Allan Chapman

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Allan Chapman is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, Lancaster University

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According to Wikipedia, Allan Chapman FRAS is a British historian of science. Biography Allan Chapman was born in Swinton, Lancashire, England and grew up in the Pendlebury and Clifton districts of the then Swinton and Pendlebury borough. Having attended the local Cromwell Road Secondary Modern School for Boys, Sefton Road, Pendlebury , he then gained his first degree from the University of Lancaster. Subsequently, he undertook a history of science DPhil at Wadham College, Oxford. He is a historian by training and his special interests are astronomy and scientific biography.

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Dividing the Circle: The Development of Critical Angular Measurement in Astronomy 1500-1850 (1990) (42)
The Accuracy of Angular Measuring Instruments Used in Astronomy between 1500 and 1850 (1983) (32)
England's Leonardo : Robert Hooke and the seventeenth-century scientific revolution (2004) (32)
Jeremiah Horrocks, The Transit of Venus, and the 'New Astronomy' in Early Seventeenth-Century England (1990) (25)
Private Research and Public Duty: George Biddell Airy and the Search for Neptune (1988) (25)
The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820 - 1920 (2017) (21)
A study of the accuracy of scale graduations on a group of European astrolabes (1983) (16)
American astronomy: Community, careers and power 1859–1940 (1999) (14)
Tycho brahe in china: the Jesuit mission to Peking and the iconography of European instrument-making processes (1984) (11)
Planetary astronomy from the renaissance to the rise of astrophysics. Part B, The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Edited by René Taton and Curtis Wilson. Pp. 280. Cambridge University Press, 1995. £45.00, $69.95. ISBN 0 521 35168 5 (1996) (10)
Sir George Airy (1801 1892) and the concept of international standards in science, timekeeping and navigation (1985) (9)
An occupation for an independent gentleman: Astronomy in the life of John Herschel (1993) (8)
Galileo on the world systems: A new abridged translation and guide (1998) (8)
Edmond Halley’s use of historical evidence in the advancement of science (1994) (8)
William Lassell (1799–1880): Practitioner, patron and “grand amateur” of victorian astronomy (1988) (7)
Mary Somerville and the World of Science (2004) (7)
George Biddell Airy, F. R. S. (1801-1892): A centenary commemoration (1992) (6)
A new perceived reality: Thomas Harriot's Moon maps (2009) (6)
Thomas Harriot: the first telescopic astronomer (2008) (5)
William Herschel and the Measurement of Space (1989) (5)
Astronomia practica: The principal instruments and their uses at the Royal Observatory (1976) (4)
Science and the Public Good: George Biddell Airy (1801–92) and the Concept of a Scientific Civil Servant (1988) (4)
Jeremiah Horrocks, William Crabtree, and the Lancashire observations of the transit of Venus of 1639 (2004) (4)
Victorian telescope makers. The lives and letters of Thomas and Howard Grubb (1999) (4)
A HISTORY OF SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS (2007) (4)
A World Turned Upside down: Hooke‚ÄôS Geological Ideas (2004) (4)
Astronomical Instruments and Their Users: Tycho Brahe to William Lassell (1996) (4)
A rare find (2002) (3)
Chemistry at Oxford : a history from 1600 to 2005 (2008) (3)
Transit of Venus: Horrocks, Crabtree and the 1639 transit of Venus (2004) (3)
The preface to John Flamsteed's Historia coelestis Britannica, or, British catalogue of the heavens (1725) (1982) (3)
Fly me to the Moon (2014) (2)
The astronomical revolution (1993) (2)
The transits of Venus (1998) (2)
Thomas Hornsby and the Radcliffe Observatory (2013) (2)
The design and accuracy of some observatory instruments of the seventeenth century (1983) (2)
Out of the meridian: John Bird's equatorial sector and the new technology of astronomical measurement (1995) (2)
England's Leonardo (2004) (2)
Mary Somerville: pioneering pragmatist (2016) (1)
The first professors (2013) (1)
Book Review:At the Sign of the Oriental Lamp: The Musschenbroek Workshop in Leiden, 1660-1750 Peter de Clercq (1998) (1)
Porters, watchmen, and the crime of William Sayers: the non-scientific staff of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in Victorian times (2003) (1)
Britain's first professional astronomer: George Biddell Airy (1801 - 1892). (1991) (1)
The lady astronomers of Victorian Britain (2016) (1)
Pure research and practical teaching: the astronomical career of James Bradley, 1693-1762 (1993) (1)
