| 词条 | Colin Ronan |
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|name = Colin Alistair Ronan |image = |image_size = |caption = |nationality = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|6|4|df=yes}} |birth_place = London |death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|6|1|1920|6|4|df=yes}} |death_place = }}Colin Alistair Ronan FRAS (London, 4 June 1920 – 1 June 1995) was a British author and specialist in the history and philosophy of science.[1][2] EducationColin Alistair Ronan was educated at Abingdon School in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire from 1934-1937.[3] Military serviceHe served in the British Army from 1940 to 1946, achieving the rank of major. CareerAfter the war, he obtained a BSc in Astronomy and took an administrative post at the secretariat of The Royal Society. There, he did an MSc in the History and Philosophy of Science under Herbert Dingle at University College London. After leaving the Royal Society he took up writing, and during a long career, he was an author produced over forty books, mainly on astronomy, and the history and philosophy of science. Later, he collaborated with Joseph Needham on an abridgement of Needham's great work on China, producing The Shorter Science and Civilization in China in several volumes. He had duties in the administration of the British Astronomical Association, where he was Historical Section Director from 1953-1965, Journal Editor from 1965-1985, and President from 1989 to 1991.[2][4] In 1991, Ronan delivered a Presidential Address in which he argued that Leonard Digges, father of Thomas Digges was the originator of the reflecting telescope sometime between 1540 and 1559, over a century before Isaac Newton, who is usually credited with having built the first such telescope around 1668.[5] For a considerable period in the 1980s and early 1990s, he collaborated with Sir Patrick Moore in lecture tours. They took the form of weekend residential symposia on single topics such as the return of Halley’s Comet. Notable and hilarious, the interplay between Ronan's sober and intellectual analysis along with Moore’s more extravagant character led frequent disagreements that were usually solved over several bottles of red wine. The weekends were an enormous success and made a valuable and irreplaceable contribution to the amateur astronomical scene. With his second wife, Ann, he founded the Ronan Picture Library, which specialises in scientific and historical pictures. Among his many books on the history of science were studies of scientists such as Galileo, William Herschel and Edmond Halley. He also wrote scientific books for children, along with books such as The Practical Astronomer (1981), written for beginner amateur astronomers.[6] Ronan had an asteroid named in honour of his achievements: 4024 Ronan belongs to the Floras family, discovered by E. Bowell on November 24, 1981, at Anderson Mesa Station.[7] Bibliography
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References1. ^{{cite journal | last = Moore | first = P. | author-link = Patrick Moore | title = Colin Alistair Ronan (1920–1995) | journal = Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume = 37 | number = 1 | pages = 93–94 | publisher = Royal Astronomical Society | date = 1996 | bibcode = 1996QJRAS..37...93M | url = http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996QJRAS..37...93M | accessdate = 13 June 2016}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ronan, Colin A.}}2. ^1 {{cite journal | last = Moore | first = P. | author-link = Patrick Moore | title = Colin Alistair Ronan (1920–1995) | journal = Journal of the British Astronomical Association | volume = 105 | number = 5 | page = 262 | publisher = British Astronomical Association | date = 1995 | bibcode = 1995JBAA..105..288M | url = http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995JBAA..105..288M/0000262.000.html | accessdate = 13 June 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1934_May_V007_N011.pdf#page=2|title=Salvete|publisher=The Abingdonian}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.britastro.org/history/section.history.html|title=BAA Historical Section - A Brief History|publisher=British Astronomical Association}} 5. ^Ronan, Colin A. "The origins of the reflecting telescope." Journal of the British Astronomical Association 101 (1991): 335-342 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://worldhistoryarchive.co.uk/ann-ronan-picture-library|title=The Ann Ronan Picture Library|publisher=ANN RONAN PICTURE LIBRARY}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=4024|title=(4024) Ronan = 1931 GJ = 1957 WB1 = 1976 JX1 = 1981 WQ|publisher=IAU Minor Planet Center}} 5 : 1920 births|1995 deaths|British astronomers|British science writers|People educated at Abingdon School |
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