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The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding our View of Planet Earth

A Meeting to Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday

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  1. Wayne Orchiston

    1. Anglo-Australian Observatory, Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 334)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Points of View: Shadows, Photons, Planets, and Life

      • Woodruff T. Sullivan III
      Pages 3-12

  3. Astrobiology

    1. The Biological Universe Revisited

      • Steven J. Dick
      Pages 15-26

    2. Contingency and the Cosmic Perspective

      • Christopher Chyba
      Pages 27-39

  4. History of Astronomy

    1. Grote Reber (1911–2002)

      • K. I. Kellermann
      Pages 43-70

    2. Dr Elizabeth Alexander: First Female Radio Astronomer

      • Wayne Orchiston
      Pages 71-92

    3. Radio Astronomy in Holland Before 1960

      • Richard Strom
      Pages 93-106

    4. Jodrell Bank and the Meteor Velocity Controversy

      • A.G. Gunn
      Pages 107-118

    5. The Radiophysics Field Stations and the Early Development of Radio Astronomy

      • Wayne Orchiston, Bruce Slee
      Pages 119-168

    6. Dark Matter and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory

      • Marshall Cohen
      Pages 169-182

    7. The Discovery of Sgr A*

      • Bruce Balick
      Pages 183-190

    8. Radio Astronomy, Whatever that May be

      • Richard Jarrell
      Pages 191-202

    9. Telescopes Lofted to Space

      • Peter Abrahams
      Pages 203-214

    10. The History of Space Astronomy

      • Robert W. Smith
      Pages 215-228

    11. SAO During the Whipple Years

      • David DeVorkin
      Pages 229-250

    12. The Transits of Venus and New Technologies

      • Ron Brashear
      Pages 251-260

    13. And the Remaining 22 Photons

      • Virginia Trimble
      Pages 261-270

  5. Sundials and Art

    1. Gnōmonikē Technē

      • James Evans
      Pages 273-292

    2. Light Work

      • Rebecca Cummins
      Pages 293-310

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 311-334
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About this book

This is an unusual book, combining as it does papers on astrobiology, history of astronomy and sundials, but—after all—Woody Sullivan is an unusual man. In late 2003 I spent two fruitful and enjoyable months in the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington (UW) working on archival material accumulated over the decades by Woody, for a book we will co-author with Jessica Chapman on the early development of Australian astronomy. The only serious intellectual distraction I faced during this period was planning for an IAU colloquium on transits of Venus scheduled for June 2004 in England, where I was down to present the ‘Cook’ paper. I knew Woody was also interested in transits (and, indeed, anything remotely connected with shadows—see his paper on page 3), and in discussing the Preston meeting with him it transpired that his 60th birthday was timed to occur just one week later. This was where the seed of ‘Woodfest’ began to germinate. Why not invite friends and colleagues to join Woody in Seattle and celebrate this proud event? I put the idea to Woody and others at UW, they liked it, and ‘Woodfest’ was born.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Anglo-Australian Observatory, Sydney, Australia

    Wayne Orchiston

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding our View of Planet Earth

  • Book Subtitle: A Meeting to Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday

  • Editors: Wayne Orchiston

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3724-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3723-8Published: 18 October 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6942-9Published: 22 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3724-5Published: 17 January 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 334

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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