Allan Chapman (science historian)

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Allan Chapman (born May 30, 1946 in Swinton , Lancashire ) is a British historian of science specializing in astronomy .

Life

Allan Chapman attended Cromwell Road Secondary Modern School for Boys in Pendlebury . Then he worked as a library clerk and attended evening school . In 1969 he began to study history at Lancaster University , received a scholarship ( Queen's Scholarship ) towards the end of the same year and completed his undergraduate studies there in 1972. After that, he began his postgraduate studies of science history at Wadham College of Oxford University , where he obtained in 1978 his Doctor of Philosophy .

Chapman has been a teacher and researcher at the University of Oxford since 1972. He was the honor of 1994, the Wilkins Lecture of the Royal Society to hold over Edmond Halley ( Edmond Halley as a historian of science to keep) and 2003/2004 he was Visiting Gresham Professor in the History of Science at Gresham College . He can also be seen and heard in a number of TV and radio productions, such as in the three-part documentary Gods in the Sky ( Channel 4 ).

Chapman is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and received the Jackson Gwilt Medal from it in 2015 . In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Central Lancashire . Chapman is the founder and Honorary President of the Society for the History of Astronomy, the Salford Astronomical Society, the Reading Astronomical Society, the Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society, the Orwell Astronomical Society (Ipswich) and Vice President of the Newbury Astronomical Society.

Works (selection)

  • Astronomical Instruments and Their Users . Tycho Brahe to William Lassell. Ashgate Publishing Company, Farnham 1996, ISBN 0-86078-584-X (English).
  • The Victorian Amateur Astronomer . Independent Astronomical Research in Britain, 1820-1920. John Wiley / Praxis Publishing, New York / Chichester 1998, ISBN 0-471-96257-0 (English).
  • England's Leonardo . Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution. Institute of Physics, London 2004, ISBN 0-7503-0987-3 (English).
  • Stargazers . Copernicus, Galileo, the Telescope and the Church. The Astronomical Renaissance 1500-1700. Lion Books, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-7459-5627-5 (English).
  • Mary Somerville and the World of Science . Springer, London 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-09398-7 (English, reprint of the 2004 edition).
  • Physicians, Plagues and Progress . The History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics. Lion Books, Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-0-7459-6895-7 (English).

swell

  • Dr Allan Chapman. In: University of Central Lancashire. 2004, archived from the original on August 30, 2004 ; accessed on March 19, 2017 (English).
  • Dr Allan Chapman. In: Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society. Retrieved March 19, 2017 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For further participations see Allan Chapman in the Internet Movie Database .
  2. ^ Winners of the 2015 awards, medals and prizes. Jackson-Gwilt Medal. In: Royal Astronomical Society . 2015, archived from the original on January 9, 2015 ; accessed on March 19, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Chapman, Allan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinton , Lancashire