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A History of Planetary Astronomy David Leverington Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-00461-9 - Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy David Leverington Index More information Name index Abu’l Wefa (Abul Wafa) (940–998), 52 Aristotle (384–322 bc), 12, 16, 17, 21, 23, Acquaviva, Claudio (1543–1615), 85 25–27, 28, 31, 33, 35, 40, 42, 50, 53, Acuna,˜ Mario, 431 72–75, 77, 85, 86, 89, 90, 193n Adams, John Couch (1819–1892), 152n, Armstrong, Neil, 363, 365 168–171, 172, 174–177, 206, 224 Arrhenius, Svante Augustus (1859–1927), Adams, Walter S. (1876–1956), 281, 299, 343 307, 383 Arzachel, see Ibn al–Zarqalaˆ Adel, A., 317, 318 Aumann, H.H. (George), 373 Agucchi, Giovanni Battista (1570–1632), Auteroche, Chappe d’, 143, 144 91 Autolycus, 27 A’Hearn, Michael F., 497 Ainslie, Maurice, 324 Baade, Walter (1893–1960), 286, 339, 496 Airy, George Biddell (1801–1892), Babinet, Jacques, 176, 286 168–173, 175 Babington, Dr Humphrey, 112 Al Mansur (c. 711–775), 41 Backlund, Jons¨ Oskar (1846–1916), 195, Aldrin, Buzz, 363, 365 213 Alexander the Great (356–323 bc), 5, 25, Bacon, Francis (1561–1626), 303 28 Bacon, Roger (c. 1220–1292), 42, 70 al-Sh¯atir, see Ibn al-Sh¯atir Badger, 316 Altenhoff, Wilhelm J., 497 Baldwin, J.M., 331 Alter, Dinsmore, 291 Baldwin, Ralf, 402 Altobelli, Ilario (1560–c. 1630), 75 Ball, Robert, 191, 219 Anaximander (c. 610–545 bc), 13–14, Ball, William (c. 1627–1690), 96 16 Banks, Joseph, 151 Andersson, Leif, 487 Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857–1923), Andre,´ Charles, 190 191, 192, 217, 253, 259, 260, 268, Antoniadi, Eugene` (1870–1944), 217, 276, 321–323, 402 277, 304, 305, 308, 324 Barnett, Miles, 301 Apian, Peter (or Apianus) (1495–1552), 136, Barr, 291 199 Baumgardner, Jeff, 369 Apollonius of Perga (c. 265–190 bc), 34, Becker, Tammy, 486 41 Becklin, Eric E., 374 Appleton, Edward (1892–1965), 301, 302 Beer, Wilhelm (1797–1850), 220, 221, 235 Apt, Jerome, 333 Bellarmine, Cardinal Robert (1542–1621), Aquinas, Thomas (1225–1274), 40, 42 84, 85, 88 Arago, Dominique Franc¸ois Jean Belopol’skii, Aristarkh A. (1854–1934), 278 (1786–1853), 171, 174, 196 Belton, Michael J.S., 332, 497 Archimedes (c. 287–212 bc) 18, 28, 72 Benedetti, Giovanni Battista (1530–1590), Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310–230 bc), 73 17–19, 21n, 28, 31, 45, 48 Bentley, Richard, 159 534 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-00461-9 - Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy David Leverington Index More information Name index Benzenberg, Johann Friedrich (1777–1846), Bradley, James (1692–1762), 139, 140, 152n 203 Brahe, see Tycho Brahe Bernal, 295, 315 Brahic, Andre,´ 335 Bernard, A., 276, 282, 290, 305, 319, 341 Brahmagupta (c. 598–665), 41 Besanc¸on, 300 Brandes, Heinrich Wilhelm (1777–1834), Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784–1846), 203 168, 169n, 195, 196, 200, 209, 215, 220, Bredikhin, Fedor¨ Alexandrovich 507 (1831–1904), 200 Bethe, Hans (b. 1906), 285 Breit, Gregory, 302 Bhattacharyya, 331 Bremiker, Carl, 173 Biancani, Giuseppe (1566–1624), 91, 92, Bridgman, 298n 108 Broughton, Peter, 135n Bieberstein, C.W. von, 222 Brown, Ernest William (1866–1938), 300 Bieberstein, E.F.L.M. von, 222 Brown, Harrison, 370 Biela, Wilhelm von (1782–1856), 210 Brown, Kenneth, 370 