Title: The return of the seagoing cowboy.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999AmSch..68...71G Altcode:
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Title: Sacrobosco illustrated.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1999bdi..book..211G Altcode:
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Title: Benjamin Apthorp Gould and the Founding of The Astronomical
Journal
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1998AAS...192.2803G Altcode: 1998BAAS...30..852G
The origin and vicissitudes of The Astronomical Journal are inextricably
bound up with the extraordinary career of Benjamin Apthorp Gould
(1824-1896), the first American to obtain a PhD in astronomy
(at Gottingen). Returning to Cambridge in 1848, Gould joined an
informal group known as the Lazzaroni, who were determined to bring
professional standards to American science. Gould devoted much of his
life to professionalizing American astronomy, and his founding of the
AJ was part of this strategy. Beginning on 2 November 1849, Gould's
AJ was issued at irregular intervals, seldom shorter than two weeks
and occasionally much longer, such as the two-month gap in 1851 when
Gould had gone to the solar eclipse in Europe. About 20% of the space
was devoted to asteroids, then the hot topic in astronomy. The 11th
issue announced the discovery of the 11th asteroid; by March of 1853,
23 asteroids were known, and Gould editorialized about the "threatened
consumption of astronomical energies." In 1856 the trustees of the
newly-founded Dudley Observatory agreed to support the financially
struggling AJ, and volume 5 (1856-58) bore the Albany dateline though
printing continued in Cambridge. Gould's ill-fated directorship of the
Dudley Observatory lasted only a year in Albany itself, and volume 6
was again edited in Cambridge. The Civil War then brought a 25-year
hiatus to Gould's journal. In 1870 Gould went to Argentina, where he
founded the Argentine National Observatory in Cordoba; he returned to
Cambridge in 1885, and very shortly thereafter resumed publication of
the AJ (in November, 1886). He continued his editorship for a decade,
producing volumes 7-16; his last issue, vol. 17, no. 4, is dated just
two weeks before his death. As his successor, Seth Chandler wrote,
"Of all the great enterprises of his life, this is the one which he
has most cherished."
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Title: Bright light comes around again
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1998Natur.392..669G Altcode:
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Title: Tycho Brahe's Copernican campaign.
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Voelkel, J. R.
1998JHA....29....1G Altcode:
In 1584 Tycho Brahe wrote to Heinrich Brucaeus, his former teacher
in Rostock, that his attempt to find whether Mars approaches closer
to the Earth than the Sun (as predicted by Copernicus) had yielded a
negative result, and that the Copernican hypothesis must therefore be
rejected. Five years later he reversed himself, writing to Thaddeus
Hagecius that in 1582 by most subtle measurements he had in fact found
a sufficiently large diurnal parallax to convince himself that that
Copernican model, or (more important) his own geo-heliocentric system,
could be justified. In hindsight we know that the Martian parallax
was in fact too small to be detected even by Tycho's remarkable
instruments. What was going on in the letter to Hagecius? Was Tycho
deliberately prevaricating or merely deluding himself in his eagerness
to find support for his new cosmology?
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Title: The universe as theatre for God's actions
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1998ThT....55..305G Altcode:
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Title: On understanding science from a perspective of faith.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1998spev.book...41G Altcode:
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Title: Preface
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1998ptal.book.....G Altcode:
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Title: The Journey into Darkness
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1998PVRv...26...11G Altcode:
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Title: In retrospect chosen by Owen Gingerich
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1998Natur.391..140G Altcode:
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Title: TYCHO Brahe's Copernican Campaign
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Voelkel, J. R.
1997AAS...191.0103G Altcode: 1997BAAS...29.1205G
Historians of astronomy have generally assumed that the Ptolemaic and
Copernican systems give equivalent predictions of planetary positions,
but Tycho Brahe knew that in the Ptolemaic arrangement Mars' distance
was always greater than the sun's, whereas in the Copernican system
Mars at opposition approached to half the sun's distance. Because Tycho
accepted the traditional solar distance scale, 20 times too small, he
expected to measure a Martian diurnal parallax of 4.5' at opposition
if the Copernican system was true. (In reality the horizontal parallax
was too small to measure by naked-eye observations.) Hence, during the
golden decade of the 1580s at Hven, Tycho undertook a major campaign
to find Mars' parallax. Observations at the opposition of 1582-83
failed, according to a letter he wrote in 1584. The campaign at the
next opposition led to frustration, but after the 1587 opposition he
claimed that in fact he had already found the parallax in 1582. Was
Tycho merely prevaricating because he wanted to have an observational
basis for his new Tychonic cosmology? During this decade Tycho
gradually became aware of the role of refraction, and much of the
new instrumentation built at Stjerneborg seems to have been motivated
by this problem. Using an erroneously chosen refraction table Tycho
apparently convinced himself of a large parallax for Mars. He may well
have discovered his error by 1592, for he never again claimed to have
found the large parallax. Because of the failure of this major goal,
Tycho's reputation as a very smart and program-motivated observer
has suffered, but because of this particular observational campaign,
there were ultimately enough astonishingly accurate Mars observations
for Kepler's later studies to succeed in finding the law of areas and
the elliptical form of planetary orbits.
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Title: Politics of eighteenth-century science
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1997Natur.387..769G Altcode:
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Title: Richard S. Westfall.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1997JHA....28..184G Altcode:
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Title: The world's greates rare astronomy libraries.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1997ABBW..100.1022G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomy's Widening Horizons
Authors: Hoskin, Michael; Gingerich, Owen
1997ciha.book..344H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A Unique Copy of Flamsteed's HISTORIA Coelestis (1712)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1997flst.conf..189G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: In Praise of Fakes.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1997SciAm.277e.120G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomical Tables and Ephemerides.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1997hoae.book..505G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Leonardo's Legacy in Science.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1997ldvc.book...23G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Islamic Astronomy
Authors: Hoskin, Michael; Gingerich, Owen
1997ciha.book...50H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: An Astronomical Perspective.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1997hlig.book...20G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Medieval Latin Astronomy
Authors: Hoskin, Michael; Gingerich, Owen
1997ciha.book...68H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: On Finding God.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1997hcfg.book..146G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: An Analysis of Kepler's Rudolphine Tables and Implications
for the Reception of His Physical Astronomy
Authors: Athreya, A.; Gingerich, O.
1996AAS...189.2404A Altcode: 1996BAAS...28.1305A
The paper discusses the historical background to Johann Kepler's 1609
magnum opus, the Astronomia Nova, in which the astronomer introduces
his first two laws of planetary motion; and his 1627 Rudolphine
Tables, wherein he presents a system for computing ephemerides based
on the new Keplerian physical astronomy. Since the predictions of the
latter work buttress the veracity of the former, a comparison of the
tabular prophecies with recorded observations of Kepler's successors
allows us to investigate the seventeenth-century reception of his
ideas. The paper analyzes the Rudolphine Tables' algorithm for the
computation of planetary positions and then applies the method to
the determination of the position of Mercury on 7 November 1631 and
the position of Venus on 24 November 1639, when Pierre Gassendi and
Jeremiah Horrox, respectively, witnessed the solar transits of these
planets. The paper then contrasts the computed results with Gassendi's
and Horrox's observations and with the planetary positions deduced by a
modern routine, and describes how the success of Kepler's predictions
provided a powerful impetus for the adoption of Keplerian ellipses
and the law of areas.
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Title: The Scale of the Universe: A Curtain-Raiser in Four ACTS and
Four Morals
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1996PASP..108.1068G Altcode:
This concise and highly selective introduction to the distance-scale
debate, from antiquity to Hubble's paper of 1924 on the distance to
M31, provides some key quotations and references. The first section
describes the early Greek determinations of the distances of the sun
and moon. The second part discusses the distances to the stars, from
Copernicus to Huygens. Section 3 skips to the early twentieth-century
ideas on the scale of the Milky Way, especially the work of Shapley. The
final section describes how Hubble's discovery of distances to galaxies
was first announced. (SECTION: A Debate on The Scale of the Universe)
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Title: Library as Laboratory.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1996HLB.....6...57G Altcode:
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Title: Cranks and Opportunists: 'Nutty' Solutions to the Longitude
Problem.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1996long.symp..134G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The discovery of multiple annotated copies of De revolutionibus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1996cqc..book...29G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Neptune, Velikovsky, and the name of the game.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1996SciAm.275c.181G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: More than machines.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1996fgh..book..267G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Ancient light
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1995Natur.377..114G Altcode: 1995Natur.377..114W
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The background and current status of the general history
of Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1995HiA....10..130G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Report on the Progress in Stellar Evolution to 1950
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1995IAUS..164....3G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: American Foreign Policy, China and the IAU: Leo Goldberg's
Memoirs
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1995HiA....10..121G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A survey of Apian's Astronomicum Caesareum.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1995akmb.conf..113G Altcode:
The Astronomicum Caesareum, from the private press of Petrus Apianus
in Ingolstadt, is one of the greatest masterpieces of sixteenth-century
printing. Designed for Charles V and his brother Ferdinand, the volume
was in every way a luxurious and princely production. In this large
folio volume the paper instrument found its supreme realization in a
series of intricate volvelles, with five or even six layers of movable
paper disks. Published in 1540, the book graphically displayed Ptolemaic
astronomy in a fashion fit for a monarch's eyes. The author's survey has
shown that perfectly preserved copies, having not only all the moving
parts but also all the threads and the dozen small sliding pearls,
are rather rare.
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Title: Astronomy and World Politics. (Book Reviews: History of
the IAU. The Birth and First Half-Century of the International
Astronomical Union.)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1994Sci...266.2027G Altcode:
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Title: The Use of History in Astronomy Education
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1994AAS...185.3701G Altcode: 1994BAAS...26.1367G
Three persuasive reasons for using historical materials in astronomy
education are: The simplest concepts are introduced first in natural
sequence. For non--science students, history can bridge to other
interests. The historical perspective shows the changing and iterative
nature of scientific explanatory structures. To illustrate these
points, this invited review paper will present a series of specific
examples from my core science course, “The Astronomical Perspective,”
believed to be Harvard's longest--running course still under the same
management. \ (Contrary to some students' beliefs, it does not date
back to the time of Ptolemy.) An earlier version of this presentation
is described in J.M. Pasachoff and J.R. Percy (eds.), The Teaching of
Astronomy: \ Proceedings of the 105(th) Colloquium of the International
Astronomical Union. (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 39--44.
