Elly Dekker

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Biografia
Naixement1943 Modifica el valor a Wikidata (80/81 anys)
Haarlem (Països Baixos) Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Dades personals
FormacióUniversitat de Leiden
Universitat d'Utrecht Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Director de tesiHendrik Christoffel van de Hulst Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Activitat
Ocupaciógeògrafa, acadèmica Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Premis

Elisabeth (Elly) Dekker (Haarlem, 1943) és una astrònoma i historiadora de la ciència holandesa, especialitzada en la història de l'astronomia. Va estudiar física teòrica i astronomia a la Universitat d'Utrecht.[1] El 1975 va obtenir un doctorat en astronomia a la Universitat de Leiden amb la tesi Estructura espiral i dinàmica dels sistemes estel·lars plans supervisada per Hendrik C. van de Hulst.[2] Entre 1978 i 1988 va ser conservadora del Museu Boerhaave de Leiden i després va passar a exercir d'erudita independent. De 1993 a 1995 va ser becària Sackler dels Royal Museums Greenwich. El 1998 va rebre la medalla Caird pel seu treball sobre la col·lecció de globus celestes i esferes armil·lars del Museu Marítim Nacional de Greenwich.[3] En el camp d'altres instruments astronòmics, s'ha destacat pels seus estudis sobre la determinació de l'antiquitat dels astrolabis a través de la posició dels indicadors estel·lars de l'aranya i en l'estudi de les antigues taules d'estels que podien haver servit de model pels autors dels astrolabis (veure articles).

Publicacions[modifica]

Dekker és autora d'articles i llibres que inclouen: [1]

Articles[modifica]

  • 'Spiral structure and the dynamics of galaxies', Physics Reports 24 (1976) 315-389
  • '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
  • 'Of astrolabes and dates and dead ends', Annals of Science, 49 (1992), p. 175-184
  • amb Turner, Gerard L'Estrange: An Astrolabe Attributed to Gerard Mercator c.1570. Annals of Science, 50, 1993, p. 403-443. Reed.: Variorum 2003
  • 'Epact Tables on Instruments: Their Definition and Use', Annals of Science, 50 (1993), 303–24
  • 'Frederik Kaiser and his Steady Boat Compass with light lllumination'. en Turner, Gerard L'Estrange (1993): Making instruments count: essays on historical scientific instruments. Aldershot: Variorum, XIX
  • 'An Unrecorded Medieval Astrolabe Quadrant, c. 1300', in Annals of Science 52 (1995), pp. 1-47
  • amb Kunitzsch, Paul: 'The Stars on the Rete of the so-called "Carolingian Astrolabe'. En Casulleras, Josep – Samsó, Julio (editors): De Bagdad a Barcelona. Universitat de Barcelona, Anuari de Filologia, 19, 1996, p. 655-672
  • A Close Look at two Astrolabes and their Star Tables. In: Sic itur ad astra: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften: Festschrift für den Arabisten Paul Kunitzsch zum 70 Geburtstag, Wiesbaden, Ed. Folkerts & Lorch p. 177-215
  • 'Exploring the retes of astrolabes', en Koenraad Van Cleempoel (ed.), Astrolabes at Greenwich. A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum Greenwich, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 47-71
  • '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
  • amb 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

Llibres[modifica]

  • Spiral structure and the dynamics of flat stellar systems, PhD thesis Leiden : Rijksuniversiteit, 1975. 148 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • amb Peter van der Krogt: Globes from the Western World, London, Zwemmer, 1993[4]
  • amb 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)[5]
  • Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Cataloghi di raccolte scientifiche, 5. Firenze, Giunti, 2004[6] 188 + 16 pp. of colour plates.
  • Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 2013[7], 467 p.

