书目名称 | New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard S | 副标题 | A Meeting to Honor F | 编辑 | Wayne Orchiston,David A. Green,Richard Strom | 视频video | | 概述 | Honors the work of pioneering astronomical historian F. Richard Stephenson, the founder of applied historical astronomy.Discusses the new insights of recent research using historical data on such topi | 丛书名称 | Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book contains papers from a conference held to celebrate the 70th birthday of one of the world’s foremost astronomical historians, Professor F. Richard Stephenson, the latest recipient of the American Astronomical Society’s highest award for research in astronomical history, the LeRoy Doggett Prize. Reflecting Professor Stephenson’s extensive research portfolio, this book brings together under one cover papers on four different areas of scholarship: applied historical astronomy (which Stephenson founded); Islamic astronomy; Oriental astronomy and amateur astronomy. These papers are penned by astronomers from Canada, China, England, France, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Portugal, Thailand and the USA. Its diverse coverage represents a wide cross-section of the history of astronomy community. Under discussion are ways in which recent research using historical data has provided new insights into auroral and solar activity, supernovae and changes in the rotation rateof the Earth. It also presents readers with results of recent research on leading historical figures in Islamic and Oriental astronomy, and aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth century Australian, Bri | 出版日期 | Conference proceedings 2015 | 关键词 | Al-Sufi; Amateur Astronomy; Amateur Turned Professional Astronomers; Applied Historical Astronomy; Arabi | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07614-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-38221-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-07614-0Series ISSN 1570-6591 Series E-ISSN 1570-6605 | issn_series | 1570-6591 | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |
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