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Title: Astronomy and World Politics. (Book Reviews: History of
the IAU. The Birth and First Half-Century of the International
Astronomical Union.)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1994Sci...266.2027B Altcode:
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Title: The summer of 1953: a watershed for astrophysics.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1994PhT....47l..34G Altcode: 1994PhT....47C..34G
In 1953, the Michigan Symposium on Astrophysics proved instrumental
in shaping our understanding of stellar evolution and in shaping the
future careers of many of the participants. The author, himself a
participant, gathers his colleagues' reminiscences.
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Title: Book Review: Focus Behaim Globus, ed. by Gerhard Bott
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1994JHA....25..327G Altcode:
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Title: Obituary: H. Harold Hartzler, 1908-1993
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1994BAAS...26.1604G Altcode:
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Title: A mind in motion
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1994Natur.369..195G Altcode: 1994Natur.369..195S
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Commentary on the Mt. Wilson papers.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1994ehci.conf..129G Altcode:
The author gives some immediate and specific responses to the four
papers on the early years of Mt. Wilson (see 004.056 - 004.059).
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Title: The Master of the 1550 Radices: Jofrancus Offisius
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Dobrzycki, Jerzy
1993JHA....24..235G Altcode:
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Title: The master of the 1550 radices: Jofrancus Offusius.
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Dobrzycki, J.
1993JHA....24..245G Altcode:
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Title: 450 Revolutions Later: “De revolutionibus" in Retrospect
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1993AAS...182.7901G Altcode: 1993BAAS...25..930G
We do not know precisely when or why Nicholas Copernicus adopted a
heliocentric system. Before 1514, he wrote a brief prospectus for his
radical rearrangement of the planets (the so-called Commentariolus), but
he realized that to compete with Ptolemy's Almagest, he had to prepare
a major treatise that included key observations distributed over each
planet's orbit. Copernicus remained hard at work on this task in his
late 60s. His still partly unfinished magnum opus would not have been
printed in his lifetime except for the arrival of a young disciple from
Wittenberg, Georg Joachim Rheticus, who eventually took a copy of the
manuscript to Nuremberg for publication. The printing of approximately
400 copies of the book was completed in April of 1543, and the final
sheets (actually the front matter, which was struck off last) reached
Copernicus only on the day he died, 24 May 1543. Copernicus had found a
“theory pleasing to the mind," but he had no observational evidence to
prove the sun-centered layout. As for his contemporaries, the entire
weight of tradition reinforced the notion that astronomers dealt with
geometry and hypotheses, not physics or physical reality. Hence, in
the sixteenth century, heliocentrism was viewed almost universally as
a curious hypothesis, not as a viable cosmology. The annotations that
early owners made in the margins of their copies of De revolutionibus
substantiate this view. Yet, despite the fact that the earth's motion
seemed contrary to the evidence of the senses, a brilliant cosmological
vision had seized Copernicus' imagination, one that would eventually
capture Kepler's as well. When Galileo saw that a moving Jupiter did not
lose its satellites, he, too, became an enthusiastic heliocentrist. De
revolutionibus rapidly became an icon, rather than a handbook for the
new astronomy; even today, at a price of over \$100,000 for a first
edition, it remains a symbol of the revolution in our world view.
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Title: How Galileo Changed the Rules of Science
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1993S&T....85...32G Altcode:
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Title: The eye of the heaven. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1993MMPhy...7.....G Altcode:
This book is a collection of 25 essays, focusing on the transformation
of astronomy from Ptolemy's geocentrism to Kepler's remolding of
Copernican cosmology. It uncovers the subtle and surprising ways in
which raw data, interpretation, and creativity propel science.
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Title: The Nineteenth-Century Birth of Astrophysics
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1993ASSL..183...47G Altcode: 1993pssc.symp...47G
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Title: The Eye of Heaven. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1993ehpc.book.....G Altcode: 1993QB15.G563......
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Title: The Harvard-Smithsonian reference atmosphere
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1993hsra.book.....G Altcode:
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Title: Book-Review - the Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures
in Astronomical History
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1992Sci...258Q1824G Altcode:
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Title: Astronomy in the age of Columbus.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1992SciAm.267e..66G Altcode: 1992SciAm.267...66G
Columbus's discovery that a vast, unknown landmass lay between Europe
and Asia vividly demonstrated that ancient knowledge of the world was
woefully incomplete. The geographic revolution that followed paved
the way for unorthodox astronomical ideas, including the sun-centered
cosmology of Copernicus.
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Title: Astronomy in the Age of Columbus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1992SciAm.267e.100G Altcode: 1992SciAm.267..100G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Saros cycle dates and related Babylonian
astronomical texts / Transactions of the American Philosophical
Society, lxxxi, Pt. 6, 1991
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1992JHA....23..229G Altcode: 1992JHA....23..229B; 1992JHA....23..229A
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The Edwin Hubble papers / Pachart, 1990
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1992JHA....23..223G Altcode: 1992JHA....23..223H
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Space Time and Man - a Prehistorian's View
Authors: Clark, G.; Gingerich, O.
1992Natur.358..381C Altcode:
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Title: Two early instruments at the Adler Planetarium
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1992BAAS...24.1068G Altcode:
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Title: Book-Review - Nature Experiment and the Sciences
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1992JHA....23..149G Altcode: 1992JHA....23..149L
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Enough with Epicycles
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1992S&T....83..485G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Regiomontanus: his life and work / North-Holland,
1991
Authors: Brown, E.; Gingerich, O.
1992S&T....83..407B Altcode: 1992S&T....83..407Z
No abstract at ADS
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Title: When Do Anomalies Begin?
Authors: Lightman, Alan; Gingerich, Owen
1992Sci...255..690L Altcode:
An anomaly in science is an observed fact that is difficult to explain
in terms of the existing conceptual framework. Anomalies often point to
the inadequacy of the current theory and herald a new one. It is argued
here that certain scientific anomalies are recognized as anomalies only
after they are given compelling explanations within a new conceptual
framework. Before this recognition, the peculiar facts are taken as
givens or are ignored in the old framework. Such a "retrorecognition"
phenomenon reveals not only a significant feature of the process of
scientific discovery but also an important aspect of human psychology.
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Title: The great Copernicus chase and other adventures in astronomical
history
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1992gcco.book.....G Altcode: 1992QB15.G56.......
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Title: Eloge: Victor E. Thoren, 13 May 1935 - 9 March 1991.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1991Isis...82..693G Altcode:
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Title: Not Unique in America / Flamsteed's Historiae-Coelestis
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1991S&T....82..491G Altcode:
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Title: Book Review: Standing on the shoulders of giants / U California
Press, 1990
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1991S&T....82..377G Altcode: 1991S&T....82..377T
No abstract at ADS
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Title: MicroObservatory: A Progress Report
Authors: Brecher, K.; Sadler, P.; Gingerich, O.
1991BAAS...23.1403B Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Astronomical Formulae for Calculators - ED.3
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1991JHA....22R.241G Altcode: 1991JHA....22R.241M; 1991JHA....22Q.241M
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Practical astronomy with your calculator (3rd ed)
/ Cambridge U Press, 1989
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1991JHA....22Q.241G Altcode: 1991JHA....22Q.241D; 1991JHA....22R.241D; 1991JHA....22S.241D
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Mathematical Astronomy with a Pocket Calculator
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1991JHA....22S.241G Altcode: 1991JHA....22..241J
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Practical ephemeris calculation / Springer-Verlag,
1989
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1991JHA....22T.241G Altcode: 1991JHA....22S.241M
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Instrument Buch / Reprint-verlag Leipzig, 1990
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Hamel, J.
1991JHA....22..244G Altcode: 1991JHA....22..241A
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Making of a Prize Eclipse
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1991S&T....82...15G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: A scientific humanist: studies in memory of
Abraham Sachs / University Museum, Philadelphia, 1988
Authors: de J-Ellis, M.; Gingerich, O.
1991JHA....22..186D Altcode: 1991JHA....22..186L; 1991JHA....22..184L
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Brass and Glass - Scientific Instrument Making
Workshops in Scotland
Authors: Clarke, T. N.; Morrison-Low, A. D.; Simpson, A. D. C.;
Gingerich, O.
1991JHA....22..192C Altcode: 1991JHA....22..184C
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Great Mnemonics Contest
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1991atq..conf..263G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Two Astronomical Anniversaries - HCO and SAO
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Hoskins, M.
1990S&T....80..617G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Horoscopes and history / Warburg Institute
Surveys and Texts, xiii ; University of London, London, 1986
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1990JHA....21..368G Altcode: 1990JHA....21..368N
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The origins of Ptolemy's astronomical parameters /
Center for Archaeoastronomy, 1982
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1990JHA....21..364G Altcode: 1990JHA....21..364N
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - God & Nature - Historical Essays on the
Encounter Between Christianity and Science
Authors: Lindberg, D. C.; Numbers, R. L.; Gingerich, O.
1990JHA....21..373L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Wittich Connection
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Westman, R. S.; Jardine, N.
1990JHA....21..355G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Unrolling time: Christiaan Huygens and the
mathematization of nature / CUP, 1989
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1990Obs...110..143G Altcode: 1990Obs...110..143Y
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Union catalogue of printed books of 15th,
16th and 17th centuries in European astronomical observatories /
Vecchiarelli Editore, 1989
Authors: Maffei, P.; Gingerich, O.
