Owen Gingerich
Biographic Data
| ID | 370149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Gingerich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gingerich |
| SIGNATURE | GINGERICH O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Copernicus: A Very Short Introduction
De revolutionibus
Soon after his return to Wittenberg, Rheticus was appointed dean of the university. This delayed his travel to the printer in Nuremberg, but after a year of teaching he was granted leave. By early spring of 1542, the printing of the six books of De revolutionibus began, with Rheticus acting as a full-time copy reader until his appointment to a new professorship in Leipzig, when he was replaced by Andreas Osiander, a local clergyman well trained i…
God's Planet
Many scientists look at the universe and conclude we are here by chance. The astronomer and historian Owen Gingerich looks at the same evidence—and the fact that the universe is comprehensible to our minds—and sees it as proof for the intentions of a Creator-God. The more rigorous science becomes, the more clearly God’s handiwork can be understood.
Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975
Planetary perils in Prague
Tycho and Kepler: Solid Myth versus Subtle Truth
Owen Gingerich and James R. Voelkel Tycho and Kepler: Solid Myth versus Subtle Truth TYCHO HAS THE WORLD’S FINEST OBSERVATIONS,” JOHANNES KEPLER wrote to his teacher, Michael Maestlin, “but he only lacks an architect to construct an edifice out of them.” Kepler’s remark, echoing down through the centuries, has rein forced a mythic view of these two geniuses of the scientific revolution: Tycho Brahe, the eccentric and arrogant builder of astonish…
The Trouble with Ptolemy
Ptolemy's Almagest, a brilliant treatise on theoretical astronomy combined with a practical handbook for computation, includes many compromises to reconcile discordant observations. This defense of Ptolemy examines in some detail a critical case concerning the model for Venus, which has sometimes been used as evidence for Ptolemy's perfidy. There the Alexandrian astronomer demonstrated his ingenuity when orbital constraints made it impossible to …
Kepler's Tubingen: Stimulus to a Theological Mathematics. Charlotte Methuen
The Copernican Quinquecentennial and Its Predecessors: Historical Insights and National Agendas
The Universe as Theater for God's Action
Die astronomische Uhr des Strassburger Munsters: Funktion und Bedeutung eines Kosmos-Modells des 16. Jahrhunderts . Gunther Oestmann
Copernico e la questione copernicana: Opera della Pubblica Biblioteca di Ferrara . Luigi Pepe
Bibliotheca Mechanica . Verne L. Roberts , Ivy Trent The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine . Diana H. Hook , Jeremy M. Norman
Complete Works. Volume 4: The Manuscripts of Nicholas Copernicus' Minor Works: Facsimiles . Nicholas Copernicus , Pawel Czartoryski
Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot, and the Invention of Photography . Larry J. Schaaf The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science . M. Susan Barger, William B. White
Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians. Jeffrey Burton Russell
The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe . Victor E. Thoren , John R. Christianson
Astronomy and Optics from Pliny to Descartes: Texts, Diagrams, and Conceptual Structures . Bruce S. Eastwood The Arabs and the Stars: Texts and Traditions on the Fixed Stars, and Their Influence on Me…
Sidereus Nuncus, or the Sidereal messenger
Eloge: Victor E. Thoren, 13 May 1935-9 March 1991
Nevil Maskelyne: The Seaman’s Astronomer by Derek Howse (review)
technology and culture Book Reviews 869 that is currently known and written and providing new insights and answers to long-asked questions. Silvio A. Bedini Mr. Bedim is a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. Nevil Maskelyne: The Seaman’s Astronomer. By Derek Howse. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 280; illustrations, notes, glossary, appendixes, bibliography, index. $54.50. Nevil Maskelyne, the fifth Astronomer …
Nevil Maskelyne: The Seaman's Astronomer
Kepler's Physical Astronomy. Bruce Stephenson
The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology
Owen Gingerich, Robert S. Westman, The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 78, No. 7 (1988), pp. i-viii+1-148
HeavensThree Imperial Mathematicians: Kepler Trapped between Tycho Brahe and Ursus. Edward Rosen
The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology
Owen Gingerich, Robert S. Westman, The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 78, No. 7 (1988), pp. i-viii+1-148
Planetary perils in Prague
The Trouble with Ptolemy
Ptolemy's Almagest, a brilliant treatise on theoretical astronomy combined with a practical handbook for computation, includes many compromises to reconcile discordant observations. This defense of Ptolemy examines in some detail a critical case concerning the model for Venus, which has sometimes been used as evidence for Ptolemy's perfidy. There the Alexandrian astronomer demonstrated his ingenuity when orbital constraints made it impossible to …
Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply]
In the last few decades, several writers have drawn attention to indications of the existence of science in nonliterate, Neolithic societies. One proponent of that idea is Alexander Thom, who has carried out extremely exact measurements of Neolithic stone monuments in Britain. Thom maintains that perhaps the main purpose of several megalithic monuments was to serve as astronomical observatories-that the exact sightlines they provide would make it…
William Herschel . J. B. Sidgwick
Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions A. D. 2 to 649 at Five-Day and Ten-Day Intervals
Lunar Visibilities in Ancient Babylon
Kepler's Dream . John Lear, Patricia Frueh Kirkwood
Eleven-Digit Regular Sexagesimals and Their Reciprocals
Les positions des planètes au Moyen Age: Application du calcul électronique aux tables alphonsines
Poulle Emmanuel, Gingerich Owen. Les positions des planètes au Moyen Age : application du calcul électronique aux tables alphonsines. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 111e année, N. 4, 1967. pp. 531-548
Eleven-Digit Regular Sexagesimals and Their Reciprocals
A Vienna Demotic Papyrus on Eclipse- and Lunar-Omina
Die Anfänge der Astronomie (Erwachende Wissenschaft II)
Bibliographia Kepleriana. Max Caspar
The Codebreakers. The Story of Secret Writing . David Kahn
Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke. Band X: Tabulae Rudolphinae . Franz Hammer Die Rudolphinischen Tafeln von Johannes Kepler . Volker Bialas
Note on Flamsteed's Lunar Tables
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres . Copernicus, A. M. Duncan
The Nature of Scientific Discovery
Gesamtausgabe. Band I: De revolutionibus. Faksimile des Manuskriptes . Nicolaus Copernicus, Heribert M. Nobis
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Crawford Library of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh . Mary F. I. Smyth, Michael J. Smyth
The Cosmographical Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe . S. K. Heninger, Jr
Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply]
In the last few decades, several writers have drawn attention to indications of the existence of science in nonliterate, Neolithic societies. One proponent of that idea is Alexander Thom, who has carried out extremely exact measurements of Neolithic stone monuments in Britain. Thom maintains that perhaps the main purpose of several megalithic monuments was to serve as astronomical observatories-that the exact sightlines they provide would make it…
Materialien zu den Ephemeriden von Johannes Kepler. Volker Bialas , Elli Papadimitriou
Jahre Astronomie in Nurnberg. Kurt Pilz
Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences . E. S. Kennedy , David King , Mary Helen Kennedy
Gesammelte Werke. Volume XI, Part 1: Ephemerides novae motuum coelestium . Johannes Kepler , Volker Bialas
The Forgotten Sky: A Guide to Astrology in English Literature . J. C. Eade
Gesamtausgabe. Volume II: De revolutionibus: Kritischer Text . Nicolaus Copernicus , Heribert M. Nobis , Bernhard Sticker
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