Elly Dekker

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Elly Dekker
Elly Dekker - Dutch science historian - portrait photo.jpg
Born1943
Haarlem, the Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Utrecht
AwardsCaird Medal
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics, History of astronomy
InstitutionsMuseum 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[]

Dekker is the author of articles and books including:[5][1]

Articles[]

  • 'Spiral structure and the dynamics of galaxies', Physics Reports 24 (1976) 315-389[6]
  • 'Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1852-1922)', in 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.[7]
  • '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[]

  • 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[8]
  • 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)[9]
  • Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Cataloghi di raccolte scientifiche, 5. Firenze, Giunti, 2004[10] 188 + 16 pp. of colour plates.
  • Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 2013[11], 467 p.

Personal life[]

Dekker was married to the astronomer and physicist Hendrik Gerard (Henk) van Bueren (1925–2012).[12]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b 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, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 459, Springer International Publishing, pp. 633–635, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17801-7, ISBN 978-3-030-17800-0
  3. ^ Elly Dekker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Campbell, Tony (January 1999), "Chronicle for 1998", Imago Mundi, 51 (1): 178–190, doi:10.1080/03085699908592910
  5. ^ Works by or about Elly Dekker in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  6. ^ www.sciencedirect.com Spiral structure and the dynamics of galaxies. Consulted on 12 February 2021.
  7. ^ resources.huygens.knaw.nl Gewina: Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek (1978-2007). Consulted on 12 February 2021.
  8. ^ Reviews of Globes from the Western World:
    • Allmayer-Beck, Peter E. (December 1995), Der Globusfreund, 43/44: 343–344, JSTOR 41622094CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Baldwin, Robert (March 1996), The Geographical Journal, 162 (1): 83, doi:10.2307/3060220, JSTOR 3060220CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. ^ 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 532129CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Mokre, Jan (2002), Globe Studies, 154–156, JSTOR 23993555CS1 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 110642479CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Warner, Deborah Jean (2001), Imago Mundi, 53: 160–161, JSTOR 1151589CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  10. ^ Reviews of Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza:
    • Milanesi, Marica (2005), Globe Studies, 51/52: 145–147, JSTOR 23993604CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 41628661
  11. ^ Reviews of Illustrating the Phaenomena:
  12. ^ 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
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