History of Astronomy (C41/ICHA)

Welcome to the C41/ICHA website

This website contains latest news and reports as well as further information on the Commission‘s structure, Working Groups, aims, history, recent activities, etc, and archival materials and documents.

The Commission urgently needs a new webmaster to take us forward to the Beijing GA and possibly into the next triennium. If you are a member of the Commission willing to take on this task, please contact Clive Ruggles, who is still acting as the Commission’s webmaster on an interim basis, or to any other member of the C41/ICHA Organizing Committee.

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C41/ICHA meetings at the IAU General Assembly

The provisional programme of the Commission and its Working Groups’ business and science meetings at the Beijing GA is now available.

The announcement includes calls for contributions for the Commission session on Field expeditions and two Working Group science sessions.

Elections for the OC 2012–2015

Information on the nomination and election process for the Commission’s Organizing Committee for the forthcoming triennium (2012–2015) is available here.

The proceedings of the International Conference on Oriental Astronomy (ICOA–7) are available from Mitsuru Soma

The Proceedings of IAU Symposium 278

are now available

Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges between Cultures
(the 9th “Oxford” International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy)

Astronomy and World Heritage

The Commission’s Astronomy and World Heritage Working Group is working with UNESCO to advance their Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative

The printed edition of the ICOMOS–IAU Thematic Study on the Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy is now available

The proceedings of the Rio GA Special Session on “Accelerating the Rate of Astronomical Discovery” have been published in Proceedings of Science