AAS Meeting #194 - Chicago, Illinois, May/June 1999
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Session 1. HAD I: Exhibiting the History of Astronomy
Historical, Oral, Sunday, May 30, 1999,
1:00-5:30pm, Adler Planetarium
- 1.01 Presenting Cosmology (and its history) to the Public
- C.B. Stephenson (Adler Planetarium \& Astronomy Museum)
- 1.02 Astronomy and Art Merged: Targeting Other Audiences
- A. F. Friedman (Adler Planetarium)
- 1.03 The Printed Legacy: Using Books to Present the History of Astronomy
- R Brashear (Smithsonian Libraries)
- 1.04 Amateur Astronomy at Planetaria and Public Observatories in the United States in the 1930s
- T. R. Williams (Rice University)
- 1.05 From Heaven to Earth and Back, 1700 to the Present
- M. P. Bolt (Adler Planetarium)
- 1.06 Using History to Teach Astronomy: The U.S. in the mid-19th Century
- M. Rothenberg (Smithsonian Institution)
- 1.07 Painting Planets: Jupiter as Shown in Popular Works a Century Ago
- T. A. Hockey (University of Northern Iowa)
- 1.08 Halley's Maps and Descriptions of the 1715 Total Solar Eclipse
- Jay M. Pasachoff (Williams College-Hopkins Obs.)
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