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file A (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Focus: Astrology on Trial"

photocopy from Astronomy Now, November 1996, pp. 39-42. (Chapman's section, against astrology, only; Percy Seymour's defence not included). Presented by the author

[1996-187]

1996

file A (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Astrology on Trial: The Case Against"

photocopy from Astronomy Now, vol. 4 no. 12, December 1990, pp. 28-32. Together with photocopy of a newspaper report of Dr Chapman's views headed "Ill-starred trust in astronomy", from the Daily Telegraph, November 12, 1990.

[1998-129]

1990

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Aylesbury-Bedford Axis in Early Victorian Astronomy"

in "Meridian": The Central Newsletter of the Chiltern and Thames Valley Group of Astronomical Societies, July 10, 1993, pp. 10-14. Presented by the author

[1993-105]

1993

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Pit and the Pendulum: G. B. Airy and the Determination of Gravity"

offprint from Antiquarian Horology, Autumn 1993, pp. 70-78. Presented by the author

[1993-112]

1993

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Private Research and Public Duty: George Biddell Airy and the Search for Neptune"

offprint from Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. XIX, 1988, pp. 121-139. Presented by the author

[1988-97]

1988

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"William Herschel and the Measurement of Space"

offprint from Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 30, 1989, pp. 399-418. Presented by the author

[1990-53]

1989

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Jeremiah Horrocks, the Transit of Venus, and the 'New Astronomy' in Early Seventeenth-Century England"

offprint from Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 31, 1990, pp. 333-357. The text of a lecture delivered at the RAS Ordinary Meeting, 1989 November 10. Presented by the author

[1990-137]

1990

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Great Britain, Astronomy in", "Oxford University, Astronomy at", [&] "Cambridge University, Astronomy at"

photocopies from John Lankford (ed.), History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia (New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1997), pp. 238-245, 381-383, and 108-110. Presented by the author

[1997-30]

1997

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The admiral and the magistrate"

photocopy from Astronomy Now, May 1997, pp. 45-48. (Concerns W. H. Smyth and John Lee, and their circle).

[1997-73]

1997

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Story of a Failed Discovery"

photocopy from Astronomy Now, September 1996, pp. 42-45 and cover.

[1996-143]

1996

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Pit and the Pendulum"

photocopy from Astronomy Now, vol. 5 no. 12, December 1991, pp. 18-21. (Concerns Sir G. B. Airy's experiments to determine gravity and the density of the Earth). Presented by the author

[1991-209]

1991

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: William Lassell, John Leech, and their Worlds"

photocopy from Patrick Moore (ed.), 1994 Yearbook of Astronomy (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1993). Presented by the author

[1993-150]

1993

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Masters of the Universe"

photocopy from The Guardian, March 6, 1992, p. 30. (Concerns seven astronomers with anniversaries of birth or death in 1992: Gassendi, Galileo, Herschel, Newton, Adams, Airy). Presented by the author

[1992-21]

1992

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"War of the Worlds"

photocopy from The Times, September 23, 1996. Presented by the author

[1996-142]

1996

file G (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Medicine of the People; the Survival of Classical Medical Ideas into Modern Popular Usage"

photocopy from the West of England Medical Journal, vol. 105 no. ii, June 1990, pp. 51-54. Presented by the author

[1990-124]

1990

file I (Stack)Chapman, Allan

Review

of Stella Butler, Science and Technology Museums (Leicester, 1992); offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 50, 1993, pp. 389-402. Presented by the author

[1993-36]

1992

file OXF (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Canon the Chemist and the Dinosaurs"

in Oxford Today, vol. 6 no. 1, Michaelmas 1993, pp. 25-27.

[1993-141]

1993

file OXF (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Scholar, the Thunderbolt and the Anatomist"

in The Wadham College Gazette, January 1993, pp. 59-62. Presented by the author

[1993-29]

1993

file Q (Halley)Chapman, Allan

"Early Geophysics"

photocopy from Astronomy Now, August 1997, pp. 53-56. (Re. Edmond Halley). Presented by the author

[1997-117]

1997

file Q (Hooke)Chapman, Allan

"Air, saltpetre and candlelight"

photocopy from Chemistry & Industry, no. 10, May 15, 1995, p. 381. (Re. Robert Hooke). Presented by the author

[1995-30]

