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ALBERT VAN HELDEN Personal Information Born: 7 March 1940, The Hague, Netherlands Current address: Plantijnstraat 99 2321 JH Leiden The Netherlands Telephone: +31 71 572 7034 E mail: a.vanhelden@uu.nl Education Ph.D. Imperial College, University of London (History of Science, 1970 Positions Rice University, department of History, 1970-2001; Lynette S. Autrey Professor of History,1988-

2001; professor emeritus, 2001- Professor, Institute for the History and Foundations of Science, University of Utrecht,

Netherlands, 2001-2005; professor emeritus, 2005- Editorial Boards Isis, 1989-94 Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1988- Committee to oversee the publication of 10 additional volumes of Le opere di Galileo Galilei Publications BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, EDITIONS, TRANSLATIONS, ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS The Invention of the Telescope. American Philosophical Society, Transactions, 67 (1977), no 4. Reprinted with a new introduction, Transactions, 98, part 4 (2008) Divini and Campani: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of the Accademia del Cimento.

Monograph 5, Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze, 1981. Co-authored with Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli.

Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Sidereus Nuncius or The Sidereal Messenger (Galileo Galilei). Translated with introduction, conclusion and notes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. CD-ROM edition with new introduction Palo Alto: Octavo, 1998.

Julian Huxley (1887-1975): Biologist and Statesman of Science. Houston: Rice University Press, 1993. Edited with C. Kenneth Waters.

Scientific Instruments. Osiris, vol. 9, edited with Thomas L. Hankins, 1994. The Galileo Project. http://www.rice.edu/Galileo, 1995. A hypertext resource on the life and

work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). The History of Science in the Netherlands. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999), co-edited with L. C. Palm

and K. van Berkel A Catalog of Early Telescopes. (Florence: Isituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, 1999). On Sunspots: Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner. Translated and introduced by Eileen

Reeves and Albert Van Helden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, spring 2010. The Origins of the Telescope. Proceedings of a symposium held in Middelburg, Netherlands,

September 2008. Edited with Huib Zuidervaart, Sven Dupré, and R. H. van Gent.

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ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, etc. "Christopher Wren's De Corpore Saturni." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 23

(1968): 213-29. "Eustachio Divini vs. Christiaan Huygens: A Reappraisal." Physis, 12 (1970): 36-50. "The Accademia del Cimento and Saturn's Ring,. Physis, 15 (1973): 237-59. "The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century." Isis, 65 (1974): 38-58. Reprinted in The Scientific

Enterprise in Early Modern Europe: Readings from Isis, ed. Peter Dear (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 133-53.

"Saturn and his Anses," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 5 (1974): 105-121. "'Annulo Cingitur': The Solution to the Problem of Saturn," Journal for the History of Astronomy,

5 (1974): 155-74. "The Historical Problem of the Invention of the Telescope," History of Science, 13 (1975): 251-

63. "The Importance of the Transit of Mercury of 1631," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 7

(1976): 1-10. "A Note on Christiaan Huygens's De Saturni Luna Observatio Nova," Janus, 62 (1975): 13-15. "The 'Astronomical Telescope,' 1611-1650," Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di

Firenze, 1 (1976): 13-36. "The Development of Compound Eyepieces, 1640-1670," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 8

(1977): 26-37. "Huygens and the Astronomers," in Studies on Christiaan Huygens, ed. H. J. M. Bos et al., (Lisse,

Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1980): 147-65. "Galileo on the Sizes and Distances of the Planets," Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della

Scienza di Firenze, 7 (1982): 65-86. "The Birth of the Modern Scientific Instrument, 1550-1700," in The Uses of Science in the Age of

Newton, ed. J. G. Burke, (Univ. of California Press, 1983): 49-84. "Roemer's Speed of Light," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 14 (1983): 137-41. "Galileo and the Telescope," in Novita Celesti e Crisi del Sapere. Atti del Convegno

Internazionale di Studi Galileiana, ed. Paolo Galluzzi. Monograph 7, Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze (1983): 149-58.

"Telescope Building, 1850-1900," in The General History of Astronomy, ed. M. A. Hoskin, 4 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1984-), 4A: 40-58.

"Building Large Telescopes, 1900-1950," in The General History of Astronomy, ed. M. A. Hoskin 4 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1984-), 4A: 134-52.

"Rings in Astronomy and Cosmology, 1650-1900," in Planetary Rings, ed. R. Greenberg and A. Brahic (University of Arizona Press, 1984): 12-22.

"Saturn through the Telescope: A Brief Historical Survey," in Saturn, ed. T. Gehrels and M. S. Matthews (University of Arizona Press, 1984): 23-43.

"The Dimensions of the Discarded Image," in Mapping the Cosmos, ed. J. Chance and R. O. Wells, Jr. (Rice University Press, 1985): 65-75.

"How Accurate were Seventeenth-Century Measurements of Solar Diameter?" Nature, 330 (17 December 1987): 629-31. Co-authored with C. R. O'Dell

"Galileo, Telescopic Astronomy, and the Copernican System," in The General History of Astronomy, ed. M. A. Hoskin, 4 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1984-), 2A: 81-105.

"The Telescope and Cosmic Dimensions," in The General History of Astronomy, ed. M. A. Hoskin, 4 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1984-), 2A: 106-118.

