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Communications to the Past: Astrolabes to Zodiacs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2006

A. Ortiz-Gil ,
V. Martínez  and
V. Trimble
V. Trimble*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of California, Irvine CA 92697-4575, USA
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Abstract


In past centuries, astronomers have used a very wide range of techniques to explain what they are doing, how, and why it was worth doing to their equivalents of sponsoring agencies, voters, and students. We here examine an inital set of seven examples of seemingly successful communication, each with lesson to offer, and then, more briefly a wider range of examples, some apparently very good for their purpose and a few that were perfectly awful.


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Research Article
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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 16: Teaching and Communicating Astronomy – JENAM'04 , 2005 , pp. 45 - 53
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2005

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