‘Micrographia’ on the Moon (2015) (1)
SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL (1840-1913): ROYAL ASTRONOMER IN IRELAND AND ASTRONOMY'S PUBLIC VOICE (2007) (1)
William Crabtree 1610-1644: Manchester's First Mathematician (1996) (1)
William Harvey and the circulation of the blood. (1995) (1)
Albert Einstein : a funny story about time (etc.) (2004) (0)
Mary Somerville and Her Influence (2015) (0)
Breathing, Burning and Flying: Hooke‚ÄôS Scientific Apprenticeship (2004) (0)
Gauging Angles in the 17th Century (1987) (0)
The Domain of Nature: Astronomy, Optics and Geology (2015) (0)
Mary Somerville: The Writer (2015) (0)
Chapter 2:From Alchemy to Airpumps: The Foundations of Oxford Chemistry to 1700 (2008) (0)
Scientific Instruments (1980) (0)
Eli Maor, June 8, 2004, Venus in Transit (1999) (0)
Great scientists with Dr Allan Chapman (2004) (0)
The Night Sky in 1000 (2000) (0)
200 years of the RAS: Ancestors and descendants (2020) (0)
Death and Historical Legacy (2004) (0)
Early Life: The Prodigy From The Isle Of Wight (2004) (0)
Thomas Harriot: the Englishman who beat Galileo (2006) (0)
C Andrew Murray 1926–2012 (2013) (0)
Microscopes and Meteorology (2004) (0)
Early Life, Career and Friends: The Social World of Georgian Science (2015) (0)
Astronomy through the ages: The story of the human attempt to understand the universe: by Robert Wilson Taylor & Francis, 1997. £19.95 hardback (xv + 302 pages) ISBN 0 74840748 0 (1998) (0)
‘A Large Window … into the Shop of Nature’: Hooke And Light (2004) (0)
Patrick Moore's millennium yearbook : the view from 1001 AD (1999) (0)
Oxford’s Newtonian school (2013) (0)
A Full, Rich Life (2015) (0)
The Curator of Experiments (2004) (0)
To the Heavens in Rural Lancashire: Jeremiah Horrocks and His Circle, and the Foundation of British Astronomical Research (2005) (0)
Charles Darwin : planet of the apes (2004) (0)
Marvels in the heavens (2000) (0)
Aristotle : all about everything (2004) (0)
A century of astronomers: from Halley to Rigaud (2022) (0)
Meeting contribution: Astronomy in 1000 AD (2000) (0)
Conclusion: A Career in Retrospect (2015) (0)
The Observers Observed: Charles Dickens at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 1850 (2005) (0)
Isaac Newton : an apple odyssey (2004) (0)
An interpreter of early astrophysics (2003) (0)
Hooke and the Astronomers (2004) (0)
Astronomy of the Next Millennium (2000) (0)
List of Works Abbreviated in the Notes (2004) (0)
Much Hoole church window appeal (2010) (0)
Patrick Moore’s Millennium Yearbook (2000) (0)
A World of Mechanism (2004) (0)
Pre-eminently precise (1995) (0)
Surveyor to the City of London (2004) (0)
Friends, Mistresses, Religion and Politics: Hooke‚ÄôS Inner World (2004) (0)
Patrick Moore’s Millennium Yearbook: The View from AD 1001 (1999) (0)
Book Review: THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF LEON FOUCAULT: THE MAN WHO PROVED THE EARTH ROTATES / Cambridge University Press, 2003 (2005) (0)
Book review: Cosmic Imagery / The Bodley Head, 608 pp., ISBN 978-0-224-07523-7 (2008) (0)
<italic>New Observations of Heavenly & Earthly Objects [Made] with the Aid of Optical Instruments Devised by Him and Brought to Perfection,</italic> by Francesco Fontana (Naples, 1646), translated from the Latin with annotations by Peter Fay and Sally Beaumont (2002) (0)
Early astro-art. (1999) (0)
Dr Robert Hooke and the origins of engineering science (2011) (0)
Essay Review: A Herschel Trilogy: The Herschel Partnership: As Viewed by Caroline, Caroline Herschel's Autobiographies, the Herschels of Hanover (2008) (0)
Keeping the history of astronomy alive (2019) (0)
Appendix: Portraits of Robert Hooke (2004) (0)
Christiaan huygens (1629–1695): astronomer and mechanician (1995) (0)
William Parsons and the Irish nineteenth-century tradition of independent astronomical research (2015) (0)
From Pendulums to Planets: Experiments And The Understanding Of Gravity (2004) (0)
Peter D Hingley 1951–2012 (2012) (0)
The King’s Observatory at Greenwich and the First Astronomers Royal: Flamsteed to Bliss (2019) (0)
Galileo Galilei : seeing stars (2004) (0)
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1977) (0)
Book Review: New Observations of Heavenly and Earthly Objects Made with the Aid of Optical Instruments Devised by Him and Brought to Perfection (2002) (0)
Derek Howse. Nevil Maskelyne, The Seaman's Astronomer . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 280. ISBN 0-521-36261-X. £40.00, $59.50. (1990) (0)
Book Review: Mary Somerville and the World of Science (A. Chapman) (2004) (0)

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