Biermann, Ludwig (1907–1986), 344, 353 Brown, Robert, 428 Bigg, Keith, 320 Brunhes, Bernard (1867–1910), 357 Binder, A.B., 322 Bruno, Giordano (1548–1600), 77n, 84–86 Binzel, Richard, 492, 493 Buffham, W., 264 Birch, Peter, 329 Buffon, Compte de (or Leclerc, Blackett, P.M.S. (1897–1974), 355 Georges-Louis) (1707–1788), 159, 160, Bobrovnikoff, Nicholas Theodore 248, 249 (1896–1988), 341, 342 Buie, Marc, 497 Bode, Johann Elert (1747–1826), 151, 163, Bullen, 294 164 Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm E. (1811–1899), Boltwood, Bertram (1870–1927), 284, 286 197 Bond, George Phillips (1825–1865), 248, Buridan, Jean (1297–1358), 48 249, 253, 255, 256, 257, 262 Burke, Bernard, 319 Bond, William Cranch (1789–1859), 253, Burney, Venetia, 273 255, 256, 262, 267 Burnight, Robert, 350 Bonnet, Charles, 162 Burton, A.C., 316 Borderies, Nicole, 336 Burton, C.E., 252 Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso (1608–1679), Bus, Schelte J. (Bobby), 497 116, 119 Butler, Brian, 380 Borri, 108 Butler, Paul, 511 Botham, J.H., 323 Bouguer, Pierre (1698–1758), 130n Caldwell, John, 458 Boulliau, Ismael (1605–1694), 95 Callippus of Cyzicus (c. 370–300 bc), Bourne, William, 70 23–24, 26, 27, 30, 31 Bouvard, Alexis (1767–1843), 166–170, Cameron, Alastair Graham W., 371, 372n 172, 177–180, 193 Camichel, Henri, 279 Bouvard, Eugene,` 170 Campani, Guiseppe, 96, 158 Bowell, Ted, 497 Campbell, Leon, 307, 327 Bower, Ernest, 273 Campbell, William Wallace (1862–1938), Boyer, Charles, 279 218, 243, 253, 261 Boyle, Robert, 113 Capella, Martianus, of Carthage Bradley, Francis, 211 (c. 365–440 ad), 53 535 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-00461-9 - Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy David Leverington Index More information Name index Capra, Baldessar, 75 Clerke, Agnes M., 512 Carleton, N.P., 333 Coblentz, W. (1873–1962), 279, 306, 310, Carlson, Richard, 372 312 Carpenter, Roland, 280, 281 Cohen, 489 Carr, Michael, 424 Collins, Andy, 455 Carrigan, William, 270, 271 Collio, Marco Antonio, 122 Carrington, Richard Christopher Colombe, Ludovico delle (1565 – ?), 84 (1826–1875), 202, 232, 249 Comiers, Claud (d. 1693), 199 Cassen, Patrick, 433, 434 Common, Andrew Ainslie (1841–1903), Cassini, Gian (or Giovanni) Domenico (or 438n Jean Dominique) (1625–1712), 96–98, Conti, Cardinal Carlo, 86 100–102, 103, 104, 106, 129, 130, 137, Cook, Captain James, 145 138, 140, 155, 156, 234, 249, 252 Coolridge, 318 Cassini, Jacques (1677–1756), 216 Copeland, Ralf (1837–1905), 198, 211 Castelli, Benedetto (1578–1643), 83, 87 Copernicus, Nicolaus (Niklas Cavendish, Henry (1731–1810), 249 Koppernigk) (1473–1543), 40, 42, 44–48, Cesi, Federico (1585–1630), 91 52, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 67n, 74–76, 78, 83, Challis, James (1803–1882), 170–173, 175, 84, 86, 88–90, 106, 110, 112 180, 268 Corliss, C.H., 319 Chamberlain, Joseph, 383 Cosimo, Grand Duke, 79, 81, 82 Chamberlin, Thomas, 288, 299 Cox, Allan, 357 Chandler, Seth Carlo (1846–1913), 229, Crabtree, William, 103 230 Critchfield, Charles, 285n Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan Crommelin, Andrew Claude (1865–1939), (1910–1995), 289, 312 273 Chapelain, Jean (1595–1674), 94 Cruikshank, Dale P., 322, 332, 333, 478, Chapman, Sydney (1888–1970), 302, 353 487, 488, 490, 503 Charbonneau, David, 512 Curie, Pierre and Marie, 284 Charlois, Auguste