Per ardua ad astra: Waarom J.C. Kapteyn nooit een sterrenwacht kreeg

Sieger Vreeling

doi:10.5117/DMT2024.1/2.004.VREE

ISSN: 2588-8277
E-ISSN: 2667-162X

Per ardua ad astra

Waarom J.C. Kapteyn nooit een sterrenwacht kreeg
By Sieger Vreeling¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Zelfstandig onderzoeker
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Source: De Moderne Tijd, Volume 8, Issue 1/2, Jun 2024, p. 72 - 97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/DMT2024.1/2.004.VREE
Language: Dutch
- Published online: 01 Jun 2024

Abstract

Per ardua ad astra. Why J.C. Kapteyn never got an observatory

Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) was appointed professor of astronomy in Groningen in 1877. Three times he submitted a plan for an observatory, but each one was rejected. There are two explanations for this, but neither is supported by evidence. The archives of the Arts and Sciences Department of the Ministry of the Interior offer a third explanation: the plans from 1881 and 1890 were thwarted by Victor de Stuers, head of the department, because he felt that the two existing observatories in the Netherlands, in Leiden and Utrecht, cost more than enough.

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