%0 Book %D In Preparation %T Failed Scientific Instruments, Scientific Instruments and Collections 10 %E Sara J. Schechner %E Sofia Talas %I Brill %C Leiden %G eng %0 Journal Article %D In Preparation %T Inside the Maker's Workshop: Alvan Clark and Robert B. Tolles in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century %A Sara J. Schechner %A Kenneth J. Launie %G eng %0 Book %D In Preparation %T Sundials and Time Finding Instruments: Altitude and Azimuth Dials, Astronomical Compendia, and Nocturnals. Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium, vol. 4 %A Sara J. Schechner %I Adler Planetarium %C Chicago %G eng %0 Journal Article %D In Preparation %T Glass and Power: Sourcing Scientific Glass in North America, 1600-1850 %A Sara J. Schechner %G eng %0 Journal Article %D In Preparation %T Telescopes in Colonial and Federal America, 1620-1820 %A Sara J. Schechner %G eng %0 Book Section %B Scientific Instruments as Cultural Artifacts %D Forthcoming %T Conquest and Contemplation: Astronomy in New England %A Sara J. Schechner %E Paula Bertucci %E Alexi Baker %B Scientific Instruments as Cultural Artifacts %I Yale University Press %C New Haven %G eng %0 Book Section %B Essays on Astronomical History and Heritage: A Tribute to Wayne Orchiston on His 80th Birthday %D Forthcoming %T Politics and the Dimensions of the Solar System: John Winthrop’s Observations of the Transits of Venus %A Sara J. Schechner %E Steve Gullberg %E Peter Robertson %B Essays on Astronomical History and Heritage: A Tribute to Wayne Orchiston on His 80th Birthday %I Springer %C Cham, Switzerland %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Centaurus %D 2022 %T Essay review of Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures, ed. Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech %A Sara J. Schechner %B Centaurus %V 64 %P 547-549 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1484/J.CNT.5.129867 %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Physis %D 2022 %T In Memory of Paolo Brenni (1954-2021) %A Sara J. Schechner %A Anna Giatti %A Giorgio Strano %B Physis %V 57 %P 360-366 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Smithsonian Voices %D 2022 %T How Did a 17th-Century French Sundial End Up Buried in a Field in Indiana? %A Sara J. Schechner %A Peggy Kidwell %B Smithsonian Voices %G eng %U https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-history/2022/08/23/pocket-sundial/ %0 Generic %D 2021 %T IAU Commission C3 Newsletter %E Sara J. Schechner %X

Newsletter of the International Astronomical Union Commission C3 (History of Astronomy), edited and published semiannually at the Summer and Winter Solstices by Sara Schechner, Secretary of IAU Commission C3.

%V vol. 2021 %P 42pp. %G eng %N no. 1 %0 Journal Article %J Annals of Science %D 2021 %T Observations on Niccolò Tornioli’s The Astronomers %A Susanna Berger %A Sara J. Schechner %X

In the summer of 1645, the Oratorian Virgilio Spada (1596–1662) acquired a painting of a debate on astronomy by the Sienese artist Niccolò Tornioli (1598?–1651) and displayed it in the Palazzo Spada, the Roman residence of his older brother, Cardinal Bernardino Spada (1594–1661). Our discussion of The Astronomers questions some of the traditional identifications of its characters, although we cannot claim to have solved these figures’ identities and several remain a mystery. We do present new iconographic interpretations of particular scientific instruments, diagrams, and natural phenomena in the canvas. These novel readings occasionally remain conjectural in part because Tornioli represents these entities in a way that makes it clear that he did not fully comprehend them. The errors and obscurities in Tornioli’s painting lead us to two conclusions. First, that the erudite Virgilio Spada was unlikely to have been involved in the definition of the painting’s iconographies, as he would have objected to Tornioli’s crass mistakes and obscure imagery. Second, that these errors and indistinct details should be taken at face value, insofar as they accentuate the difficulties of astronomical observation. Beyond highlighting these challenges, we argue that the painting also visualizes techniques for countering them. Specifically, the canvas would have focused early modern observers’ attention on the edifying powers of civil conversations and communal observations with scientific instruments as well as images—including diagrams, celestial maps, and paintings.

%B Annals of Science %V 78 %P 1-45 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2021.1957149 %N 4 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Antiques and Collectibles %D 2020 %T Great Collections: Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and Its Founder, David P. Wheatland %A Sara J. Schechner %X

This is a story of the impact a collector can have on creating one of the world’s most celebrated of specialized museums. The museum is Harvard University’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and the man responsible is David P. Wheatland of Topsfield, Massachusetts.

The publisher's print version is attached as a PDF.  The web version of the essay is here.

%B Journal of Antiques and Collectibles %V September %P 34-35 %G eng %U https://journalofantiques.com/columns/great-collections/great-collections-harvards-collection-historical-scientific-instruments-founder-david-p-wheatland/ %0 Generic %D 2020 %T Sundials %A Sara J. Schechner %A Meredith Stepien %A Pedro Raposo %X

cite as: Sara J. Schechner, "Sundials," interview with Meredith Stepien and Pedro Raposo, Adler Astronomy Live, streamed live on October 8, 2020, YouTube video, 55:50, https://youtu.be/Xfo9ifTixIg.

Hello stargazers! Welcome to Adler Astronomy Live: Sundials! ☀️

The Adler Planetarium has the best and most comprehensive collection of sundials in North America. Sundials played a central role in shaping people’s sense of time, and show how the latter has been influenced by their culture, politics, religion, labor, society, and geography throughout the ages. ⏰ Join us for a conversation with Dr. Sara J. Schechner, author of Time of Our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium, on some of the most spectacular sundials in the Adler’s collections and their stories.

