Conveners
P.2.2. Making Science Global: Examples from Mesmerism and Newtonianism
- Kapil Raj
- Rob Iliffe & Derya Gürses Tarbuck
Description
Chair: Stefano Gulizia
Gottfried Kirch (1639–1710), a German astronomer, calendar-maker, and author of ephemerides, kept observational journals throughout his astronomical career. In these journals, he documented astronomical, meteorological, and occasionally magnetic observations. Kirch’s observational journals, written between 1677 and 1710, are preserved in the collections of the Paris Observatory Library and the...
In 1684, Johannes Hevelius, an astronomer from Gdańsk, honored Jan III Sobieski, the King of Poland, by naming a new constellation Scutum Sobiescianum – after the King's coat of arms. This fact was commemorated at that time in several poems which can be found in the collection of Hevelius's astronomical correspondence. They are examples of non-scientific endeavors originating from...
