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News, dates, and meetings of interest to the history of astronomy and the working group

Upcoming dates:

Item  2022, May 7, Jena (note the changed date!):
        Meeting of the members of the workung group (election of president and secretary)
        and small colloquium on the 450th anniversary of Kepler.
        Meeting location: Rrestaurant and hotel "Haus im Sack", Jena, Oberlauengasse 14-17
        This is the originally in November 2021 planned meeting that had to be cancelled
         due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
        The planned program is interner Verweis available here pdf. (in German)
        The final program will be announced here in time .

externer Verweis  2022, September 16 -18, Bremen:
        Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronmical Society
        Instrumente, Methoden und Entdeckungen für innovative Entwicklungen in der Astronomie
        organized by Gudrun Wolfschmidt

News

interner Verweis 2021, December:
     The  "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 51 have been published  link to PDF document       (in German)

Item  2021, November
        Prof. Dr. Dieter B. Herrmann, former director of the Archenhold-Observatory, Berlin,
        died at the age of 82.
        Prof. Dr. Dieter B. Herrmann was a member of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the
        German Astronmical Society
        externer Verweis   Obituary of the Stiftung Planetarium Berlin  (in German)
        externer Verweis   Obituary of the German Astronmical Society  (in German)

link to external page  2021 September:
        Virtual Splintermeeting at the AG meeting between September 13 - 17, 2021,
        Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy,
        organized by Susanne M Hoffmann and Gudrun Wolfschmidt
        This meeting replaces the colloquium 2021.

externer Verweis  2021, September
        The proceedings of the Splinter Meeting of the working group
        "Applied and Computational Historical Astronomy"
        held during the virtual meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2020 have been published:
         Nuncius Hamburgensis; Vol. 55

interner Verweis  2021, August
        Vol. 68 of the Acta Historica Astronomiae has been published.
        Contents: Rolf Riekher: Der Briefwechsel Georg von Reichenbachs -
                   Briefe und Dokumente aus der Ära Fraunhofer, Reichenbach und Utzschneider Vol. 2

interner Verweis  2021, June
        Vol. 67 of the Acta Historica Astronomiae has been published.
        Günther Oestmann, Jürgen Hamel: 625 Jahre astronomische Uhr in St. Nikolai zu Stralsund –
        Himmelskunde und Weltbild im Mittelalter


Older News and Meetings

interner Verweis 2021, May:
     The  "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 50 have been published  link to PDF document       (in German)

link to external page  2020, September:
       The Simon Marius Gesellschaft has published a short video on Simon Marius, his life and his research.

link to external page  2020,  August 30 and 31, Berlin:
       planned but then cancelled colloquium of the working group 
       Entscheidende Ereignisse/Entdeckungen für innovative Entwicklungen in der Astronomie
        (in German)
        (link to PDF document  cancel notification see Mitt. Nr. 48a  (in German))

 

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