History of Astronomy (C41/ICHA)

C41/ICHA Science Meeting

Wednesday August 5, Sessions 3 & 4

Oral papers

14.00–14.30	Ethnoastronomy in Brazil	Flavia Pedroza Lima (Fundação Planetário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Geociências – UNICAMP, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; flaviapedroza@gmail.com) & Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa (Instituto de Geociências – UNICAMP, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
14.30–15.00	Pioneering Astronomical Activities in the New World	Oscar T. Matsuura (Rua Itacema, 199 apto. 43, São Paulo, Brazil; otmats@terra.com.br)
15.00–15.30	The Antikythera Mechanism: An Ancient Greek Astronomical Computer	John H. Seiradakis (Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; jhs@astro.auth.gr)
15.30–16.00	Afternoon Tea
16.00–16.30	Alpha and Proxima Centauri: The Quest for the Nearest Star	Ian Glass (South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa; isg@saao.ac.za)
16.30–17.00	Seventy-five Years of Photoelectric Astrometry: From Experiments in 1925 to the Tycho–2 Catalogue	Erik Høg (Niels Bohr Institute/Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark; erik.hoeg@get2net.dk)
17.00–17.30	The Investigation of the Earth’s Rotation From Ancient Occultation Records	Mitsuru Sôma & Kiyotaka Tanaikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan; Mitsuru.Soma@nao.ac.jp; tanikawa@exodus.mtk.nao.ac.jp)

Poster papers

How the First Dwarf Planet Became the Asteroid Ceres	Clifford Cunningham, Brian Marsden & Wayne Orchiston (Centre for Astronomy, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; Clifford.Cunningham@jcu.edu.au; Brian. Marsden@jcu.edu.au; Wayne.Orchiston@jcu.edu.au)
Astronomical Aspects of Korean Dolmens	Hong-Jin Yang (Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea; hjyang@kasi.re.kr), Changbom Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea; cbp@kias.re.kr) and Myeong-Gu Park (Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea; mgp@knu.ac.kr)
The Legendary 4th Century AD Georgian Solar Eclipse: Fact or Fantasy?	Jefferson Sauter, Irakli Simonia, Richard Stephenson & Wayne Orchiston (Centre for Astronomy, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; Jefferson.Sauter@jcu. edu.au; Irakli.Simonia@jcu.edu.au; Richard.Stephenson@jcu.edu.au; Wayne. Orchiston@jcu.edu.au)
Forty Years of Solar Eclipse Science at the Lick Observatory and Paradigm Shifts in Solar Physics	John Pearson, Wayne Orchiston & Kim Malville (Centre for Astronomy, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, John.Pearson1@jcu.edu.au; Wayne.Orchiston @jcu.eu.au; kimmalville@hotmail.com)
The 7 August 1869 Total Solar Eclipse and the Popularisation of Astronomy in the USA	Stella Cottam, Wayne Orchiston & Richard Stephenson (Centre for Astronomy, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; Stella.Cottam@jcu.edu.au; Wayne. Orchiston@ jcu.edu.au; Richard.Stephenson@jcu.edu.au)
Detection of Unknown Objects in Tycho Brahe’s Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata	Tomoko Fujiwara (Center for Research and Advancement in Higher Education, Kyushu University, Japan; tomokof@rche.kyushu-u.ac.jp)

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