Albert Van Helden
Biographic Data
| ID | 977426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Van Helden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Helden |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HELDEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Idiom and Image: Translating the Letters on Sunspots
This essay concerns the authors’ translation of the debate between the Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner and Galileo Galilei in 1611–1612, published as On Sunspots by the University of Chicago Press in 2010. In offering an account of their experience as translators, and of the intellectual aims and unforeseen complications of this project, they have focused on two particular issues. The first is that of the asymmetrical linguistic environment …
The Virgin and the Telescope: The Moons of Cigoli and Galileo
in 1612, lodovico cigoli completed a fresco in the pauline chapel of the basilica of santa maria maggiore in rome depicting apocalypse 12: "a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet." he showed the crescent moon with spots, as his friend galileo had observed with the newly invented telescope. considerations of the orthodox view of the perfect moon as held by philosophers have led historians to ask why this clearly imperfect moon i…
The Virgin and the Telescope: The Moons of Cigoli and Galileo
The Argument In 1612, Lodovico Cigoli completed a fresco in the Pauline chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome depicting Apocalypse 12: “A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet.” He showed the crescent Moon with spots, as his friend Galileo had observed with the newly invented telescope. Considerations of the orthodox view of the perfect Moon as held by philosophers have led historians to ask why this clearly imp…
Osiris. Vol. 9, Instruments
Kepler . Max Caspar , C. Doris Hellman
Introduction: Instruments in the History of Science
Telescopes and Authority from Galileo to Cassini
On the Distances between Sun, Moon, and Earth according to Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Reinhold . Janice Adrienne Henderson
Representing the Heavens: Galileo and Visual Astronomy
Welzijn, wijsbegeerte, en wetenschap . Willem Jacob's Gravesande, C. de Pater
Journal for the History of Astronomy . M. A. Hoskin
Jean Picard et les débuts de l'astronomie de précision au XVIIe siècle. Guy Picolet
In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times
The Cosmic Inquirers: Modern Telescopes and Their Makers. Wallace Tucker , Karen Tucker
The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren . J. A. Bennett
Eloge: Salomon Bochner, 20 August 1899-2 May 1982
Huygens et la France
Science and History: Studies in Honor of Edward Rosen . Erna Hilfstein , Pawel Czartoryski , Frank D. Grande
International Huygens Symposium, Amsterdam, August 22-25, 1979
Joseph von Fraunhofer: Handwerker, Forscher, Akademiemitglied, 1787-1826 . Günter D. Roth
Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work. Volume VI . E. Lefebvre , J. G. De Bruijn
The Invention of the Telescope
Ours is an age of science and technology, based on precision instruments. The first such device to strengthen our feeble human senses in our striving to comprehend the strange and elusive universe around us was the telescope. Cornelis de Waard, in his “De uitvinding der verrekijkers” (The Hague, 1906), had uncovered many new documents bearing on the genesis of the telescope. Van Helden began this project as a translation of de Waard’s study. Howe…
Mapping of the Moon: Past and Present . Zdeněk Kopal , Robert W. Carder
The Historical Problem of the Invention of the Telescope
The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century
Introduction: Instruments in the History of Science
Representing the Heavens: Galileo and Visual Astronomy
Telescopes and Authority from Galileo to Cassini
The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century
The Virgin and the Telescope: The Moons of Cigoli and Galileo
in 1612, lodovico cigoli completed a fresco in the pauline chapel of the basilica of santa maria maggiore in rome depicting apocalypse 12: "a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet." he showed the crescent moon with spots, as his friend galileo had observed with the newly invented telescope. considerations of the orthodox view of the perfect moon as held by philosophers have led historians to ask why this clearly imperfect moon i…
The Invention of the Telescope
Ours is an age of science and technology, based on precision instruments. The first such device to strengthen our feeble human senses in our striving to comprehend the strange and elusive universe around us was the telescope. Cornelis de Waard, in his “De uitvinding der verrekijkers” (The Hague, 1906), had uncovered many new documents bearing on the genesis of the telescope. Van Helden began this project as a translation of de Waard’s study. Howe…
Christopher Wren's De Corpore Saturni
We there discoursed . . . the Copernican Hypothesis, the Nature of Comets and new Stars, the Attendants on Jupiter, the Oval shape of Saturn, the Inequalities and Selenography of the Moon, the several Phases of Venus and Mercury, the Improvement of Telescopes, the grinding of Glasses for that purpose . . . THIS was written by John Wallis in 1678 in his Defence of the Royal Society and he was referring to the meetings held in London about 1645 by …
Simon Stevin: Science in the Netherlands around 1600 . E. J. Dijksterhuis
The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century
The Historical Problem of the Invention of the Telescope
Mapping of the Moon: Past and Present . Zdeněk Kopal , Robert W. Carder
The Invention of the Telescope
Ours is an age of science and technology, based on precision instruments. The first such device to strengthen our feeble human senses in our striving to comprehend the strange and elusive universe around us was the telescope. Cornelis de Waard, in his “De uitvinding der verrekijkers” (The Hague, 1906), had uncovered many new documents bearing on the genesis of the telescope. Van Helden began this project as a translation of de Waard’s study. Howe…
Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work. Volume VI . E. Lefebvre , J. G. De Bruijn
Joseph von Fraunhofer: Handwerker, Forscher, Akademiemitglied, 1787-1826 . Günter D. Roth
Science and History: Studies in Honor of Edward Rosen . Erna Hilfstein , Pawel Czartoryski , Frank D. Grande
International Huygens Symposium, Amsterdam, August 22-25, 1979
Eloge: Salomon Bochner, 20 August 1899-2 May 1982
Huygens et la France
The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren . J. A. Bennett
In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times
The Cosmic Inquirers: Modern Telescopes and Their Makers. Wallace Tucker , Karen Tucker
Journal for the History of Astronomy . M. A. Hoskin
Jean Picard et les débuts de l'astronomie de précision au XVIIe siècle. Guy Picolet
Welzijn, wijsbegeerte, en wetenschap . Willem Jacob's Gravesande, C. de Pater
On the Distances between Sun, Moon, and Earth according to Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Reinhold . Janice Adrienne Henderson
Representing the Heavens: Galileo and Visual Astronomy
Introduction: Instruments in the History of Science
Telescopes and Authority from Galileo to Cassini
Kepler . Max Caspar , C. Doris Hellman
Osiris. Vol. 9, Instruments
The Virgin and the Telescope: The Moons of Cigoli and Galileo
The Argument In 1612, Lodovico Cigoli completed a fresco in the Pauline chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome depicting Apocalypse 12: “A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet.” He showed the crescent Moon with spots, as his friend Galileo had observed with the newly invented telescope. Considerations of the orthodox view of the perfect Moon as held by philosophers have led historians to ask why this clearly imp…
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