SHA County Co-ordinator: Mark Hurn
Email: hurnm@ast.cam.ac.uk
Astronomers
Associated People (Authors, Lecturers, broadcasters)
Berry, Arthur [OBE; FRAS](c.1859-1925) Vice-Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, FRAS and author of A Short History of Astronomy – 1898 (Obit., MNRAS, 90 (1930), 358).
Makers/Manufacturers
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company (1881-1919), (founded by Horace Darwin and Albert George Dew-Smith in Cambridge. Name changed in 1920 when It took over the R. W. Paul Instrument Co, of London, and becaming the Cambridge and Paul Instrument Co Ltd – later (1924) becomes Cambridge Instrument Company (Grace’s Guide).
Observatories
Astronomy Groups
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Museums
(Please note this section contains only museums likely to be of relevance to astronomy or science)
Fitzwilliam Museum
(A major museum and art gallery)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
(Based on the collection of Robert Stewart Whipple (1871-1953) a collection of scientific instruments including telescopes and astrolabes)
Useful addresses
Institute of Astronomy Library
Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA (Tel. 01223 337537; www.ast.cam.ac.uk/library/ )
Sources
Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (CALH)
Secretary: Mr Andrew Westwood-Bate (info@calh.org.uk)
PO Box 1112, Blasham, Cambridge, CB21 4WP
Cambridgeshire Family History Society
http://www.cfhs.org.uk
County Record Office
Cambridgeshire County Record Office
Cambridge Shire Hall, Cambridge, CB3 0AP (Tel 01223 717281; http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk)
For full details go to ARCHON Directory
Survey of Astronomical History 