History of Astronomy

200 topics in this forum

1. 'The Strangest Man,' Dirac biography. 1 2

   By ollypenrice, May 5
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   • Captain Scarlet
   • May 31

2. Kuiper biography on special offer

   By JeremyS, May 30
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   • JeremyS
   • May 31

3. Orwell Observatory Visit with BAA Historic Section

   By Alan White, May 27
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   • NGC 1502
   • May 28

4. Whipple Musuem of the History of Science, Cambridge

   By baggywrinkle, September 10, 2019
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   • Alan White
   • May 27

5. Gresham College Lectures

   By Gfamily, January 31, 2023
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   • Gfamily
   • May 2

6. Romanian Star&Sky Lore

   By Bivanus, April 20
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   • Alan White
   • April 26

7. Anyone read Vera Rubin, A life?

   By ollypenrice, April 1
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   • Gfamily
   • April 8

8. Where to read about and look at images of solar history?

   By shinebug777, March 24
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   • shinebug777
   • April 4

9. The pastels of John Russell

   By SwiMatt, April 4
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   • SwiMatt
   • April 4

10. Film-based astrophotography is now history 1 2 3

    By Cosmic Geoff, June 12, 2023
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    • Beulah
    • March 3

11. Grubb Standard Equatorials

    By MalcolmM, March 2
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    • MalcolmM
    • March 3

12. Big telescope mounts in the 19-th century

    By Nik271, February 28
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    • Nik271
    • February 28

13. Calculating the path of the December 447AD solar eclipse

    By inFINNity Deck, February 10
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    • inFINNity Deck
    • February 10

14. Kellermann & Bouton - Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe [Book]

    By lrh, January 30
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    • lrh
    • January 30

15. A theory on constellations

    By Extralien, December 20, 2023
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    • Earl
    • January 9

16. Astronomy of the Next Return of Halley's Comet

    By StarMen76, December 16, 2023
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    • tomato
    • December 18, 2023

17. The Observatory; A Monthly Review of Astronomy - early issues from the late 1800's

    By macpurity, November 14, 2023
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    • macpurity
    • November 14, 2023

18. Lunar archaeoastronomy

    By Gfamily, November 8, 2023
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    • SwiMatt
    • November 10, 2023

19. Basilica of Santa Croce

    By Andy ES, September 12, 2023
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    • Andy ES
    • September 13, 2023

20. Figuring out the references in Friedrich G.W. Struve's catalogue of double stars

    By Agerskov, August 8, 2023
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    • lunator
    • August 10, 2023

21. Obit. Prof. Mike Seaton (Astrophysics++)

    By Macavity, July 28, 2023
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    • Macavity
    • July 28, 2023

22. Archaeoastronomy of the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge (Macon, Georgia US)

    By orion25, October 24, 2022
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    • SwiMatt
    • May 30, 2023

23. Academic Trees? Science meets Genealogy!

    By Macavity, April 7, 2023
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    • saac
    • April 7, 2023

24. Apollo A Man on the Moon

    By Marvin Jenkins, March 14, 2023
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    • Swoop1
    • March 24, 2023

25. Why is The Lambda Orionis Cluster called Aunt Margaret's Mirror?

    By Agerskov, February 25, 2023
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    • ollypenrice
    • February 28, 2023