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*          ELEKTRONISCHE MITTEILUNGEN ZUR ASTRONOMIEGESCHICHTE            *
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*          Herausgegeben vom Arbeitskreis Astronomiegeschichte            *
*                  in der Astronomischen Gesellschaft                     *
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*                        Nr. 50,  22. Juni 2000                           *
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*           Redaktion: Wolfgang R. Dick              *
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Inhalt
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1. Internationale Beziehungen in der Astronomie / Kolloquium

2. Adam Perkins: Keeping time: a celebration of the year 2000

3. Conference Announcement: Ideas Whose Time Had Come

4. International Solar Eclipse Conference

5. The Stewart Museum Globe Symposium

6. The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena - Third Conference

7. Stattgefundene Tagungen 2000

Danksagung

Impressum

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Item 1                                            EMA Nr. 50, 22. Juni 2000
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Internationale Beziehungen in der Astronomie
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Kolloquium des Arbeitskreises Astronomiegeschichte im
Rahmen der Jahrestagung der Astronomischen Gesellschaft

Montag, 18. September 2000, Lilienthal bei Bremen, Deutschland


Die naechste Internationale Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der
Astronomischen Gesellschaft (AG) findet in Bremen statt. Der Arbeitskreis
Astronomiegeschichte plant in diesem Zusammenhang sowie anlaesslich des
Gruendungsjubilaeums der 'Vereinigten Astronomischen Gesellschaft' ein
Kolloquium "Internationale Beziehungen in der Astronomie", das am Montag,
dem 18. September 2000, stattfindet. Vortraege, die sich auf den
Tagungsort Lilienthal oder die Zeit von Olbers, Schroeter und Bessel
beziehen, sind besonders willkommen.

Tagungsort ist Murkens Hof, Klosterstr. 25, 28865 Lilienthal (etwa 15 km
ausserhalb von Bremen; Strassenbahnlinie 4 ab Bremen Hbf bis Horn, dort
umsteigen in Buslinie 30 bis Lilienthal Mitte). Beginn ist um 10.00 Uhr,
Ende gegen 17 Uhr. Im Anschluss findet eine Mitgliederversammlung des
Arbeitskreises statt, Gaeste sind herzlich eingeladen. Waehrend des
Treffens besteht die Moeglichkeit, einzelne astronomiehistorische Buecher
zu erwerben.

Koordinatoren des Kolloquiums sind:
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Tel. (040) 42838-5262,
Fax: (040) 42838-5260, e-mail: wolfschmidt@math.uni-hamburg.de
Dr. Guenther Oestmann, Tel.: (040)42838-3579,
Fax: (040) 42838-5260, e-mail: oestmann@math.uni-hamburg.de
Institut fuer Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik
der Universitaet Hamburg
Bundesstr. 55 - Geomatikum
20146 Hamburg

Bitte richten Sie Anfragen und Ihre Anmeldung zum Splinter-Treffen an die
Koordinatoren, mit ihnen ist auch die Redezeit (voraussichtlich nicht mehr
als 20 min) abzusprechen. Bitte melden Sie sich auch an, wenn Sie keinen
Vortrag halten, damit Ihnen der genaue Ort und die genaue Zeit des
Treffens sowie das Programm mitgeteilt werden kann.

Fuer den Vorabend (Sonntag) ist ab etwa 20 Uhr ein informeller Auftakt im
Bremer Ratskeller (Bremen, Innenstadt) geplant. Bitte teilen Sie den
Koordinatoren auch mit, ob Sie zu diesem geselligen Beisammensein kommen
moechten.

Am Mittwoch, dem 20.9.2000, laedt die Gemeinde Lilienthal die Teilnehmer
der AG-Tagung zu einem Empfang um 17.30 Uhr in das Kulturzentrum Murkens
Hof ein. Vor 200 Jahren wurde an diesem Tag die 'Vereinigte Astronomische
Gesellschaft' gegruendet, die man im weiteren Sinne als Vorlaeuferin der AG
ansehen kann. Prof. H.-H. Voigt (Goettingen) wird dazu ein kurzes Referat
halten. Nach einem Rundgang durch die astronomischen Staetten erfolgt eine
Bewirtung im Gasthof Borgfelder Landhaus.

Die Vortraege beim Splintertreffen koennen in Englisch oder Deutsch
gehalten werden.