Watch the YouTube video here.

%B Adler Astronomy Live %I Adler Planetarium, Chicago %G eng %U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfo9ifTixIg %0 Generic %D 2020 %T Historic Challenges for Harvard Women of Science with Sara Schechner, David P. Wheatland Curator of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments %A Sara J. Schechner %A Jennifer Berglund %X

Cite as: Sara J. Schechner, “Historic Challenges for Harvard Women of Science,”  interview with Jennifer Berglund, HMSC Connects! Podcast, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, podcast audio, 26:58, August 12, 2020, https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pstaj-e6c60d.

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond.

For our second episode celebrating women's suffrage this month, Jennifer is speaking with Sara Schechner, curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.  Sara is a historian of science, specializing in material culture and the history of astronomy. She's also an expert in the history of women in science.

Listen to podcast here.

%B HMSC Connects! Podcast %I Harvard Museums of Science & Culture %G eng %U https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pstaj-e6c60d %0 Generic %D 2020 %T IAU Commission C3 Newsletter %E Sara J. Schechner %X Newsletter of the International Astronomical Union Commission C3 (History of Astronomy), edited and published semiannually at the Summer and Winter Solstices by Sara Schechner, Secretary of IAU Commission C3.  %V vol. 2020 %P 57pp %G eng %N no. 2 %0 Generic %D 2020 %T IAU Commission C3 Newsletter %E Sara J. Schechner %X Newsletter of the International Astronomical Union Commission C3 (History of Astronomy), edited and published semiannually at the Summer and Winter Solstices by Sara Schechner, Secretary of IAU Commission C3.  %V vol. 2020 %P 57pp %G eng %N no. 1 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Imaging Science and Technology %D 2020 %T Did Tim Paint a Vermeer? %A David G. Stork %A Christopher W. Tyler %A Sara J. Schechner %X

Tim’s Vermeer is a recent documentary feature film following engineer and self-described non-artist Tim Jenison’s extensive efforts to “paint a Vermeer” by means of a novel optical telescope and mirror-comparator procedure. His efforts were inspired by the controversial claim that some Western painters as early as 1420 secretly built optical devices and traced passages in projected images during the execution of some of their works, thereby achieving a novel and compelling “optical look.” We examine the proposed telescope optics in historical perspective, the difficulty and efficacy of the mirror comparator procedure as revealed by an independent artist/copyist’s attempts to replicate the procedure, and the particular visual evidence adduced in support of the comparator hypothesis. Specifically, we find that the luminance gradient along the rear wall in the duplicate painting is far from being rare or difficult to achieve, as was claimed; in fact, such gradients appear in numerous Old Master paintings that show no ancillary evidence of having been executed with optics. There is indeed a slight bowing of a single contour in the Vermeer original, which one would nominally expect to be straight; however, the optical explanation for this bowing implies numerous other lines would be similarly bowed, but in fact all are straight. The proposed method does not explain some of the most compelling “optical” evidence in Vermeer’s works, such as the small disk-shaped highlights, which appear like the blur spots that arise in an out-of-focus projected image. Likewise, the comparator-based explanations for the presence of pinprick holes at central vanishing points, and the presence of underdrawings and pentimenti in several of Vermeer’s works, have more plausible non-optical explanations. Finally, an independent experimental attempt to replicate the procedure fails overall to provide support for the telescope claim. In light of these considerations and evidence we conclude that it is extremely unlikely that Vermeer used the proposed mirror-comparator procedure.

%B Journal of Imaging Science and Technology %V 64 %P 60403-1 - 60403-12 %8 2020 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2020.64.6.060403 %N 6 %0 Book Section %B The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture %D 2020 %T Boston Electric: Science by ‘Mail Order’ and Bricolage at Colonial Harvard %A Sara J. Schechner %E Ivan Gaskell %E Sarah Anne Carter %X

With a focus on the experimental apparatus employed and the sociable exchange of ideas, this chapter examines how electricity was taught to Harvard students and members of polite society in the Boston area over the course of the century. Without local instrument makers or suppliers of glass and brass parts, colonial American experimenters had to import equipment and repair parts from London. When time and money discouraged imports, they became bricoleurs, incorporating recycled, traded, and ready-to-hand materials into their apparatus. Benjamin Franklin was an important intermediary in getting scientific instruments from London to Boston and Cambridge, and he shared instructional know-how so that locals could assemble their own Leyden jars and other electrical instruments.

%B The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture %I Oxford University Press %C New York %P 170-199 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Physics Today %D 2019 %T "Telling Time in Tokugawa Japan." Review of Making Time: Astronomical Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia Frumer. %A Sara J. Schechner %B Physics Today %V 72 %P 57-58 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4229 %N 6 %0 Book Section %B From Celestial to Terrestrial Timekeeping: Clock Making in the Bond Family, by Donald Saff %D 2019 %T Introduction %A Sara J. Schechner %B From Celestial to Terrestrial Timekeeping: Clock Making in the Bond Family, by Donald Saff %I Antiquarian Horological Society %C London %P xii-xiii %G eng %0 Book %D 2019 %T Time of Our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium. %A Sara J. Schechner %X

 

Time of Our Lives

Sundials of the Adler Planetarium

Sara J. Schechner

 

Published by the Adler Planetarium, with the support of the North American Sundial Society

 

The Adler Planetarium of Chicago has the best and most comprehensive collection of sundials and time-finding instruments in North America. Now many of these objects can be yours to explore. This volume encompasses a dazzling array of sundials, 268 in all, that date from the 15th to 20th centuries.

