Acta Historica Astronomiae Vol. 9 - Contents

Klaus Hentschel and Axel D. Wittmann (Eds.):

The Role of Visual Representations in Astronomy: History and Research Practice

Table of contents

Preface

Participants at the Colloquium

List of Figures

  Klaus Hentschel: Drawing, engraving, photographing, plotting, printing: Historical studies of visual representations, particularly in astronomy

  Lajos Bartha: A Renaissance celestial globe as an analogue computer

  Klaus-Dieter Herbst: Traces to the mechanic's workshop: Gottfried Teuber's copper engraving and woodcut illustrations for Erhard Weigel

  Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900): On astronomical drawing [1846]

  Axel D. Wittmann: Did Struve observe the nucleus of Halley's comet in 1835?

  Charlotte Bigg: Photography and labour history of astrometry: The Carte du Ciel

  Peter Habison: Karl Schwarzschild's investigations of 'out-of-focus photometry' between 1897 and 1899 at Kuffner Observatory in Vienna

  Andrea Loettgers: Representation and transformation of Langley's map of the infrared solar spectrum

  Peter Kroll and Hans-Jürgen Bräuer: Working in a gold mine: Archival wide-field plates

Name index

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