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Urania as a 100-year old magazine, coeval with the IAU

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2019

Krzysztof Czart  and
Maciej Mikołajewski
Krzysztof Czart
Affiliation:
Urania - Postepy Astronomii, Centrum Astronomii UMK, ul. Gagarina 11, 87-100 Torun, Poland email: [email protected]
Maciej Mikołajewski
Affiliation:
Urania - Postepy Astronomii, Centrum Astronomii UMK, ul. Gagarina 11, 87-100 Torun, Poland email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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“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.

Keywords

magazinesmediacommunicating astronomymiscellaneous
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S349: Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium , December 2018 , pp. 431 - 434
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2019 

References

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