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11. Missing_Planet - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Missing_Planet/

    7 Mar 2023: C J Cunningham, B G Marsden and W Orchiston, Giuseppe Piazzi: The Controversial Discovery and Loss of Ceres in 1801, Journal for the History of Astronomy 42 (3) (2011), 283-306. ... C J Cunningham, B G Marsden and W Orchiston, How the first dwarf planet

12. Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maunder/

    17 May 2024: She continued to devote herself to the work of the British Astronomical Association, maintaining the role of editor of its journal for the year following her husband's death. ... 266. M B Ogilvie, Obligatory Amateurs: Annie Maunder (1868-1947) and

13. Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514 - 1574) - Biography - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rheticus/

    23 Jan 2024: Swerdlow writes in [13]:-. Copernicus could not have asked for a more erudite, elegant, and enthusiastic introduction of his new astronomy to the world of good letters; indeed to this day ... R Hooykaas, Rheticus's lost treatise on Holy Scripture and the

14. Jost Bürgi (1552 - 1632) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Burgi/

    26 May 2023: For the first time a clock was sufficiently accurate to be used in astronomy with relative positions of stars being calculated by timing their crossing of the sights of a telescope. ... O Gingerich, Jost Bürgi at Kassel, Journal for the history of

15. Johannes Campanus (1220 - 1296) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Campanus/

    29 Sep 2023: His importance lies rather in his ability to understand and utilise the recently rediscovered astronomy of the ancients. ... C S Peirce, Campanus, Science 13 (334) (1901), 809-811. N Swerdlow, The planetary theory of Campanus, Journal for the History of

16. Alice Everett (1865 - 1949) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Everett/

    17 May 2024: Everett, Alice, Survey of Astronomical History, Astronomers: Middlesex, The Society for the History of Astronomy. ... M B Ogilvie, Obligatory amateurs: Annie Maunder (1868-1947) and British women astronomers at the dawn of professional astronomy, British

17. Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Halley/

    30 Dec 2023: Halley's other activities included studying archaeology, geophysics, the history of astronomy, and the solution of polynomial equations. ... Ed. 2 (4) (1986), 25-27. F Verbunt, M van der Sluys, Why Halley Did Not Discover Proper Motion and Why Cassini Did

18. Erasmus Reinhold (1511 - 1553) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Reinhold/

    7 Mar 2023: Reinhold sums up his approach to Copernicus's opus by a motto inscribed on the title page, a paraphrase of the chapter title I,4 'The Axiom of astronomy: Celestial motion ... P D Omodeo and I Tupikova, The post-Copernican reception of Ptolemy: Erasmus

19. Ali Qushji (1403 - 1474) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Qushji/

    11 Jan 2024: I Ileri, Ali Al-Qushji and His Contributions to Mathematics and Astronomy, Journal of the Center for Ottoman Studies, Ankara University (OTAM) 20 (2006), 175-183. ... F J Ragep, Ali Qushji and Regiomontanus: Eccentric Transformations and Copernican

20. al-Zarqali (1029 - 1100) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Zarqali/

    11 Jan 2024: J Samsó Moya and H Mielgo, Ibn al-Zarqalluh on Mercury, Journal for the History of Astronomy 25 (1994), 289-296. ... F Sezgin (ed.), Az-Zarqali and Al-Bițruji. Their Works in Western Translations and Adaptations: Texts and Studies (Institute for the