1990JHA....21..301M Altcode: 1990JHA....21..301G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Astronomen-Sterne-Gerate: Landgraf Wilhelm IV
und seine sich selbst bewegenden Globen / Edition Joseph Fremersdorf,
Luzern, 1986
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1990JHA....21..222G Altcode: 1990JHA....21..222L
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Early Scientific Instruments - Europe 1400-1800
Authors: Turner, A.; Gingerich, O.
1990JHA....21..219T Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Two Astronomical Anniversaries
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1990JHA....21....1G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Through Rugged Ways to Galaxies
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1990JHA....21...77G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Use of History in the Teaching of Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1990teas.conf...39G Altcode: 1990IAUCo.105...39G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Five Centuries of Astronomical Textbooks and Their Role
in Teaching
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1990teas.conf..189G Altcode: 1990IAUCo.105..189G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Shapley, Hubble, and Cosmology
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1990ASPC...10...19G Altcode: 1990eug..symp...19G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Two Astronomical Anniversaries
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1990taa..conf....1G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Through Rugged Ways to the Galaxies
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1990taa..conf...77G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Album of Science
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989S&T....78R.606G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Empires of Time - Calendars Clocks and Cultures
Authors: Aveni, A.; Gingerich, O.
1989Natur.342..871A Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: La rotation de Saturne et de ses anneaux.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989Ciel...51..446G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Herschel's Busy Intermissions
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989S&T....78Q.453G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Shapley Hubble and Cosmology
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989PASP..101..883G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Christopher Schissler's Wonderful "Bowl of Ahza" of 1578
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Sadler, P.
1989BAAS...21.1218G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Science and objectivity: episodes in the history
of astronomy. / Iowa State University Press, 1988
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989S&T....78..270G Altcode: 1989S&T....78..270H
No abstract at ADS
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Title: MicroObservatory
Authors: Brecher, K.; Sadler, P.; Gingerich, O.
1989BAAS...21.1184B Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Bin no More / Binning and Scaling
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989S&T....78..125G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Tychonis Brahe triangulorum planorum et
sphaericorum praxis arithmetica / Sandig Reprint Verlag, 1984
Authors: Studnica, F. I.; Gingerich, O.
1989JHA....20..141S Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's de
Revolutionibus
Authors: Swerdlow, N. B.; Neugebauer, O.; Gingerich, O.
1989JHA....20..128S Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The 1953 Michigan Summer Symposium in Astrophysics
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989BAAS...21..741G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Reflections on the role of archaeoastronomy in the history
of astronomy.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989arch.conf...38G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Johannes Kepler.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1989parr.conf...54G Altcode:
Contents: 1. The secret of the universe. 2. The new astronomy. 3. The
nova of 1604, the telescope, and comets. 4. The Harmony of the
World. 5. The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. 6. The Rudolphine
Tables. 7. Evaluation.
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Title: J. L. E. Dreyer and His NGC
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1988S&T....76..621G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Sacrobosco as a Textbook
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1988JHA....19..269G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Printers and Libraries of 16TH-CENTURY Paris -
Cavellat ed.
Authors: Nationale, Biblioteque; Gingerich, O.
1988JHA....19..274N Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The universal rover
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1988Natur.336..288G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Time Museum - Astrolabes Astrolabe-Related
Instruments
Authors: Turner, A. J.; Gingerich, O.
1988JHA....19..275T Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a History of Western Astronomy
Authors: Tester, S. J.; Gingerich, O.
1988S&T....76..366T Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Through Rugged Ways to the Galaxies
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1988BAAS...20..948G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: When the world turned
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1988Natur.335..123G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: How Shapley came to Harvard - Snatching the Prize from the
Jaws of Debate
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1988JHA....19..201G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Obituary - Zdenek Horsky 1929-1988
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1988JHA....19..215G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: From ancient omens to statistical mechanics. /
University Library, Copenhagen, 1987.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1988JHA....19..142G Altcode: 1988JHA....19..142B
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Shapley's Impact
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1988IAUS..126...23G Altcode:
Harlow Shapley's legacy can be divided into three aspects:
his scientific contributions, the institutions he built, and his
multi-faceted efforts to publicize astronomy. Today's public funding
of science undoubtedly owes much to Shapley's enthusiasm for astronomy.
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Title: The Wittich connection: Conflict and priority in late
sixteenth-century cosmology
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Westman, Robert S.
1988wccp.book.....G Altcode: 1988QB41.G45.......
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Invisible Planet Rahu
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1987QJRAS..28..538G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: When dark is light enough
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1987Natur.330..288G Altcode: 1987Natur.330..288H
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Practical Astronomy
Authors: Devorkin, D. H.; Gingerich, O.
1987S&T....74..152D Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The mysterious nebulae, 1610-1924.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1987JRASC..81..113G Altcode:
The history of our knowledge of nebulae is traced from the earliest
visual observations to the recognition that spiral nebulae were indeed
"island universes".
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Title: Book-Review - Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Medii Aevi
Latinorum Qui in Bibliotheca Jagellonica Cracovie Asservantur - V.3
Authors: Kowalczyk, M.; Kozlowska, A.; Markowski, M.; Wlodek, S.;
Zathey, G.; Zwiercan, M.; Gingerich, O.
1987JHA....18..229K Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - 1726-1799 Catalog of the Correspondence of the
Astronomers of Brera - V.1
Authors: Mandrino, A.; Tagliaferri, G.; Tucci, P.; Gingerich, O.
1987JHA....18..229M Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Manuscripts of the Dibner Collection in the
Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Authors: Smithsonian; Gingerich, O.
1987JHA....18..229S Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Circles and Ellipses / Astronomical Measurements in the 1600'S
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1987S&T....74....6G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Zoomorphic Astrolabes and the Introduction of Arabic Star
Names into Europe
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1987NYASA.500...89G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Circles of God - Theology and Science from the
Greeks to Copernicus
Authors: Nebelsick, J. P.; Gingerich, O.
1987JHA....18..130N Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Invisible planet Rahu
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1987QJRAS..28R.538G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Invisible planet Rahu
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1987QJRAS..28Q.538G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Nicholas Copernicus - V.3 - Minor Works
Authors: Czartoryski, P.; Rosen, E.; Hilfstein, E.; Gingerich, O.
1987S&T....73..281C Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Historical Catalogue of Scientists and
Scientific Books from the Earliest Times to the Close of the
19TH-CENTURY
Authors: Gascoigne, R. M.; Gingerich, O.
1987JHA....18Q..70G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Historical Catalogue of Scientific Periodicals
1665-1900
Authors: Gascoigne, R. M.; Gingerich, O.
1987JHA....18R..70G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: History of Oriental astronomy. Proceedings of the 91st
Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, held at New Delhi,
India, 13 - 16 November 1985.
Authors: Swarup, G.; Bag, A. K.; Shukla, K. S.; Kennedy, E. S.;
Gingerich, O.
1987hoap.book.....S Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Galileo and the Catholic Church
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1986Sci...234..411G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Planetary Lunar and Solar Positions New and
Full Moons
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Welther, B.; Cohen, I. B.
1986JHA....17..207G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Time Museum - Time Measuring Instruments -
Water-Clocks Sand-Glasses Fire-Clocks
Authors: Turner, A. J.; Gingerich, O.
1986JHA....17..211T Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Rhetici - Narratio-Prima
Authors: Hugonnard-Roche, H.; Verdet, J. P.; Lerner, M. P.; Segonds,
A.; Moesgaard, K. P.; Gingerich, O.
1986JHA....17..130H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Astronomical Scrapbook
Authors: Ashbrook, J.; Robinson, L. J.; Gingerich, O.; Ronan, C. A.
1986JBAA...96..182A Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the General History of Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Ronan, C. A.
1986JBAA...96..183G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Islamic Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1986SciAm.254d..74G Altcode: 1986SciAm.254...74G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Newton, Halley, and the Comet
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1986S&T....71..230G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Fire and Ice - a History of Comets in Art
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1986JHA....17...62G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950 Volume
4, Part A, of the General History of Astronomy and The History of
Astronomy from Herschel to Hertzsprung and The Astronomical Scrapbook:
Skywatchers, Pioneers, and Seekers in Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Herrmann, Dieter B.; Ashbrook, Joseph;
Dick, Steven J.
1986PhT....39d..59G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Harlow Shapley and the Cepheids
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Welther, Barbara
1985S&T....70..540G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy
to 1950
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Porter, R.; de Vaucouleurs, G.
1985JHA....16..224G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Halley's Letter to Gregory Concerning the
Synopsis
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16R.221G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Halley's letter to Gregory concerning the "Synopsis".
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16..223G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Robert Trumpler and the Dustiness of Space
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985S&T....70..213G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Oriens-Occidens
Authors: Hartner, W.; Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16..138H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Astrophysics and 20TH-CENTURY Astronomy to 1950
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Greenstein, J. L.
1985S&T....69..515G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Revolution in Time
Authors: Landes, D. S.; Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16..149L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Ptolemaic astronomy for an emperor's eyes.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985S&T....69..406G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Astrophysics and 20TH-CENTURY Astronomy to 1950 -
Part a
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Lovell, B.
1985Obs...105...54G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Beyond Velikovsky - the History of a Public
Controversy
Authors: Bauer, H. H.; Gingerich, O.
1985Natur.314..692B Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Brown Dwarfs
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1985Sci...227.1154G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Astronomy of Alfonso-The
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985S&T....69..206G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Phases of Venus 1610-1611
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985S&T....69..196G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Tychonic and Semi-Tychonic World Systems
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16Q..49G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Did Copernicus Owe a Debt to Aristarchus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16...37G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Dissolution of the Celestial Spheres
1595-1650
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16R..54G Altcode: 1985JHA....16Q..49D
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Biographical Dictionary of Scientists -
Astronomers
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16...59G Altcode: 1985JHA....16...49A; 1985JHA....16...59O
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - William Whiston
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16S..54G Altcode: 1985JHA....16Q..49F
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Symphony 1720-1840
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985JHA....16...68G Altcode: 1985JHA....16R..49B
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The discovery of the spiral arms of the Milky Way
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1985IAUS..106...59G Altcode:
Historical events leading to the discovery of the spiral arms of the
Milky Way are recounted. Attempts in the 1930s and 1940s to determine
the spiral structure of the Galaxy by star counting methods, essentially
the continuation of the work of the Kapteyn Astronomical Laboratory,
failed to reach this goal. A new foundation for the search was laid
by Baade in his studies of stellar populations. With the recognition
that highly luminous objects, especially in the H II regions, would
outline the spiral structure, Morgan and Sharpless and Osterbrook
carried out the observational program that delineated, in 1951, the
nearby arms of the Milky Way. The full paper was never published, so
the historical details have remained somewhat vague, primarily because
the 21-cm discoveries so quickly overtook the optical researches.
