From this page, students may get class "news" updates, various handouts in Adobe PDF format, and news.
News:
The Internet discussion board is HERE.
By now, you have all chosen a project. The list of possibilities may still
be found here.
The project schedule is available HERE.
Handouts:
Course syllabus
Project suggestions
(continuously updated until Long Weekend)
Software:
Cybersky home page
Starry Night home page
List of other astronomy programs
Links:
Williams College Chapin Library --- astronomy books exhibit
The myth of the flat earth
A good place to begin web searches in the history of astronomy
Google's cache of the Flat Earth Society FAQ
A brass armillary sphere, available for $65
(warning: it doesn't say in the description that the sphere rotates, although
its latitude setting is adjustable)
A good site on the astrolabe and its history
Chaucer's treatise on the astrolabe (in Old English)
A nice web applet to generate astrolabes (contains three variants) ---
thanks, Adam!
Three sites for conversion to Julian dates:
Numerical Recipes site
US Naval Obervatory site
CSG Network site
An article on the sundial Glen helped to build last summer
Last modified: Dec. 3, 2003 / Glen Van Brummelen
Office: Dickinson 213. Phone numbers: (w) 440-4467; (h)
440-8142.