Allan Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wadham College, Oxford OX1 3PN |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Essay Review
At the Sign of the Oriental Lamp
Astronomical Instruments and Their Users
This volume looks at the way in which the development of a viable instrument technology has lain at the heart of astronomical research since the late-16th century. In particular, the concern with precise measurement has largely transcended the concern for purely philosophical considerations in establishing characteristics of the solar system. These articles, therefore, demonstrate how scientists like Tycho, Flamstead, Herschel, Lassell and Aimy r…
Edmond Halley’s use of historical evidence in the advancement of science
Men of science in the 17th century were well aware of the achievements of the past: their earliest experiences in education had been in the languages and cultural traditions of the ancient world. Astronomers in particular, who were constantly concerned with the revision of celestial tables, were perhaps the most acutely aware of what had gone on before them. No major astronomical writer from Copernicus to Flamsteed could show anything other than …
Pure research and practical teaching
When James Bradley was born 300 years ago, astronomy was by far the most advanced of the sciences, and set standards of both theory and practice which it was felt that natural history, chemistry and medicine should somehow emulate. Bradley, moreover, was born into the immediate post-Newtonian generation of the science, when astronomers were working out the consequences of the inverse-square law to investigate the orbits of the Moon and comets, de…
Tycho brahe in china
In the late 1660s, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit missionary in Peking, was instructed to re-equip the Imperial Observatory. The new instruments which he caused to be built were modelled neither upon contemporary European prototypes, nor those of traditional Chinese astronomy, but on the pieces in Tycho Brahe's Mechanica, of eighty years before. The Chinese instruments were lavishly illustrated, moreover, in 105 woodcuts that contained deta…
A study of the accuracy of scale graduations on a group of European astrolabes
Precision measurements have been made of the scales on a group of European astrolabes manufactured between c. 1450 and 1659. Little is known from documentary sources of the construction and scale-dividing methods used by late-medieval craftsmen. The measurements of the present group of twenty-four scales have been analysed statistically, so that the parameters of accuracy expected of them can be deduced. Scribing marks and other features give cle…
Tycho brahe in china
In the late 1660s, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit missionary in Peking, was instructed to re-equip the Imperial Observatory. The new instruments which he caused to be built were modelled neither upon contemporary European prototypes, nor those of traditional Chinese astronomy, but on the pieces in Tycho Brahe's Mechanica, of eighty years before. The Chinese instruments were lavishly illustrated, moreover, in 105 woodcuts that contained deta…
A study of the accuracy of scale graduations on a group of European astrolabes
Precision measurements have been made of the scales on a group of European astrolabes manufactured between c. 1450 and 1659. Little is known from documentary sources of the construction and scale-dividing methods used by late-medieval craftsmen. The measurements of the present group of twenty-four scales have been analysed statistically, so that the parameters of accuracy expected of them can be deduced. Scribing marks and other features give cle…
Tycho brahe in china
In the late 1660s, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit missionary in Peking, was instructed to re-equip the Imperial Observatory. The new instruments which he caused to be built were modelled neither upon contemporary European prototypes, nor those of traditional Chinese astronomy, but on the pieces in Tycho Brahe's Mechanica, of eighty years before. The Chinese instruments were lavishly illustrated, moreover, in 105 woodcuts that contained deta…
Pure research and practical teaching
When James Bradley was born 300 years ago, astronomy was by far the most advanced of the sciences, and set standards of both theory and practice which it was felt that natural history, chemistry and medicine should somehow emulate. Bradley, moreover, was born into the immediate post-Newtonian generation of the science, when astronomers were working out the consequences of the inverse-square law to investigate the orbits of the Moon and comets, de…
Edmond Halley’s use of historical evidence in the advancement of science
Men of science in the 17th century were well aware of the achievements of the past: their earliest experiences in education had been in the languages and cultural traditions of the ancient world. Astronomers in particular, who were constantly concerned with the revision of celestial tables, were perhaps the most acutely aware of what had gone on before them. No major astronomical writer from Copernicus to Flamsteed could show anything other than …
At the Sign of the Oriental Lamp
Astronomical Instruments and Their Users
This volume looks at the way in which the development of a viable instrument technology has lain at the heart of astronomical research since the late-16th century. In particular, the concern with precise measurement has largely transcended the concern for purely philosophical considerations in establishing characteristics of the solar system. These articles, therefore, demonstrate how scientists like Tycho, Flamstead, Herschel, Lassell and Aimy r…
Essay Review
History of Science and Medicine (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · History (4 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Astronomy (2 works) · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies (2 works)