Elly_Dekker

Elly Dekker

Elly Dekker

Dutch astronomer (born 1943)

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]

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Publications

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

Articles

  • 'Spiral structure and the dynamics of galaxies', Physics Reports 24 (1976) 315-389[5]
  • 'Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1852-1922)', in Kox, A.J. 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.[6]
  • '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[7]
  • 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)[8]
  • Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Cataloghi di raccolte scientifiche, 5. Firenze, Giunti, 2004[9] 188 + 16 pp. of colour plates.
  • Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 2013[10], 467 p.

Personal life

Dekker was married to the astronomer and physicist Hendrik Gerard (Henk) van Bueren (1925–2012).[11]

References

  1. [1]
    independent.academia.edu EllyDekker. Consulted on 12 February 2021.
  2. [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, vol. 459, Springer International Publishing, pp. 633–635, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17801-7, ISBN 978-3-030-17800-0, S2CID 199240526
  3. [3]
    Elly Dekker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. [4]
    Campbell, Tony (January 1999), "Chronicle for 1998", Imago Mundi, 51 (1): 178–190, doi:10.1080/03085699908592910
  5. [5]
    www.sciencedirect.com Spiral structure and the dynamics of galaxies. Consulted on 12 February 2021.
  6. [6]
    resources.huygens.knaw.nl Gewina: Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek (1978-2007). Consulted on 12 February 2021.
  7. [7]
    Reviews of Globes from the Western World:
  8. [8]
    Reviews of Globes at Greenwich:
  9. [9]
    Reviews of Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza:
  10. [10]
    Reviews of Illustrating the Phaenomena:
  11. [11]
    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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