Vida personal[modifica]

Dekker va estar casada amb l'astrònom i físic Hendrik Gerard (Henk) van Bueren (1925–2012).[8]

Referències[modifica]

  1. 1,0 1,1 independent.academia.edu EllyDekker. Consulted on 12 February 2021.
  2. van der Kruit, Pieter C. (2019), "Appendix A.4: Oort and His Students: a List of Ph.D. Theses", Jan Hendrik Oort, vol. 459, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Springer International Publishing, pàg. 633–635, ISBN 978-3-030-17800-0, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-17801-7
  3. Campbell, Tony (January 1999), "Chronicle for 1998", Imago Mundi 51 (1): 178–190, DOI 10.1080/03085699908592910
  4. Reviews of Globes from the Western World:
    • Allmayer-Beck, Peter E. (December 1995), "none", Der Globusfreund 43/44: 343–344
    • Baldwin, Robert (March 1996), "none", The Geographical Journal 162 (1): 83, DOI 10.2307/3060220
  5. 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
    • Heilbron, J. L. (March 2000), "Around the world via Greenwich", Nature 404 (6773): 16–17, DOI 10.1038/35003630
    • Milanesi, Marica (January 2002), "none", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 56 (1): 108–110
    • Mokre, Jan (2002), "none", Globe Studies 154–156; also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 41628645
    • Savage-Smith, Emilie (April 2002), "none", Technology and Culture 43 (2): 413–414, DOI 10.1353/tech.2002.0089
    • Warner, Deborah Jean (2001), "none", Imago Mundi 53: 160–161
  6. Reviews of Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza:
    • Milanesi, Marica (2005), "none", Globe Studies 51/52: 145–147; also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 41628661
  7. Reviews of Illustrating the Phaenomena:
    • Anderson, Benjamin (January 2014), "none", Speculum 89 (1): 188–189, DOI 10.1017/S0038713413004326
    • Evans, James (March 2015), "none", Isis 106 (1): 166–167, DOI 10.1086/681833
    • Ishak, B. (April 2013), "none", Contemporary Physics 54 (2): 129–130, DOI 10.1080/00107514.2013.800159
    • Mokre, Jan (2014), "none", Globe Studies 59/60: 230–231; also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 44753622
    • Strano, Giorgio (2015), "none", Nuncius 30 (3): 715–717, DOI 10.1163/18253911-03003008
    • Warner, Deborah Jean (November 2013), "none", Imago Mundi 66 (1): 131–132, DOI 10.1080/03085694.2014.846011
  8. 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

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  1. Campbell, Tony (January 1999), "Chronicle for 1998", Imago Mundi 51 (1): 178–190, DOI 10.1080/03085699908592910
  2. 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
  3. van der Kruit, Pieter C. (2019), "Appendix A.4: Oort and His Students: a List of Ph.D. Theses", Jan Hendrik Oort, vol. 459, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Springer International Publishing, pàg. 633–635, ISBN 978-3-030-17800-0, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-17801-7
  4. 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
    • Heilbron, J. L. (March 2000), "Around the world via Greenwich", Nature 404 (6773): 16–17, DOI 10.1038/35003630
    • Milanesi, Marica (January 2002), "none", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 56 (1): 108–110
    • Mokre, Jan (2002), "none", Globe Studies 154–156; also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 41628645
    • Savage-Smith, Emilie (April 2002), "none", Technology and Culture 43 (2): 413–414, DOI 10.1353/tech.2002.0089
    • Warner, Deborah Jean (2001), "none", Imago Mundi 53: 160–161
  5. Reviews of Globes from the Western World:
    • Allmayer-Beck, Peter E. (December 1995), "none", Der Globusfreund 43/44: 343–344
    • Baldwin, Robert (March 1996), "none", The Geographical Journal 162 (1): 83, DOI 10.2307/3060220
  6. Reviews of Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza:
    • Milanesi, Marica (2005), "none", Globe Studies 51/52: 145–147; also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 41628661
  7. Reviews of Illustrating the Phaenomena:
    • Anderson, Benjamin (January 2014), "none", Speculum 89 (1): 188–189, DOI 10.1017/S0038713413004326
    • Evans, James (March 2015), "none", Isis 106 (1): 166–167, DOI 10.1086/681833
    • Ishak, B. (April 2013), "none", Contemporary Physics 54 (2): 129–130, DOI 10.1080/00107514.2013.800159
    • Mokre, Jan (2014), "none", Globe Studies 59/60: 230–231; also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 44753622
    • Strano, Giorgio (2015), "none", Nuncius 30 (3): 715–717, DOI 10.1163/18253911-03003008
    • Warner, Deborah Jean (November 2013), "none", Imago Mundi 66 (1): 131–132, DOI 10.1080/03085694.2014.846011