What makes this catalogue special is that it is written to engage non-specialists approaching sundials for the first time. Although the organizational logic is astronomical and mathematical, the primary Interpretive essays set the sundials into cultural and social context.

The catalogue divides sundials into classes according to the element of the Sun’s apparent motion that they track (e.g. hour-angle, altitude, azimuth, or a combination) and the orientation of the surfaces on which the hour lines are mathematically drawn. Within each chapter, the instruments are organized chronologically and by workshop, thereby giving readers insight into that type’s development over time and differences among makers. Technical object descriptions are supplemented by tables of divisions, gazetteers, saints’ days, weather forecasts, and in the case of polyhedral dials, the dial types, orientations, and hour systems drawn on every face. The tables offer a snapshot of the precision to which the maker aimed and the sundial’s complexity. Color photographs of each sundial show its overall appearance and details.

Chapter introductions go beyond mathematical descriptions of how each type works. Drawing upon research findings presented here for the first time, the essays offer insights into early production techniques, fads and fashions, social hierarchy among users, the impact of church and civil authorities, and the history of the sundial classes.

Throughout the ages, people’s sense of time has been influenced by their culture, politics, religion, labor, society, and geography. This catalogue offers concrete evidence, for every sundial in it embodies the time-related needs and values of its maker and users.

The catalogue includes a taxonomy of compass needles, glossary, bibliography, and index. It is hardcover, 488 pages, 9.75” x 11”.

 

%I Adler Planetarium %C Chicago %P 488 %8 2017 %G eng %U https://shop.adlerplanetarium.org/time-of-our-lives-sundials-of-the-adler-planetarium.html %0 Journal Article %J Isis %D 2018 %T Matteo Valleriani, ed. The Structures of Practical Knowledge. %A Sara J. Schechner %B Isis %V 109 %P 626-627 %G eng %U https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/700018 %N 3 %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2018 %T ’Girl Hours’ at the Harvard College Observatory, review of The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, by Dava Sobel %A Sara J. Schechner %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 49 %P 117-119 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %D 2018 %T The Future of Astronomy's Archived Observations –An Open Discussion %A Sara J. Schechner %B Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %V 50 %G eng %N 7 %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society %D 2018 %T The Puzzle of a ‘Reproduction’ Astrolabe in the Style of Jean Fusoris %A Sara J. Schechner %A John Davis %B Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society %P 8-16 %G eng %N 139 %0 Book Section %B The Science of Time 2016: Time in Astronomy & Society, Past, Present and Future %D 2017 %T These Are Not Your Mother’s Sundials: Or, Time and Astronomy’s Authority %A Sara J. Schechner %E Elisa Arias, Ludwig Combrinck, Pavol Gabor, Catherine Hohenkerk, and Kenneth Seidelmann %B The Science of Time 2016: Time in Astronomy & Society, Past, Present and Future %I Springer International Publishing %C Cham, Switzerland %P 49-73 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2016 %T Preservation Recommendations for Historic Photographic Jackets %A Sara J. Schechner %A David Sliski %X

Appendix III to “The Scientific and Historical Value of Annotations on Astronomical Photographic Plates”

%B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 47 %P Supplement %8 4 Feb. 2016 %G eng %U http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0021828615624094 %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2016 %T Preservation Recommendations for Historic Photographic Jackets %A Sara J. Schechner %A David Sliski %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 47 %P supplement %8 4 Feb. 2016 %G eng %U http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0021828615624094 %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J arXiv %D 2016 %T The Scientific and Historical Value of Annotations on Astronomical Photographic Plates %A Sara J. Schechner %A David Sliski %X

The Scientific and Historical Value of Annotations on Astronomical Photographic Plates

Authors: Sara J. Schechner, David H. Sliski
Comments: 46 pages, 9 figures, Published in the Journal for the History of Astronomy, February 2016

arXiv:1602.03475v2 [physics.hist-ph]
DOI: 10.1177/0021828615624094
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Subj-class: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

%B arXiv %8 11 Feb 2016 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03475v2 %0 Book %D 2016 %T How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands, Scientific Instruments and Collections 5 %E A. D. Morrison-Low %E Sara J. Schechner %E Paolo Brenni %X

This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not yet be complete, but it has been acknowledged that it is more complex than sketched out twenty-five or even fifty years ago. Here is a collection of case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe showing instruments moving from maker to market-place, and, to some extent, what happened next.

%I Brill %C Leiden %G eng %0 Book Section %B How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands, Scientific Instruments and Collections %D 2016 %T European Pocket Sundials for Colonial Use in American Territories %A Sara J. Schechner %B How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands, Scientific Instruments and Collections %I Brill %C Leiden %V 5 %P 119-170 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2016 %T The Scientific and Historical Value of Annotations on Astronomical Photographic Plates %A Sara J. Schechner %A David Sliski %X

The application of photography to astronomy was a critical step in the development of astrophysics at the end of the nineteenth century. Using custom-built photographic telescopes and objective prisms, astronomers took images of the sky on glass plates during a 100-year period from many observing stations around the globe. After each plate was developed, astronomers and their assistants studied and annotated the plates as they made astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic measurements, counted galaxies, observed stellar variability, tracked meteors, and calculated the ephemerides of asteroids and comets. In this paper, the authors assess the importance of the plate annotations for future scientific, historical, and educational programs. Unfortunately, many of these interesting annotations are now being erased when grime is removed from the plates before they are digitized to make the photometric data available for time-domain astrophysics. To see what professional astronomers and historians think about this situation, the authors conducted a survey. This paper captures the lively discussion on the pros and cons of the removal of plate markings, how to best to document them if they must be cleaned off, and what to do with plates whose annotations are deemed too valuable to be erased. Three appendices to the paper offer professional guidance on the best practices for handling and cleaning the plates, photographing any annotations, and rehousing them.

