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  1. Giuseppe Piazzi (1746 - 1826) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: I Chinnici, The relationship between the Ramsden Circles at Palermo and Dunsink, Journal for the History of Astronomy 40 (2009), 321-333. ... G F Serio, Giuseppe Piazzi and the discovery of the proper motion of 61 Cygni, Journal for the History of

  2. Levi ben Gerson (1288 - 1344) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: B R Goldstein, Levi ben Gerson : On instrumental errors and the transversal scale, Journal for the History of Astronomy 8 (1977), 102-112. ... J D North, Levi's astronomical tables, Journal for the History of Astronomy 7 (1976), 212-213.

  3. Black holes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: C Montgomery, W Orchiston and I Whittingham, Michell, Laplace and the origin of the black hole concept, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 12 (2) (2009), 90-96. ... S Schaffer, John Mitchell and Black Holes, Journal for the History of Astronomy

  4. T J J See (1866 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: system. He published his findings in The Astronomical Journal (1896) in a paper entitled Researches on the orbit of 70 Ophiuchi, and on a periodic perturbation in the motion of the ... T J Sherrill, A Career of Controversy: The Anomaly of T J J See,

  5. 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

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

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

    17 May 2024: M A Evershed, Obituary: Mrs Walter Maunder, Journal of the British Astronomical Association 57 (6) (1947), 238. ... 266. M B Ogilvie, Obligatory Amateurs: Annie Maunder (1868-1947) and British Women Astronomers at the Dawn of Professional Astronomy,

  7. Christianity and Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Internaz. Storia Sci. 20 (1-4) (1978), 271-283. E Rosen, Calvin's attitude towards Copernicus, Journal of the History of Ideas 21 (1960), 431-441. ... E Rosen, Was Copernicus' Revolutions approved by the Pope, Journal of the History of Ideas 36 (1975),

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

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

    23 Jan 2024: place in the history of mathematics is due precisely to his computation of innovative and monumental trigonometrical tables. ... R Hooykaas, Rheticus's lost treatise on Holy Scripture and the motion of the Earth, Journal for the history of astronomy 15

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

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

    26 May 2023: E M Bruins, On the history of logarithms : Bürgi, Napier, Briggs, de Decker, Vlacq, Huygens, Janus 67 (4) (1980), 241-260. ... O Gingerich, Jost Bürgi at Kassel, Journal for the history of astronomy 11 (1980), 212-213.

  10. 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