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Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop - ND VI June 19-22, 2003
Program
All sessions, except the poster session, take place in the Auditorium of the Center for Continuing Education.
| Thursday, June 19 |
Workshop Opens |
| 8:00 - 9:00 pm |
Opening Address: Harry Collins will identify the historiographical themes that will be the source for our deliberations during the breakout sessions on Friday. |
| 9:00 - 10:00 pm |
Welcoming Reception
Notre Dame Center for Continuing Education |
| Friday, June 20 |
Sessions begin |
| 8:00 -8:30 am |
Greetings and Introduction of Participants
David DeVorkin (Smithsonian), Marc Rothenberg (Joseph Henry Papers) and Rudi Lindner (University of Michigan), Co-chairs of the Workshop; Matt Dowd (University of Notre Dame), Local Arrangements Chair.
- Introduction of Participants
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| Throughout |
Poster Papers
- Marvin Bolt (Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum): “Naming New Worlds”
- David DeVorkin (Smithsonian): “Historical Artifacts Displayed in the Explore the Universe Gallery - How We Got 'Em”
- Thomas Hockey: “The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers: A Work-in- Progress Poster Paper”
- Dana Freiburger (University of Wisconsin-Madison) in liaison with David Patten, Witherley (nr. Atherstone), England: “John Thompson and Question 290 Revisited”
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| 9:00 - Noon |
Breakout Sessions
- Each group will examine one single issue and will report back to the whole group.
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| 12:05 pm |
Group Photograph (weather permitting)
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| 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Discussion of Breakout Sessions
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| 3:00 - 3:30 pm |
Break
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| 3:30 - 5:00 pm |
Historical Studies on Astronomy, Twentieth Century
Chair: Marvin Bolt (Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum)
- Jordan D. Marché II (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “'Popular' Journals and Community in American Astronomy, 1882-1951”
- Matthew Stanley (Harvard University): “'An Expedition to Heal the Wounds of War:' the 1919 Eclipse and Eddington as Quaker Adventurer”
- Andrew Bell (Independent Scholar, Oakland, California): “Ambitious Precision: Henry Rowland's Catalog of the Solar Spectrum”
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| 8:00 - 10:00 pm |
Gathering at the home of Marvin Bolt (directions will be distributed to drivers). |
| Saturday, June 21 |
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| 8:30 - 10:30 am |
Biographical Studies in Astronomy I
Chair: David DeVorkin (Smithsonian)
- David Strauss (Kalamazoo College): “The Utility of a Thematic Approach to History of Science Biography”
- Keith Lafortune: “Women at the Harvard College Observatory: Preliminary Findings from the Observatory Personnel Records, 1877-1919”
- Peter Broughton (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada): “Eavesdropping on Two Harvard Graduate Students in 1929-30”
- I. Pustylnik, (Tartu Observatory, Estonia): “Ernst Julius Öpik (1893-1985)”
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| 10:30 - 11:00 am |
Break
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| 11:00 - Noon |
Thematic Session: “A Zodiacal Armillary Sphere”
Organizer/Chair: Dennis Duke (Florida State University)
Speakers: John Britton, Dennis Duke (Florida State University), Raphael Patton (St. Mary's College of California), Keith Pickering
- Demonstration and discussion of a model of an armillary sphere, made according to a description by Ptolemy.
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| Noon - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 - 3:30 pm |
Historical Studies on Astronomy, Medieval and Early Modern
Chair: Darin Hayton (University of Notre Dame)
- Matt Dowd (University of Notre Dame): “Robert Grosseteste and Astronomy in the Medieval University”
- Dan Burton (University of North Alabama): “Nicole Oresme's On Seeing the Stars: The Discovery of the Curvature of Light Through the Atmosphere”
- Sven Dupré (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): “Digges, Bourne, and a Sixteenth Century Telescopic Project”
- Rienk Vermij (University of Utrecht): “The Leiden Interpretation of Copernicus' Theory of the Universe”
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| 3:30 - 4:00 pm |
Break
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| 4:00 - 6:00 pm |
Historical Studies on Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy and Nineteenth Century
Chair: Marc Rothenberg (Joseph Henry Papers)
- Christopher Turner: “A Report on Archaeoastronomical Research at the Hopeton Earthworks, Ross Co., Ohio”
- Robert J. Havlik (University Of Notre Dame): “The University Of Notre Dame And The 1874 And 1882 Transits Of Venus”
- Robert H. van Gent (University of Utrecht): “The Dutch Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1874 and 1882”
- Craig B. Waff (Encyclopedia Americana), et. al.: “The Prediction and Discovery of Neptune: Brilliant Deduction or Illusion of Precision?”
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| 7:00 - 8:30 pm |
Conference Banquet, Morris Inn on the Notre Dame Campus
Welcoming Remarks: Michael Crowe (University Of Notre Dame)
Invited Speaker: Harry Collins, response to the Workshop
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| 8:30 - 10:00 pm |
Optional Open Session at the Notre Dame Observatory (Nieuwland Science Hall). Group will depart directly from the banquet. |
| 8:30 - 11:30 am |
Recent Results in Ancient Astronomy
Organizer/Chair: Dennis Duke (Florida State University)
- John Britton, “On the Origin of the 251 Month Anomalistic Period Relation”
- Dennis Duke (Florida State University; Keith Pickering; Dennis Rawlins, DIO; John Steele (University of Toronto), “Late Babylonian Star Catalogues”
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| 11:45 am |
Business Meeting |
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