Christian Nitschelm

Christian Nitschelm

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Doctor in astrophysics

Associated professor & researcher

Professor of astronomy attached to the Institute of Astronomy of Catholic University of the North, Antofagasta, Chile.

Member of the Astrophysics Research Group (Mathematics and Computer Science), Antwerp University, Belgium.

External collaborator researcher at Astrophysics Institute of Paris (IAP), France.

Professional cursus: Curriculum Vitae (in English)

e-mail: Christian Nitschelm

URL (in English): http://www.astrosurf.com/nitschelm/index_english.html

URL (in French): http://www.astrosurf.com/nitschelm/index.html

Some articles and books already published and/or available on line

(most of them in French)

Articles:

Against Astrology

When astrology is tested by science
Original text in French: L'astrologie au crible de la science (introduction)
French to Spanish translation: La astrología puesta en duda por las ciencias (introduction)
Original text in French: L'astrologie au crible de la science (main description)
French to Spanish translation: La astrología puesta en duda por las ciencias
French to Italian translation: L'astrologia al vaglio della scienza
French to Danish translation: Astrologi i videnskabens sigtesold
A new evidence against astrology (in French): Découverte d'un trans-neptunien plus gros que Pluton
A new evidence against astrology (in Spanish): Descubrimiento de un trans-neptuniano más grande que Plutón
Pluto not considered anymore as a main planet (in French): Pluton déchu de son titre de planète majeure
A more classical argument against astrology (in English): Gravitational and Tidal Forces
Bibliography (in French)

Against Creationism and Intelligent Design

Original text in French: Le créationnisme est-il scientifiquement recevable?
French to Danish translation: Er kreationismen videnskabeligt acceptabel?

General history, history of astronomy, calendars

La civilisation Maya
Pourquoi la nuit est-elle noire?
French to Spanish translation: ¿Por qué la noche es oscura?
Date réelle de la fin du XXème siècle
French to Spanish translation: ¿Cual fue la fecha exacta del final del siglo XX?

Physics of astronomy

La notion de temps du point de vue scientifique
French to Spanish translation: La noción de tiempo por el lado científico
Mécanique céleste: Équations du mouvement (pdf file)
French to Spanish translation: Mecánica celeste: Ecuaciones del movimiento (pdf file)

Recent Publications (pdf files)

Books:

Catalogue of Named Stars, January 1990, C. Nitschelm, 115 pages. Full update in May 2003, 117 pages.
This Catalogue of Named Stars is directly available from the author (Christian Nitschelm)
L'ABCdaire du Ciel, 1998, C. Nitschelm, E. Biémont, R. Leguet, F. Troubat, C. Ehm, Flammarion Editions, Paris (120 pages).
This book was also translated:
To Korean language and edited in 2000 by Chang Hae Editions, Seoul.
To Portuguese language and edited in 2003 by Reborn Editions, Lisbon.
L'ABCdaire de la Lune, 1999, C. Nitschelm, C. Ehm, M. Schleiss, Flammarion Editions, Paris (120 pages).
This book was also translated:
To Italian language and edited in 2003 by Rizzoli Libri Illustrati Editions, Milano.
To Portuguese language and edited in 2003 by Reborn Editions, Lisbon.
L'Astronomie de la Préhistoire à nos jours (History of Astronomy), 2000, C. Nitschelm, Burillier Editions, Vannes (256 pages).
Contents (in French) of this last book (a second French edition and a Spanish translation are presently under process).
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2007, collective work, Springler Science+Business Media, LLC, New York, Thomas Hockey editor.
Biographies of Jacques Babinet (77-78), Edmond Bour (157), Heraclides Ponticus (486), Maurice Loewy (712-713) and Pierre-Charles Le Monnier (798-799).

Access to some servers accessible by Internet

Genealogical tree of the Nitschelm family

Buick Riviera 1973

(This one was my own car during the whole 1987 Summer, when I spent three months and half in USA...).

Photographic source: Jean Mouette

The web page Web of my Danish friend Maria Dubin, who is a talented painter

A recent painting made for a Danish astronomy club

(Caution: these links are in Spanish, not in English)

Amarillas.cl (The Yellow Pages in Chile)

Planos.cl (City maps in Chile)

Sernatur (Official Chilean agency of tourism)

El Turistel (Chilean travel handbook with geographic maps)

The First Evolution Theory Definitive Proof (US version)...

The Second Evolution Theory Definitive Proof (French version)...

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This document was carried out by Christian Nitschelm

Creation date of this English translation: Monday September 14th, 1998
Last update of this English translation: Tuesday April 15th, 2008