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Title: The accuracy of ephemerides, 1500 1800
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Welther, B.
1985VA.....28..339G Altcode: 1985loze.conf..339G; 1985IAUCo..84..339G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Watcher of the Winter Sun
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1985JHAS...16...67G Altcode: 1985ArchS...8...67G; 1985JHAS...16...62G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Galileo and the Phases of Venus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984S&T....68..520G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the General History of Astronomy - V.4 -
Astrophysics and 20TH Century Astronomy to 1950
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Hufbauer, K.
1984Sci...226.1067G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - to Fulfill a Vision - Einstein
Authors: Ne'eman, Y.; Gingerich, O.
1984JHA....15..222N Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Phases of Venus in 1610
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984JHA....15..209G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Some Strangeness in the Proportion - Albert
Einstein
Authors: Woolf, H.; Gingerich, O.
1984JHA....15..222W Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Einstein - the First Hundred Years
Authors: Goldsmith, M.; Mackay, A.; Woudhuysen, J.; Gingerich, O.
1984JHA....15..222G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the General History of Astronomy - V.4A -
Astrophysics and 20TH Century Astronomy to 1950
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984JBAA...94..287G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Albert Einstein Historical and Cultural
Perspectives
Authors: Holton, G.; Elkana, Y.; Gingerich, O.
1984JHA....15..222H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Astrophysics and 20TH-CENTURY Astronomy to 1950
Authors: Gingerich, O.; McKenna-Lawlor, S. M. P.
1984SSRv...39..378G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Authors: Haramundanis, K.; Gingerich, O.
1984Natur.310..519H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Being an astronomer, being a woman
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1984Natur.310..519G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomical scrapbook: the discovery of the Milky Way's
spiral arms.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984S&T....68...10G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Planetary Lunar and Solar Positions AD1650-1805
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Welther, B.; Taylor, G. E.
1984Obs...104..165G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A Tasi Couple from Schoner's de Revolutionibus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984JHA....15..128G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Ptolemy's Almagest
Authors: Toomer, G. J.; Gingerich, O.
1984Natur.308..789T Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Galileo and the Phases of Venus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984BAAS...16Q.489G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Some Puzzles of Ptolemy's Star Catalogue
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Welther, B. L.
1984S&T....67..421G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Johannes Kepler and Graz
Authors: Sutter, B.; Gingerich, O.
1984JHA....15...52S Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Radio astronomy and the nature of science
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984eyra.book..399G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Shuttle Astrolabe
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984S&T....68..100G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Astrophysics and 20TH-CENTURY Astronomy to 1950
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984AExpr...1S..81G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Herschel's 1784 Autobiography
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984S&T....68..317G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1984atca.conf.....G Altcode: 1984QB15.G38v4.....
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Planetary Ephemeris Tables: -1000 to -601 A Review of:
Ephemeriden von Sonne, Mond und hellen Planeten von -1000 bis -601
by Hermann Hunger and Rudolf Dvorak
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1984Arch....7..134G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Planetary Lunar and Solar Positions
A.D. 1650-1805
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Welther, B.
1984Mercu..13S..93G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomical Institutions
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1984atca.conf..111G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- The Orbit of Mars
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1983S&T....66..300G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: How Astronomers Finally Captured Mercury
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1983S&T....66..203G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Ptolemy and the Maverick Motion of Mercury
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1983S&T....66...11G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: The History of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics:
A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, by David H. DeVorkin
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1983JHA....14..146G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Poklady Starého Hvezdarstvi, by Jaroslav Vrchotka
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1983JHA....14...67G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Civil Reception of the Gregorian Calendar
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1983grc..conf..265G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: From Aristarchus to Copernicus.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1983S&T....66..410G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Planetary, lunar, and solar positions, new and full moons,
A.D. 1650 - 1805.
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Welther, B. L.
1983plsp.book.....G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Ancient Egyptian sky magic.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1983S&T....65..418G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomical Scrapbook - Notes on the Gregorian Calendar Reform
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982S&T....64..530G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Shoulders of Giants: An Exhibition at Houghton Library
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982BAAS...14..873G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomical Scrapbook - Dreyer and Tycho's World System
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982S&T....64..138G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Expanding Universe - Astronomy's Great
Debate 1900-1931
Authors: Smith, R. W.; Gingerich, O.
1982Natur.298..776S Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: An enlarged Universe
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1982Natur.298..776G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Galileo Affair
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982SciAm.247b.132G Altcode: 1982SciAm.247..118G; 1982SciAm.247..132G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Some Astronomical Observations from 13TH-CENTURY Egypt
Authors: King, D. A.; Gingerich, O.
1982JHA....13..121K Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity -
Emergence / 1905 / and Early Interpretation / 1905-1911
Authors: Miller, A. I.; Gingerich, O.
1982JHA....13..135M Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: An Astrolabe from Lahore
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982S&T....63..358G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Obituary - Payne-Gaposchkin Cecilia
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982QJRAS..23..450G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Authors: Lang, K. R.; Gingerich, O.; Maran, S. P.
1982ApL....22...78L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- The Rotation of the Sun
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Tresch-Fienberg, Richard
1982S&T....64..433G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Book of the New Comet
Authors: Munoz, J.; Gingerich, O.
1982JHA....13..224M Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The historical tension between astronomical theory and
observation
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982rupp.book....1G Altcode:
A review of instances in the history of astronomy wherein conflicts
between the results of theory and observation occurred, to be later
ameliorated or exaggerated by further evidence, is presented. Among
the examples are Aristotle's arguments that the form of a celestial
body will always be spherical to evenly distribute the mass, and
the currently held concept that all celestial objects greater than
a few kilometers in radius will be spherical due to gravitational
forces. Ptolemy's observations of planetary orbits, however, are
noted to have accurately resulted in a numerical model which did not
factually represent planetary orbits. It is noted that observation
is usually performed with a theory in mind, and interpretation is
therefore hindered from clear analysis of phenomena which do not
conform to previously held mental models.
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Title: Henry Draper's Scientific Legacy
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982NYASA.395..308G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: IAU Commission 41 at Patras.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982JHA....13..227G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomical Scrapbook - a Search for Russell's Original
Diagram
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982S&T....63...36G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Archaeoastronomers Convene in Oxford
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1982S&T....63....7G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Tobias Mayer 1723-62 - Pioneer of Enlightened
Science in Germany
Authors: Forbes, E. G.; Gingerich, O.
1982JHA....13...72F Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Fake Astrolabes
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1982S&T....63..465G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Unlocking the Chemical Secrets of the Cosmos
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1981S&T....62...13G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Galileo Affair in Contemporary Perspective
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1981BAAS...13..821G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Ptolemy Revisited - Reply to Newton, R.R.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1981QJRAS..22...40G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - General Bibliography of Time Measurement
Authors: Tardy; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..153T Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Royal Society Catalogue of Portraits
Authors: Robinson, N. H.; Forbes, E. G.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..152R Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The New York Academy of Sciences Conference: Ethnoastronomy
and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1981Arch....4b...5G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Gemini Syndrome
Authors: Culver, R. B.; Janna, P. A.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..153C Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A Reattribution of the Tychonic Annotations in Copies of
Copernicus's De-Revolutionibus
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Westman, R. S.
1981JHA....12...53G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Fire of Life
Authors: Hadingham, E.; Gingerich, O.; Eddy, J.; Bedini, S.; Krupp,
E. C.
1981JHA....12..153H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Eighteenth Century Eclipse Paths
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1981S&T....62..324G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Star of Bethlehem - a List of References
Authors: Freitag, R. S.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..212F Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Atget's Eclipse Watchers
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1981S&T....61..215G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Dreams and Illusions of Astrology
Authors: Gauquelin, M.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..153G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Great Conjunctions TYCHO and Shakespeare
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1981S&T....61..394G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: An Early Tradition of an Extended Errata List for Copernicus's
De-Revolutionibus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12...47G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Never at Rest
Authors: Westfall, R. S.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..153W Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Heralds of Science
Authors: Dibner, B.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..214D Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - in Quest of Telescopes
Authors: Cohen, M.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..214C Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - English Almanacs 1500-1800 - Astrology and the
Popular Press
Authors: Capp, B.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12...65C Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Star of Bethlehem - an Astronomer's
Confirmation
Authors: Hughes, D.; Gingerich, O.
1981JHA....12..212H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The First Photograph of a Nebula / Draper, Henry
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1980S&T....60..364G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Joseph Ashbrook: Renaissance Man
Authors: Bok, Bart J.; Chapman, Clark R.; Federer, Charles A., Jr.;
Gingerich, Owen; Haas, Walter H.; Jacchia, Luigi G.; Marsden, Brian
G.; Mayall, Margaret W.; Robinson, Leif J.; White, John
1980S&T....60..281B Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Obituary - Ashbrook, Joseph
Authors: Robinson, L. J.; Bok, B. J.; Chapman, C. R.; Federer, C. A.,
Jr.; Gingerich, O.; Haas, W. H.; Jacchia, L. G.; Marsden, B. G.;
Mayall, M. W.; White, J.
1980S&T....60..281R Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Did Copernicus owe a secret debt to Aristarchus?
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1980BAAS...12..885G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Did Copernicus Owe a Secret Debt to Aristarchus?
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1980BAAS...12..793G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Was Ptolemy a Fraud?