Three supplementary appendices are available online here.

%B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 47 %P 3-29 %G eng %U http://jha.sagepub.com/content/47/1/3.full.pdf+html %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J eRittenhouse %D 2015 %T The Art of Making Leyden Jars and Batteries according to Benjamin Franklin %A Sara J. Schechner %X

The Leyden jar was arguably the most important instrument for electrical experiments in the second half of the 18th century, and Benjamin Franklin’s fame as a natural philosopher was based largely on his explanation of how it worked.   In two remarkable letters written in the 1750s to scholars in Boston, Franklin offers instruction on the making of Leyden jars and assembling them into batteries.  The letters also illustrate the challenges of getting and maintaining natural philosophical apparatus in colonial America, and a culture of recycling goods in order to make do.

%B eRittenhouse %V 26 %G eng %U http://www.erittenhouse.org/artitcles/vol-26-contents-and-authors/making-leyden-jars-and-batteries/ %0 Web Page %D 2015 %T Tortoises Sail the Sea %A Sara J. Schechner %X

Analysis of a Galapagos tortoise specimen marked "Ship Abigail," which belongs to Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, with remarks on Herman Melville, Charles Darwin, and whaling.  Online at Wonders and Marvels.

%B Wonders and Marvels %G eng %U http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2015/07/tortoises-sail-the-sea.html %N 31 July 2015 %0 Book Section %B A Companion to the History of American Science %D 2015 %T Instrumentation %A Sara J. Schechner %E Georgina M. Montgomery %E Mark A. Largent %B A Companion to the History of American Science %I Wiley Blackwell %C Chichester %P 408-419 %G eng %U http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405156252.html %0 Book %D 2015 %T Tangible Things: Making History through Objects %A Laurel Ulrich %A Ivan Gaskell %A Sara J. Schechner %A Sarah Carter %A Samantha van Gerbig (photographer) %X

In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past.

The authors of this book pulled an astonishing array of materials out of storage--from a pencil manufactured by Henry David Thoreau to a bracelet made from iridescent beetles--in a wide range of Harvard University collections to mount an innovative exhibition alongside a new general education course. The exhibition challenged the rigid distinctions between history, anthropology, science, and the arts. It showed that object-centered inquiry inevitably leads to a questioning of categories within and beyond history.

Tangible Things is both an introduction to the range and scope of Harvard's remarkable collections and an invitation to reassess collections of all sorts, including those that reside in the bottom drawers or attics of people's houses. It interrogates the nineteenth-century categories that still divide art museums from science museums and historical collections from anthropological displays and that assume history is made only from written documents. Although it builds on a larger discussion among specialists, it makes its arguments through case studies, hoping to simultaneously entertain and inspire. The twenty case studies take us from the Galapagos Islands to India and from a third-century Egyptian papyrus fragment to a board game based on the twentieth-century comic strip "Dagwood and Blondie." A companion website catalogs the more than two hundred objects in the original exhibition and suggests ways in which the principles outlined in the book might change the way people understand the tangible things that surround them.

%I Oxford University Press %C New York %P 280 %G eng %U https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tangible-things-9780199382286?cc=us&lang=en&# %0 Book Section %B Rod aand Madge Webster: A Legacy of Collections, Philanthropy, and Friendship %D 2014 %T Webster Memories %A Sara J. Schechner %B Rod aand Madge Webster: A Legacy of Collections, Philanthropy, and Friendship %I Adler Planetarium %C Chicago %P 62-67 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Aestimatio %D 2014 %T Essay Review: Astrolabes from Medieval Europe by David A. King %A Sara J. Schechner %B Aestimatio %V 11 %P 354-363 %G eng %U http://www.ircps.org/aestimatio/11/354-363 %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2014 %T Historical Instruments in the Mikulov Collections %A Sara J. Schechner %X

Review of Historické vědecké přístroje v mikulovských sbírkách:  Katalog vědeckých přístrojů z 16. až 19. století ve sbírkách Regionálního muzea v Mikulově [Historical Scientific Instruments in the Mikulov Collections: Catalogue of Scientific Instruments from the 16th to 19th Centuries in the Collection of the Regional Museum in Mikulov] by Zdeněk Horsky.

