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Professor Emeritus, History. Department of History. CONTACT. avh@rice.edu. Areas of Interest: History of Astronomy. Scientific Instruments. Research and Teaching: I am currently preparing a new edition of my translation of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius. This year I will finish a book on Christiaan Huygens and the telescope. Selected Publications:
Albert Van Helden is a leading scholar on the history of the telescope and Galileo. He received the LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy in 2016 for his outstanding contributions to the field.
Albert van Helden is a historian of Science, he is the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of History at Rice University, Houston TX.
Author of Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley. Primary Contributions (1) Galileo was an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method.
Translated with Commentary and a New Preface by Albert Van Helden. Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, “unheard of through the ages,” revealed by a mysterious new instrument.
Albert Van Helden is the Lynette Autrey Professor of History at Rice University. He is responsible for the written text in the Project (except where otherwise noted).
The Origins of the Telescope. Albert Van Helden, Sven Dupré, Rob van Gent. Amsterdam University Press, 2010 - Science - 368 pages. The origins of the telescope have been debated since the...