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1980QJRAS..21..253G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Appendix to E. S. Kennedy "Astronomical Events from a Persian
Astrological Manuscript"
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1980Cent...24..178G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 1900-1975
Authors: Lang, K. R.; Gingerich, O.; Whitney, C. A.
1980S&T....60...53L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Bright Comets - 86 TO + 1950
Authors: Muckke, H.; Gingerich, O.
1980Arch....3R..38M Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics
1900-1975
Authors: Lang, K. R.; Gingerich, O.; Tayler, R. J.
1980Natur.284..707L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Reviews: Bright Comets -86 to +1950 -- Hermann Mucke
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1980Arch....3R..38G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: BOOK REVIEWS: CANON OF LUNAR ECLIPSES -2002 TO +2526 --
Jean Meeus &Hermann Mucke
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1980Arch....3Q..38G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Source Book in Astronomy an Astrophysics -
1900-1975
Authors: Lang, K. R.; Gingerich, O.; Cohen, I. B.
1980JHA....11..215L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: On Writing the History of Modern Astronomy
Authors: Hoskin, M.; Gingerich, O.
1980JHA....11R.145H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Sky Explored
Authors: Warner, D. J.; Gingerich, O.
1980JHA....11...73W Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Reviews: Stonehenge and its Mysteries, by Michael Balfour
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1980JHAS...11R..95G Altcode: 1980ArchS...2R..95G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Stonehenge and its Mysteries
Authors: Balfour, M.; Gingerich, O.
1980JHAS...11..104B Altcode: 1980JHAS....2..104B; 1980ArchS...2..104B
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the First European Observatory with its
Instruments and Clocks - 400 Year Anniversary of Burgi, Jost in Kassel
Authors: von Mackensen, L.; Gingerich, O.
1980JHA....11..212V Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 1900-1975
Authors: Lang, K. R.; Gingerich, O.
1980Sci...209.1013L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 1900-1975
Authors: Lang, K. R.; Gingerich, O.
1980S&T....59..154L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Reviews: Rings of Stone, by Aubrey Burl
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1980JHAS...11Q..95G Altcode: 1980ArchS...2Q..95G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Rings of Stone - the Prehistoric Stone Circles
if Britain and Ireland
Authors: Burl, A.; Gingerich, O.
1980JHAS...11..103B Altcode: 1980ArchS...2..103B; 1980JHAS....2..103B
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics -
1900-1975
Authors: Lang, K.; Gingerich, O.
1980Mercu...9...47L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - Copernicus, Nicholas on the Revolutions
Authors: Rosen, E.; Gingerich, O.
1980S&T....59..148R Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Library of Logan, James of Philadelphia
- 1674-1751
Authors: Wolf, E., II; Gingerich, O.
1980JHA....11..140W Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Plus CA Change, Plus C'est la meme Chose
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1980SciN..117...56G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Notes on the book of Copernicus.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1980VIET....2..103G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Censorship of Copernicus' De revolutionibus
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1979BAAS...11..661G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Illuminating astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1979Natur.282..174G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - the Nature of Scientific Discovery
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Dobrzycki, J.
1979JHA....10..129G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book-Review - a Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics
1900-1975
Authors: Lang, K. R.; Gingerich, O.; Morrison, P.
1979SciAm.242...30L Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Basic Astronomy of Stonehenge
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1979asan.book..117G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A Source book in astronomy and astrophysics, 1900-1975
Authors: Lang, Kenneth R.; Gingerich, Owen
1979sbaa.book.....L Altcode: 1979QB51.S67.......
132 selections containing the writings of important specialists in
astrophysics, such as Eddington, Einstein, Gamow, Dyson and Bok,
are presented. Attention is given to the solar system, variable
and dying stars, and to stellar atmospheres, spectra, evolution
and nucleosynthesis. Other subjects include the distribution of
stars and the space between them, normal galaxies, radio galaxies,
quasars, relativity, and cosmology. Some topics presented are the
photoelectric photometry of the stars, radar determinations of the
rotations of Venus and Mercury, the abundances of chemical elements
in stellar atmospheres, and atomic synthesis and stellar energy. Also
considered are T Tauri variable stars, the radio frequency detection of
interstellar hydrogen, galactic magnetic fields and the origin of cosmic
radiation, fluctuations in cosmic radiation at radio frequencies, and
the relation between the expansion and the mean density of the universe.
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Title: Astronomical Alignments at Stonehenge and Callanish
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1978Arch....2a...5G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomical Alignments at Stonehenge and Callanish
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1978BAAS...10..612G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Review of Publications- Cosmology + 1 introduced
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1978JRASC..72R.229G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: IAU Nomenclature for albedo features on the planet mercury
Authors: Dollfus, A.; Chapman, C. R.; Davies, M. E.; Gingerich, O.;
Goldstein, R.; Guest, J.; Morrison, D.; Smith, B. A.
1978Icar...34..210D Altcode:
The International Astronomical Union has endorsed a nomenclature
for the albedo features on Mercury. Designations are based upon the
mythological names related to the god Hermes; they are expressed in
Latin form. The dark-hued albedo features are associated with the
generic term Solitudo. The light-hued areas are designed by a single
name without generic term. The 32 names adopted are allocated on the
Mercury map.
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Title: Book Review: Creation by natural law, Laplace's nebular
hypothesis in American thought. Ronald L. Numbers. University of
Washington Press, Seattle, 1977. xi + 184 pp., $15.00
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1978Icar...33..416G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Time and the Calendars
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1978JHA.....9..221G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The discovery of the satellites of Mars
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1978VA.....22..127G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Joannis Regiomontani Opera Collectanea
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1978JHA.....9..146G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The discovery of the satellites of Mars.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1978sama.conf..127G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astrolabes of the World
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1978JHA.....9...69G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: TYCHO Brahe and the Great Comet of 1577
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1977S&T....54..452G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- The Crab Nebula
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1977S&T....54..378G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Price of "De Revolutionibus"
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1977Obs....97..147G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The 1582 "Theorica Orbium" of Hieronymus Vulparius
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1977JHA.....8...38G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Cosmology + 1. Readings from Scientific American.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1977cosm.book.....G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Caspar Peucer's Library
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1977JHA.....8...66G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Nature of Scientific Discovery (Book Review)
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1977ApL....18..136G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: D. H. Menzel died 1976 December 14.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1977PhT....30e..96G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Copernicus and Tycho
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1977nass.book....9G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Cosmology + 1 : readings from Scientific American
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1977crsa.book.....G Altcode: 1977QB981.C823.....
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Catalogue of the History of Science Collections of the
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1977JHA.....8..215G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: That Lonely Game, Melville, Mardi, and the Almanac
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1977JHA.....8...68G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: New Frontiers in Astronomy (Book Review)
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1976ApL....18Q..52G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Was Ptolemy a Fraud?
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1976BAAS....8..546G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: On Ptolemy as the Greatest Astronomer of Antiquity. (Book
Reviews: A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1976Sci...193..476N Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Erschröckliche und warhafftige Wunderzeichen 1543-1586,
ed. by Bruno Weber, and Wunderzeichen und Winkeldrucker 1543-1586,
by Bruno Weber
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1976JHA.....7..145G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The development of astronomical theory and practice from the
17th to the 20th century.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1976VA.....20....1G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: History of astronomy.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1976IAUTA..16a.199G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Greenwich Tercentenary Symposium
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975S&T....50..217G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Sun
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975maco.book...37G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomy three hundred years ago
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975Natur.255..602G Altcode:
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries astronomers were coming to
grips with phenomena ranging from comets to cosmology. This article
describes how some of them set about solving the problems that emerged.
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Title: Corrigendum
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1975IAUC.2791....4G Altcode:
The previous circular, issued 1975 June 17, should of course be
numbered 2790.
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Title: Archeoastronomy Advancing. (Book Reviews: The Place of
Astronomy in the Ancient World. Proceedings of a symposium, London,
Dec. 1972; Science Awakening. Vol. 2. The Birth of Astronomy)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975Sci...188..842H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- Proper Motion
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975S&T....49...96G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: Mars and the mind of man. Ray Bradbury, Arthur
C. Clarke, Bruce Murray, Carl Sagan, and Walter Sullivan. Harper
and Row, New York. xiii + 143pp. Price $7.95
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975Icar...24..269G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century
of Printing 1450-1550
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975JHA.....6...70G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: 6.1. Kepler's place in astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975VA.....18..261G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: 10.9. The origins of Kepler's Third Law
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975VA.....18..595G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: New frontiers in astronomy : readings from Scientific American
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975nfar.book.....G Altcode: 1975QB51.F74.......
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The nature of scientific discovery. A symposium commemorating
the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus. Washington,
D.C., April 1973.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1975nsds.book.....G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Johannes Hevelius and His Catalog of Stars
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975JHA.....6...69G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Methodology of Kepler's work.
Authors: Westman, R. S.; Buchdahl, G.; Mittelstrass, J.; Alter, G.;
Russell, J. L.; Gingerich, O.; Bialas, V.; Maeyama, Y.; Neugebauer, O.
1975kfhy.conf..713W Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: "Crisis" versus aesthetic in the Copernican revolution.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1975cyt..conf...85G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: 12.7. Kepler's treatment of redundant observations or, the
computer versus Kepler revisited
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975VA.....18..747G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Copernicus and the impact of printing
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975VA.....17..201G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The origins of Kepler's third law.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1975kfhy.conf..595G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Copernicus and the impact of printing.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1975cyt..conf..201G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: “Crisis” versus Aesthetic in the Copernican revolution
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975VA.....17...85G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Commentary: Remarks on Copernicus' Observations
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975coch.book...99G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kepler's place in astronomy.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1975kfhy.conf..261G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The nature of scientific discovery
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1975nsd..conf.....G Altcode: 1975QB36.C8N37.....