"La Grande Disputa sui Telescopi," Astronomia, 10 ( no. 78, June 1988): 22-29.

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"Halley and the Dimensions of the Solar System," in Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Longer View of Newton and Halley, ed. N. J. W. Thrower (University of California Press, 1990), 143-56..

"Representing the Heavens: Galileo and Visual Astronomy," Isis, 83 (1992):195-217, co-authored with M. G. Winkler.

“The Telescope from Galileo to Today,” in From Galileo’s “Occhialino to Optoelectronics, ed. Paolo Mazzoldi (World Scientific, 1993), pp. 318-331. Reprinted in Galileo a Padova 1592-1610, 5 vols. (Trieste: Edizioni Lint, 1995), V:189-203.

"Johannes Hevelius and the Visual Language of Astronomy," in Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen, and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, ed. J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 97-116. With Mary G. Winkler.

"The Telescope and Authority from Galileo to Cassini," in Scientific Instruments, ed. T. L. Hankins and A. Van Helden, Osiris, 9 (1994):9-29.

“Galileo and Scheiner on Sunspots: A Case Study in the Visual Language of Astronomy” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 140 (1996): 357-95.

“Gassendi and the Telescope: Toward a Research Community,” Pierre Gassendi 1592-1655: Actes du Colloque International Digne-les-Bains, 18-21 Mai 1992, 2 vols. (Digne-les-Bains: Société Scientifique et Littéraire des Alpes de Haute Provence, 1994), II:329-39.

"Measuring Solar Parallax: The Venus Transits of 1761 and 1769 and their Nineteenth-Century Sequels," in The General History of Astronomy, ed. M. A. Hoskin, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984-), 2B:153-168.

“Longitude and the Satellites of Jupiter,” in The Quest for Longitude, ed. William J. H. Andrewes (Harvard University Press, 1996). 85-100. Russian translation, Voprosii Istorii Estestwo-Snanija i Techniki, 1994, no. 4, pp. 42-58.

“Contrasting Careers in Astronomy: Huygens and Cassini,” De Zeventiende Eeuw, 12 (1996): 96-105

"The Invention and Development of the Telescope to 1750," in The General History of Astronomy, ed. M. A. Hoskin, 4 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1984-), co-authored with G. L'E Turner and R. M. McKeon, vol. 3, in press.

"The Moons of Galileo and Cigoli: Science, Religious Art, and the Telescope," Science in Context. 14 (2000): 193-216. With Sara E. Booth.

“Seventeenth-century telescope optics of Torricelli, Divini, and Campani,” Applied Optics 44 (2002): 644-647. With Mara Miniati, Vincenzo Greco, and Giuseppe Molesini.

“Between discovery and disclosure : Galileo and the telescope,” In Musa musaei : studies on scientific instruments and collections in honour of Mara Miniati , ed. Marco Beretta, Paolo Galluzzi, Carlo Triarico (Florence: Olschki, 2003), pp. 173-190.

“From Occhiale to Printed Page: The Making of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius,” Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34 (2003): 252-257. With Owen Gingerich.

“”Huygens, Titan, and Saturn’s Ring,” Proceedings of the International Conference ‘Titan From Discovery to Encounter’ Noordwijk, Netherlands, 13-17 April 2004 (European Space Agency, 2004), pp. 11-29.

Huygens’s Ring and Cassini’s Division: and Saturn’s Children, Dibner Library Lecture, 27 October 2004 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 2006).

“Galileo in America : from empiricism to idealism and back?” Galilæana : journal of Galilean studies, 3 (2006): 55-69

“Verifying Galileo's discoveries: Telescope-making at the Collegio Romano.” In Der Meister und die Fernrohre, ed. Juergen Hamel and Inge Keil (Frankfurt: Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2007), pp. 127-141. With Eileen Reeves.

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“Galileo’s Telescope.” In Galileo’s Telescope: The Instrument that changed the World, ed. Giorgio Strano, (Florence: Giunti, 2008), pp. 33-62. With Giorgio Strano, Paolo Del Santo, Jim and Rhoda Morris.

“Galileo’s Telescopes and his Astronomical Discoveries,” Images of the Universe, from Antiquity to the Telescope, ed. Paolo Galluzzi (Florence: Giunti, 2009), pp. 246-253.

“Who Invented the Telescope?” Sky & Telescope July 2009, pp. 64-69. “Galileo's Telescope,” in The Origins of the Telescope, ed. Sven Dupré, Huib Zuidervaart, Rob

van Gent, Albert Van Helden (Amsterdam University Press, 2011) "The Beginnings, from Lipperhey to Huygens and Cassini," Experimental Astronomy 25

(August, 2009): 3-16. “Galileo and the Telescope,” pp. 183-201 in The origins of the telescope, ed. Albert Van Helden,

Sven Dupré, Rob van Gent and Huib Zuidervaart (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011)

“How Galileo Constructed the Moons of Jupiter,” Journal for the History of Astronomy, 42 (2011): 259-264.

Foreword to Galileo Galilei, Dialoog over de twee Voornaamste Wereldsystemen, tr. Hans van den Berg (Amsterdam: Athenaeum, 2012), with H. F. Cohen.

“Unmasking a Galileo Forgery,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 45 (2014): 361-376. I have served as chairman of the Rice History Department (4 years), Speaker of the Rice Faculty (3 years), and President of the History of Science Society (1998-1999).