tailieunhanh - THE NEW ASTRONOMY: OPENING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC WINDOW AND EXPANDING OUR VIEW OF PLANET EARTH

This is an unusual book, combining as it does papers on astrobiology, history of astronomy and sundials, but—after all—Woody Sullivan is an unusual man. In late 2003 I spent two fruitful and enjoyable months in the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington (UW) working on archival material accumulated over the decades by Woody, for a book we will co-author with Jessica Chapman on the early development of Australian astronomy. The only serious intellectual distraction I faced during this period was planning for an IAU colloquium on transits of Venus scheduled for June 2004 in England, where I was down to present the ‘Cook’ paper | Ạg ASTROPHYSICS AND Si space science library THE NEW ASTRONOMY OPENING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC WINDOW AND EXPANDING OUR VIEW OF PLANET EARTH WAYNE ORCHISTON Editor 0 Springer THE NEW ASTRONOMY OPENING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC WINDOW AND EXPANDING OUR VIEW OF PLANET EARTH ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 334 EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman . BURTON National Radio Astronomy Observatory Charlottesville Virginia . bburton@ University of Leiden The Netherlands burton@ Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS University of Nijmegen The Netherlands E. P J. VAN DEN HEUVEL University of Amsterdam The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN University of Utrecht The Netherlands MEMBERS J. N. BAHCALL The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton . F BERTOLA University of Padua Italy J. P CASSINELLI University of Wisconsin Madison . C. J. CESARSKY European Southern Observatory Garching bei Mmchen Germany O. ENGVOLD University of Oslo Norway A. HECK Strassbourg Astronomical Observatory France R. McCRAY University of Colorado Boulder . P G. MURDIN Institute of Astronomy Cambridge . F. PACINI Istituto Astronomia Arcetri Firenze Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN Raman Research Institute Bangalore India K. SATO School of Science The University of Tokyo Japan F. H. SHU University of California Berkeley . B. V. SOMOV Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Russia R. A. SUNYAEV Space Research Institute Moscow Russia Y TANAKA Institute of Space Astronautical Science Kanagawa Japan S. TREMAINE Princeton University . N. O. WEISS University of Cambridge .