Unless otherwise noted, meetings are held at the Kitty Cat Klub in Dinkytown on Tuesdays at 5:00.
| DATE | HOST | ARTICLE | AUTHOR | CITATION |
| Oct. 06 | Joe Martin | Developing Science in Developing Countries: The Harvard College Observatory and the Establishment of Modern Astrophysics in Mexico | Jorge Bartolucci | Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 33-58 |
| Sep. 22 | Aimee Slaughter | Gender, Culture, and Astrophysical Fieldwork: Elizabeth Campbell and the Lick Observatory - Crocker Eclipse Expeditions | Alex Soojung-Kim Pang | Osiris, Vol. 11, (1996), pp. 17-43 |
| Sep. 15 | Andrea Mehner | Scientists as Historians | Stephen G. Brush | Osiris, Vol. 10, (1995), pp. 214-231 |
| Sep. 8 | Maggie Hofius | Science Feasts While the Public Starves: A Note on the Reconstruction of the Pulkovo Observatory after World War II | Alexander Gurshtein & Constantin Ivanov | Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 26, (1995), pp. 363-368 |
| Sep. 2 | Adrian Fischer | Astronomy and Antirealism | Dudley Shapere | Philosophy of Science, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 134-150 |
| Extragalactic Reality: The Case of Gravitational Lensing | Ian Hacking | Philosophy of Science, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Dec., 1989), pp. 555-581 | ||
| Aug. 26 | Chelsea Tiffany | Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means? | Mary Jo Nye | Isis, Vol. 97, No. 2 (2006), pp. 322-229 |
| Biography as Cultural History of Science | Mary Terrall | Isis, Vol. 97, No. 2 (2006), pp. 306-313 | ||
| Aug. 19 | Sara Cammeresi | Science as a 'Neutral Zone' for Interreligious Cooperation | Bernard R. Goldstein | Early Science and Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2002), pp. 290-310 |
| Certainty, Doubt, and Errors in Byzantine Astronomy | Anne Tihon | |||
| The Question of Easter: Changing Contexts and Criteria for the Justification of Received Knowledge | Stephen C. McCuskey | |||
| Is a Social History of Andalus. Exact Sciences Possible? | Julio Samsó | |||
| Contextualizing the History of Islamic Sciences | Gerd Grasshoff | |||
| The Certitude of Astrology: the Scientific Methodology of Al-Qabīsī and Abū Ma'shar | Charles Burnett | Early Science and Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2002), pp. 198-213 | ||
| Aug. 5 | Paul Edmon | The Demarcation of Physical Theory and Astronomy by Geminus and Ptolemy | Alan C. Bowen | Perspectives on Science, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2007), pp. 327-358 |
| Jul. 29 | Andrew Helton | Patenting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Intellectual Property and Technological Control | Alex Wellerstein | Isis, Vol. 99, No. 1 (2008), pp. 57-87 |
| Jul. 22 | Amy Fisher | Ten Problems in History and Philosophy of Science | Peter Galison | Isis, Vol. 99, No. 1 (2008), pp. 111-124 |
| On Scientific Observation | Lorraine Daston | Isis, Vol. 99, No. 1 (2008), pp. 97-110 | ||
| Jul. 15 | Sara Cammeresi | What Difference Does History of Science Make, Anyway? | J. Maienschein & G. Smith | Isis, Vol. 99, No. 2 (2008), pp. 318-321 |
| Does Science Education Need History of Science? | G. Gooday, et al. | Isis, Vol. 99, No. 2 (2008), pp. 322-330 | ||
| How Can History of Science Matter to Scientists? | J. Maienschein, M. Laubichler, & A. Loettgers | Isis, Vol. 99, No. 2 (2008), pp. 341-349 | ||
| Should the History of Science Be Rated X? | S.G. Brush | Science, Vol. 183, No. 4130 (Mar. 22, 1974), pp. 1164-1172 | ||
| June 10 | Paul Edmon | Observers, Objects and the Embedded Eye; or, Seeing and Knowing in Ptolemy and Galen | Daryn Lehoux | Isis, Vol. 98, (2007), pp. 447-467 |
