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Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop - ND I June 24-27, 1993
Program
All sessions held in the Center for Continuing Education.
| Thursday, June 24 |
Workshop Opens |
| 8:00 pm |
Welcoming Reception |
| Friday, June 25 |
Sessions begin |
| 9:00 - 11:30 am |
Astronomy in Context
Chair: Barbara Becker, Southwest Regional Laboratory
- Liba Taub, Adler Planetarium: “The Ancient World as Context”
- Steve McCluskey, Univ. of Wisconsin: “The Medieval World as Context”
- Sara S. Genuth, Sara Lawrence C.: “The Scientific Revolution as Context”
- Barbara Becker: “Victorian Britain as Context”
- David DeVorkin, NASM, Smithsonian: “Henry Norris Russell and the Anglo-American Context”
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| 1:30 - 4:30 pm |
Works in Progress
Chair: Marc Rothenberg, Joseph Henry Papers, Smithsonian
- Kenneth J. Howell, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana U. and Reformed Theological Seminary: “All Things Considered: The Theological Context of the Reception of Copernicanism in Northern Protestant Europe”
- George Sweetnam, Princeton U.: “High Dispersion from Hopkins”
- Michael Crowe, Notre Dame: “A New Text on the History of Stellar Astronomy”
- Orville R. Butler, Independent Scholar: “The Cultural Context of American Astrophysics”
- Priyamvada Natarajan, MIT: “The Role of Simulations in Astrophysics”
- Joann Eisberg, U. Wisconsin, Madison: “Scientific Biography or High Opera? Writing the Life of Beatrice Tinsley”
- Andrew Butrica, Independent Scholar: “Planetary Radar Astronomy before Venus”
- Ronald A. Schorn, Intaglio, Inc.; Henry C. Dethloff, Intaglio, Inc. and Texas A & M U.; and Oran W. Nicks, Texas A & M U.: “NASA's Planetary Astronomy History Project”
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| Saturday, June 26 |
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| 9:00 - 11:30 am |
Teaching the History of Astronomy
Chairs: Owen Gingerich, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Albert Van Helden, Rice U.
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| 1:30 - 4:30 pm |
The History of Astronomy Since 1940
Chairs: Ron Doel, American Institute of Physics; and John Lankford, West Virginia U.
- Owen Gingerich: “An Editor's Perspective”
- Joseph N. Tatarewicz, NASA History Office and U. Maryland, Baltimore County: “Space Sciences”
- David DeVorkin, NASM, Smithsonian: “Astrophysics”
- Lief Robinson, Editor, Sky & Telescope: “A Participant's Views”
- Robert Smith, NASM and Johns Hopkins U.: “Patronage”
- Steven Dick, U.S. Naval Observatory: “The SETI Project”
- Tom Williams, Rice U.: “Amateurs”
- Karl Hufbauer, U. California, Irvine: “Solar Physics”
- George Webb, Tennessee Technical U.: “Southwestern Astronomy”
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| 7:00 pm |
Banquet
Banquet Lecture: Michael Hoskin, Cambridge University: “Hitting Pay-Dirt among the Manuscripts” |
| 9:00 - 11:00 am |
Celestial Mechanics
Chair: LeRoy Doggett, U.S. Naval Observatory
- Robert Howland, Notre Dame: “From Geometry to Analysis to Geometry”
- Craig Waff, Jet Propulsion Lab: “Lunar Theory from Newton to Clairaut”
- Louise and Ronald Golland, U. Chicago: “Euler and Convergence Theory”
- Curtis Wilson, St. John's C.: “Lunar Theory from Euler to Hill”
- LeRoy Doggett: “From Kirkwood to Chaos: Explaining the Resonance Gaps”
- Joseph N. Tatarewicz: “Style in Celestial Mechanics: Herget vs. Herrick”
- Peter Kammeyer, U.S. Naval Observatory: “Celestial Mechanics in 1920”
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| 11:00 am - Noon |
Business Meeting |
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