Oxford's Savilian Professors of Astronomy
The First 400 Years
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 December 2025
- ISBN 9780198894292
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 252x195x20 mm
- Weight 730 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 120 black & white figures 0
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Short description:
Written by renowned astronomers and historians of science, this accessible and lavishly illustrated book outlines the first 400 years of Oxford's Savilian Professors of Astronomy.
MoreLong description:
The Savilian Professorships in Astronomy and Geometry at Oxford University were founded in 1619 by Sir Henry Savile, distinguished scholar and Warden of Merton College. The Astronomy professorship, in particular, is the earliest University-based chair of astronomy in England, predating the earliest Cambridge equivalent by about sixty years.
Written by renowned astronomers and historians of science, this accessible and lavishly illustrated book outlines the first 400 years of Oxford's Savilian Professors of Astronomy.
Starting with John Bainbridge, Seth Ward, and Christopher Wren, this volume proceeds via such major figures as David Gregory, James Bradley, and Thomas Hornsby, to the 19th- and 20th-century figures of Stephen Rigaud, Charles Pritchard, and Herbert Hall Turner, concluding with the most recent professor, Steven Balbus, one of the editors of this book.
This volume assumes no technical background in astronomy, and should therefore appeal to the general reader with an interest in astronomy and related sciences. It should also be of interest to anyone interested in the history of astronomy or in the development of Oxford and its University. To all of these audiences it offers portraits of astronomers at work and an accessible exposition of astronomy's history in the context of its times.
Praise for Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First 400 Years, Ed. Robin Wilson
Table of Contents:
Sir Henry Savile and the early professors
Interregnum and Restoration
The Newtonians
James Bradley
The Enlightenment professors
The Victorians
The 20th century
The golden age of cosmology
Interview with Steven Balbus
