Papers, etc.

Kapteyn’s papers were lost in World War II. In 1999 his surviving correspondence from archives around the world were collected by Petra van der Heijden and published in van der Kruit, P.C. & K. van Berkel, eds., The Legacy of J.C. Kapteyn: Studies on Kapteyn and the Development of Modern Astronomy (Kluwer, Dordrecht & Boston, 2000). List of correspondents.

Other References: Historical

Berendzen, Richard, Richard Hart, & Daniel Seeley, Man Discovers the Galaxies (Science History Publications, 1976)

de Sitter, W., Kosmos: a Course of Six Lectures on the Development of our Insight into the Structure of the Universe, Delivered for the Lowell Institute in Boston, in November 1931 (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1932).

de Sitter, Wolter Reinold, “Kapteyn and de Sitter; a Rare and Special Teacher-Student and Coach-Player Relationship,” in Invited Reviews Presented at the Symposium “The Legacy of J. C. Kapteyn”, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 9-11, 1999, ed. by P. C. van der Kruit and K. van Berkel (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000), p. 79 - 108.

Kapteyn, J.C., “Sir David Gill,” Ap.J. 40, 161-72 (1914) [obituary].

Kevles, Daniel J., “Into Hostile Political Camps: The Reorganization of International Science in World War I,” Isis 62, 47-60 (1971).

Lynds, Beverly T., “The Plan of Selected Areas,” A.S.P. Leaflet 9, 89-96 (1963) [Leaflet #412].

Oort, Jan H., “The Development of our Insight into the Structure of the Galaxy between 1920 and 1940,” Education in and History of Modern Astronomy, Annals NY Acad. Sci., 198, 255-266 (1972).

Paul, E. Robert, “The Death of a Research Programme: Kapteyn and the Dutch Astronomical Community,” JHA 12, 77-94 (1981).

Paul, E. Robert, “Kapteyn and Statistical Astronomy,” in Hugo van Woerden, Ronald J. Allen, & W. Butler Burton, eds., The Milky Way Galaxy, IAU Symposium 106 (E. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1985), pp. 25-42 .

Paul, E. Robert, “J.C. Kapteyn and the Early Twentieth-Century Universe,” JHA 17, 155-82 (1986).

Paul, E.R., The Milky Way Galaxy and Statistical Cosmology, 1890-1924 (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK & NY, 1993)

Plaskett, J.S., “Modern Conceptions of the Stellar System,” Popular Astronomy 47, 239-256 (1939).

Rohlfs, Kristen, “Galactic Astronomy in Continental Europe in the Nineteenth Century in the Time Succeeding Herschel,” Vistas in Astronomy 32, 215-23 (1988).

Smith, Robert W., The Expanding Universe: Astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’ 1900-1931 (Cambridge U.P., 1980).

van Rhijn, P.J., “J.C. Kapteyn Centennial,” Sky & Telescope 10, 55 (1951).

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Other References:Scientific

Campbell, W.W., Stellar Motions (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT, 1913).

Kapteyn, J.C., Bestimmung von Parallaxen durch Registrir-Beobachtungen am Meridian Kreise. Reviewed and discussed by Lewis Boss, PASP 3, 346-53 (1891).

Kapteyn, J.C., Corrections de Refraction et d’Aberration pour les Coordonnees Rectangulaires Measurees sur les Cliches Photographiques (Gauthier-Villars et fils, Paris, 1896)

Gill, D. & J.C. Kapteyn, “Cape Photographic Durchmusterung Part 1,” Annals of the Cape Observatory, vol. 3 (H.M. Stationery Office, London, 1896). Contains a detailed historical discussion of the development of a pioneer project to photographically map the southern sky for accurate stellar positions and magnitudes.

Kapteyn, J.C., “On the Luminosity of the Fixed Stars,” KNAW, Proceedings 3 II, 658-89 (1901).