Nach dem 24. Juli 2000 eingehende Vortragsanmeldungen werden nur
beruecksichtigt, wenn noch Vortragszeit zur Verfuegung steht. Die
schriftlichen Kurzfassungen der Vortraege koennen im Band 17 der AG
Abstract Series veroeffentlicht werden. Diese Abstracts sind unter
Verwendung des AG-Macros
(http://www.astro.uni-jena.de/Astron_Ges/agamacro.tex oder per e-mail von
den Koordinatoren) in LaTeX zu erstellen. Vom Herausgeber werden fuer die
Abstracts grundsaetzlich nur englischsprachige Beitraege ohne Abbildungen
in der vorgegebenen Form angenommen, die als LaTeX-Quelltexte
unkomprimiert, uncodiert und nicht als MIME- oder tar-Files an einen der
Koordinatoren bis zum 24. Juli und spaetestens bis zum 26. Juli, 24 Uhr,
an den Herausgeber (schie@astro.uni-jena.de) per e-mail geschickt worden
sind. Sollten Sie Ihren Abstract nicht mit LaTeX erstellen und/oder per
e-mail senden koennen, so setzen Sie sich bitte rechtzeitig mit einem der
Koordinatoren in Verbindung, um mit ihm zu klaeren, in welcher
alternativen Form und bis wann spaetestens Sie ihm Ihr Abstract senden
koennen. Englische Sprache ist aber auf jeden Fall vorgeschrieben. Die
Abstracts werden von Mitte August an vollstaendig ueber das Astrophysics
Data System (ADS) abrufbar sein.

Teilnehmer, die ausschliesslich an diesem Splinter-Treffen teilnehmen,
zahlen eine Tagungsgebuehr von 30,- DM und melden sich bitte nur bei den
Koordinatoren an. Wer auch an anderen Teilen der AG-Tagung teilnehmen
moechte, meldet sich bitte auch bei der AG-Tagungsleitung an: Der
Tagungsbeitrag betraegt in diesem Fall fuer AG-Mitglieder 120,- DM, fuer
Studenten 60,- DM und fuer Nichtmitglieder 160,- DM.

Ab etwa Mitte August kann das genaue Programm eingesehen werden unter:
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/aa/bremen2000/
Unter http://AG2000.physik.uni-bremen.de/
finden sich weitere Hinweise zur AG-Tagung.

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Item 2                                            EMA Nr. 50, 22. Juni 2000
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Keeping time: a celebration of the year 2000
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By Adam Perkins, Cambridge, UK

(Aus: Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy, No. 42,
May 19, 2000, Item 1)


In commemoration of the calendar's turn to the year 2000 an exhibition
`Keeping time', on display from March until September, will draw on the
enormous wealth of material in the University Library's collections to
reflect many aspects of the human appreciation of time and its passage.

One large collection of manuscripts in the Library is the Royal Greenwich
Observatory Archives. To the westerner, the words Greenwich and time are
closely linked. In the seventeenth century, following the observation of
the regularity of the pendulum, European mechanical clocks reached new
levels of accuracy. The accurate measure of time lead directly to accurate
astronomical observations, and the modern science of astrometry, the exact
measurement of the positions of stars and celestial bodies in the sky, was
born. From seventeenth century astronomy sprang the enormous development
of the physical sciences progressing since then.

But the precise regularity of the atomic clocks giving us our time today is
not the only manner in which we can perceive time. In the middle ages the
daylight was sometimes merely divided into two, the fore and after noon; or
the time between sunrise and sunset was divided into twelve equal parts,
parts which varied in length of time throughout the year. The solar year
is central to life on Earth but calendars in different cultures vary. It
is the lunar cycle which gives us the very word `month' and the calendar
in, for instance, Islam is a lunar calendar.

In literature, Donne and Shakespeare lament the passing of the years while
the idea of moving through time has stimulated authors who have created
works with little or no relation to scientific ideas of time and
time-keeping. Time travel has been a device used in children's fiction,
romance and historical novels. The aim of the exhibition `Keeping time' is
to explore some of the many ways in which humankind has sought to grasp and
use the idea of time and our place in time.


Cambridge University Library Exhibition Centre, West Road, Cambridge, UK
Opening times:
18 March to 15 September 2000 (closed 21-24 April; 28 August)
Monday-Friday 09.00-18.00; Saturday 09.00-12.30.
Exhibition open to all. Admission free.

Further information is available on the website
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Exhibitions/Keeping_Time/
which has some images.


