TY  -  JOUR
TI  -  Old weather: citizen scientists in the 19th and 21st centuries
  AU -Sally Shuttleworth
PY  -  2015
VL  - Special Issue: Communications
IS  - Spring 2015

AB - 
N1 - The project was born out of a collaboration between Dr Beau Lotto and Dave Strudwick, former headteacher of Blackawton Primary School. For further details about the project see www.lottolab.org/articles/blackawtonbees.asp (accessed 15 April 2015).

N1 - The project is run by Sally Shuttleworth and Chris Lintott at Oxford, and Gowan Dawson at the University of Leicester.

N1 - This account is taken from Hanny van Arkel’s own website, www.hannysvoorwerp.com (accessed 15 April 2015). For further details see http://hannysvoorwerp.zooniverse.org (accessed 15 April 2015). Scientific papers arising from the discovery include Lintott et al., 2009.

N1 - For a Victorian heroic account see Proctor (1875). Proctor does, however, include details from Horrocks’s own account, which notes that his friend William Crabtree also watched the transit, separately, from his own home.

N1 - Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, the eminent Prussian astronomer, published his ‘An appeal to the friends of astronomy’ in Schumacher’s Astronomical Yearbook for 1844.

N1 - For more on the history of these ‘human computers’ see Grier (2005) and also Jones and Boyd (1971).

N1 - For details of Annie Jump Cannon’s work on variable stars see Hogg (1984). Her papers are held at Harvard University, see http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hua12001 (accessed 16 April 2015).

N1 - ‘Decrease of rainfall with elevation’ in the 1871 volume, pp 132–40, for example, comprised letters, with diagrams and calculations, from John Thrustans, P P Pennant, J M Du Port, T E Crallan and George F Burder, who were all engaging with each other and previous correspondents in the debate. Symons’s magazine provides the space for their interaction, but he does not intervene, until he suggests that the discussion should be curtailed. In response to protests, and another deluge of material, he takes back the suggestion, agrees to let the debate run, and extends the length of the magazine accordingly (see p 179 and a further collection of contributions on pp 179–88).

N1 - See www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/2013/04/09/economics-of-crowd-sourcing-under-spotlight (accessed 16 April 2015). Chris Lintott is a co-investigator on the project.

N1 - See, for example, Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 4 (1882–83), in which Symons outlines the curriculum and recommended reading for the exams.

N1 - See www.metoffice.gov.uk/archive/british-rainfall (accessed 16 April 2015).
PB - The Science Museum Group
 
SN -  2054-5770
LA -  eng
DO -  10.15180/150304
UR -  https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/old-weather/
T2 -  Science Museum Group Journal