Honore´ P. (1864–1910), Cusa, Nicholas of (1401–1464), 85n 187 Cyr, D.L., 402 Cheseaux,´ Jean Philippe Loys de Cysat, Johann Baptiste (c. 1586–1657), 70, (1718–1751), 134 86 Chladni, Ernst Florenz F. (1756–1827), 202, 203 D’Alembert, Jean-Baptiste L. (1717–1783), Christie, William Henry M. (1845–1922), 135, 140n 213 Dalrymple, Brent, 357 Christy, James W., 488 Daly, Reginald, 372 Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713–1765), 130n, Danielson, Edward, 503 134–136 Dante (1265–1321), 42, 43 Clark, Alvan (1804–1887), 244, 508n d’Arrest, Heinrich Louis (1822–1875), 173, Clark, Alvan Graham (1832–1897), 508n 174 Clark, B.J., 283 Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–1882), 225, Clark, R.N., 333 244 Clarke, W.B., 207 Darwin, George Howard (1845–1912), 225, Clavius, Christopher K. (1537–1612), 81, 226, 284, 291 83, 84 Davis, Donald, 372 Cleomedes (fl. 1st c. ad), 51 Davis, J., 339 536 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-00461-9 - Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy David Leverington Index More information Name index Dawes, William Rutter (1799–1868), 196, Dunham, Edward, 329 254, 256, 266 Dunham, Theodore, Jr. (1897–1984), 281, de Boer, 295 307, 317, 383 De Freycinet, 186 Dunkin, 213 De Plantade, 213 Dunthorne, Richard, 146 de Sitter, Willem (1872–1934), 300 Dyce, R., 277 de Vaucouleurs, 282, 283, 308, 401 Decuppis, 254 Eccles, William, 301 Dee, John, 70 Ecphantus (fl. 4th C. bc), 14, 17 Delaunay, Charles (1816–1872), 224, Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882–1944), 299 285 Delisle, Joseph Nicolas (1688–1768), 136, Edgeworth, Kenneth, 340, 498 142, 143 Edlen,´ Bengt (1906–1993), 353 Dellinger, Howard (1886–1962), 303 Edmondson, Frank, 339 Delporte, Eugene, 337, 338 Eichhorn, Heinrich, 509 Delsemme, Armand, 345, 503 Einstein, Albert (1879–1955), 185, 284 Denning, William Frederic (1848–1931), Elliot, James, 329–331 218, 251, 263 Empedokles (c. 494–434 bc), 25 Dennison, 317 Encke, Johann Franz (1791–1865), 145, Descartes, Rene´ du Perron (1596–1650), 173, 193, 195, 212, 213, 254 93, 111–112 Engelmann, 252 Deslandres, Henri Alexandre (1853–1948), Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276–195 bc), 341 28–29 Di (or De) Vico, Francesco P. (1805–1848), Erman, George Adolf (1806–1877), 205, 210, 218, 254 207 Digges, Leonard, 70 Eucken, Arnold, 295, 297, 299 Digges, Thomas (c. 1546–1595), 49 Euclid (fl. c. 300 bc), 21 Diogenes Laertius (fl. 3rd C. ad), 21 Euctemon (fl. 430 bc), 24 Diogenes of Babylon (fl. 2nd C. bc), 36 Eudemus, 21, 23, 24 Divine, Neil T., 503 Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 408–355 bc), 21–23, Divini, Eustachio (c. 1620–1664), 91, 92, 24, 26 96 Euler, Leonard (1707–1783), 128n, 135, Dixon, Jeremiah (1733–1779), 143 140n, 146, 227, 228, 230 Doell, Richard, 357 Evershed, John (1864–1956), 341 Dollfus, Audouin (b. 1924), 276, 304, 307, 325, 454 Fabri, Honore´ (1607–1688), 96 Donati, Giovanni Battista (1826–1873), Fabricius, Johann (1587–1616), 85 197 Faye, Herve´ (1814–1902), 182 Dorffel,¨ Georg Samuel (1643–1688), Feibelman, Walter, 323 119 Ferdinand, Archduke (1578–1637), 61, 62, Douglas, Alexander E. (1867–1962), 64, 111 341 Fernandez, Julio A., 498 Douglass, Andrew, 241, 242, 252 Filiis, Angelo de, 87 Drake, Frank, 320 Finlay, William Henry (b.
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