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Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics

机译:天文学与天体物理学史百科全书

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The Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics is written by David Leverington, author of similar titles including A History of Astronomy from 1890 to Present (Leverington, 1996) and Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy (Leverington, 2003). Leverington has a degree in Physics from Oxford University and has worked extensively in the space industry. This work is not organized as a typical encyclopedia with an alphabetical arrangement of entries. Rather the work is divided into ten subject areas, each containing two or three chapters, further broken down into main topics. Part 1, General Astronomy, discusses the ancient astronomy (pre-telescope) of various geographic regions (Babylon, China, Egypt, Greece, Islamic nations, North America, etc.). Each region is addressed in one to two pages, with Greek astronomy receiving up to four pages. The second chapter is a period overview starting in the seventeenth century and going through to the present. Oddly, the last chapter is a one-page entry on the International Astronomical Union (IAU). What is strange is that there is no mention of any other key astronomy organizations in the book, such as the American Astronomical Society, which predates the IAU.
机译:天文学和天体物理学史百科全书由戴维·勒沃灵顿(David Leverington)撰写,他的著作类似,包括《 1890年至今的天文学史》(勒沃灵顿,1996年)和《巴比伦到航海者及以后:行星天文学史》(勒沃灵顿,2003年)。 。 Leverington拥有牛津大学的物理学学士学位,并且在航天工业中广泛工作。这项工作没有按字母顺序排列的典型百科全书形式进行组织。而是将作品分为十个主题领域,每个主题领域包含两章或三章,并进一步细分为主要主题。第1部分,一般天文学,讨论了各个地理区域(巴比伦,中国,埃及,希腊,伊斯兰国家,北美等)的古代天文(望远镜前)。每个区域以一到两页处理,希腊天文学最多可接收四页。第二章是从17世纪开始一直到现在的时期概述。奇怪的是,最后一章是国际天文学联合会(IAU)一页的条目。奇怪的是,书中没有提到其他任何重要的天文学组织,例如国际天文学联合会之前的美国天文学会。

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