Elly Dekker
Elly Dekker | |
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| Born | 1943 (age 80–81) Haarlem, the Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | University of Utrecht |
| Awards | Caird Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics, History of astronomy |
| Institutions | Museum Boerhaave, Royal Museums Greenwich |
Elisabeth (Elly) Dekker (Haarlem, 1943) is a Dutch astronomer and science historian, specialising in the history of astronomy. She studied theoretical physics and astronomy at Utrecht University.[1] In 1975 she obtained a PhD in astronomy at Leiden University with the thesis Spiral structure and the dynamics of flat stellar systems supervised by Hendrik C. van de Hulst.[2][3] From 1978-1988 she was a curator of Museum Boerhaave in Leiden and afterwards an independent scholar. From 1993-1995 she was a Sackler fellow of the Royal Museums Greenwich. In 1998 she was awarded the Caird Medal for her work on the globe collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.[4]
Publications
[edit]Dekker is the author of articles and books including:[1]
Articles
[edit]- 'Spiral structure and the dynamics of galaxies', Physics Reports 24 (1976) 315-389[5]
- 'Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1852-1922)', in Kox, A.J. and Chamalaun, M. eds: Van Stevin tot Lorentz. Portretten van Nederlandse natuurwetenschappers, Amsterdam 1980, p. 177-191. In Dutch.
- 'Early Explorations of the Southern Celestial Sky', in Annals of Science 44 (1987) pp. 439-470. [About the mapping of the southern sky by Dutch mariners at the end of the 16th century.]
- 'Frederik Kaiser en zijn pogingen tot hervorming van ‘het sterrekundig deel van onze zeevaart', Gewina / Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek TGGNWT 13 (1990) 23-41. In Dutch.[6]
- 'An Unrecorded Medieval Astrolabe Quadrant, c. 1300', in Annals of Science 52 (1995), pp. 1-47.
- 'Carolingian Planetary Observations: The Case of the Leiden Planetary Configuration', Journal for the History of Astronomy 39 (2008) 77-90
- 'A ‘Watermark’ of Eudoxan Astronomy', Journal for the History of Astronomy 39 (2008) 213-228
- 'Caspar Vopel's Ventures in Sixteenth-Century Celestial Cartography', Imago Mundi 62:2 (2010) 161-190
- with Kristen Lippincott: The provenance of the stars in the Leiden Aratea picture book, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes eds. E.H. Gombrich et al. 73 2010 (2011), 1-37
- 'Construction and copy: aspects of the early history of celestial maps’, Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 13, Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 58 (2016), pp. 47–93.
- 'The Nuremberg maps: a Pythagorean-Platonic view of the cosmos', Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 13, Acta Historica Astronomiae, 58 (2016), pp. 95–124
Books
[edit]- Spiral structure and the dynamics of flat stellar systems, PhD thesis Leiden : Rijksuniversiteit, 1975. 148 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- with Peter van der Krogt: Globes from the Western World, London, Zwemmer, 1993[7]
- with Raf Van Laere: De verbeelde wereld. Globes, atlassen, kaarten en meetinstrumenten uit de 16de en 17de eeuw, [Antwerpen] Kredietbank 1997. In Dutch.
- Globes at Greenwich: a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Oxford University Press, 1999)[8]
- Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Cataloghi di raccolte scientifiche, 5. Firenze, Giunti, 2004[9] 188 + 16 pp. of colour plates.
- Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 2013[10], 467 p.
Personal life
[edit]Dekker was married to the astronomer and physicist Hendrik Gerard (Henk) van Bueren (1925–2012).[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b independent.academia.edu EllyDekker. Consulted on 12 February 2021.
- ^ van der Kruit, Pieter C. (2019), "Appendix A.4: Oort and His Students: a List of Ph.D. Theses", Jan Hendrik Oort, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 459, Springer International Publishing, pp. 633–635, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17801-7, ISBN 978-3-030-17800-0, S2CID 199240526
- ^ Elly Dekker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Campbell, Tony (January 1999), "Chronicle for 1998", Imago Mundi, 51 (1): 178–190, doi:10.1080/03085699908592910
- ^ Dekker, E (1976). "Spiral structure and the dynamics of galaxies". Physics Reports. 24 (5): 315–389. Bibcode:1976PhR....24..315D. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(76)90025-9.
- ^ resources.huygens.knaw.nl Gewina: Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek (1978-2007). Consulted on 12 February 2021.
- ^ Reviews of Globes from the Western World:
- ^ Reviews of Globes at Greenwich:
- Gingerich, Owen (August 2003), "Greenwich globes and armillary spheres", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34 (3): 339–340, doi:10.1177/002182860303400313, S2CID 220915007
- Heilbron, J. L. (March 2000), "Around the world via Greenwich", Nature, 404 (6773): 16–17, doi:10.1038/35003630, S2CID 3606118
- Milanesi, Marica (January 2002), Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 56 (1): 108–110, JSTOR 532129
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Mokre, Jan (2002), Globe Studies, 154–156, JSTOR 23993555
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 41628645 - Savage-Smith, Emilie (April 2002), Technology and Culture, 43 (2): 413–414, doi:10.1353/tech.2002.0089, JSTOR 25147920, S2CID 110642479
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Warner, Deborah Jean (2001), Imago Mundi, 53: 160–161, JSTOR 1151589
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- ^ Reviews of Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza:
- ^ Reviews of Illustrating the Phaenomena:
- Anderson, Benjamin (January 2014), Speculum, 89 (1): 188–189, doi:10.1017/S0038713413004326, JSTOR 43576978
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Evans, James (March 2015), Isis, 106 (1): 166–167, doi:10.1086/681833, JSTOR 10.1086/681833
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ishak, B. (April 2013), Contemporary Physics, 54 (2): 129–130, doi:10.1080/00107514.2013.800159, S2CID 119057697
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Mokre, Jan (2014), Globe Studies, 59/60: 230–231, JSTOR 44755486
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 44753622 - Strano, Giorgio (2015), Nuncius, 30 (3): 715–717, doi:10.1163/18253911-03003008
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Warner, Deborah Jean (November 2013), Imago Mundi, 66 (1): 131–132, doi:10.1080/03085694.2014.846011, S2CID 128508667
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- Anderson, Benjamin (January 2014), Speculum, 89 (1): 188–189, doi:10.1017/S0038713413004326, JSTOR 43576978
- ^ See the acknowledgements of Dekker, Elly (2002), "The doctrine of the sphere: A forgotten chapter in the history of globes", Globe Studies, 49/50 (49/50): 25–44, JSTOR 23993546
