{"id":5669,"date":"2020-11-02T23:34:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5669"},"modified":"2020-11-02T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:34:40","slug":"november-2020-osterbrock-book-prize-for-decoding-the-stars-a-biography-of-angelo-secchi-jesuit-and-scientist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5669","title":{"rendered":"November 2020: Osterbrock Book Prize for Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomy Society awarded the 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/had.aas.org\/awards_and_prizes\/osterbrock_book_prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize<\/strong><\/a> to Ileana Chinnici for her book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitonlinebibliography.bc.edu\/catalog\/17937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scienti<\/i><em>st<\/em><\/a>. Chinnici published her book &#8212;\u00a0the first English-language, full-length biography of Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) &#8212; as part of the Jesuit Studies Book Series at Brill in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Osterbook Prize is awarded &#8220;biennially to the author(s) of a book judged to advance the field of the history of astronomy or to bring history of astronomy to light.&#8221; In her account of Secchi, who was central to the transition\u00a0from classical positional astronomy to astrophysics, Chinnici examines Secchi&#8217;s research as well as the broader environment in which he worked. More information about the Osterbook Prize is available at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/had.aas.org\/awards_and_prizes\/osterbrock_book_prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/had.aas.org\/awards_and_prizes\/osterbrock_book_prize<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomy Society awarded the 2021\u00a0Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Ileana Chinnici for her book\u00a0Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist. Chinnici published her book &#8212;\u00a0the first English-language, full-length biography of Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) &#8212; as part of the Jesuit Studies Book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":5672,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5669","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5669\/revisions\/5673"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}