| June 5 | Maggie Hofius | Presidential Address: Scientific Toys | Gerard L'E. Turner | British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 377-398 |
| May 15 | Sara Cammeresi | In the Service of the Reich: Aspects of Copernicus and Galileo in Nazi Germany's Historiographical and Political Discourse | Volker R. Remmert | Science in Context, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2001), pp. 333-359 |
| May 08 | Maggie Hofius | Federal Funding and Planetary Astronomy, 1950-75: A Case Study | Joseph N Tatarewicz | Social Studies of Science, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Feb., 2001), pp. 79-103 |
| Apr. 24 | Andrew Helton | Visionary Memories: William Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics | Barbara J. Becker | Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 32 (2001), pp. 43-62 |
| Apr. 17 | Adrian Fischer | Science and Instruments: The telescope as a scientific instrument at the beginning of the seventeenth century | Yaakov Zik | Perspectives on Science, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2001), pp. 259-284 |
| Apr. 10 | Joe Martin | What Makes a Theory Testable, or Is Intelligent Design Less Scientific Than String Theory | Robert Ehrlich | Physics in Perspective, Vol. 8 (2006), pp. 83-89 |
| Apr. 03 | Amy Fisher | Science and Technology in U.S. History Textbooks: What's There-and what Ought to be There | J.L. Heilbron & Daniel J. Kevles | Reviews in American History, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jun., 1988), pp. 173-185 |
| Mar. 27 | Maggie Hofius | Interpreting the Moon Landings: Project Apollo and the Historians | Roger D. Launius | History of Technology, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 2006), pp. 225-255 |
| Mar. 20 | Andrew Helton | Spin: All Is Not What It Seems | Margaret Morrison | Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 38 (2007), pp. 529-557 |
| Spinning Electrons and the Structure of Spectra | G.E. Uhlenbeck & S. Goudsmit | Nature, Vol. 117 (Feb., 1926), pp. 264-265 | ||
| Stern and Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics | Bretislav Friedrich & Dudley Herschbach | Physics Today, Vol. 562 (Dec., 2003), pp. 53-59 | ||
| Mar. 13 | Paul Edmon | Early Greek Astronomy in the Oral Tradition and the Search for Archaeological Correlates | Anthony F. Aveni & Albert Ammerman | Archaeoastronomy, Vol. 16 (2001), pp. 83-97 |
| Mar. 06 | Sara Cammeresi | Einstein's Boxes | Travis Norsen | American Journal of Physics, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Feb., 2005), pp. 164-176 |
| Comment on Norsen's defense of Einstein's "box argument" | Abner Shimony | American Journal of Physics, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Feb., 2005), pp. 177-178 | ||
| From Einstein's theorem to Bell's theorem: a history of quantum non-locality | H.M. Wiseman | Contemporary Physics, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Mar., 2006), pp. 79-88 | ||
| Feb. 28 | Adrian Fischer | How Many Worlds? | Richard A. Healey | Nous, Vol. 18 (1984), pp. 591-616 |
| Feb. 21 | Andrew Helton | Collecting airs and ideas: Priestley's style of experimental reasoning | Victor D. Boantza | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 38 (2007), pp. 506-522 |
| Feb. 07 | Joe Martin | Ufology, God-talk and Theology | Brenda Denzler | Skeptic, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2002), pp. 50-59 |
| Jan. 24 | A Rare Group Consensus | Candide, ou l'Optimisme | Francois Voltaire | 1759 - Choose your own version! |
Institute and Museum of the History of Science
Tycho Brahe's very own website!
Brief biographies of famous (and not so famous) astronomers
AIP - Resources for the History of Physics and Allied Fields
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