Elly Dekker

Elly Dekker is an independent scholar on the history of astronomy, a subject in which she is the author of several books. In 1998 she was awarded the Caird Medal for her work on the globe collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.[1]

Dekker completed a Ph.D. in astronomy at Leiden University in 1975; her dissertation Spiral structure and the dynamics of flat stellar systems was supervised by Hendrik C. van de Hulst.[2]

Books

Dekker is the author of books including:

  • Globes from the Western World (with Peter van der Krogt, Zwemmer, 1993)[3]
  • Globes at Greenwich: a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (Oxford University Press, 1999)[4]
  • Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza: Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes (Giunti, 2004)[5]
  • Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 2013)[6]

Personal life

Dekker was married to Hendrik Gerard (Henk) van Bueren (1925–2012), also a Dutch astronomer.[7]

References
  1. Campbell, Tony (January 1999), "Chronicle for 1998", Imago Mundi, 51 (1): 178–190, doi:10.1080/03085699908592910
  2. van der Kruit, Pieter C. (2019), "Appendix A.4: Oort and His Students: a List of Ph.D. Theses", Jan Hendrik Oort, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 459, Springer International Publishing, pp. 633–635, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17801-7, ISBN 978-3-030-17800-0
  3. Reviews of Globes from the Western World:
    • Allmayer-Beck, Peter E. (December 1995), Der Globusfreund, 43/44: 343–344, JSTOR 41622094CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Baldwin, Robert (March 1996), The Geographical Journal, 162 (1): 83, doi:10.2307/3060220, JSTOR 3060220CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  4. Reviews of Globes at Greenwich:
    • Gingerich, Owen (August 2003), "Greenwich globes and armillary spheres", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34 (3): 339–340, doi:10.1177/002182860303400313, S2CID 220915007
    • Heilbron, J. L. (March 2000), "Around the world via Greenwich", Nature, 404 (6773): 16–17, doi:10.1038/35003630, S2CID 3606118
    • Milanesi, Marica (January 2002), Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 56 (1): 108–110, JSTOR 532129CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Mokre, Jan (2002), Globe Studies, 154–156, JSTOR 23993555CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 41628645
    • Savage-Smith, Emilie (April 2002), Technology and Culture, 43 (2): 413–414, doi:10.1353/tech.2002.0089, JSTOR 25147920, S2CID 110642479CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Warner, Deborah Jean (2001), Imago Mundi, 53: 160–161, JSTOR 1151589CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. Reviews of Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza:
    • Milanesi, Marica (2005), Globe Studies, 51/52: 145–147, JSTOR 23993604CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR 41628661
  6. Reviews of Illustrating the Phaenomena:
  7. See the acknowledgements of Dekker, Elly (2002), "The doctrine of the sphere: A forgotten chapter in the history of globes", Globe Studies, 49/50 (49/50): 25–44, JSTOR 23993546
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