Volume 17 continues the Reviews of Modern Astronomy with fourteen invited reviews and Highlight Contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on „The Sun and Planetary Systems“, held at Freiburg, Germany, September 15 to 20, 2003. The contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, solar physics, formation of planets and interferometric imaging in astronomy.
The 16th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on "The Cosmic Circuit of Matter," held in Berlin, Germany. Readers also learn about the lecture on the behaviour of stars by infrared interferometry given by Charles H. Townes, Berkeley, USA who was awarded the Karl Schwarzschild medal 2002. Further contributions on the topic provide, among other, the latest results on the Solar atmosphere, formation of stars, substellar objects, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
This 15th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains fourteen invited reviews presented during the Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting JENAM 2001, held in Munich, Germany. Readers also learn about the lecture on macro- and microscopic views of nearby galaxies given by Keiichi Kodaira, Japan, who was awarded the Karl Schwarzschild medal 2001. Further contributions on the topic provide the latest results on the search for extra-solar planets, formation of stars and galaxies, physics of active galactic nuclei, as well as new telescopes and sensor technologies for various wavelengths.
Karl Schwarzschild The Schwarzschild one Clue to Resolving the Quantum Measurement Paradox By Sir Roger PenroseLudwig Biermann Award The Silent Majority - Jets and Radio Cores from Low-Luminosity Black Holes By Heino FalckeChaos in Cosmos By Peter RichterChaos, Comets, and the Kuiper Belt By Martin J. Duncan, Harold Levison, Luke Dones, and Edward ThommesPlanetary From Planitesimals to Protoplanets By Eichiro KokuboSurprises from our Sun By Eric PriestLarge Scale Structure - Witness of Evolution By Dierck-Ekkehard LiebscherDust Induced Structure Formation By Peter WoitkeThe FORS Deep Field By Jochen Heidt, Immo Appenzeller, Ralf Bender, Asmus Böhm, Nive Drory, Klaus J. Fricke, Achim Gabasch, Ulrich Hopp, Klaus Jäger, Martin Kümmel, Dörte Mehlert, Claus Möllenhoff, Alan Moorwoord, Harald Nicklas, Stefan Noll, Roberto Saglia, Walter Seifert, Stella Seitz, Otmar Stahl, Eckhard Sutorius, Thomas Szeifert, Stefan J. Wagner, and Bodo ZieglerA Map of the Northern The Sloan Digital Sky Survey in its First Year By Eva K. GrebelMechanism and Result of Dynamical Instabilities in Hot Stars By Wolfgang GlatzelLBV The Mass Lost from the Most Massive Stars By Kerstin WeisDynamical Evolution of Star Clusters By Holger BaumgardtWarm and Hot Diffuse Gas in Dwarf Galaxies By Dominik J. Bomans
Erhard Weigel wirkte als Professor der Mathematik von 1653 bis 1699 an der Universität Jena. Durch seine mathematischen und astronomischen Kenntnisse, die er anschaulich darzustellen wußte, zahlreiche Erfindungen, seine pädagogischen Vorhaben und durch den Einsatz für die Gregorianische Kalenderreform in den protestantischen Ländern, verbunden mit der Gründung einer wissenschaftlichen Akademie, hat er sich einen Platz in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte gesichert.