Author's address:
Adam Perkins, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archivist,
Department of Manuscripts and University Archives,
University Library,
West Road,                 E-mail:                 ajp@ula.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge CB3 9DR,         Telephone (direct):     +44 (0) 1223 333056
United Kingdom.            Telephone (UL sw/bd):   +44 (0) 1223 333000
                           Facsimile:              +44 (0) 1223 333160
   
URLs: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/
      telnet://ul.cam.ac.uk/

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Item 3                                            EMA Nr. 50, 22. Juni 2000
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Conference Announcement: Ideas Whose Time Had Come
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A British Society for the History of Science/Royal Institution conference

at the Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1X 4BS

Friday, 15 September 2000


The meeting will revisit a classic issue of historiography, that of
simultaneous discovery and invention. The emphasis will be on drawing out
common themes in a series of case studies in a wide range of sciences.

 9.30   Registration and Coffee

10.00   J.V. Field (Birkbeck College)
        "Perspective"

10.45   Albert van Helden (Rice University)
        "Let's look *at* the telescope"

11.30   coffee

12.00   Eberhard Knobloch (University of Berlin)
        "Newton's and Leibniz's calculus: why and how did it come
        into being?"

12.45   Crosbie Smith (University of Kent)
        "Energy conservation as retrospective discovery"

13.30   lunch (cafes around RI)

14.45   Janet Browne (Wellcome Institute)
        "'I never saw a more striking coincidence': Darwin and
        Wallace revisited"

15.30   Frank James (Royal Institution)
        "Experiments whose time had come: the case of Michael Faraday"

16.15   Presentation of the BSHS Dingle Prize to Stevin Shapin

        followed by tea

16.45   Robert W. Smith (University of Alberta)
        "The expanding universe: power, prestige and the making of
        the Hubble constant"

17.00   Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems)
        "Secrecy and independent discovery in cryptography"

18.15   Alex Keller (University of Leicester)
        "Conclusions?"

18.30   Reception


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Booking Form

The registration fee is:
    19 pounds for members of BSHS or RI
    16 pounds for BSHS student and retired members
    22 pounds for non-members

To register, send this form with payment to:

BSHS Executive Secretary
31 High Street
Stanford in the Vale
Faringdon
OXON
SN7 8LH

I wish to register for the meeting "Ideas whose time had come"

I enclose a payment of ________________
_____by cheque (please tick)
or
_____by card (please tick)

If card, my card is Mastercard/Visa/Eurocard (delete as appropriate)
No._______________________________
Expiry Date_______________________
Signature_________________________

Name______________________________
Address___________________________
__________________________________
__________________________________
__________________________________

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Item 4                                            EMA Nr. 50, 22. Juni 2000
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International Solar Eclipse Conference
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(Aus: Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy, No. 41,
May 16, 2000, Item 3)


Title: A crossroad on physics and eclipses of the sun


Venue:  Elzenveld, Antwerp Belgium

Dates: 14 - 15 October, 2000


Introduction:

Over the last years, there have been dramatic changes in solar eclipse
travelling. Solar Eclipse specialists meet most of the time in the shadow
of the Moon. Solar Eclipse meetings out of totality are rare, or are
mainly focused on solar physics. The Solar Eclipse Mailing List and the
Solar Eclipse Newsletter has been successful as a vehicle in bringing
together solar eclipse enthusiast, professionals and amateurs alike.

Because there is no central eclipse in 2000 we have been presented with a
perfect opportunity for an International Solar Eclipse Conference.

We have had this project in mind for some time, but mainly due to planning
eclipse travels it has been put on hold. The aim of the conference is to
bring together professionals and amateurs, addicts, enthusiasts, and
chasers, as with the mailing list and the newsletter, sharing information,
knowledge, and experience.


Organisers: Patrick Poitevin and Joanne Edmonds


WebPages: http://www.eclipsechasers.net


Address:

Patrick Poitevin, 7A, The Drift, Rowlands Castle, Havant,
PO9 6DG Hampshire, England

Belgian Contact address: Poitevin, Secretaris Meyerlei 69, 2170 Merksem


Accounts:

Belgium 001-0591949-34 ASLK of Patrick Poitevin

England sort code 56 00 64 account 83716440 Natwest, Portsmouth branch of
Patrick Poitevin

USA: On Line by any Credit Card


Purpose:

Two days of lectures will be given in each of the disciplines:
predictions, mathematics, solar physics, weather forecasting, eye safety,
diameter measuring, edge and central, and ancient eclipse research. Of
course the August 99 eclipse and the forthcoming Africa 2001 eclipse should
be great topics of discussion, along with the once-in-a-blue-eclipse
eclipse of July 2000, five years of SOHO and the Solar Maximum. Lectures
and poster sessions by professionals and by amateurs.


