{"id":2990,"date":"2009-05-12T14:57:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T14:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2009-05-12T14:57:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T14:57:01","slug":"american-observatory-history-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2009\/05\/12\/american-observatory-history-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"American Observatory History Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.aip.org\/veritySearch2.jsp?item_id=Yerkes%20Observatory%20H12&amp;fname=yerkes_observatory_h12.jpg&amp;title=null&amp;storePublished=Y&amp;color=N&amp;contactID=null\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos.aip.org\/history\/Thumbnails\/yerkes_observatory_h12.jpg?resize=196%2C264\" alt=\"Cartoon on the foundation of Yerkes Observatory\" width=\"196\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hump-Day History will probably be a day late this week&#8212;Chris is working on something, but is also wrapping up the semester.\u00a0 In the meantime, I thought since we get some traffic through here that directs to other sites, it might be useful to put up a list of links to the histories of some major early American observatories.\u00a0 I find the first step to getting a good grip on history is to get familiar with a wide range of players and institutions.\u00a0 To do this, you don&#8217;t need any new fangled history&#8212;any old institutional history will do just fine, so long as you know the institutions exist.\u00a0 A lot of institutions have put work into making the basic outlines of their history online, so if you need to bone up on your American observatory history, here are a few key institutional histories to get you going.\u00a0 Remember, this is just a sketchy list of institutions with useful online histories, not a complete list of American observatories, or observatories with online histories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hopkinsobservatory.williams.edu\/first-college-observatory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hopkins Observatory (1834, Massachusetts)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tycho.usno.navy.mil\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States Naval Observatory timekeeping (1845)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnatiobservatory.org\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cincinnati Observatory (1843)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bentley.umich.edu\/observatory\/history\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Observatory (1854)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dudleyobservatory.org\/History\/history.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dudley Observatory (1856, Albany)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/u_museum\/barnard.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barnard Observatory (1859, Mississippi)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~aobsvtry\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allegheny Observatory (1859)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.virginia.edu\/research\/observatories\/26inch\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leander McCormick Observatory (1885, Virginia)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mthamilton.ucolick.org\/public\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lick Observatory (1888, San Jose, California)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astro.uchicago.edu\/yerkes\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yerkes Observatory (1892, Wisconsin)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtwilson.edu\/cent.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mt. Wilson Observatory (1904, Pasadena)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.caltech.edu\/palomar\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palomar Observatory (1936, San Diego County)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People interested might also visit Wikipedia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_observatories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">List of Observatories<\/a>, with links to information collected on many others from around the world&#8212;of course, it is Wikipedia, so the usual caveats apply, though astronomy and observatory history enthusiasts tend to be conscientious with details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hump-Day History will probably be a day late this week&#8212;Chris is working on something, but is also wrapping up the semester.\u00a0 In the meantime, I thought since we get some traffic through here that directs to other sites, it might be useful to put up a list of links to the histories of some major<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; American Observatory History Portal<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2009\/05\/12\/american-observatory-history-portal\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}