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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The IAU Centenary Symposium was held at its General Assembly in Vienna in 2018. It starts with plenary lectures, by Malcolm Longair on 100 years of astronomy, a
The International Astronomical Union
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Pages: 375
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-20 - Publisher: Springer

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together with its sister Unions in related natural sciences.
The Ever-Changing Sky
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Pages: 524
Authors: James B. Kaler
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Ever-Changing Sky provides a comprehensive and non-mathematical guide to spherical astronomy. The reader is guided through terrestrial and celestial co-ordi
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (IAU S278)
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IAU Symposium 278, the ninth of the 'Oxford' conferences on cultural astronomy, presents a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives on a set of problems that
History of the IAU
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This History has its origin in a suggestion, made in September 1990 by former IAU General Secretary Derek McNally, who felt "that a 75 year history of the Union