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Celebrating a Quinquecentennial. (Book Reviews: Nicholas
Copernicus: Complete Works. I, The Manuscript of "On the Revolutions,"
Facsimile; Symposium on Copernicus. Papers from a meeting, April 1973)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1974Sci...184..660H Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The astronomy and cosmology of Copernicus.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1974HiA.....3...67G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kepler's second law in England.
Authors: Thoren, V. E.; Gingerich, O.; Welther, B.
1974BrJHS...7..243T Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Book Review: An original theory of the universe. Thomas
Wright. American Elsevier Inc. xxxvii + 178 pp. Price $32.00
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1974Icar...22..119G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Copernicus and Tycho
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1973SciAm.229f..86G Altcode: 1973SciAm.229...86G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: From Copernicus to Kepler : Heliocentrism as Model and
as Reality
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1973PAPhS.117..513G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: International Copernican Celebrations in Poland
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1973S&T....46..371G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Invited Paper - Copernicus.
Authors: Gingerich, O. J.
1973BAAS....5Q.407G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: History of astronomy.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1973IAUTA..15..639G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kepler's treatment of redundant observations or, the computer
versus Kepler revisited.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1973kepl.symp..307G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1972QJRAS..13..346G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The 'Abd al-A'imma Astrolabe Forgeries
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; King, David; Saliba, George
1972JHA.....3..188G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Egyptian Astronomical Texts, iii
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1972JHA.....3..217G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The 'Abd al-A'imma astrolabe forgeries.
Authors: Gingerich, O.; King, D.; Saliba, G.
1972JHA.....2..188G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Johannes Kepler and the Rudolphine Tables
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1971S&T....42..328G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Harvard-Smithsonian reference atmosphere
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Noyes, R. W.; Kalkofen, W.; Cuny, Y.
1971SoPh...18..347G Altcode:
We present a model of the solar atmosphere in the optical depth
range from τ<SUB>5000</SUB> = 10<SUP>−8</SUP> to 25. It combines
an improved model of the photosphere that incorporates recent EUV
observations with a new model of the quiet lower chromosphere. The
latter is based on OSO 4 observations of the Lyman continuum, on
infrared observations, and on eclipse electron densities.
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Title: Apianus's Astronomicum Caesareum and its Leipzig Facsimile
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1971JHA.....2..168G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- Spectral Classification
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1970S&T....40...75G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory exercises in astronomy. - Spectral classification.
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1970S&T....40...74G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomy in Harvard Project Physics
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1970BAAS....2..275G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Frontiers in astronomy; readings from Scientific American.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1970farf.book.....G Altcode: 1970QB51.F74.......
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Ultraviolet Solar Opacity
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1970IAUS...36..140G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Satellites of Mars: Prediction and discovery
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1970JHA.....1..109G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Effect of Silicon and Carbon Opacity on Ultra-Violet
Stellar Spectra
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Latham, D.
1970IAUS...36...64G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1970JHA.....1...82G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomy in Harvard Project Physics
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1969BAAS....1S.344G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kepler and the Resonant Structure of the Solar System
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1969Icar...11..111G Altcode:
Molchanov's ordering the solar system by a table of resonance relations
recalls an earlier attempt by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630).
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Title: A New Solar Model Atmosphere
Authors: Gingerich, Owen J.
1969BAAS....1R.277G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Astronomy in Britain. (Book Reviews: Astronomers Royal)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1969Sci...164..940R Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Grid of Model Stellar Atmospheres from 4000° to 10,000°
Authors: Carbon, D. F.; Gingerich, O.
1969tons.conf..377C Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Model atmospheres for cool dwarf stars
Authors: Carbon, D.; Gingerich, O. J.; Latham, D. W.
1969lls..symp..435C Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Theory and observation of normal stellar atmospheres
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1969tons.conf.....G Altcode: 1969tons.book.....G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: "On the composition of Sirius" revisited
Authors: Strom, S. E.; Gingerich, O.; Strom, K. M.
1968Obs....88..160S Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Model Atmospheres for Cool Stars
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1968inas.book...83G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Far Ultraviolet Spectrum of the Sun
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Rich, John C.
1968SoPh....3...82G Altcode:
Predictions of solar flux and limb darkening calculated from the Utrecht
Reference Model, the Mutschlecner model, and the Bilderberg Continuum
Atmosphere are compared with the rocket ultraviolet observations. The
calculations employ recent experimental and theoretical determinations
of metallic photo-ionization cross-sections. The spectral region between
the continuous absorption edge from the first excited level of silicon
at 1680 Å and the ground-state absorption edge at 1525 Å proves
particularly significant for an investigation of the solar temperature
minimum. The analysis indicates that the solar temperature minimum
is relatively broad and flat, having a nearly constant temperature
over somewhat more than a scale height, and that the chromospheric
rise occurs just above τ5000 = 10<SUP>−4</SUP> or so. Within the
assumptions of the present models, a satisfactory interpretation of
the ultraviolet spectrum can be reached with a temperature minimum of
4600° ± 100 °K.
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Title: Effects of Line Blanketing on the Solar Windows
Authors: Carbon, Duane; Gingerich, Owen; Kurucz, Robert
1968SoPh....3...55C Altcode:
The increasingly high flux predicted to the violet of 4500 Å
by many model solar atmospheres stands in contradiction to the
observations. Since one possible cause of the disagreement is that
the solar `windows' by which the observed continuum is established
might be obscured by line wings, we have made detailed calculations
of these narrow spectral regions. With the exception of a few windows
affected by the wings of Balmer lines, those redward of the Balmer
discontinuity appear free of line blanketing. Even the assumption that
the ultraviolet continuum is depressed 5% by unseen lines not included
in our calculations leaves substantial disagreements between the models
and observations. The discrepancies could perhaps be explained by a
veil of weak lines across the ultraviolet spectrum.
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Title: The Bilderberg Model of the Photosphere and Low Chromosphere
Authors: Gingerich, O.; De Jager, C.
1968SoPh....3....5G Altcode:
From 17 through 21 April 1967, an international study week was held in
the `Bilderberg' near Arnhem, Netherlands, with the aim of obtaining
an internationally acceptable model of the solar photosphere and
low chromosphere. It was found that such a model, based on observed
intensities and center-to-limb observations of the solar continuous
spectrum, could indeed be established. This model, henceforth called
the Bilderberg Continuum Atmosphere (BCA), is shown in Table I, which
gives the temperature, gas and electron pressures, and other data as
functions of the continuous optical depth at 5000 Å between τ5000
= 10<SUP>−7</SUP> and 25. The model is characterized by a flat
temperature minimum of 4600 °K between τ5000 ≈ 10<SUP>−2</SUP>
to 10<SUP>−4</SUP>. The model is homogeneous, and in hydrostatic
equilibrium. A hydrogen-helium ratio of 10 has been assumed.
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Title: What Is an English Mounting?
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1967S&T....34..293G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Messier's Clusters and Nebulae
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1967ASPL...10...73G Altcode: 1967ASPL..460.....G
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- Variable Stars in M15
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1967S&T....34..239G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Kepleriana. (Book Reviews: Kepler's Somnium. The Dream,
or Post-humous Work on Lunar Astronomy)
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1967Sci...157..416R Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Model Atmospheres for Late-Type Stars
Authors: Gingerich, Owen J.; Latham, D. W.; Linsky, J. L.; Kumar, S. S.
1967SAOSR.240...11G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Model Atmosphere for Cool Stars
Authors: Gingerich, Owen J.
1967SAOSR.240....1G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Model atmospheres for cool stars
Authors: Gingerich, O. J.; Latham, D. W.; Linsky, J. L.; Kumar, S. S.
1967SAOSR.240.....G Altcode:
(1) Model Atmospheres for Cool Stars, by O. J. Gingerich. Serious
problems beset the would-be constructor of stellar atmosphere models
for cool stars: molecular absorptions, an involved equation of state,
severe scattering, and convective instability This paper describes
early attempts to build models for T<SUB>eff</SUB> = 2500°, including
one with simulated water-vapor absorption. (2) Model Atmospheres for
Late-Type Stars, by O. J. Gingerich, D. W. Latham, J. L. Linsky, and
S. S. Kumar. Five model atmospheres for T<SUB>eff </SUB>= 2500° K with
gravities ranging from dwarf to supergiant are presented in detail;
they are among the most nongray models ever computed. We have paid
particular attention to the equation of state for the atomic electron
contributors and to the treatment of scattering, which is a major
opacity source. These radiative equilibrium models are idealized in
that we do not include water-vapor absorption or convection, but we
indicate how these models may differ from more realistic cases. In
all the models molecular hydrogen predominates, and in the dwarf
models the photospheric gas pressure exceeds several hundred earth
atmospheres. Models with low metal abundances appear to mimic normal
models with higher gravities.
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Title: Erratum: Studies in Non-Gray Stellar Atmospheres. III. The
Metal Abundances of Sirius and VEGA
Authors: Strom, Stephen E.; Gingerich, Owen; Strom, Karen M.
1967ApJ...148..316S Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Applications of high-speed computers to the history of
astronomy
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1967VA......9..229G Altcode:
Historically, the development of rapid and accurate computing devices
has been closely linked with astronomy. More recently, the construction
of high-speed electronic computers has provided a tool for the study
of the history of astronomy itself. Among the most obvious aids has
been the preparation of extensive planetary, solar and lunar tables,
including lunar visibility tables for ancient Babylon. A different
kind of table is illustrated by the recent calculation of the regular
sexagesimals and their reciprocals to the tenth order. Whenever
extensive similar calculations are involved, the computer promises to
be a powerful aid. For example, one can attempt to match tables in
a historic manuscript or zij; because of the computer's high speed,
one can experiment to find the original computational scheme, or to
discover the basic parameters of an unknown table. In an interesting
recomputation of Kepler's Mars calculations, I have demonstrated
that his work is apparently filled with numerical errors. In another
investigation, I have shown how the Copernican planetary trajectories
are less accurate than the Ptolemaic system.
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Title: Model atmospheres for late-type stars
Authors: Gingerich, O.; Latham, D. W.; Linsky, J.; Kumar, S. S.