Guest speakers:

We have invited ten international guest speakers, to give a lecture on
their own specialised subject. These ten professional lectures are expect
to last approximately 45 minutes and the smaller presentations from others
to last about 30 minutes. We have the agreement from those guest speakers
and we can ensure they are the ten masters in their discipline.

Dr. Jay Anderson, Meteorologist with Environment Canada: The Meteorology of
the Lunar Shadow.

Dr. B. Ralph Chou, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo School of
Optometry, Canada: Solar eclipse eye safety

Dr. Fred Espenak, NASA Astronomer, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA:
Predictions for the Total Solar Eclipse of 2001 (and beyond...)

Prof. Eijiro Hiei, Professor of Meisei University, Professor Emeritus of
University of Tokyo, Japan: Physical Conditions of Coronal Structure
obtained from Eclipse Observations

Dr. Ed C. Krupp, Director Griffith Observatory, USA: Devoured by
Darkness-Eclipse Lore and Myth

Dr. Barrie W. Jones, Head of the Physics and Astronomy Department at The
Open University, United Kingdom: Shadow bands, and other atmospheric
effects of solar eclipses

Dr. Serge Koutchmy, Astrophysicist at the Institute d'Astrophysique de
Paris-CNRS, France: Eclipse corona: some recent advances

Mr. Paul D. Maley, Expedition Coordinator for the NASA Johnson Space Center
Astronomical Society (Ring of Fire Expeditions), Vice President of the
International Occultation Timing Association, USA: Opportunities for
Research: Observing Eclipses at the Limit Lines

Prof. Jay M. Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams
College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA; Chair, Working Group on Eclipses
of the International Astronomical Union: Solar Eclipses: Teaching Us About
the Sun

Prof. Francis Richard Stephenson, Department of Physics, University of
Durham, United Kingdom: Historical eclipses and the changing length of day.


Some other speakers committed to give a lecture as well.

Ajay Talwar (India), Balch Dave (USA), Berghmans David and Clette Frederic
(Belgium), Brunier Serge (France), Callebaut Dirk and Makarov Valentin
(Belgium and Russia), Casado Juan Carlos (Spain), Clette Frederic
(Belgium), Diego Francisco (United Kingdom), Foing Bernard (ESA), Fischer
Daniel (Germany), Guillermier Pierre (France), Hopper John (USA), Jones
Eric (United Kingdom), Lariviere Jean Marc (Canada), Lemaire Joseph
(Belgium), Kalabwe Peter (Zambia), Meiser Gernot (Germany), Podmore Francis
(Zimbabwe), Riedl Peter (South Africa), Rusin Voyto (Slovakia), Staiger
Olivier (Switzerland), Vayada Nilesh and Yogini (India), Verichte Erwin
(Belgium), Verbelen Felix (Belgium)


The organisations and institutes whom will participate are currently:

Royal Observatory Belgium (ROB), European Space Agency (ESA), EIT Group
Belgium, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BISA-IASB), Public
Observatory Urania Antwerp Belgium

Lecture fees for attendees:

Saturday lectures:  40 USD
Sunday lectures:  40 USD
Two days of lectures:  70 USD


Accommodation fees for attendees:

Accommodation Elzenveld 14/15.10.00 per night:

  single 40 USD
  double 55 USD
  VIP    80 USD

Gastronomical fees for attendees:

Lunch Saturday: 40 USD
Diner Saturday: 50 USD

Breakfast Sunday: 15 USD
Lunch Sunday:  40 USD
Diner Sunday  50 USD


[Text provided by Patrick Poitevin, e-mail: patrick_poitevin@hotmail.com]

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Item 5                                            EMA Nr. 50, 22. Juni 2000
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The Stewart Museum Globe Symposium
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Stewart Museum, Ile Sainte-Helene, Montreal
19-22 October 2000


FIRST CIRCULAR (May 2000)

The Stewart Museum is organizing a symposium concentrating on early
globes, to be held 19-22 October 2000. The symposium will give
participants an
opportunity to hear presentations by various globe experts as well as to
study the 50 terrestrial and celestial globes and 70 globe-related works
in the museum's exhibition of early globes, "Yes! The World is Round."