1995

file Q (Newton)Chapman, Allan

"Celebrating a Man of Gravity"

in Astronomy Now, December 1992, pp. 16-18. (Re. Newton). Presented by the author

[1993-4]

1992

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

William Crabtree, 1610-1644: Manchester's First Mathematician

Based on an illustrated address given following the Society's Annual Dinner on 13th June 1995. Manchester: Manchester Statistical Society, 1995. Presented by the author

[1996-54]

1995

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Edmond Halley: The Man Behind the Comet"

in Science & Public Affairs, Autumn 1994, pp. 24-27. Presented by the author

[1994-114]

1994

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

Jeremiah Horrocks and Much Hoole

N.p. [published by St Michael's Church, Much Hoole, Lancashire], March 1994. Presented by the author

[1994-113]

1994

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Christiaan Huygens (1629-95): Astronomer and Mechanician"

offprint from Endeavour, December 1995, pp. 140-145. Presented by the author

[1996-21]

1995

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"George Biddell Airy, F.R.S. (1801-1892): A Centenary Commemoration"

offprint from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 46 no. 1, 1992, pp. 103-110. Presented by the author

[1992-22]

1992

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Pure Research and Practical Teaching: The Astronomical Career of James Bradley, 1693-1762"

offprint from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 47 no. 2, 1993, pp. 205-212. Presented by the author

[1993-111]

1993

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Edmond Halley's Use of Historical Evidence in the Advancement of Science"

offprint from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 48 no. 2, 1994, pp. 167-191. The Wilkins Lecture. Presented by the author

[1994-68]

1994

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Sir George Airy (1801-1892) and the Concept of International Standards in Science, Timekeeping and Navigation"

offprint from Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 28, 1985, pp. 321-328. Presented by the author

[1989-120]

1985

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"William Lassell (1799-1880): Practitioner, Patron and "Grand Amateur" of Victorian Astronomy"

offprint from Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 32, 1988, pp. 341-370. Presented by the author

[1990-9]

1988

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"An Occupation for an Independent Gentleman: Astronomy in the Life of John Herschel"

offprint from Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 36, 1993, pp. 71-116. [Uncorrected version; see revised reprint]. Presented by the author

[1993-57]

1993

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Britain's First Professional Astronomer: George Biddell Airy (1801-1892)"

photocopy from Patrick Moore (ed.), 1992 Yearbook of Astronomy (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1991), pp. 185-205. Presented by the author

[1992-1]

1991

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"James Nasmyth: Astronomer of Fire"

photocopy from Patrick Moore (ed.), The Yearbook of Astronomy 1997 (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 143-167. Presented by the author

[1996-188]

1996

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke (1635-1703) and the Art of Experiment in Restoration England"

photocopy from Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, vol. 67, 1996, pp. 239-275.

[1996-129]

1996

file Q (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"An Occupation for an Independent Gentleman: Astronomy in the Life of John Herschel"

revised reprint from ('Adapted from') Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 36 no. 1, 1993, pp. 71-116 (separately paginated). [Cf. uncorrected earlier version]. Presented by the author

[1994-67]

1993

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Tycho Brahe - Instrument Designer, Observer and Mechanician"

in Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 99 no. 2, April 1989, pp. 70-77. Presented by the author

[1989-126]

1989

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"The Design and Accuracy of Some Observatory Instruments of the Seventeenth Century"

offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 40, 1983, pp. 457-471. Presented by the author

[1989-119/1]

1983

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Tycho Brahe in China: the Jesuit Mission to Peking and the Iconography of European Instrument-Making Processes"

offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 41, 1984, pp. 417-443. Presented by the author

[1985-75]

1984

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Out of the Meridian: John Bird's Equatorial Sector and the New Technology of Astronomical Measurement"

offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 52, 1995, pp. 431-463. Presented by the author

[1995-55]

1995

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Scientific Instruments and Industrial Innovation: The Achievement of Jesse Ramsden"

offprint from R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett, & W. F. Ryan (eds.), Making Instruments Count ... (Aldershot: Variorum, 1993), pp. 418-430. Presented by the author

[1998-39]

1993

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Reconstructing the Angle-Measuring Instruments of Pierre Gassendi"

offprint from W. D. Hackmann & A. J. Turner (eds.), Learning, Language and Invention: Essays Presented to Francis Maddison (Aldershot & Paris, 1994), pp. 103-116. Presented by the author

[1994-115]

1994

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

The Mathematical Cabinet: Scientific Instruments of the Renaissance

Oxford, 1977.

