Important Notice: A related one-day conference titled "Perspectives on the Question of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life" will be held on July 1. All persons registering for the History of Astronomy Workshop are invited to attend this conference, which will also be held in McKenna Hall (CCE) and for which there is no charge.

8 pm to 10:00 pm Welcoming Reception-McKenna Hall (Center for Continuing Education)

Note: All sessions, except for the poster session, take place in the Auditorium of the 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; Matt Dowd (Notre Dame), Local Arrangements Chair.
• Introduction of Dr. Peter Lombardo, Director of the Center for Continuing Education
• Introduction of Participants.

9:00-10:45 am Special Topic Session: Astronomy in Culture
Chair: Matt Dowd (Univ. of Notre Dame)

• Jamil Ragep (Univ. of Oklahoma): "Tusi and Copernicus: The Earth's Motion in Context"
• Michael Shank (Univ. of Wisconsin): "The Cultural Context of Fifteenth-Century Astronomy in Piero della Francesca's 'Flagellation?'"

11:00-11:45 am Reports from Other Conferences

• David DeVorkin (National Air and Space Museum): "The American Astronomical Society's Centennial Celebrations"
• Steve McCluskey (West Virginia Univ.): "Astronomy and Cultural Diversity: The Sixth Oxford Conference on Archaeoastronomy"

11:50 Group Photograph (weather permitting)

Lunch

1:15-2:45 pm Special Topic Session: Old Instruments and New Technologies in the Class Room
Chair and Organizer: Albert Van Helden (Rice University)

• Jim Bennett (Univ. of Oxford): "The Real Thing: Actual vs. Virtual"
• Robert Hatch (Univ. of Florida): "Teaching and Learning and the Web: Real, Possible, and Alternative Worlds"
• Albert Van Helden: "Galileo's Finger or Galileo's Telescope: The Galileo Project in the Class Room"

3:00-4:00 pm Historical Studies on Astronomy I
Chair: John Briggs (Yerkes Observatory)

• John Dimmock (Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville) and Mitzi Adams (NASA Marshal Space Flight Center): "Theories of the Universe: One Semester Course for Honors Undergraduates"
• Joseph Ross (Univ. of Notre Dame): "Hegel's Typology of Celestial Bodies: Planets as Locus of Intellectual Life"
• Robert Havlik (Univ. of Notre Dame): "The Lincolns and the Yerkes Observatory"
  

4:00-4:15 pm and Throughout: Poster Papers and Special Exhibit

• B. N. Narahari Achar (Univ. of Memphis): "The Hindu Calendar"
• Dennis Danielson (Univ. of British Columbia): "The Discourse of Cosmology in Calvin and Kepler"
• Matthew F. Dowd (Univ. of Notre Dame): "Apropos of the New Millennium: William Herschel's Comments on the Beginning of the Century"
• Dana Freiburger (Independent Scholar): "John Thompson, English Philomath - A Question of Land Surveying and Astronomy"
• Thomas Hockey (Univ. of Northern Iowa): "The 'Shadow Argument' for Jupiter"
• David J. Krause (Henry Ford Community College): "The Phases of Venus-What Do They Prove, and Why Should We Care?"
• Bruce Stephenson (Adler Planetarium): "X-ray Studies of (Real and Fake) Astrolabes"
• B. L. Welther (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory):"The Founding of the AAS: Opportunities for Women and Amateurs"
• Thomas Nelson Winter (Univ. of Nebraska): "Big Geometry: The Third Century B.C. Measures of Earth, Sun and Moon"
• Special Exhibit: "American Astronomical Society's First Hundred Years" (Sara Schechner Genuth, Curator)

4:15-5:15 pm Historical Studies on Astronomy II
Chair: William Donahue (Green Lion Press)

• Sofie Lachapelle (Univ. of Notre Dame): "Astronomy, Religion, and the Psychical Research of Camille Flammarion"
• Roberto de Andrade Martins (Group of History and Theory of Science, UNICAMP, Brazil): "Searching for the Ether: Leopold Courvoiser's Attempts to Measure the Absolute Velocity of the Solar System"
• Patricia S. Whitesell (Detroit Observatory, Univ. of Michigan): "A Creation of His Own: Tappan's Detroit Observatory"