1967lts..conf..291G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Studies in Non-Gray Stellar Atmospheres. III. The Metal
Abundances of Sirius and VEGA
Authors: Strom, Stephen E.; Gingerich, Owen; Strom, Karen M.
1966ApJ...146..880S Altcode:
The analyses presented here for Vega and Sirius indicate that Sirius has
many of the abundance anomalies characteristic of metallic-line A stars,
while Vega has a chemical composition very similar to that deduced for
the Sun. This investigation is based on a newly calculated, detailed
grid of model stellar atmospheres that incorporates hydrogen-line
blanketing and includes a range of metal opacities. Owing to
their eflect, of reducing the predicted Balmer discontinuity, the
abundances of Si and Mg are shown to be important in the choice of
appropriate models for A stars. The stellar-atmosphere grid used in
conjunction with a careful abundance analysis very closely predicts the
observed continuous spectra of Vega and Sirius and leads to reasonably
self-consistent values of chemical composition. Moreover, the values
of effective temperature, T.11 = 9000 + 5000 K for both stars, and
surface gravity, log g = 4.0 i 0.2 and 3.8 + 0.2 for Sirius and Vega,
respectively, obtained from this analysis, are in excellent agreement
with independent measures of these parameters.
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Title: Notice Regarding Precise Positions of Comets
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1966IAUC.1983....4G Altcode:
The Central Bureau has traditionally disseminated, via these Circulars,
precise positions of comets and unusual asteroids currently under
observation. Such positions are for the use of computers, who in
turn provide ephemerides for the benefit of the observers. When a
moderately bright comet appears, the Bureau receives a great many
precise positions, but they are not all necessarily of value in the
determination of the orbit. In the future, we intend to limit the
number of observations published. If observers wish to make more than
two observations of a comet during any one night, they are requested
to send us the two they regard to be the most accurate. Unpublished
observations will be forwarded to the Minor Planet Center, which has
agreed with IAU Commission 20 to maintain a file of comet observations.
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Title: On the Infrared Continuum of the Sun and Stars
Authors: Noyes, Robert W.; Gingerich, Owen; Goldberg, Leo
1966ApJ...145..344N Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Limb Darkening for a Grid of Model Stellar Atmospheres
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1966ApJ...144.1213G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Metallic Continuous Absorption Coefficients in the Solar
Ultraviolet.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Rich, John C.
1966AJ.....71..161G Altcode:
Computations with a hydrogenic approximation for the bound-free
absorption coefficient from various neutral metals and with the
Goldberg-M iller-Aller abundances indicate that silicon and magnesium
should predominate over all other mdals in the solar ultraviolet. New
shocktube results for silicon show that the experimental cross section
for the ground state is 37x 10~ls Cm2, almost a factor of 10 larger
than the hydrogenic value. For the first excited level (1D), the
experiments yield 35 X 10~18 Cm2, five times larger than the hydrogenic
approximation. Comparison with previous experimental results for the
lower levels of magnesium shows that silicon completely dominates the
bound-free metal opacity between about 1300 and 2000 A. Results of flux
calculations using empirical solar models with temperature inversions,
incorporating the improved metal opacity, and assuming LTE show that
the continuum radiation short of 1682 A (the absorption edge of the
first excited level of silicon) originates in the low chromosphere above
the temperature minimum. Consequently, we conclude that the Fraunhofer
spectrum seen at longer wavelengths should disappear fairly abruptly
at 1682 A. This result is consistent with the appearance and tracings
of the rocket ultraviolet spectrum. The calculations also show that
the silicon ground state continuum beginning at 1526 A is in emission,
and that there is significant limb brightening at shorter wavelengths;
again, this agrees with the observations. Longward of 1682 A the
predicted flux increases by two orders of magnitude. That such a
large increase is not observed in the solar spectrum indicates that
an additional source of absorption is required redward of 1682 A. A
careful survey of possible continuous metal absorbers suggests that
these will be inadequate to account for the missing opacity, which may,
however, be supplied by overlapping bands of carbon monoxide. From
these results it follows that one must look at wavelengths longer than
1682 A to observe details of the solar temperature minimum.
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Title: Leonid meteors 1966
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1966IAUC.1981....1G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Formation of Spectrum Lines. Proceedings Second
Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Stellar Atmospheres
Authors: Avrett, E. H.; Gingerich, O. J.; Whitney, C. A.
1965SAOSR.174.....A Altcode:
A conference on the theory of line formation was held at the
Observatory on January 20-22, 1965, in conjunction with the Harvard
College Observatory. The conference was convened to facilitate
discussions among an increasing number of scientists engaged in the
study and application of line-transfer theory. An edited transcript
of the discussions is presented, together with the following
papers: Session I: (1) Introductory Remarks, by C. A. Whitney; (2)
Survey of the Problem, by J. T. Jefferies; (3) Theory of the Line
Absorption Coefficient, by H. R. Griem; (4) The Emission Coefficient,
by D. G. Hummer; (5) Collision Cross Sections, by M. J. Seaton: (6)
Dielectronic Recombination, by A. Burgess; (7) The Plasma Microfield,
by K. Hunger, R. W. Larenz, and K. Wilke; (8) Computation of the Line
Source Function. A Review of the Physical Problem, by R. N. Thomas;
(9) Solutions of the Two-Level Line Transfer Problem with Complete
Redistribution, by E. H. Avrett; (10) General Noncoherent Scattering,
by D. G. Hummer; (11) A New Differential Equation Approach to Transfer
Problems, by G. B. Rybicki; (12) A Differential Equation for the
Solution of the Non-LTE Line Transfer Problem, by E. Böhm-Vitense
(13) Multilevel Problems, by J. T. Jefferies; (14) Radiative Transfer
in Lines for Media in Statistical Equilibrium, by W. Kalkofen; (15)
Calculations of Collisional-Radiative Decay, by M. J. Seaton; (16) On
the Coupled Line-Transfer Problem for Hydrogen, by H. R. Johnson and
D. A. Klinglesmith; (17) Solution of the Line and Continuum Transfer
Problem for a Three-Level Atom, by W. Kalkofen and E. H. Avrett;
(18) Solution of the Transfer Problem, by Y. Cuny; (19) Remarks by
J. T. Jefferies Preceding the Paper by G. W. Curtis; (20) Inference
of the Line Source Function for the Sodium D Lines, by G. W. Curtis;
(21) Sodium Equilibrium and the Na I D Lines, by H. R. Johnson; and
(22) The Profiles of the Sodium D Lines, by D. Mugglestone. Session
II: (1) An Analysis of Solar Balmer Line Profiles, by O. R. White;
(2) Stellar Chromosphere and Ca II H and K Emission, by O. C. Wilson;
(3) Observational Requirements for Theory of Formation, of H and K
Lines, by L. Goldberg; (4) The Calcium H and K Lines in Solar Plages,
by J. B. Zirker; (5) Dielectronic Recombination and the Solar H and
K Lines, by R. W. Noyes; (6) Total Fluxes in Strong Emission Lines,
by R. G. Athay; (7) Deductions as to Accuracy of LTE from Excitation
Temperature Measurements, and a Comment on the Abundance of "Trace
Elements"; (8) Micromotions, Macromotions, and Non-LTE Effects, by
J. -C. Pecker and F. Roddier; and (9) Non-LTE Effects on Abundance
Determination, by R. Cayrel.
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Title: Metal Abundance Determinations for Vega and Sirius
Authors: Strom, S. E.; Gingerich, Owen; Strom, K. M.
1965AJ.....70R.148S Altcode:
Some recent model atmosphere work done by the authors (Strom,
S. E. and Avrett, E. H., Ann. Astrophys., in press) suggested that
the anomalously small Balmer discontinuity observed in Sirius might
be due to an increase in continuous metal opacities arising from a
high abundance of metals, particularly Mg and Si. This hypothesis
provided the motivation behind the two abundance analyses reported
here. For these analyses a standard grid of nine, non- gray stellar
models was constructed for the effective temperature range 9000<
Teff< 10 0000K and from 3.7 to 4.3 in log g. This range of effective
temperatures and surface gravities is representative of the values
either known directly or deduced from comparison between stellar
models and observations of hydrogen line profiles and continuous
fluxes for Vega and Sirius. In addition we have constructed a set
of models at Teff=95000 with a log H/metals of approximately 4, 3,
and 2. The equivalent widths of several representative metal lines
were calculated from those models and the results are compared with
the observed equivalent widths. The abundances we have obtained are as
follows: LogA GMA Element a Lyr a CMa Log A Nai . -5.70 -5.70 Mgi -4.50
-4.50 -4.60 Ain . -4.70 -5.80 Sin -4.50 -3.50 -4.50 Cai . -6.00 -5.85
Scn -9.00 -10.0 -9.18 Tii . -5.75 -7.32 Tin -7.20 -6.25 Cri -6.70 -6.25
-6.64 Crn -7.00 -6.5 Mni -6.2 -6.2 -7.10 Fei -5.4 -5.0 -5.43 However,
estimates of microturbulent velocities in the atmospheres of both
stars are critical in these abundance determinations, particularly
since most of the Mg and Si lines observed fall on the flat portion
of the curve of growth. Further observations will be necessary to
determine these microturbulent velocities.
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Title: An Archetype Non-Gray Stellar Atmosphere.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen; Mihalas, Dimitri; Matsushima, Satoshi;
Strom, Stephen
1965ApJ...141..316G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Leonid meteors
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1965IAUC.1941....1G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Summary: Comparison of Archetype Model Atmospheres
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1964SAOSR.167..143G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Review of Opacity Calculations
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1964SAOSR.167...17G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Hamming's Method for Integrating the Equation of Hydrostatic
Equilibrium
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1964SAOSR.167...56G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Transfer of the Central Telegram Bureau; Roman Numeral
Designations of Comets in 1962
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1964HarAC1674....1G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A Procedure for Evaluating the Flux Integral
Authors: Gingerich, O.