[1978-10]

1977

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

The Quadrant

Oxford: Allan Chapman, November 1976. (Pamphlet accompanying a reconstruction of the instrument). Presented by the author

[1989-118/3]

1976

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

The Nocturnal

Oxford: Allan Chapman, November 1976. (Pamphlet accompanying a reconstruction of the instrument). Presented by the author

[1989-118/2]

1976

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

The Cross Staff

Oxford: Allan Chapman, November 1976. (Pamphlet accompanying a reconstruction of the instrument). Presented by the author

[1989-118/1]

1976

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

The 'Theodolitus' of Leonard Digges

Oxford: Allan Chapman, November 1976. (Pamphlet accompanying a reconstruction of the instrument). Presented by the author

[1989-118/4]

1976

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

'The Accuracy of Angular Measuring Instruments Used in Astronomy Between 1500 and 1850'

Photocopy of typescript of unpublished paper. [1982].

[1982-144]

1982

file U (Stack)Chapman, Allan

Three North Country Astronomers

Swinton, Manchester: Neil Richardson, 1982.

[1983-143]

1982

file Y (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"A Study of the Accuracy of Scale Graduations on a Group of European Astrolabes"

offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 40, 1983, pp. 473-488. Presented by the author

[1989-119/2]

1983

G (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Medical Art and Experimental Science in Early Victorian England"

in Liverpool Medical Institution, Transactions and Report, 1986-87, pp. 26-39. Presented by the author

[1989-122]

1986-1987

MS thesisChapman, Allan

'Dividing the Circle: The Development of Techniques of Precision Angular Measurements in Instrument Making, and their Relationship to the Practice of Astronomy, 1500-1800'

University of Oxford D.Phil. Thesis, 1978. [MS Museum 303]

[1979-109]

1978

OXF (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"John Wilkins and the 'New Science' in Seventeenth-Century Wadham"

in The Wadham College Gazette, January 1987, pp. 69-72. Presented by the author

[1987-8]

1987

U (Open Shelf)Chapman, Allan

Astronomical Instruments and Their Users: Tycho Brahe to William Lassell

Collected Studies Series CS530. Aldershot: Variorum, 1996. Presented by the author.

[1996-141]

1996

D (Open Shelf)Chapman, Allan

"Astronomia Practica: The Principal Instruments and their Uses at the Royal Observatory"

in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 141-156. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.

[1979-137]

1979

U (Open Shelf)Chapman, Allan

Dividing the Circle: The Development of Critical Angular Measurement in Astronomy 1500-1850

2nd ed.. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; in association with Praxis Publishing, 1995. Presented by the author.

[1996-11]

1995

U (Open Shelf)Chapman, Allan

Dividing the Circle: The Development of Critical Angular Measurement in Astronomy 1500-1850

The Ellis Horwood Library of Space Science and Space Technology, Series in Astronomy. Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1990. Presented by the author.

[1990-117]

1990

Y (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"Merton College and its Astrolabes"

in Postmaster and The Merton Record, October 1992, pp. 88-100. Presented by the author

[1993-23]

1992

Pending Chapman, Allan

Review

of C. F. C. Beeson, Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400-1850, 3rd edition, 1989; in The Wadham College Gazette, new series vol. 3 no. 6, January 1991, pp. 81-83. Presented by the publisher

[1991-48]

1991

file Q (Chapman)Chapman, Allan

"A Schoolboy Astronomer"

extract from Astronomy Now, October 1998, p. 59. (An autobiographical article). Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner

[1999-5]

1998

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

"'A World in the Moon': John Wilkins and his Lunar Voyage of 1640"

offprint from Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 32 no. 2, 1991, pp. 121-132. Presented by the author

[1991-167]

1991

file D (Stack)Chapman, Allan

The Medieval Astronomer: His Ideas and Instruments

Article in Astronomy Now, Vol. 4, No.8, August 1990, pp 26-32. (See also cover illustration, and caption p.3). Presented by the publisher

[1990-136]

1990

file D (Stack) altChapman, Allan

"The Observers Observed: Charles Dickens at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 2005"

offprint from The Antiquarian Astronomer, issue 2, December 2005, pp. 9-20. Presented by the author.

[2006-6]

2005


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