%B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 45 %P 134-135 %G eng %N 1 %0 Book Section %B Scientific Instruments in the History of Science: Studies in Transfer, Use and Preservation %D 2014 %T How Telescopes Came to New England, 1620-1740 %A Sara J. Schechner %B Scientific Instruments in the History of Science: Studies in Transfer, Use and Preservation %I Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (M.A.S.T.) %C Rio de Janeiro %P 69-78 %G eng %U http://site.mast.br/hotsite_scientific/index.html %0 Book %D 2014 %T Time and Time Again: How Science and Culture Shape the Past, Present, and Future %A Sara J. Schechner %X

Time:  We find it, keep it, measure it, obey it, rely on it, waste it, save it, chop it and try to stop it.  We organize our lives around it, and yet, do we really know what time is?  Drawing upon collections in Harvard’s scientific, historical archaeological, anthropological, and natural history museums and libraries, the book explores the answers given to that question in different ages by different world cultures and disciplines.  Themes include time finding from nature and time keeping by human artifice.  Readers of this book will explore cultural beliefs about the creation and end of time, the flow of time, and personal time as marked by rites of passage.  They will take time out, and examine the power of keeping time together in music, dance, work, and faith.  They will explore time’s representation in history and objects of personal memory, its personification in art, and its expression in biological evolution and the geological transformations of our planet. Featured objects include portable sundials and precision clocks, calendars from different cultures and epochs, time charts shaped like animals, Mesopotamian, Native American, and African ritual objects, fossils, metamorphosing creatures, and Julia Child’s stopwatch.

%I Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University %C Cambridge %P 296 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts %D 2013 %T Issues and Challenges in the Protection of Different Categories of Astronomical Heritage: A Report from Beijing 2012 %A Sara J. Schechner %B American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts %V 221 %P 91.03 %G eng %U http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/ui/abs/2013AAS...221.9103S %0 Conference Proceedings %B C41/ICHA Science Meetings at the IAU XXVIII General Assembly %D 2012 %T Astronomy behind Enemy Lines: Colonial American Field Expeditions, 1761—1780 %A Sara J. Schechner %B C41/ICHA Science Meetings at the IAU XXVIII General Assembly %I International Astronomical Union %C Beijing %V 1 %P 27 %G eng %U http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/ui/abs/2012icha.book...27S %0 Conference Proceedings %B C41/ICHA Science Meetings at the IAU XXVIII General Assembly %D 2012 %T Preservation Challenges in North America: Recent Efforts by the American Astronomical Society %A Sara J. Schechner %B C41/ICHA Science Meetings at the IAU XXVIII General Assembly %I International Astronomical Union %C Beijing %V 1 %P 49 %G eng %U http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/ui/abs/2012icha.book...49S %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2012 %T An American of Many Lives. Review of Two Brides for Apollo: The Life of Samuel Williams, 1743-1817, by Robert F. Rothschild %A Sara J. Schechner %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 43 %P 122-123 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1177/002182861204300110 %N 1 %0 Web Page %D 2012 %T David P. Wheatland (1898 - 1993): Scholar, Author, Avid Collector, Sine qua non for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments %A Sara J. Schechner %B The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University %G eng %U http://chsi.harvard.edu/chsi_wheatland.html %0 Web Page %D 2011 %T Materialna kultura astronomii w życiu codziennym: Zegary słoneczne, nauka i przemiany społeczne %A Sara J. Schechner %X

"The Material Culture of Astronomy in Daily Life: Sundials, Science, and Social Change," Journal for the History of Astronomy 32 (2001): 189-222. Translated into Polish by Darek Oczki, and posted with color illustrations in three parts on the Polish sundial website, http://gnomonika.pl at these addresses:

  1. Zegary słoneczne, nauka i przemiany społeczne (cz. 1): http://gnomonika.pl/news.php?id=54
  2. Zegary słoneczne, nauka i przemiany społeczne (cz. 2): http://gnomonika.pl/news.php?id=59
  3. Zegary słoneczne, nauka i przemiany społeczne (cz. 3): http://gnomonika.pl/news.php?id=62
%B GNOMONIKA.pl: Zegary słoneczne, czyli słoneczniki %G eng %U http://gnomonika.pl/news.php?id=54 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage %D 2011 %T IAU Historical Instruments Working Group: Triennial Report (2009-2011) %A Sara J. Schechner %B Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage %V 14 %P 235-236 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union %D 2011 %T Division IX/Commission 41/Working Group Historical Instruments %A Sara J. Schechner %B Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union %V 7 %P 400-402 %G eng %N T28A %0 Book Section %B Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Analysis, Restoration, and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks %D 2011 %T Did Early Renaissance Painters Trace Optically Projected Images? The Conclusion of Independent Scientists, Art Historians, and Artists %A David G. Stork %A Jacob Collins %A Marco Duarte %A Yasuo Furuichi %A Dave Kale %A Ashutosh Kulkarni %A M. Dirk Robinson %A Sara J. Schechner %A Christopher W. Tyler %A Nicholas C. Williams %B Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Analysis, Restoration, and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks %I CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group %C Boca Raton %P 215-242 %G eng %U http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/digital-imaging-for-cultural-heritage-preservation-filippo-stanco/1100107692?ean=9781439821732 %0 Journal Article %J HAD News %D 2010 %T Review of Eastern Astrolabes, by David Pingree %A Sara J. Schechner %B HAD News %V April 2010 %P 6-7 %G eng %N 76 %0 Journal Article %J Aestimatio %D 2010 %T Essay Review of Eastern Astrolabes, by David Pingree %A Sara J. Schechner %B Aestimatio %V 7 %P 7-11 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %D 2009 %T Early American Telescopes %A Sara J. Schechner %B Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %I American Astronomical Society %V 41 %P 186 %G eng %U http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/ui/abs/2009AAS...21320001S %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Rittenhouse: Journal of the Scientific Instrument Enterprise %D 2009 %T The Adventures of Captain John Smith Among the Mathematical Practitioners: Cosmology, Mathematics, and Power at the Time of Jamestown %A Sara J. Schechner %B Rittenhouse: Journal of the Scientific Instrument Enterprise %V 21 %P 126-144 %G eng %N 2 %0 Book Section %B The World of 1607 %D 2008 %T New Worlds, New Scientific Instruments: Cosmology, Mathematics, and Power at the Time of Jamestown %A Sara J. Schechner %B The World of 1607 %I Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation %C Williamsburg %P 229-239 %G eng %0 Book Section %B The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel %D 2008 %T Astrolabes and Medieval Travel %A Sara J. Schechner %B The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel %I Ashgate %C Aldershot, UK %P 181-210 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %D 2007 %T The Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Sundial: Cosmology, Mathematics, and Power at the Time of Jamestown %A Sara J. Schechner %B Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %V 39 %P 786 %G eng %U http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/ui/abs/2007AAS...211.3403S %N 4 %0 Generic %D 2007 %T Waywiser %A Sara J. Schechner %A Jean-Francois Gauvin %A others %X Waywiser, is the online database of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University. It was first developed by Jean-François Gauvin and Sara J. Schechner in 2007--2008, and has since been updated in format by Juan Andres Leon and other museum staff. As curator of the Collection, Schechner is the contributor of thousands of object entries and biographies, particularly in the areas of astronomy, microscopy, optics, time finding, horology, surveying, navigation, psychology, and radio. Work on the database is ongoing. The database is named after an ancient instrument for measuring distance, also called a hodometer. %B Online database of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments %G eng %U http://waywiser.rc.fas.harvard.edu/collections %0 Journal Article %J The Compendium %D 2007 %T The Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Sundial %A Sara J. Schechner %B The Compendium %V 14 %P 19-24 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Isis %D 2006 %T Review of Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making, by Gerard L’E. Turner %A Sara J. Schechner %B Isis %V 97 %P 743 %G eng %0 Book Section %B East and West: The Common European Heritage, Book of Abstracts of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium %D 2006 %T The Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Sundial %A Sara J. Schechner %B East and West: The Common European Heritage, Book of Abstracts of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium %I Jagiellonian University Museum %C Krakow, Poland %G eng %0 Journal Article %J AVISTA Forum Journal %D 2006 %T Astrolabes and the Medieval Traveler %A Sara J. Schechner %B AVISTA Forum Journal %V 16 %P 30-32 %G eng %N 1/2 %0 Journal Article %J Harvard Library Bulletin %D 2006 %T

