Astronomy in Sweden 1860-1940
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Description: From the Uppsala University Newsletter for History of Science.
UPPSALA NEWSLETTER: HISTORY OF SCIENCE The intellectual geography of Swedish astronomy and its international contacts has changed since the 19 century. Then, many Swedish astronomers travelled to Germany, with its excellent observatories and well-known astronomers. The observatories at Uppsala, Lund and Stockholm had many instruments from the leading German instrument makers. Another route was eastward to the Russian central observatory in Pulkovo, near S:t Petersburg. Oscar Backlund was director of the Pulkovo observatory from 1895 until his death in 1916. He had arrived in Pulkovo in 1878, shortly after Bernhard Hasselberg, who was in Pulkovo between 1872 and 1889, when he got a post as physicist at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Hasselberg's stay in Pulkovo was important because he picked up skills in astronomical photography and spectroscopy that simply did not exist in Sweden at the time: the Russian obervatory was very well furnished with resources for the latest astronomical technologies. Several other Swedish astronomers also worked in Pulkovo for longer or shorter periods of time. More and more during the 20
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| Date | created: 1986-08-03 expires: 2014-12-31 |