8:00 pm to 9:10 pm: Opening Address-McKenna Hall (Center for Continuing Education)
Harry Collins will identify the historiographical themes that will be the source for our deliberations during the breakout sessions on Friday.
9:10 pm to 10:30 pm: Welcoming Reception (Cash Bar)-McKenna Hall (Center for Continuing Education)
Note: All sessions, except for the poster papers, take place in the Auditorium of Mckenna Hall, the Center for Continuing Education.
8:00 am to 8:30 am: Greetings and Introduction of Participants:
David DeVorkin (Smithsoian), Marc Rothenberg (Joseph Henry Papers)
and Rudi Lindner (University of Michigan), Co-chairs of the Workshop;
Matt Dowd (University of Notre Dame), Local Arrangements Chair.
Introduction of Participants.
8:30 am to 9:00 am: Instructions for Breakout Sessions
Throughout: Poster Papers
Marvin Bolt (Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum): "Naming New Worlds"
David DeVorkin (Smithsonian): "Historical Artifacts Displayed in the Explore the Universe Gallery - How We Got 'Em"
Thomas Hockey: "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers: A Work-in- Progress Poster Paper"
Dana Freiburger (University of Wisconsin-Madison) in liaison with David Patten, Witherley (nr. Atherstone), England: "John Thompson and Question 290 Revisited"
9:00 am to 12:00 noon: Breakout Sessions
Each group will examine one single issue and will report back to the whole group.
10:30am to 11:00 am: break
12:05 pm: Group Photograph (weather permitting)
Lunch
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm: Discussion of Breakout Sessions
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm: break
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy, Twentieth Century
Chair: Marvin Bolt (Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum)
Jordan D. Marché II (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "'Popular' Journals and Community in American Astronomy, 1882-1951"
Matthew Stanley (Harvard University): "'An Expedition to Heal the Wounds of War:' the 1919 Eclipse and Eddington as Quaker Adventurer"
Andrew Bell (Independent Scholar, Oakland, California): "Ambitious Precision: Henry Rowland's Catalog of the Solar Spectrum"
8:00-10:00 pm: Gathering at the Home of Marvin Bolt (directions will be distributed to drivers)
8:30 am to 10:30 am: Biographical Studies in Astronomy I
Chair: David DeVorkin (Smithsonian)
David Strauss (Kalamazoo College): "The Utility of a Thematic Approach to History of Science Biography"
Keith Lafortune: "Women at the Harvard College Observatory: Preliminary Findings from the Observatory Personnel Records, 1877-1919"
Peter Broughton (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada): "Eavesdropping on Two Harvard Graduate Students in 1929-30"
I. Pustylnik, (Tartu Observatory, Estonia): "Ernst Julius Öpik (1893-1985)"
10:30am to 11:00 am: break
11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Thematic Session, "A Zodiacal Armillary Sphere"
Organizer/Chair: Dennis Duke (Florida State University)
Speakers:
John Britton
Dennis Duke (Florida State University)
Raphael Patton (St. Mary's College of California)
Keith Pickering
Demonstration and discussion of a model of an armillary sphere, made according to a description by Ptolemy. See abstract for further info.
Lunch
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy, Medieval and Early Modern
Chair: Darin Hayton (University of Notre Dame)
Matt Dowd (University of Notre Dame): "Robert Grosseteste and Astronomy in the Medieval University"
Dan Burton (University of North Alabama): "Nicole Oresme's On Seeing the Stars: The Discovery of the Curvature of Light Through the Atmosphere"
Sven Dupré (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): "Digges, Bourne, and a Sixteenth Century Telescopic Project"
Rienk Vermij (University of Utrecht): "The Leiden Interpretation of Copernicus' Theory of the Universe"
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm: break
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy and Nineteenth Century
Chair: Marc Rothenberg (Joseph Henry Papers)
Christopher Turner: "A Report on Archaeoastronomical Research at the Hopeton Earthworks, Ross Co., Ohio"
Robert J. Havlik (University Of Notre Dame): "The University Of Notre Dame And The 1874 And 1882 Transits Of Venus"
Robert H. van Gent (University of Utrecht): "The Dutch Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1874 and 1882"
Craig B. Waff (Encyclopedia Americana), et. al.: "The Prediction and Discovery of Neptune: Brilliant Deduction or Illusion of Precision?"
7:00 pm Banquet (Cash Bar Reception will begin at 7:00,
Dinner will be served at 7:30)
Welcoming Remarks: Michael Crowe (University Of Notre Dame)
Invited Speaker: Harry Collins, response to the Workshop
8:30-10:00 pm: Optional Open Session at the Notre Dame Observatory (Nieuwland Science Hall)
Those interested will depart directly from the banquet. The event is, of course, weather permitting.
8:30 am to 11:30 am: Recent Results in Ancient Astronomy
Organizer/Chair: Dennis Duke (Florida State University)
Speakers:
John Britton, "On the
Origin of the 251 Month Anomalistic Period Relation"
Dennis Duke (Florida State University)
Keith Pickering
Dennis Rawlins (DIO, http://www.dioi.org)
John Steele (University of Toronto), "Late Babylonian Star
Catalogues"
See abstract for further information.
10:00am to 10:30 am: break
11:45 am: Business Meeting