Commission 41: History of Astronomy

International Year of Astronomy. A brief history of the telescope.

‘astronomy’ or ‘astrology’: a Brief History of an Apparent Confusion

The modern usage of the words ‘astronomy’ and ‘astrology’ is traced back to distinctions that are largely ignored in recent scholarship. Three interpretations of celestial phenomena (in a geometrical, a substantialist and a prognostic form) co-existed during the Hellenistic Period. From Plato to Isidore of Seville, the semiotic contrast is evidenced, and its later developments are sketched. The...

The History of Ancient Astronomy: Problems and Methods*

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS The entropy history of the universe.

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS The entropy history of the universe. Abstract. Although usual hierarchical clustering scenarios agree with the main observed properties of Lyman-α clouds and galaxies, they seem to fail to reproduce the cluster temperature-X-ray luminosity relation. A possible explanation is that the IGM is reheated by supernovae or quasars before cluster formation. In this article, u...

the pathology of historical texts translation: a study of persian translations of 7th volume of cambridge history of iran

ترجمه با گسترش زبان آغاز شده و اهمیت آن روز به روز افزایش می یابد، و برای اولین بار به عنوان شاخه ای از دانش و روشی برای انتقال علوم، فرهنگ و تجربه در در دوره قاجار در ایران آغاز شد. در حقیقت متون تاریخی از اولین متونی هستند که در ایران ترجمه شدند چرا که به سیاستمداران آن دوره کمک می کردند تا به علل موفقیت جهان غرب و پیشرفت هایشان در طول تاریخ پی ببرند، بنابراین به تدریج ترجمه این گونه متون رون...