Allan Chapman (historian)
Allan Chapman | |
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| Born | 30 May 1946 Swinton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University Wadham College, Oxford |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History of science |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
Allan Chapman FRAS (born 30 May 1946) is a British historian of science.
Biography
Allan Chapman was born in
DPhil at Wadham College, Oxford. He is a historian by training and his special interests are astronomy
and scientific biography.
Chapman has been based at the
Edmund Halley
.
He is also a television presenter, notably Gods in the Sky,[2] covering astronomical religion in early civilisations, and Great Scientists,[3] presenting the lives of five of the greatest thinkers. Not averse to other forms of television, he also participated in the TV quiz University Challenge – The Professionals as part of the Royal Astronomical Society team, broadcast in June–July 2006.
Chapman formerly taught the study abroad programme of Eurospring for
Minnesota State University, Moorhead, Minnesota, USA and Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota
, USA. This responsibility has since been handed off to BSU professor Pat Donnay.
He has written many books including biographies such as England's Leonardo on Robert Hooke.[4]
Chapman is a
Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society,[5] Honorary President of Orwell Astronomical Society (Ipswich)[6] and Vice-President of the Newbury Astronomical Society.[7]
President of Preston and District Astronomical Society
Selected bibliography
- ISBN 0-85336-132-0.
- The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain, 1820–1920, Allan Chapman. ISBN 978-0-8524-4544-0-100. 2017.
- Astronomical Instruments and Their Users: ISBN 0-86078-584-X.
- Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook: The View from AD 1001, ISBN 1-85233-619-6.
- Gods in the Sky: Astronomy from the Ancients to the Enlightenment, Allan Chapman. ISBN 0-7522-6164-9.
- ISBN 0-9537868-4-6.
- England's ISBN 0-7503-0987-3.
- ISBN 0-85244-587-3.
- Slaying the Dragons: Destroying Myths in the History of Science and Faith, Allan Chapman. Lion Hudson, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7459-5583-4.
- Physicians, Plagues and Progress: the History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics, Allan Chapman. Lion Hudson, 2016. ISBN 978-0-7459-6895-7.
See also
- List of visiting Gresham professors
References
- ^ Dr. Alan Chapman (Book Author) Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, ADK Press Archived 12 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Gods in the Sky Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, WAG TV.
- ^ Great Scientists Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, WAG TV.
- ^ England's Leonardo:Robert Hooke (1635–1703) and the Art of Experiment in Restoration England Archived 6 March 2011 at archive.today.
- ^ Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society
- ^ Orwell Astronomical Society (Ipswich)
- ^ Newbury Astronomical Society
External links
- University of Oxford History Faculty entry
- Society for the History of Astronomy
- Books from Amazon.co.uk
- England's Leonardo lecture (Robert Hooke)
- England's Leonardo book review in the New Scientist magazine
- Gods in the Sky on Channel 4
- University of Central Lancashire Honorary Doctorate 2004, including a short biography
- 'Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London', lecture given at Gresham College, 23 April 2008 (available in text, audio and video formats).
- Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society website
- Orwell Astronomical Society (Ipswich) website
- Newbury Astronomical Society website
- Reading Astronomical Society website
- Audio podcast on www.astrotalkuk.org on Science and Religion
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