UCL DEPARTMENT OF  SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES Nicholas Kollerstrom Research Fellow, 1997-2008 .

The Discovery of Neptune ( I have received a RAS grant for collating the British Neptune-discovery correspondence, 1835-1848)     Adams' Co-Prediction of Neptune Re-evaluating the Story    2009 The Naming of Neptune JAHH 2006 A Hiatus in History The Story of Neptune's Discovery History of Science 2006 John Herschel and the Discovery of Neptune JAHH 2005 The Neptune-Discovery Correspondence Archive Over 400 letters are here summarised.   2004 The Case of the Pilfered Planet Co-authored with Craig Waff and Bill Sheehan Sci. Amer. 2004 A review of the Scientific American article The Observer 2003 Recovering the Neptune-files Eggen's theft of the British Neptune-file A&G       Newton and the Moon 2007 Isaac Newton Brief biography  Biog. Enyc. Astron  2007 John Flamsteed Brief biography  Biog. Enyc. Astron  2000 Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory His recipe for finding lunar longitude Green Lion Press 2000 How Newton Inspired China's Calendar Without gravity, his 1702 lunar theory was OK A&G 1995 Flamsteed's Lunar Data, Sent to Newton The basis for Newton's 1694 lunar endeavour JHA 1995 Newton's 1702 Theory + Halley's 'Saros' Correction How epicycles came back into astronomy QJRAS 1992 Halley's Hollow Earth Did Newtonian theory imply a hollow Earth? JHA 1991 Newton's two 'Moon-tests' His great 1685 'Apple-Moon' computation BJHS 1985 Newton's Lunar Mass Error How Newton got it wrong by 100% JBAA       Other Newtonian Topics 1999 Newton's delayed discovery of Gravity The key role of the 1682 'Halley's comet' Ann. of Sci. 1992 'Newton's Method of Approximation' -- An Enduring Myth John Simpson lost the credit for his discovery BJHS Galileo 2005 How Galileo Dedicated the Moons of Jupiter to Cosimo II de Medici INSAP 2004 Galileo's First Trial Astronomy Now 2004 Galileo and the New Star Astronomy Now       Others 2007 Dissecting the Antikythera Mechanism Astronomy Now  2006 Acropolis Width and Ancient Geodesy Greek and Roman feet lengths Int Jnl of Metrology 2005 William Crabtree's Venus-Transit Observation IAU Colloquium 1991 Crabtree's Venus-Transit Measurement He did better than Horrocks, in 1639 QJRAS     I Any of this material may be used or copied, but kindly acknowledge the source. The contents of this page remain the copyrighted, intellectual property of Nicholas Kollerstrom. Comments are welcome, to: nk[at]astro3.demon.co.uk. A copy of my PhD, 'The Achievement of Newton's 1702 Theory of the Moon's Motion,' 1995, is available at Senate House, London. Thanks to UCL's Open Learning Centre for helping set up this site.. rev: June 2005