Kapteyn, J.C., “Remarks on the Determination of the Number and Mean Parallax of Stars of Different Magnitude and the Absorption of Light in Space,” Astronomical Journal 24, 115-22 (1904).

Kapteyn, J.C., “On the Parallax of the Nebulae,” KNAW, Proceedings 8 II, 691-99 (1906).

Kapteyn, J.C., Plan of Selected Areas (Groningen, 1906).

Kapteyn, J.C., “On the Mean Star-Density at Different Distances from the Solar System,” KNAW, Proceedings 10 II, 626-35 (1908).

Kapteyn, J.C., “On the Absorption of Light in Space,” Ap. J. 29, 46-54 (1909) and 30, 284-317 (1909). (correction)

Kapteyn, J.C., “On Certain Statistical Data Which May Be Valuable in the Classification of the Stars in the Order of Their Evolution,” Ap.J. 31, 258-69 (1910).

Kapteyn, J.C. & Edwin B. Frost, “On the Velocity of the Sun’s Motion through Space as Derived from the Radial Velocity of Orion Stars,” Ap.J. 32, 83-90 (1910) (correction).

Kapteyn, J.C., “On the Change of Spectrum and Color Index with Distance and Absolute Brightness. Present State of the Question,“ Ap.J. 40, 187-204 (1914).

Kapteyn, J.C., “On the Structure of the Universe,” JRASC 8, 145-59 (1914) [reprinted from Scientia, Nov. 1913].

Kapteyn, J.C. with H.A. Weersma, “On the Derivation of the Constants for the Two Star Streams,” MNRAS 72, 743-56 (1917).

Pickering, Edward C. & J.C. Kapteyn,, “Durchmusterung of Selected Areas: Between δ = 0 and δ = +90°: Systematic Plan, Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College 101, 1-368 (1918).

Kapteyn, J.C. & P.J. Van Rhijn, “On the Distribution of the Stars in Space Especially in the High Galactic Latitudes,” Ap.J. 52, 23-38 (1920).

Kapteyn, J.C. & P.J. Van Rhijn, “On the Upper Limit of Distance to which the Arrangement of Stars in Space can at Present Be Determined with Some Confidence,” Ap.J. 55, 242-71 (1922).

Kapteyn, J.C. & P.J. Van Rhijn, “First Attempt at a Theory of the Arrangement and Motion of the Sidereal System,” Ap.J. 55, 302-28 (1922).

Kapteyn, J.C., “The Proper Motions of δ Cephei Stars and the Distances of the Globular Clusters,” Bull. Astr. Inst. Neth. 1, 37-42 (1922).

Kapteyn, J.C., “On the Proper Motions of the Faint Stars and the Systematic Errors of the Boss Fundamental System,” Bull. Astr. Inst. Neth. 1, 69-78 (1922).

Pickering, Edward C., J.C. Kapteyn, & P.J. van Rhijn,, “Durchmusterung of Selected Areas: Between δ = –15° and –30°: Systematic Plan, Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College 102, 1-276 (1923).

Pickering, Edward C., J.C. Kapteyn, & P.J. van Rhijn,, “Durchmusterung of Selected Areas: Between δ = –45° and –90°: Systematic Plan, Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College 103, 1-344 (1924).

Seares, F.H., J.C. Kapteyn, P.J. van Rhijn, Mary C. Joyner, & Myrtle L. Richmond, Mount Wilson Catalogue of Photographic Magnitudes in Selected Areas 1-139 (Carnegie institution of Washington, Washington, 1930).

Kapteyn, J.C., “Recent Researches in the Structure of the Universe,” Royal Institution Library of Science: Astronomy, p. 78-96.

Kapteyn, J.C., “First Attempt at a Theory of the Arrangement and Motion of the Sidereal System,” Ap. J. 55, 302-328 (1922).

Rhijn, Pieter Johannes van & Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, Durchmusterung of Selected Areas of the Special Plan (Kapteyn Astronomical Laboratory, Groningen, Netherlands, 1952).

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