For registration information, write History of Astronomy Workshop, Center for Continuing Education, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556

8 pm to 10:00 pm: Welcoming Reception Notre Dame Center for Continuing Education

8:30 am Greetings and Introduction of Participants: Mike Crowe (Notre Dame) and Steve Dick (U. S. Naval Observatory), Co-chairs of the Workshop

9:00­11:30 The Politics of Historical Interpretation
Chairs: Marc Rothenberg and John Lankford

• Marc Rothenberg (Joseph Henry Papers): "The Anti-Anti-Science Movement in History of Astronomy"
• John Lankford (Kansas State University): "The Politics of Historiography and the History of Astronomy"

1:15­3:00 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy I
Chair: Ron Brashear (Huntington Library)

• Bella C. Chiu (Arlington, Virginia): "Was Canton Meant to Be Built near the Tropic of Cancer?"
• Brother Kevin Ryan (Christian Brothers University): "Kepler's Arithmetic"
• Elsa L. Gonzalez (Chicago, Ill.): "President de Saron (1730­1794): Astronomer and Mathematician"
• Louise Golland (Chicago, Ill.): "Highlights in Theoretical Astronomy from the 18th and 19th Centuries"
• Robert Havlik and Terrence Rettig (University of Notre Dame): "The University of Notre Dame, Napoleon III Telescope"
• Orville R. Butler ( Johnson County Community College): "Directions towards a Comprehensive Bibliography in the History of American Astronomy-Problems and Prospects"
• John W. Briggs (Yerkes Observatory): "A Note on the New Antique Telescope Society"

3:15­5:00 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy II
Chair: Joann Eisberg (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Deborah Warner (Smithsonian): "Bloom and the Time Ball: Joyce's Uses of Astronomy in Ulysses"
• Pamela Gossin (University of Texas as Dallas): "Pulp Poetry: Doing Violence to the History of Astronomy?"
• Craig B. Waff (Collier's): "The Cold War Origin of U.S. Solar-System Exploration"
• Rudi Paul Lindner (University of Michigan): "Astronomy in a Cloudy Climate"
• Jordan D. Marché II (Indiana University): "The Planetarium in America, 1930­1970: A Social History"
• George Sweetnam (Princeton University): "Putting Physics into Astrophysics"
• Michael Anderer (St. Charles, Ill.): "Fr. Hagen and the 'Nebulose oscure'"

8:00­10:00 pm: Gathering at the Home of Mike Crowe (see map in conference packet)

9­11:30 am History of Twentieth­Century Astronomy
Chair, Robert Smith (NASM, Smithsonian, and Johns Hopkins University)

• Robert Smith, "Engines of Discovery? Material Culture in the History of Modern Astronomy"
• Steven Dick (U. S. Naval Observatory): "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: The History of Ideas and the Limits of Science"
• Ron Doel: "The State of Community Studies: Prospects and Problems"
• David DeVorkin (Smithsonian): Commentary

1:15­4:15 pm News from the Early Modern Period (Formerly the Scientific Revolution)
Chair: Owen Gingerich

• Richard S. Westfall (Indiana University): "Was There a Scientific Revolution?"
• Owen Gingerich (Harvard University): Copernicus
• Ernan McMullin (University of Notre Dame): Galileo
• James Voelkel (Williams College): Kepler

4:30­5:30 Teaching History of Astronomy and Sharing of Syllabi
Chair: Richard Berendzen (The American University)
Note: Those who teach courses in history of astronomy are asked to bring about 50 copies of their syllabus to this session.

Conference Banquet: 6 pm: Morris Inn on the Notre Dame Campus
Invited Speaker: Brian Warner (University of Cape Town): "The Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope"

8:00­11:00 pm: Open Session at the Notre Dame Observatory

9­11:30 am Approaches to Ancient and Medieval Astronomy
Chairs: Leroy Doggett (U. S. Naval Observatory) and Steve McCluskey

• James Evans (University of Puget Sound): "The New History of Ancient Greek Astronomy"
• Ron Hicks (Ball State University): "Hints of Astronomy in Ancient Ireland"
• Bruce Eastwood (University of Kentucky): "Doing the History of Astronomy in Early Medieval Europe"
• Steve McCluskey (West Virginia University): "Some Tentative Steps toward a Taxonomy of Astronomies"

11:30­12:00 Business meeting