Colin A Ronan

Biographic Data

ID1038044
NAMEColin A Ronan
GIVEN NAMESColin A
FAMILY NAMERonan
SIGNATURERONAN C A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
H-INDEX1

  • Unidentified Elizabethan telescope

    Open AccessColin A RonanARTICLEThe International Journal of…1994Cited by: 1

  • China and Europe Their Different Progress in Science

    Joseph Needham, Colin A RonanARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews1990References: 1

    For a long time China was considered a land of peasant-farmers with a government of 'oriental despotism' until one of the authors showed in his researches in Science and Civilisation in China that China had contributed much to the development of world science and technology. In this review, reasons why modern science arose in the West and not in China are discussed. A strong central government based on the continuity of an Imperial Court needed a…

  • China and Europe Their Different Progress in Science

    Joseph Needham, Colin A RonanARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews1990

  • The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China; An Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text. Volume 3: A Section of Volume IV, Part 1 and a Section of Volume IV, Part 3 of the Major Series

    Paul W Kroll, Joseph Needham et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1987

  • The Shorter Science and Civilization in China

    James E Tomayko, Colin A Ronan et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1983

  • Music of the Spheres

    Colin A RonanARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews1976

    The relationships between music and astronomy begin with Greek approaches to an understanding of the cosmos, based on a sense of divine harmony. The work of Pythagoras in measuring the length of vibrating strings and the way in which he formulated a scale lead on to his concept of the musical harmony of the universe. The contributions of Plato and Ptolemy are followed by the work of Kepler, some 1400 years later. Kepler's concept of a harmony of …

  • Edmond Halley: Genius in Eclipse

    J M Edmonds, Colin A RonanARTICLEGeographical Journal1970Cited by: 1

  • Thomas Harriot, Renaissance Scientist; Galileo

    John W Shirley, first book John W Shirley et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation1969

    study is full of illustrative evidence but leaves the implications largely to the reader.A few examples of the significance of this data for fresh historical interpretation, especially of some Reformation documents, would have been exciting.At any rate, Kristeller has pro- vided another important interpretive insight for the historian's use.Essay three, I suspect, has a largely rhetorical objective.Kristeller purports to prove that the contributi…

  • I. G. Y: The Year of the New Moons

    Colin A Ronan, J Tuzo WilsonARTICLEGeographical Journal1962Cited by: 3

  • Laurence Rooke (1622-1662)

    Open AccessColin A RonanARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1960

    TAURENCE ROOKE was born at Deptford on 13 March 1622 and although he did not live long enough to see the first Charter of the Royal Society as a fait acompli, he was, nevertheless, one of the founders of the Society and a strong supporter of the ‘new philosophy’. Rooke came of a good family of Monkshorton in Kent, Mary, his mother, being a niece of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester. Nothing is known of his early education but we do know tha…

  • The exhibition to commemorate Edmond Halley 1656-1742

    Open AccessEdward Crisp Bullard, Colin A RonanARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1957

    TO celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of Edmond Halley, the the Council of the Royal Society decided to hold a conversazione and exhibition in the Society’s rooms on Wednesday, 21 November 1956. They also agreed to the celebrations being continued on the following evening by the British Astronomical Association