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{"title":"A brief history of ball lightning observations by scientists and trained professionals","authors":"A. Keul","doi":"10.5194/HGSS-12-43-2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/HGSS-12-43-2021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. With thousands of eyewitness reports, but few\u0000instrumental records and no consensus about a theory, ball lightning remains\u0000an unsolved problem in atmospheric physics. As chances to monitor this\u0000transient phenomenon are low, it seems promising to evaluate observation\u0000reports by scientists and trained professionals. The following work compiles\u000020 published case histories and adds 15 from the author's work and 6 from a\u0000Russian database. Forty-one cases from eight countries, 1868–2020, are presented in\u0000abstract form with a synthesis. The collection of cases does not claim to be\u0000complete. Six influential or notable ball lightning cases are added. It is\u0000concluded that well-documented cases from trained observers can promote\u0000fieldwork and stimulate and evaluate ball lightning theories. Scientists who\u0000have not reported their experience are invited to share it with the author.","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"43-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45806001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The development of geophysics in the early period of the People's Republic of China based on the Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1950–1966)","authors":"Zhihui Zhang, Rui Wang","doi":"10.5194/HGSS-12-21-2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/HGSS-12-21-2021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. From the perspective of the social history of science and transnational history, this paper reviewed the development of the Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS), rather than focusing on its scientific achievements. Before the 1950s, the discipline of geophysics in China, except for the branch of meteorology, had a very weak foundation, and few researchers were engaged in it. The systematic development of geophysics began with the establishment of IGCAS. In this paper, the early development of IGCAS was researched thoroughly. At first, we briefly reviewed the establishment process for IGCAS. After being promoted by the desire of scientists to develop big geophysics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) integrated scattered academic forces, which included geomagnetism and geophysical exploration, to establish the IGCAS. The IGCAS was based on the Institute of Meteorology of Academia Sinica in the Republic of China era. After that, we summarized work done by IGCAS in the development of geophysics from the 1950s to 1966, the year in which the Cultural Revolution began. We focused on policy support, adjustment of organizational structure, and scientific capacity building, when China was facing an isolated international diplomatic environment, continuous domestic political movements, and an austere social economy. Then, to bolster the development of geophysics in China, the slogan of “Missions Drive Disciplines”, which was instilled and implemented by the Chinese scientific community, was introduced briefly. The scientific development of the IGCAS and typical examples in several branches of geophysics, which included atmospheric science, seismology, space physics, and other fields, were systematically summarized and benchmarked to the international academic level. We then summarized the basic research on geophysics carried out by the institute in economic construction and national defense. Finally, the experience and lessons in the development of this institute and its effect on geophysics in China were explored.","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"21-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43128440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The history of the Geophysical Service of Austria","authors":"W. Lenhardt","doi":"10.5194/HGSS-12-11-2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/HGSS-12-11-2021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A brief summary will be given of the historical development of\u0000Geophysical Service of Austria, which comprises the national geomagnetic,\u0000gravimetric and seismological services as well as the “Applied Geophysics\u0000Section” located at the Zentralanstalt fur Meteorologie und Geodynamik\u0000(ZAMG) in Vienna in Austria. The paper presents the achievements, changes\u0000and challenges of the Department from its modest beginning in 1851 until\u00002020. Finally, a special emphasis is placed on the Conrad Observatory – one\u0000of the most comprehensive geophysical research observatories in the world.","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"11-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45796830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The legacy of the Haldde Observatory","authors":"A. Brekke","doi":"10.5194/HGSS-12-1-2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/HGSS-12-1-2021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A historical review of the establishment of the Haldde\u0000Observatory in Bossekop, Kaafjord, Finnmark, in northern Norway is presented\u0000together with some of the scientific outcomes of the efforts and the\u0000aftermath of this enterprise that led to the establishment of the\u0000University of Tromso in 1968 and finally the inauguration of the Haldde\u0000Observatory as a historic site by the European Physical Society in 2018.","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48143037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time and tide: pendulum clocks and gravity tides","authors":"D. Agnew","doi":"10.5194/HGSS-11-215-2020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/HGSS-11-215-2020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Tidal fluctuations in gravity will affect the period of\u0000a pendulum and hence the timekeeping of any such clock that uses one.\u0000Since pendulum clocks were, until the 1940s,\u0000the best timekeepers available,\u0000there has been interest in seeing if tidal effects\u0000could be observed in the best performing examples of these clocks.\u0000The first such observation was in 1929,\u0000before gravity tides were measured with spring gravimeters;\u0000at the time of the second (1940–1943), such\u0000gravimeters were still being developed.\u0000Subsequent observations, having been made\u0000after pendulum clocks had ceased to be the best\u0000available timekeepers and after reliable\u0000gravimeter measurements of tides,\u0000have been more of an indication of clock quality\u0000than a contribution to our knowledge of tides.\u0000This paper describes the different measurements\u0000and revisits them in terms of our current knowledge\u0000of Earth tides.