1964SAOSR.167...77G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Proceedings of the First Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on
Stellar Atmospheres
Authors: Avrett, E. H.; Gingerich, O. J.; Whitney, C. A.
1964SAOSR.167.....A Altcode:
A Conference on model stellar atmospheres was held at the Observatory
on January 20-21, 1964, in conjunction with Harvard College
Observatory. The Proceedings principally comprise texts provided by
the participants. Discussions from the floor were tape-recorded and
have been summarized and paraphrased by the organizing committee
for inclusion in these proceedings. Following is a list of papers
and participants: Session I. Basic Data for Model Atmospheres: (1)
Introductory Remarks, by E. Böhm-Vitense (2) Pressure-Dependent
Partition Functions and Equilibrium Constants for Molecular
Hydrogen, by M. S. Vardya; (3) Computation of Adiabatic Gradient, by
M. S. Vardya; (4) Review of Opacity Calculations, by O. Gingerich;
(5) H<SUP>+</SUP><SUB>2</SUB> Absorption as a Source of Continuous
Opacity in the Stellar Atmospheres, by S. Matsushima; (6) Opacity at λ
1.65 μ in Late-Type Stars, by M. S. Vardya; (7) Computation of Some
Photoionization Cross Sections of Neutral Carbon, by F. Praderie and
(8) Hamming's Method for Integrating the Equation of Hydrostatic
Equilibrium, by O. Gingerich, Session II. Nongray Atmospheres:
(1) Evaluation of Flux and Intensity Integrals, by E. H. Avrett;
(2) A Procedure for Evaluating the Flux Integral, by O. Gingerich;
(3) A Procedure for Computing the Mean Intensity and the Flux, by
P. Feautrier; (4) Temperature-Correction Procedures, by E. H. Avrett;
(5) A Temperature-Correction Procedure, by L. B. Lucy; (6) An Integral
Equation for the Temperature Correction in a Nongray Atmosphere,
by E. Böhm-Vitense (7) A Method for Improving the T(x) Law, by
P. Feautrier; (8) An Iterative Solution for the Source Function in
the Gray Atmosphere in Radiative Equilibrium, by K. Grossman; (9)
Effects of Errors in the Absorption Coefficient on the Non-gray
Model Stellar Atmospheres, by S. Matsushima and Y. Terashita;
(10) Comments on Blanketing, by D. Fischel; and (11) Theoretical
Results on the Effect of Blanketing on T(τ), by R. Cayrel. Session
III. Comparison of Specific Models: (1) Summary: Comparison of Archetype
Model Atmospheres, by O. Gingerich; and (2) A Standard Model Atmosphere
for a Pure Hydrogen Star of Effective Temperature 10<SUP>4</SUP>°K,
by M. Lecar. Session IV.Significance of Uncertainities in the Physical
Theory: (1) Significance of Uncertainties in the Physical Theory of
Radiative Transfer, by K. H. Böhm (2) On the Temperature of Radiative
Equilibrium in a Layer of Optically Thin Gas in the Radiation Field
of the Solar Photosphere, by R. Cayrel; (3) Departures from LTE
Implied by Bound-Free and Free-Free Transitions, by W. Kalkofen; (4)
Estimates of the Boundary Temperature of a Nongray Stellar Atmosphere,
by M. Lecar; (5) Boundary Temperatures for Models with a Step-Function
Absorption Coefficient, by E. H. Avrett and R. Loeser; (6) Convective
Stellar Model Atmospheres, by D. W. Latham; (7) Convection in Late-Type
Stars: A Few Random Remarks, by M. S. Vardya;(8) Solar Convection, by
T. L. Swihart; and (9) Comments on Convection, by D. Fischel. Session
V. Contact with Astronomical Data: (1) Contact with Astronomical
Data, by A. B. Underhill; (2) The Utrecht Reference Model of the
Photosphere, by J. R. W.Heintze, H. Hubenet, and C. de Jager; (3)
The Center-to-Limb Variations in the Far Ultraviolet Continuum, by
S. Matsushima; (4) Quantitative Interpretation of Stellar Spectra Using
Model Atmospheres, by B. Baschek; (5) The Computation of Spectroscopic
Data for 60 New Model Photospheres, by C. de Jager and L. Neven; (6)
A Comparison between Model Atmospheres and Observations of Early-Type
Stars, by S. E. Strom; (7) Abundances in Normal Stars and AM Stars
Using Semiempirical Model Atmosphere Conti; (8) Comparison of Some
Theoretical Line Contours of Hγ with Observations, by F. M. Stienon;
and (9) Theoretical Model Atmosphere Data Needed for Interpretation
of Observational Material, by L. H. Aller.
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- The Rotation of Saturn
and Its Rings
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1964S&T....28..278G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- Spectral Classification
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1964S&T....28...80G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy -- The Moon's Orbit
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1964S&T....27..220G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Review of Publications- Solar and Planetary Longitudes for
the Years -2500 to +2000 by 10-Day Intervals
Authors: Stahlman, William D.; Gingerich, Owen
1963JRASC..57..232S Altcode:
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Title: Studies in Non-Gray Stellar Atmospheres. I. a Basic Computer
Program.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1963ApJ...138..576G Altcode:
This paper describes the logical and mathematical basis of a versatile
computer program for non-gray stellar atmospheres. The program uses
the Krook-Avrett iteration procedure to correct an initial temperature
distribution, achieving a flux constancy of a few tenths per cent. This
procedure is compared with three less efficient correction methods.
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Title: A Spiral Galaxy of Astronomers
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1963S&T....25..132G Altcode:
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Title: Solar and planetary longitudes for years -2500 to +2000 by
10-day intervals.
Authors: Stahlman, William D.; Gingerich, Owen
1963sply.book.....S Altcode: 1963QB7.S73........
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Title: Krook's Iterative Procedure for the Temperature Distribution
in Model Stellar Atmospheres.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1962AJ.....67S.272G Altcode:
The computer program for non-gray stellar atmospheres in use at the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has been modified to incorporate
a powerful new variational procedure suggested by Max Krook. Although
similar to the Krook-Poincare-Lighthill perturbation method (Gingerich
thesis, Harvard, 1961), the new scheme can improve an arbitrary initial
temperature distribution. Thus it possesses a highly desirable iterative
ability. The new scheme requires roughly one-third as many iterations
as the alternate use of the Stromgren-Swihart and lambda-operator
methods formerly employed (see Gingerich thesis). It can achieve a flux
constant to about 0.2% in three to five iterations. The time required
per iteration with the IBM 7090 electronic computer is approximately
three minutes for a non-gray model stellar atmosphere with continuous
opacity sources. Krook's iterative procedure has been used to establish
the well-known gray temperature distribution, temperatures in gray
"picket-fence" models and in solar-type model atmospheres both with
continuous opacity sources and with simulated absorption lines. We
are also beginning to use this program in studies of convective solar
models. This work has been supported in part by a National Science
Foundation grant to Dr. Charles A. Whitney.
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Title: A Study of Non-Grey Stellar Atmospheres.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen Jay
1962PhDT.........1G Altcode:
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Title: Polynomial Approximation for the Negative Hydrogen-Ion
Absorption Coefficient.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1961ApJ...134..653G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A Computer Program for Nongray Stellar Atmospheres.
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1961AJ.....66Q.285G Altcode:
A versatile computer program for nongray stellar atmospheres in the F0
to K2 range has been developed for use with the IBM 7090 at Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory. The program constructs a model atmosphere
based on an arbitrary temperature distribution, calculates a series
of fluxes and intensities (using either the Eddington approximation
or the exact integrals), and corrects the temperature distribution
according to one of three procedures. The opacity may be gray, or
derived from the a (H), a (H-) and Rayleigh scattering; furthermore,
absorption lines can be simulated by a discontinuous opac1ty, whiuh
may be depth dependent. Two different formulations of the condition
of radiative equilibrium can be exploited to correct the temperature
distribution: the flux (determined by the phi operator) must be
constant at each depth, or the derivative of the flux (determined by
the lambda operator) must vanish so that the absorption balances the
emission at each depth. The latter formulation is especially applicable
near the surface of a star where the first criterion is insufficient
to determine the run of temperature. A powerful initial correction
to the temperature distribution is accomplished with the Poincar6-
Lighthill-Krook perturbation method, which combines both criteria,
varying not only the temperature but also the optical depth (the
independent variable). The Stro~mgren-Swihart method, based on the
phi operation, can then be used to achieve a flux constant to better
than 21%, and a final correction of the temperatures near the surface
is possible by a modified lambda operation method. The monochromatic
fluxes depend critically on the temperature distribution throughout
the atmosphere, and by the use of the three methods successively a
close approximation can be obtained. This work has been supported in
part by the National Science Foundation.
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Title: A Computer Prgoram for Non-Grey Stellar Atmospheres
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1961LIACo..10..576G Altcode: 1961MSRSL...4..575G; 1961LIACo..10..575G
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Title: The Missing Messier Objects
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1960S&T....20..196G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Abbe Lacaille's List of Clusters and Nebulae
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1960S&T....19..207G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: A Model of Jupiter's Satellite Orbits
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1959S&T....18..376G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: The Solar System beyond Neptune
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1959SciAm.200d..86G Altcode:
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Title: The Naming of Uranus and Neptune
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1958ASPL....8....9G Altcode: 1958ASPL..352.....G
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Title: American University Observatory
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1957S&T....16..212G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Eclipse in Ceylon
Authors: Chamberlain, J. M.; Gingerich, Owen
1955S&T....14..452C Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Observing the Messier Catalogue
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1954S&T....13..157G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Messier and His Catalogue II
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1953S&T....12..288G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Messier and His Catalogue I
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1953S&T....12..255G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Eclipse Saros Series
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1951S&T....10..288G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: Eclipse Experiences
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1951S&T....10..287G Altcode:
No abstract at ADS
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Title: North Central Regional Convention Held at Oshkosh
Authors: Gingerich, Owen
1950S&T.....9..190G Altcode:
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