Astronomy in History

Donald Olson, Department of Physics, Texas State University

 

button Caesar.jpg   button cabezadevaca.jpg  Lincolnbutton.jpg

 

     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
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