\u0000Doing so shows that clock-based systems,\u0000though noisier than spring gravimeters,\u0000were an early form of an absolute gravimeter that\u0000could indeed observe Earth tides.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41520078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Behind the curve: a comparison of historical sources for the Carnegie curve of the global atmospheric electric circuit","authors":"R. Harrison","doi":"10.5194/hgss-11-207-2020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-11-207-2020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The “Carnegie curve” describes the diurnal variation of the global\u0000atmospheric electric circuit. It was originally found from atmospheric\u0000electric potential gradient (PG) measurements made on the Carnegie, effectively a\u0000floating atmospheric electrical observatory, which undertook global cruises\u0000between 1915 and 1929. These measurements confirmed that the single diurnal\u0000cycle PG variation, previously obtained in both polar regions, was global in\u0000extent. The averaged diurnal PG variation, represented by derived harmonic\u0000fits, provides a characteristic variation known as the “Carnegie curve”,\u0000against which modern measurements are still compared. The ocean air PG\u0000measurements were extensively described in reports of the Carnegie\u0000Institution of Washington (CIW) but widely used secondary sources of the\u0000Carnegie curve contain small differences, arising through approximations and\u0000transcription errors. Investigations using the historical CIW data show that\u0000the original harmonic fit coefficients are reproducible. Despite the\u0000inconsistencies, the secondary sources nevertheless mostly yield diurnal\u0000variations which fall within the variability of the original historical\u0000data.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45147387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Gauss Society: a brief overview","authors":"A. Wittmann","doi":"10.5194/hgss-11-199-2020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-11-199-2020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) was one of the most eminent\u0000scientists of all time. He was born in Brunswick, studied in Gottingen, passed his doctoral examination in Helmstedt, and from 1807 until his death, was the director of the Gottingen Astronomical Observatory. As a professor of astronomy, he worked in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, geodesy, and physics, where he made world-famous and lasting contributions. In his honour, and to preserve his memory, the Gauss Society was founded in Gottingen in 1962. The present paper aims to give nonspecialists a brief introduction into the life of Gauss and an introduction into the Gauss Society and its history.","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"199-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43990347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physical earth and its sciences in Istanbul: a journey from pre-modern (Islamic) to modern times","authors":"F. Ozcep","doi":"10.5194/hgss-11-173-2020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-11-173-2020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Researching, compiling and analysing geophysical ideas and measurements in\u0000historical periods will contribute to the historical development of earth\u0000science. Also, this is important for geophysicists working on\u0000time-dependent (historical) data and revealing the physical properties of the earth. This paper is focused on the earth and its sciences (with concepts,\u0000ideas and measurements) in classical Islamic science in the Ottoman Empire\u0000and the evolution of these thoughts and concepts in the context of the transition\u0000to modern science. The pre-modern period of science in Islamic geographies is\u0000represented by Aristotelian science and some original contributions. In the\u0000geophysical sciences of the Ottoman Empire, earthquakes and weather events are\u0000explained by his views and ideas. Modern concepts and scientific\u0000measurements of geophysical events such as magnetic, seismologic and\u0000meteorologic events were systematically begun by observatories. Before this,\u0000there are some individual measurements.","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"173-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46531325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sixtieth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year (1957–2017) – contribution of the Soviet Union","authors":"Y. Lyubovtseva, A. Gvishiani, A. Soloviev, O. Samokhina, R. Krasnoperov","doi":"10.5194/hgss-11-157-2020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-11-157-2020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The International Geophysical Year (IGY) was the most significant international scientific event in geophysical sciences in the\u0000history of mankind. This was the largest international experiment that\u0000brought together about 300 000 scientists from 67 countries. Well-planned activity of national and international committees was organized for the\u0000first time. The history of the IGY organization and complex international\u0000experiments in planetary geophysics conducted within its program are\u0000discussed in this article. Special attention is given to the estimation of the significance of this project for developing worldwide geophysical research.","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"157-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48375754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How the Liverpool Tidal Institute was established: industry, navy and academia","authors":"Anna Carlsson-Hyslop","doi":"10.5194/hgss-11-139-2020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-11-139-2020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. This paper outlines the establishment of the Liverpool Tidal Institute in 1919. There is a particular focus on early patrons and\u0000supporters in the context of both previous tidal research on the accuracy of predictions and debates about the involvement of state actors in science\u0000at the end of the First World War. It discusses how, and to what extent,\u0000various actors – Liverpool University, the British Association for the\u0000Advancement of Science, the UK Hydrographic Office, and the shipping industry – became involved with the institute and what their roles were in its creation. It shows that industrial support was crucial in the establishment\u0000of this academic institute which later became a key contractor to the Navy.","PeriodicalId":48918,"journal":{"name":"History of Geo- and Space Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"139-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46797952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}