Dr Allan Chapman FRAS is a British historian of science.

Allan Chapman has been based at Oxford University for most of his career where he has been a member of the Faculty of History and a Fellow of Wadham College. He is an accomplished lecturer and public speaker (including as visiting professor at Gresham College in London). He is also a television broadcaster, notably Gods in the Sky on Channel 4, covering astronomical religion in early civilizations. Not averse to other forms of television, he also participated in the TV quiz University Challenge — The Professionals as part of the Royal Astronomical Society team, to be broadcast in June/July 2006.

He has written many books including biographies such as England's Leonardo on Robert Hooke. See below for a list of selected books.

Chapman is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is a founder member and president of the Society for the History of Astronomy (SHA).

Selected books

• William Crabtree 1610–1644: Manchester's First Mathematician, Allan Chapman. Manchester Statistical Society, 1996. ISBN 0853361320.
• The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain, 1820–1920, Allan Chapman. Praxis Publishing, Wiley-Praxis Series in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1996. ISBN 0471962570.
• Astronomical Instruments and Their Users: Tycho Brahe to William Lassell, Allan Chapman. Ashgate, Variorum Collected Studies, 1996. ISBN 086078584X.
• Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook: The View from AD 1001, Patrick Moore and Allan Chapman. Springer-Verlag, 1999. ISBN 1852336196.
• Gods in the Sky: Astronomy from the Ancients to the Enlightenment, Allan Chapman. Channel 4 Books, 2002. ISBN 0752261649.
• Mary Somerville: And the World of Science, Allan Chapman. Canopus Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0953786846.
• England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution, Allan Chapman. Institute of Physics Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0750309873.
• Robert Hooke and the English Renaissance, Allan Chapman and Paul Kent (editors). Gracewing, 2005. ISBN 0852445873.

See also

• List of visiting Gresham professors

External links

• Books from Amazon.co.uk
• England's Leonardo lecture (Robert Hooke)
• England's Leonardo book review in the New Scientist magazine
• Robert Hooke — the face of England's Leonardo? from the Institute of Physics
• Gods in the Sky on Channel 4

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