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Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

Volume II

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Editors:
  1. André Heck

    1. Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 266)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • André Heck
    Pages 1-8

  3. Strategies for Bringing a 19th-Century Observatory Up to the Standards of 21st-Century Astronomy

    • Marcel Golay
    Pages 9-28

  4. IUCAA: A New Experiment for Indian Universities

    • Jayant V. Narlikar
    Pages 29-45

  5. Background and Achievements of UN/ESA Workshops on Basic Space Science 1991–2001

    • Hans J. Haubold
    Pages 47-64

  6. Organising and Funding Research at a European Level

    • Anthony E. S. Mayer
    Pages 65-82

  7. OPTICON: EC Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy

    • Gerard Gilmore
    Pages 83-102

  8. Coordinating Multiple Observatory Campaigns

    • Karla Peterson, Beth Perriello, Peg Stanley, Jerry Bonnell, Evan Smith, Nancy Remage Evans et al.
    Pages 103-120

  9. New Strategies in Ground-Based Observing

    • Ian Robson
    Pages 121-137

  10. Large Surveys in Cosmology: The Changing Sociology

    • Ofer Lahav
    Pages 139-147

  11. The ESO Observing Programmes Committee

    • Jacques Breysacher, Christoffel Waelkens
    Pages 149-162

  12. Astronomical Software Strategies

    • Keith Shortridge
    Pages 163-178

  13. Scientometrics: The Research Field and its Journal

    • András Schubert
    Pages 179-195

  14. Comments on Refereeing

    • Helmut A. Abt
    Pages 197-205

  15. Communicating and Networking in Astronomy Libraries

    • Uta Grothkopf, Marlene Cummins
    Pages 207-219

  16. Editing the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics

    • Paul Murdin
    Pages 221-228

  17. Editing a Multilingual Astronomy Magazine

    • Noël Cramer
    Pages 229-238

  18. Working with the Media: The Royal Astronomical Society Experience

    • Jacqueline Mitton
    Pages 239-256

  19. Creativity in Arts and Sciences: A Survey

    • André Heck
    Pages 257-268

  20. Updated Bibliography of Socio-Astronomy

    • André Heck
    Pages 269-280
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About this book

Seated in a sun-lit corner of his 17th century Dutch house, his hand touching a celestial globe, Johannes Vermeer's "Astronomer" seems to pon­ der about the mysteries of the universe. We might make the trip to Paris and ask him, in the Louvre, what precisely is on his mind. Unfortunately, there will be no answer. But we do know what his mind was not on. It was not on the approaching deadlines for the proposals he would have to write for getting funds and telescope-time, not on the meeting of the observing programs committee, not on his refereeing duty for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, nor on his university's tightening budget for science. In the Kapteyn Institute at Groningen I stand face to face with the im­ pressive portrait of J.C. Kapteyn, painted in the year 1918. Seated at his desk he is doing his calculations with pen, pencil and tables, perhaps check­ ing the work of his skilled staff of human computers. Early in his career he had completed his magnum opus, the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung in collaboration with his close friend David Gill at Capetown, South Africa.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France

    André Heck

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

  • Book Subtitle: Volume II

  • Editors: André Heck

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0666-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7172-4Published: 31 October 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3860-7Published: 14 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0666-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 280

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Sociology, general, Social Sciences, general

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