Astronomy in History
Donald Olson,
Department of Physics, Texas State University
Sun, Moon, and Tides Route of Cabeza de Vaca Lincoln
at Caesar’s Invasion of and
Britain in 55BC
Astronomy
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ASTRONOMY IN HISTORY
D.
W. Olson and L. E. Jasinski, “Lincoln’s Celestial Connections,"
Sky & Telescope 117 (No. 3), 66 (March, 2009).
D.
W. Olson, R. L. Doescher, K. N. Beicker, and A. F. Gregory,
“Moon and Tides at Caesar’s Invasion
of Britain in 55 B.C.,”
Sky & Telescope 116 (No. 2), 18 (August, 2008).
D.
W. Olson and R. L. Doescher,
“ ‘The moon gave us so much light’:
Astronomical Dating of the
William L. Manly and John H. Rogers
Narratives of Death Valley in 1849-1850,”
Proceedings 8th Death
Valley Conference on History and Prehistory, 17 (2008).
D. W. Olson, R. L. Doescher, and K. N.
Beicker,
“John
Muir and Yosemite Moonbows,”
Yosemite (Journal of the Yosemite
Association) 69 (No. 2), 3
(Spring, 2007).
D. W. Olson, R. L. Doescher, and M. S.
Olson, “The Moon and the Marathon,”
Sky & Telescope 108 (No. 3), 34 (September, 2004).
D.
W. Olson, W. D. Liddle, R. L. Doescher, L. M. Behrends, T. D. Silakowski,
and F.-J. Saucier,
"Perfect Tide, Ideal Moon:
Wolfe's Generalship at the Battle of Québec, 1759,"
William
and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 59
(No. 4), 957 (October, 2002).
D.
W. Olson, B. Johns, and R. L. Doescher,
" 'Ill Met by Moonlight,' The
Sinking of the USS Indianapolis,"
Sky
& Telescope 104 (No. 1), 30
(July, 2002).
D.
W. Olson and R. L. Doescher, "A California Observation of the 1833 Leonid
Meteor Storm," Griffith Observer 63 (No. 11), 12 (November, 1999).
D.
W. Olson and L. E. Jasinski, "Abraham Lincoln and the Leonids,"
Sky
& Telescope 98 (No. 5), 34
(November, 1999).
D.
W. Olson, R. L. Doescher, and J. L. Garrett, "The Boston Massacre,"
Sky
& Telescope 95 (No. 3), 65
(March, 1998).
D.
W. Olson, M. S. Olson, R. L. Doescher, L. L. Lambert, D. E. Lemke,
A. M. Carl, R. Johnson, S. D. Smith,
and K. H. Trede,
"Piñon Pines and the Route of
Cabeza de Vaca"
Southwestern
Historical Quarterly 101 (No.
2), 175 (October, 1997).
D.
W. Olson and B. White, "A Planetary Grouping in Maya Times,"
Sky
& Telescope 94 (No. 2), 63
(August, 1997).
D.
W. Olson, L. E. Jasinski, and R. L. Doescher, "A Fatal Full Moon:
Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville,"
Blue & Gray 13 (No. 4), 24 (April, 1996).
D.
W. Olson and R. L. Doescher, "D-Day: June 6, 1944,"
Sky
& Telescope 87 (No. 6), 84
(June, 1994)
D.
W. Olson, "Comet Panics, Daytime Visibility of Venus, and Napoleon's
Star,"
Bulletin
of the American Astronomical Society 25
(No. 4), 1334 (1993).
D.
W. Olson and R. L. Doescher, "The Boston Tea Party,"
Sky
& Telescope 86 (No. 6), 83
(December, 1993).
"Columbus
and the Fireball of September 15, 1492,"
Meteor
News 99, 1 (1992).
D.
W. Olson, "Columbus and an Eclipse of the Moon,"
Sky
& Telescope 84 (No. 4), 437
(October, 1992).
D.
W. Olson, R. L. Doescher, and S. C. Albers, "A Medieval Mutual
Planetary Occultation," Sky & Telescope 84 (No. 2), 207 (August, 1992).
D.
W. Olson and R. L. Doescher, "Paul Revere's Midnight Ride,"
Sky
& Telescope 83 (No. 4), 437
(April, 1992).
D.
W. Olson, "Pearl Harbor and the Waning Moon,"
Sky
& Telescope 82 (No. 6), 651
(December, 1991).
D.
W. Olson, "Samuel Pepys and a 'Draco Volans'"
Sky
& Telescope 81 (No. 6), 642
(June, 1991).
D.
W. Olson, "Early American Observations of the Perseid Shower,"
Meteor
News 92, 4 (1991).
D.
W. Olson, R. L. Doescher, and E. S. Laird, "Columbus, Regiomontanus,
and the Sky of January 17,
1493,"
Sky
& Telescope 81 (No. 1), 81
(January, 1991).
D.
W. Olson, "Fort Worth Eclipse Observations: July 29, 1878,"
Bulletin
of the American Physical Society 35
(No. 5), 1328 (1990).
D.
W. Olson and R. L. Doescher, "Lincoln and the Almanac Trial,"
Sky
& Telescope 80 (No. 2), 184
(August, 1990)
D.
S. Evans and D. W. Olson, "Early Astronomy in Texas,"
Southwestern
Historical Quarterly 93 (No. 4),
433 (1990).
D.
W. Olson, "Who First Saw the Zodiacal Light?"
[Early European Observations of the
Zodiacal Light],
Sky
& Telescope 77 (No. 2), 146
(February, 1989).
D.
W. Olson and M. S. Olson, "Zodiacal Light, False Dawn, and Omar
Khayyam,"
The
Observatory 108, 181 (1988).
D.
W. Olson, "The Tide at Tarawa,"
Sky
& Telescope 74 (No. 5), 526
(November, 1987).
LINKS
Texas State University Honors Program
http://www.txstate.edu/honors/
Don Olson, Physics Department, Texas State University
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~do01/
Marilynn Olson, English Department, Texas State University
http://www.english.txstate.edu/people-contacts/faculty/olson.html
Christopher Olson, JD, Hawaii Lawyer, Oahu Lawyer, Oahu,
Hawaii
http://hawaiiattorneyonline.com/