Third Biennial History of Astronomy
Workshop
University of Notre Dame
June 1922, 1997
Thursday, June 19
8 pm to 10:00 pm Welcoming Reception ND Center for Continuing
Education
Note: A new 25 minute video on Daniel Kirkwood will be shown at
9 pm for anyone interested.
Note: All sessions, except for the poster session, take place
in the Auditorium of the Center for Continuing Education.
Friday, June 20
8:30 am Greetings and Introduction of Participants: Mike
Crowe (Notre Dame) and Steve Dick (U. S. Naval Observatory), Co-chairs
of the Workshop
- Introduction of Dr. Peter Lombardo, Director of the Center
for Continuing Education and Conference Coordinatior; and of
Matt Dowd, ND grad student who is handling local arrangements,
including transportation.
- Introduction of Participants.
9:0011:30 am On the Uses of Biography in the History
of Astronomy
Organizer and Chair: David DeVorkin (Smithsonian Institution)
Five historians who have approached biography from different and
complementary perspectives will outline their views on the role
of biography in the history of astronomy. Each has explored either
gender or class issues, institutional or regional contexts, or
changing modes of practice in the framework of biography, and
will provide insight into how these efforts enhance understanding
of the ever-changing discipline of astronomy. Participating will
be:
- David DeVorkin (Smithsonian Institution): Henry Norris Russell
and Charles Greeley Abbot
- Barbara Becker (MindWorks): Sir William and Lady Margaret
Huggins
- Joanne Eisberg (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara): Beatrice
Tinsley
- William Sheehan (Minneapolis, Minn.): Edward Emerson Barnard
- David Strauss (Kalamazoo College): Percival Lowell
11:35 Group Photograph (weather permitting)
Lunch
1:003:30 pm Survey Presentations
Chair: Steven J. Dick (U. S. Naval Observatory)
- Alexander Gurshtein (Russian Academy of Sciences and Mesa
State College): "On the Status and Opportunities of History
of Astronomy Research in Russia"
- Bernard R. Goldstein (Univ. of Pittsburgh): "Was There
Anything Original in Ancient Greek Astronomy?"
- Pamela Gossin (Univ. of Texas at Dallas): "Astronomy
and Literature"
- Sara Schechner Genuth (Smithsonian Institution/American Institute
of Physics/UMCP): "Early Modern Sundials as Evidence of
Consumer Culture"
3:304:00 pm Poster Presentations (Room 112 in CCE)
- Barbara Becker (MindWorks): "MindWorks: Making Scientific
Concepts Come Alive"
- Michael J. Crowe (Univ. of Notre Dame): "Calendar of
the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel"
- Frank Edmondson (Indiana Univ.): "Reflections on Writing
a Definitive History of AURA"
- Robert J. Havlik (Univ. of Notre Dame): "The Notre Dame
Telescope"
- James R. Voelkel and Owen Gingerich (Harvard University):
"Tycho Brahe's Copernican Campaign"
4:005:15 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy I
Chair: Marvin Bolt (Adler Planetarium)
8:0010:00 pm: Gathering at the Home of Mike Crowe
(see map in conference packet)
Note: The new 25 minute video on Daniel Kirkwood will be available
for viewing.
Saturday, June 21
911:30 am Teaching History of Astronomy and Sharing
of Syllabi
Organizer: Owen Gingerich (Harvard Univ.)
Chair: Dana Densmore (Green Lion Press)
Note: Those who teach courses in history of astronomy are asked
to bring about 50 copies of their syllabus to this session.
- James Evans (Univ. of Puget Sound): "Using History of
Astronomy in Teaching Astronomy"
- Curtis Wilson (St. John's College): "Using History of
Astronomy in the St. John's Program"
- Owen Gingerich (Harvard Univ.): "Using History of Astronomy
in Teaching Science to Non-science Majors"
Lunch
13:30 pm Recent Themes in Archaeoastronomy: Sacred
Spaces and Sacred Times
Organizer: Stephen McCluskey (West Virginia Univ.)
Chair: James Lattis (Univ. of Wisconsin)
- Stephen McCluskey (West Virginia Univ.): "Sacred Space
as a Model for Puebloan Natural Knowledge"
- Clive Ruggles (Leicester University): "Prehistoric Sacred
Landscapes and Astronomy"
- John Carlson (Center for Archaeoastronomy): "Pilgrimage
and Solar Alignments in the Mexican Altiplano"
- David Dearborn (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory):
"Pilgrimage and Solar Alignments in the Inca World"
3:455:30 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy II
Chair: William Donahue (Green Lion Press)
6:30 pm Conference Banquet: Morris Inn on the Notre
Dame Campus
Welcoming Remarks: Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., President of
the University of Notre Dame
- Invited Speaker: Alexander Gurshtein (Russian Academy of
Sciences and Mesa State College): "Origins of Constellations
and Their Egyptian Links"
8:3010:30 pm: Optional Open Session at the Notre Dame
Observatory (Nieuwland Science Hall)-group will depart directly
from the banquet.
Sunday, June 22
9:0011:15 am: Historical Studies on Astronomy III
Chair: John Briggs (Univ. of Chicago)
11:3012:00 Business meeting
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