Invited speakers will include Peter van der Krogt and Elly Dekker from
The Netherlands, Catherine Hofmann and Christian Jacob from France, Jan
Mokre from Vienna, and Robert Derome, an art historian from Montreal.

The registration fee which will include lunches and dinners during the
symposium is $285 (Canadian). The registration deadline is 8 September
2000. (If space is still available after that date, the fee will be $325.)
Participation will be limited to 75 persons.

English will be the principal language of the symposium.

In order to receive the second circular and registration form, please
contact the globe symposium secretary:
Nadia Hammadi - nhammadi@stewart-museum.org
Stewart Museum, PO Box 1200, Station A, Montreal (Qc), H3C 2Y9, Canada
Tel: (514) 861-6703, ext. 260 / Fax: (514) 284-0123

Please feel free to contact one of the three symposium organizers for
further information:
Ed Dahl - edahl@iosphere.net
Jean-Francois Gauvin - jfgauvin@stewart-museum.org
Eileen Meillon - emeillon@stewart-museum.org


[Text provided by Jean-Francois Gauvin.]

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Item 6                                            EMA Nr. 50, 22. Juni 2000
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The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena - Third Conference
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(Aus: Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy, No. 42,
May 19, 2000, Item 2)


Palermo (Sicily), Italy - December 31, 2000-January 6, 2001

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS AND PAPERS


Dear Colleagues:

We wish to inform you of the up-coming Third International Conference on
The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena ("INSAP III"). This meeting will
explore mankind's fascination with the sky by day and by night, which has
been a strong and often dominant element in human life and culture. The
conference will provide a meeting place for artists and scholars from a
variety of disciplines (including Archaeology and Anthropology, Art and Art
History, Classics, History and Prehistory, the Physical and Social
Sciences, Mythology and Folklore, Philosophy, and Religion) to present and
discuss their studies of the influences that astronomical phenomena have
had on mankind.

The first two meetings (Castel Gandolfo, 1994; Malta, 1999) successfully
brought together for the first time people from just such a range of
disciplines to address topics of common interest. Papers from the first
meeting were published in "Vistas in Astronomy" (1995) and in "Leonardo"
(1996), and those from the second will appear shortly in book form. These
papers (described on our Website under "the First (or Second) INSAP
Conference") give an idea of the range of subjects presented at these
meetings. A similar publication is planned for the third meeting.

The meeting will be held overlooking the Mediterranean, a few minutes from
the center of Palermo, and will start with a New Year's Eve (and Millennium
Eve) banquet December 31, 2000. The meeting rooms will include ample space
for display (and sale) of works of art by attendees.

Full information on INSAP III and on the earlier conferences, and an
application form for the upcoming meeting, can be found on our Website
(http://ethel.as.arizona.edu/~white/insap) or obtained from the
undersigned. Attendance will be by invitation from among those applying.
All presentations and discussions will be in English.

This Conference is sponsored by the Palermo Observatory, the Vatican
Observatory, and the Steward Observatory, and is hosted by the Palermo
Observatory as part of the bicentennial of the discovery there of the first
asteroid, Ceres, on the nights of January 1-3, 1801.

Please circulate or post this announcement.


Prof. Salvatore Serio, Palermo Observatory (Chair, Local Organizing
   Committee) serio@oapa.astropa.unipa.it
Dr. Rolf M. Sinclair, Chevy Chase MD (International Organizing Committee)
   rolf@santafe.edu
Prof. Raymond E. White, Steward Observatory (International Organizing
   Committee) rwhite@as.arizona.edu

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Stattgefundene Tagungen 2000
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Weitere Tagungen im Jahr 2000 wurden in den vorangegangenen Ausgaben
angekuendigt. Fuer eine komplette Liste aller bisher gemeldeten
Tagungen siehe:

http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr/ha_meet.html


April 10-15, 2000, Rome, Italy
Societa Astronomica Italiana, XLIV Congresso Nazionale
With a history of astronomy session
URL: http://www.mporzio.astro.it/~sait2000/

April 29-May 2, 2000, Long Beach, CA, USA
April Meeting 2000 of the American Physical Society
Session Q22: FHP: New Perspectives on the Development of Ancient Astronomy
URLs: http://www.aps.org/meet/APR00/
      http://www.aps.org/meet/APR00/baps/abs/S5810.html

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Danksagung
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Neben dem Autor sei fuer Informationen gedankt: 
Jon Agar, Jean-Francois Gauvin, Guenther Oestmann, Patrick Poitevin,
Gudrun Wolfschmidt.

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