This notice is essentially the same as that to appear in the Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences. For some of the details I should like to thank Ole Knudsen, and Kurt Møller Pedersen, and for the photograph Anna Elisabeth Pedersen.
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The latter in a volume he edited with G. V. Coyne, s.j., and HoskinMichael: Gregorian reform of the calendar (Vatican City, 1983). See also Galileo and the Council of Trent (Vatican City, 1983).
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It is worth noting that with his colleague Ole Knudsen he later wrote a textbook of mechanics for the use of Aarhus university students.
4.
The museum opened in 1983 in the Observatory at the other side of town. In 1993 it moved to its present site on the university campus.
5.
Lovers of learning: A history of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1742–1992 (Copenhagen, 1992).
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A history of the university in Europe, i: Universities in the Middle Ages, ed. by de Ridder-SymoensHilde (Cambridge, 1992).
7.
The first universities: Studium generale and the origins of university education in Europe, transl. by NorthRichard (Cambridge, 1998).
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His secretary Kate Larsen has been the backbone of the journal for many years now. Pedersen succeeded Mogens Pihl as editor.
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This was a revised translation of the first volume of what was to have been a three-volume history of physical science by Pedersen and Mogens Pihl. The 1974 English edition carried both their names, but the second edition was published in the name of Pedersen alone.
