Gudrun Wolfschmidt: Booklet of Abstracts. Timekeeping, Navigation, Surveying - Cultural Astronomy and Instruments., Kartoniert / Broschiert
Booklet of Abstracts. Timekeeping, Navigation, Surveying - Cultural Astronomy and Instruments.
- Conference of the 32th European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) & Gesellschaft für Archäoastronomie (GfA), Hamburg, August 25-30, 2025.
- Publisher:
- tredition, 08/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783384674401
- Item number:
- 12419476
- Volume:
- 120 Pages
- Weight:
- 372 g
- Format:
- 297 x 210 mm
- Thickness:
- 9 mm
- Release date:
- 20.8.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
The main topic is cultural astronomy and archaeoastronomy. A cultural and thematic arc is drawn for the location of humans in space and time for archaic and ancient cultures. All epochs are presented from Stone Age, Bronze Age, Ancient Cultures, to Early Modern Time or the Baroque. There are in addition remarkable contributions on the topics of timekeeping, navigation, and surveying. Astronomical orientations of buildings and sites are also addressed. There is a special emphasis on scientific instruments, especially astronomical and surveying instruments, but also water clocks, sundials, pendulum clocks and chronometers. Two contributions discuss Astronomical Clocks as heritage of astronomy, but also the technical aspects. Relationships between cultural astronomy and other disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, ethnoastronomy, architecture, art, metrology, philosophy ot history of science are also discussed.
Biography
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Hamburg)§geboren in Nürnberg, Dissertation Analyse enger Doppelsternsysteme, Dr. §Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, Astronomisches Institut der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1. und 2. Staatsexamen (Physik und Mathematik), Gymnasiallehrerin im Freistaat Bayern. Seit 1987 Forschung in Wissenschaftsgeschichte am Deutschen Museum in München; Konzept und Realisation der Dauerausstellung Astronomie/Astrophysik im Deutschen Museum (Eröffnung 1992, Begleitbuch 1993). 1992 bis 1995 wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Forschungsinstitut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und Technik des Deutschen Museums, verschiedene Ausstellungen (z.B. Copernicus 1994), Lehre und Habilitation Genese der Astrophysik (1997) an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München; seit 1997 Professorin am Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften der Universität Hamburg.Notes:
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