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As I toil away at my current work in progress, wondering if I’ll ever finish or if anyone will read it, it’s energizing to hear praise for my first book!
There’s some interesting #astrohistory coming in the Frost book too.
Jonathan Pritchard@pritchardjr.bsky.social
Loved the first edition! Taught me a lot of useful Astro history.
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Tagging for #astrohistory feed.
Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics@leilabelkora.bsky.social
If you’ve ever wanted to read a history of astronomy 🧪🔭 (mostly 19th-20th C) that has no math yet explains how we arrived at the idea of galaxies and our place in the cosmos: my book is on sale rn at Routledge, with free shipping. Go to Routledge.com, search for Belkora. Or find it in a library!
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12 April 1633: the inquisition of Galileo was begun with the first interrogation by chief inquisitor Vincenzo Maculani da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII.
On 22 June 1633, the Roman Inquisition concluded the trial of Galileo with a condemnation for heresy.
🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #histsci #astrohistory
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I got chills! This is #astrohistory.
This black & white picture of Jupiter, taken at 1:14 a.m. on 11 March 1991 by the Planetary Camera on NASA's HST is the first of many Hubble observations recording the detailed evolution of Jovian weather.
➡️ hubblesite.org/contents/new...
🔭 🧪 #planetsci
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Antoine Beauchamp@a-beauchamp-fc.bsky.social
RDV 16h sur @franceculture.fr On parle dans #SciencesChrono du manuel d'astronomie qui a connu le plus gros succès du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance : "Le Traité de la Sphère" de Jean Sacrobosco. Comment expliquer le succès de ce manuel et sa longévité ? www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
www.radiofrance.fr
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In J.Herschel's publication above, 🜨 are globular clusters, and Δ are objects from Dunlop's Catalogue. About Dunlop's observations, Herschel remarked that he couldn't find many of his objects, blaming lack of light in Dunlop's instrument for him "setting down nebulæ where none exist"
#astrohistory
![Excerpt from an earlier part of the John Herschel publication from the previous post:
"(7) Of the objects remaining, 135 are nebulæ and clusters of my Father's catalogues, now, for the first time, reobserved; 9 are Messier's, 5 of which are identical with objects catalogued by Mr. Dunlop; and 206 others have also been identified, with more or less certainty [...], with objects observed by Mr. Dunlop, and described in his Catalogue of Nebulæ. The rest of the 629 objects, comprised in that catalogue, have escaped my observation; and as I am not conscious of any such negligence in the act of sweeping as could give rise to so large a defalcation, but, on the contrary, by entering them on my working lists (at least, until the general inutility of doing so, and loss of valuable time in fruitless search, thereby caused it to become apparent), took the usual precautions to ensure their rediscovery; and as I am, moreover, of opinion that my examination of the southern circumpolar region will be found, on the whole, to have been an effective one, I cannot help concluding that, at least in the majority of those cases, a want of sufficient light or defining power in the instrument* used by Mr. Dunlop, has been the cause of his setting down objects as nebulæ where none really exist. That this is the case, in many instances, I have convinced myself by careful and persevering search over and around the places indicated in his catalogue."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l4laisfq4io23trb4xhhdhpq/bafkreiewg2gvpzmwznnzqmmdbaib675g2ry2bp4lwb46qeuyluk4wbwwnm@jpeg)
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Did you know the number of hours in a day comes from the number of bones in our fingers?
#history #historyofastronomy #space
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Babylonia II: The Beginnings of Time
On the origins of calendars and clocks
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The museum has some really interesting artifacts in it too, like the prism that William Herschel used to discover infrared light: 🔭 #astrohistory
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To anyone ever in Bath in the UK, I highly recommend visiting the Herschel museum!
It's pretty incredible that the first planet ever discovered with a telescope was found at a pretty unassuming townhouse in a Georgian-era vacation town... 🔭 #astrohistory
Bath Astronomers@bathastronomers.org.uk
@bathastronomers.org.uk accompanied the @herschelmuseum.bsky.social on Thu 13th Mar to celebrate 244th anniversary of the discovery of Uranus from the garden at 19 New King Street. A sold out night with visitors looking up from that same place to giggle as everyone pronounced Uranus carefully.
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In 1610 (some sources mention the 12th March, others the 13th) Galileo Galilei published the 'Sidereus Nuncius' (Sidereal Messenger or Starry Messenger) in Venice at the printer Tommaso Baglioni.
Image source and more➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereu...
🔭 🧪 #astrohistory #histsci 🧵
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13 March 1781: Uranus was discovered by William Herschel.
At first he thought he had found a comet.
Later, he and others realized it was a new planet in orbit around our Sun.
Uranus was the first new planet discovered since ancient times.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/uranus/
🔭 🧪 #planetsci #astrohistory 🧵
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So wonderful achievement!
Using the LSST Camera, Rubin Observatory will repeatedly scan the southern night sky for a decade, generating a huge amount of data to study phenomena such as dark matter, dark energy, the Milky Way, and Solar System objects.
🔭 🧪 #cosmology #astrosci #astrohistory
Vera C. Rubin Observatory@vrubinobs.bsky.social
Lights, camera, action! The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩 The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed
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Did you know?
The first image of a star was a daguerreotype of Vega, taken in 1850 by J.A. Whipple.
pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/about/about-...
#historyofastronomy #astroedu
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#Hubble observed impacts on Jupiter produced by minor bodies in the Solar System.
This stunning mosaic of Hubble's WFPC-2 images shows the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 chunks with Jupiter, which happened in July 1994.
➡️ hubblesite.org/contents/med...
🔭 🧪 #planetsci #astrohistory #HST🧵
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An Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, imagined from the lunar surface.
James Nasymth, 1874
#art #historyofastronomy #space
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Tagging this gorgeous nocturnal for #historyofastronomy 🔭🤩
Celine Camps@celinecamps.bsky.social
I have no words to express what it meant to me to spend 6+ hours with this beauty yesterday. Being able to hold, handle & analyze it up close has made my historian heart sing for months to come ❤️ So much so, it’s made me consider becoming a curator/conservator. #HistSci #HistTech #EarlyModern 🏛️ 🗃️
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Étienne Léopold Trouvelot made more than seven thousand astronomical drawings, covering everything from the planets to the coming of a solar eclipse. He drew this one, of Jupiter, in 1882.
#art #historyofastronomy #space #theartofscience
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In November of 1743 a comet appeared in the sky. Within weeks it had become one of the brightest of time. It had - for reasons still unclear - six dramatic tails sweeping out from its head.
Image from A Popular Treatise on Comets, 1861
#historyofastronomy #art #science #astronomy #history
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Happy 136th birthday to the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, founded Feb 7, 1889. Link to their long and fascinating history: astrosociety.org/who-we-are/a...
#astroedu #astronomy #astronomyhistory #science #nonprofits #astrosocietypac #astrohistory #sciencehistory #Californiahistory
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Working on my personal version of Apian's 'cosmographical mirror'.
With a transparent sheet showing how the Earth is llluminated, more features become available: telling the duration of the day, sunrise and sunset times.
#historyofastronomy 🔭
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Canals on Mars? Lowell's 1908 map of the Martian Canals, from his book "Mars as an Abode of Life".
#historyofastronomy #history #art #science
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Have you ever wondered why the minute has sixty seconds? Or why the day has twenty-four hours? Or why the week has seven days?
The answers lie deep in the history of astronomy and have their origins more than three millennia ago...
#space #historyofastronomy #science #history
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Babylonia II: The Beginnings of Time
On the origins of calendars and clocks
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