Sara J Schechner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4877409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara J Schechner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schechner |
| SIGNATURE | SCHECHNER S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6335-1399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spelunking Decommissioned Observatories With David Devorkin
Spelunking is the act of exploring underground caves and tunnels to get to the bottom of things. Its etymology derives from Latin, spelunca , a grotto, cavern, or den; which in Old and Middle English, spelonke , spelunke , and variations, also came to mean the lair of a wild beast. This paper describes the fieldwork of museum curators of the history of astronomy, who must explore the dark, dank, cavernous spaces and lairs of foregone astronomers—…
Iau Commission C3 (History of Astronomy)
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Boston Electric
Electricity was a new and developing field of research during the eighteenth century. With a focus on the experimental apparatus employed and the sociable exchange of ideas, this chapter examines how electricity was taught to Harvard students and members of polite society in the Boston area over the course of the century. Without local instrument makers or suppliers of glass and brass parts, colonial American experimenters had to import equipment…
Between Knowing and Doing
Inspection of surviving mirrors and related objects shows that they were too crude to offer the early Renaissance painter an optical short-cut to a naturalistic image of his subject. The craftsmanship of mirror makers was independent of and inferior to the quality of theories of image formation of the day
The lord of Uraniborg
Comets
Between Knowing and Doing
Inspection of surviving mirrors and related objects shows that they were too crude to offer the early Renaissance painter an optical short-cut to a naturalistic image of his subject. The craftsmanship of mirror makers was independent of and inferior to the quality of theories of image formation of the day
Comets
The lord of Uraniborg
Between Knowing and Doing
Inspection of surviving mirrors and related objects shows that they were too crude to offer the early Renaissance painter an optical short-cut to a naturalistic image of his subject. The craftsmanship of mirror makers was independent of and inferior to the quality of theories of image formation of the day
Boston Electric
Electricity was a new and developing field of research during the eighteenth century. With a focus on the experimental apparatus employed and the sociable exchange of ideas, this chapter examines how electricity was taught to Harvard students and members of polite society in the Boston area over the course of the century. Without local instrument makers or suppliers of glass and brass parts, colonial American experimenters had to import equipment…
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Iau Commission C3 (History of Astronomy)
Spelunking Decommissioned Observatories With David Devorkin
Spelunking is the act of exploring underground caves and tunnels to get to the bottom of things. Its etymology derives from Latin, spelunca , a grotto, cavern, or den; which in Old and Middle English, spelonke , spelunke , and variations, also came to mean the lair of a wild beast. This paper describes the fieldwork of museum curators of the history of astronomy, who must explore the dark, dank, cavernous spaces and lairs of foregone astronomers—…
History (5 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Astronomy (2 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (2 works) · Classics (2 works)