Benjamin Franklin: A How-To Guide, Catalog of the Exhibition

%A Joyce Chaplin %A Sara J. Schechner %A Thomas Horrocks %B Harvard Library Bulletin %V 17 %P 47-99 %G eng %U http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:139076?n=22571 %N 1-2, spring-summer, special double issue, "Benjamin Franklin: A How-To Guide" %0 Journal Article %J Harvard Library Bulletin %D 2006 %T

Benjamin Franklin and a Tale of Two Electrical Machines

%A Sara J. Schechner %B Harvard Library Bulletin %V 17 %P 33-40 %G eng %U http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:139076?n=22557 %N 1-2, spring-summer, special double issue, "Benjamin Franklin: A How-To Guide" %0 Conference Proceedings %B East and West: The Common European Heritage, Proceedings of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium %D 2006 %T The Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Sundial %A Sara J. Schechner %B East and West: The Common European Heritage, Proceedings of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium %I Jagiellonian University Museum %C Krakow, Poland %P 65-72 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %D 2005 %T Astronomy behind Enemy Lines in Colonial North America: John Winthrop’s Observations of the Transits of Venus %A Sara J. Schechner %B Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %V 37 %P 1241 %G eng %U http://labs.adsabs.harvard.edu/ui/abs/2005AAS...207.5802S %N 4 %0 Book Section %B Partners in Innovation: Science Education and the Science Workforce %D 2005 %T Museum Education and Instruction on the History and Nature of Science %A Sara J. Schechner %B Partners in Innovation: Science Education and the Science Workforce %I Chemical Heritage Press %C Philadelphia %P 78-94 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Early Science and Medicine %D 2005 %T Between Knowing and Doing: Mirrors and Their Imperfections in the Renaissance %A Sara J. Schechner %B Early Science and Medicine %V 10 %P 137-162 %G eng %0 Generic %D 2004 %T Transits of Venus %A Sara J. Schechner %A Stephen Johnston %A Steven Turner %X Transits of Venus is a global collaboration of institutions holding historical scientific instruments, images, and documents used on Transit of Venus expeditions in the 18th and 19th centuries, creating a database of instruments, observing stations, events, people, and institutions. The site was developed by Stephen Johnston, Sara J. Schechner, and Steven Turner, 2003-2004. Additions to the site's database are ongoing. %G eng %U http://transits.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ %0 Book Section %B Technical Digest: Frontiers in Optics 2004 %D 2004 %T Against the Hockney-Falco thesis: Glass and metal mirrors of the 15th century could not project undistorted images %A Sara J. Schechner %B Technical Digest: Frontiers in Optics 2004 %I Optical Society of America %C Washington, DC %V 88th OSA Annual Meeting %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage %D 2004 %T Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and Its Astronomical Treasures %A Sara J. Schechner %B Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage %V 7 %P 59-60 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2003 %T Comets: Sublunary or Celestial? Review of The Age of Two-Faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian World View in the Netherlands, by Tabitta van Nouhuys %A Sara J. Schechner %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 34 %P 118-119 %G eng %U http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003JHA....34..118S %0 Book Section %B Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe %D 2002 %T Ancient Cosmologies %A Sara J. Schechner %B Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe %I National Geographic %C Washington, DC %P 12-29 %G eng %0 Book Section %B The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia %D 2001 %T Sciences in America: Colonial Period to 1789 %A Sara J. Schechner %B The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia %D 2001 %T Boston Philosophical Society (1683) %A Sara J. Schechner %B The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia %D 2001 %T Almanacs %A Sara J. Schechner %B The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 2001 %T A Phoenix of Human Nature %A Sara J. Schechner %B UNESCO Courier %V 54 %P 16 %G eng %N 5 %0 Book Section %B The Discovery of Time %D 2001 %T The Time of Day: Marking the Sun’s Passing %A Sara J. Schechner %B The Discovery of Time %I MQ Publications %C London %P 120-139 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2001 %T The Material Culture of Astronomy in Daily Life: Sundials, Science, and Social Change %A Sara J. Schechner %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 32 %P 189-222 %G eng %U http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001JHA....32..189S %0 Journal Article %J The World & I %D 2000 %T Too Little Dirty Linen. Essay review of Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, by Dava Sobel %A Sara J. Schechner %B The World & I %V 15 %P 262-267 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 2000 %T The Many Facets of Halley: Review of Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and Seas, by Alan Cook %A Sara J. Schechner %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 31 %P 73-74 %G eng %U http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2000JHA....31..172C/0000172.000.html %N 2 %0 Book Section %B The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia %D 2000 %T Comets and Meteors %A Sara J. Schechner %B The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society %D 2000 %T Art in the St. Petersburg Observatory: Putti with Scientific Instruments %A Sara J. Schechner %B Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society %V 64 %P 2 (cover story) %G eng %0 Conference Proceedings %B XVIII International Scientific Instrument Symposium: Abstracts and Materials %D 1999 %T Time Well Spent: Early Modern Sundials as Evidence of Time Pressures and Consumer Culture %A Sara J. Schechner %B XVIII International Scientific Instrument Symposium: Abstracts and Materials %I Russian Academy of Sciences %C Moscow %P 27 %G eng %0 Book Section %B American National Biography %D 1999 %T West, Benjamin %A Sara J. Schechner %B American National Biography %I Oxford University Press %C Cary, NC %G eng %0 Book Section %B American National Biography %D 1999 %T Brown, Joseph %A Sara J. Schechner %B American National Biography %I Oxford University Press %C Cary, NC %G eng %0 Book Section %B Instruments of Science: A Historical Encyclopedia %D 1998 %T Armillary Sphere %A Sara J. Schechner %B Instruments of Science: A Historical Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B American Astronomical Society 1999 Membership Directory–The Centennial Year %D 1998 %T Looking Back to the Beginning: The AAS at 100 %A Sara J. Schechner %B American Astronomical Society 1999 Membership Directory–The Centennial Year %I American Astronomical Society %C Washington, DC %P 2-3 %G eng %0 Book %D 1998 %T Western Astrolabes. Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium, vol. 1 %A Roderick S. Webster %A Marjorie K. Webster %A Sara Schechner Genuth %I Adler Planetarium %C Chicago %P 180 %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Astrolabes-Historic-Scientific-Instruments-Planetarium/dp/1891220012 %0 Book Section %B Western Astrolabes %D 1998 %T Astrolabes: A Cross-Cultural and Social Perspective %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Western Astrolabes %I Adler Planetarium %C Chicago %P 2-25 %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Sundials %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Octant %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Mural Quadrant %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Globes, Celestial %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Cross-Staff %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Constellations %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Atlases, Astronomical %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Astrolabe %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Book Section %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %D 1997 %T Armillary Sphere %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia %I Garland %C New York %G eng %0 Journal Article %J The Compendium %D 1997 %T Floating Sundials from Down Under %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %A Robert Terwilliger %A Norman Heckenberg %B The Compendium %V 4 %P 1-7 %G eng %N 3 %0 Book %D 1997 %T Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology %A Sara J. Schechner %I Princeton University Press %C Princeton %P 384 %G eng %U http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6203.html %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 1996 %T The Gerard Turner Festschrift. Review of Making Instruments Count, ed. R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett, and W. F. Ryan %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 27 %P 176-177 %G eng %U http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996JHA....27..176A %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 1996 %T Review of Making Instruments Count, ed. R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett, and W. F. Ryan %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 27 %P 176-177 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J NAWCC Bulletin %D 1996 %T A Small Compass Sundial %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B NAWCC Bulletin %V , June %P 389-390 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J NAWCC Bulletin %D 1996 %T What Is This Sundial? %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B NAWCC Bulletin %V August %P 522 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Rittenhouse: Journal of the Scientific Instrument Enterprise %D 1996 %T Tools for Teaching and Research: John Prince, the Deerfield Academy, and Educational Reform in the Early Republic %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Rittenhouse: Journal of the Scientific Instrument Enterprise %V 10 %P 97-120 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J History of Physics Newsletter %D 1994 %T From Heaven's Alarm to Public Appeal: Comets and the Rise of Astronomy at Harvard %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of Physics Newsletter %V 5 %P 86 %G eng %N 5 %0 Journal Article %J History of European Ideas %D 1993 %T Review of The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe, by Victor E. Thoren %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B History of European Ideas %V 17 %P 690-691 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Isis %D 1992 %T Review of From Pleasure and Profit to Science and Security: Etienne Lenoir and the Transformation of Precision Instrument-Making in France, 1760-1830, by A. J. Turner %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Isis %V 83 %P 141-142 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Isis %D 1992 %T Review of Le Citoyen Lenoir: Scientific Instrument Making in Revolutionary France, by J. A. Bennett %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Isis %V 83 %P 141-142 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Isis %D 1992 %T Review of Comets: A Chronological History of Observation, Science, Myth, and Folklore, by Donald K. Yeomans %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Isis %V 83 %P 468-469 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 1992 %T Comets and Their Malevolence. Review of The Origin of Comets, by M. E. Bailey, S. V. M. Clube, and W. M. Napier %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 23 %P 215-217 %G eng %U http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992JHA....23..215C %0 Book Section %B Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives %D 1992 %T From Heaven's Alarm to Public Appeal: Comets and the Rise of Astronomy at Harvard %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives %I Lehigh University Press %C Bethlehem %P 28-54 %G eng %0 Book Section %B The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy since the Seventeenth Century. Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert %D 1992 %T Devils’ Hells and Astronomers’ Heavens: Religion, Method, and Popular Culture in Speculations about Life on Comets %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy since the Seventeenth Century. Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert %I Kluwer Academic Publishers %C Dordrecht %P 3-26 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 1992 %T Astronomical Imagery in a Passage of Homer %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 23 %P 293-298 %G eng %U http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992JHA....23..293G %0 Journal Article %J Isis %D 1991 %T Review of the Union Catalogue of Printed Books of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries in European Astronomical Observatories, ed. Giovanna Grassi %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Isis %V 82 %P 419 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 1990 %T Biography of Maskelyne. Review of Nevil Maskelyne: The Seaman's Astronomer, by Derek Howse %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 21 %P 380-381 %G eng %U http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990JHA....21..380H %0 Book Section %B Two Astronomical Anniversaries: HCO & SAO %D 1990 %T Blazing Stars, Open Minds, and Loosened Purse Strings: Astronomical Research and Its Early Cambridge Audience %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Two Astronomical Anniversaries: HCO & SAO %I Science History Publications for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics %C Chalfont St. Giles, England %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 1990 %T Blazing Stars, Open Minds, and Loosened Purse Strings: Astronomical Research and Its Early Cambridge Audience %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 21 %P 9-20 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Longer View of Newton and Halley %D 1990 %T Newton and the Ongoing Teleological Role of Comets %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Longer View of Newton and Halley %I University of California Press %C Berkeley %P 299-311 %G eng %0 Generic %D 1989 %T A Reflecting Circle by Lenoir %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Annual Report of the Adler Planetarium %P 2 (cover story) %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %D 1988 %T Blazing Stars, Open Minds, and Loosened Purse Strings: Astronomical Research and Its Early Cambridge Audience %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %V 20 %P 947 %G eng %N 4 %0 Generic %D 1988 %T A Mariner's Astrolabe from the Atocha %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Annual Report of the Adler Planetarium %P 2 (cover story) %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal for the History of Astronomy %D 1987 %T Nineteenth Century Scientific Apparatus. Review of Pike's Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific & Medical Instruments, by Benjamin Pike, Jr. %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Journal for the History of Astronomy %V 18 %P 140-141 %G eng %0 Generic %D 1987 %T An Astronomical Ring by Gualterus Arsenius %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Annual Report of the Adler Planetarium %P 2 (cover story) %G eng %0 Generic %D 1986 %T An Astronomical Compendium by Christoph Schissler %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Annual Report of the Adler Planetarium %P 2 (cover story) %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 1986 %T Bearded Stars in Science and Satire %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B The Adler Planetarium Newsletter %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 1985 %T Three Harbingers of Halley's Comet. Essay review of The Mystery of Comets, by Fred L. Whipple, Comet, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, and Fire and Ice: A History of Comets in Art, by Roberta J. M. Olson %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B The Chicago Tribune Book World %G eng %0 Generic %D 1985 %T A Blaeu Celestial Globe %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Annual Report of the Adler Planetarium %P 2 (cover story) %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 1985 %T Fear and Frolic in 1910: Chicago's Reaction to Halley's Comet %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B The Adler Planetarium Newsletter %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze %D 1985 %T Comets, Teleology, and the Relationship of Chemistry to Cosmology in Newton's Thought %A Sara Schechner-Genuth %B Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze %V 10 %P 31-65 %G eng %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %D 1984 %T The Teleological Role of Comets in 17th and 18th Century Natural Philosophy %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society %V 16 %P 476-477 %G eng %N 2 %0 Generic %D 1984 %T A Grand Orrery by Thomas Heath %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Annual Report of the Adler Planetarium %P 2 (cover story) %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 1984 %T Past Sightings of Comet Halley %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B The Adler Planetarium Newsletter %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 1984 %T A Renaissance 'Pocket Watch' %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B The Adler Planetarium Newsletter %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 1984 %T Books with Moving Parts %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B The Adler Planetarium Newsletter %G eng %0 Generic %D 1983 %T A Rittenhouse Surveyor's Compass %A Sara Schechner Genuth %B Annual Report of the Adler Planetarium %P 2 (cover story) %G eng %0 Book Section %B Sibley's Heir: A Volume in Memory of Clifford Kenyon Shipton %D 1982 %T John Prince and Early American Scientific Instrument Making %A Sara J. Schechner %B Sibley's Heir: A Volume in Memory of Clifford Kenyon Shipton %I Colonial Society of Massachusetts %C Boston %P 431-503 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Synthesis %D 1977 %T Science in the Context of Tradition: Solomon Maimon and Samson Raphael Hirsch %A Sara J. Schechner %B Synthesis %V 4 %P 28-43 %G eng %N 2