Urania as a 100-year old magazine, coeval with the IAU
Abstract
"Urania" is a popular Polish astronomy magazine, one of the oldest in the world among present journals of this type. The first official issue was published in 1922, but the origins of "Urania" are even older, as in 1919 and 1920 there were published a few issues of a predecessor of "Urania" with the same title. So we can say that "Urania" and the IAU are of the same age. The role of "Urania" has been changing during these 100 years, but the magazine has been always a very important entity for the astronomical community in Poland, both professional and amateur. Thousands of pages contain an historical record of astronomy in Poland, as well as the progress of astronomy in the world, including IAU activities.
- Publication:
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Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium
- Pub Date:
- April 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921319000553
- Bibcode:
- 2019IAUS..349..431C
- Keywords:
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- magazines;
- media;
- communicating astronomy;
- miscellaneous