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

9:00-11:45 am Special Topic Session: Past and Present Roles for Instruments: Concept, Commerce and Collection
Organizer: Jim Bennett (Univ. of Oxford)
Co-Chairs: Jim Bennett and Deborah Warner (National Museum of American History)

• Jim Bennett (Univ. of Oxford): "Was the Astrolabe a 'model' of the Heavens?"
• Sara Schechner Genuth (American Institute of Physics): "Faith in Time: Religious Belief and Sundials"
• Albert Van Helden (Rice University): "Divini and Campani Head-to-Head: Spectacle, Patronage, and Commerce"
• Tracy Spaight (Cornell University): "'An arrangement so unwise'?: William Herschel's Venture into the Commercial Telescope Market"
• Steve Turner (National Museum of American History): "The Dobsonian Revolution-and Counterrevolution"
• David DeVorkin (National Air and Space Museum): "Collecting History of Astronomy at the National Air and Space Museum: Is It the Right History?"

Lunch

1:00-2:15 pm Special Topic Session: Historiography
Chair: Sofie Lachapelle (Univ. of Notre Dame)

• Marvin Bolt (Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum): "Presenting Astronomy to the Public via Texts, Talks, and Toys"
• Anna Felicity Friedman (Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum): "Teaching the History of Astronomy through Art"
• David Strauss (Kalamazoo College): "From Cultural History to History of Science: Tracking Percival Lowell across Disciplinary Boundaries"

2:30-3:45 pm Special Topic Session: The Ptolemy Controversy Revisited
Chair: David DeVorkin (National Air and Space Museum)

• Keith Pickering (Analysts International Corporation): "The Ancient Star Catalog: A Question of Authorship"
• Owen Gingerich (Harvard University): "The Trouble with Ptolemy"
• Hugh Thurston (Univ. of British Columbia): "Against Ptolemy"
• James Evans (Univ. of Puget Sound): "What Was New in Ptolemy's Astronomy?"

4:00-5:35 pm Historical Studies on Astronomy III
Chair: Voula Saridakis (Virginia Tech)

• Jesse Kraai (Univ. of Bielefeld): "The Astrological Philosophy and Coincidences Which Lead to the Publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus: Georg Joachim Rheticus (1532-1543)"
• Sven Dupre (Univ. of Ghent): "Galileo, Magini and the Moon: An Analysis of the 'Theory of the Concave Spherical Mirror'"
• Howard Margolis (Univ of Chicago): "Why Did Tycho Supplant Ptolemy BEFORE the Telescope?"
• Jordan Marché (Independent Scholar): "Remarks on Collective Biography in Astronomical Historiography"
• Douglas A. Vakoch (SETI Institute): "Assumptions of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Historical Perspectives on the Nature of Extraterrestrials, Science, and Mathematics"

6:30 pm Conference Banquet: Morris Inn on the Notre Dame Campus
Welcoming Remarks: Philip R. Sloan (Univ. of Notre Dame)

• Invited Speaker: Jim Bennett (Univ. of Oxford): "'La Grande Lunette': the Spectacle of Astronomy in 1900"
  

8:30-10:00 pm: Optional Open Session at the Notre Dame Observatory (Nieuwland Science Hall)-group will depart directly from the banquet.

9:00-10:00 am: Historical Studies on Astronomy IV
Chair: Patrick Catt (Indiana University)

• B. N. Narahari Achar (Univ of Memphis): "Vedic Astronomy and Ritual: Nakshatra, the Stellar Frame and Yajna, the Ritual"
• James A. Marshall (Independent Scholar): "A New Rebuttal to the Archaeoastronomers"
• Nicholas Kollerstrom (University College, London): "The Chinese Reception of Newton's Lunar Theory"

10:00-10:30 am Business Meeting