This is an unusual book, combining as it does papers on astrobiology, history of astronomy and sundials, but after all Woody Sullivan is an unusual man. In late 2003 I spent two fruitful and enjoyable months in the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington (UW) working on archival material accumulated over the decades by Woody, for a book we will co-author with Jessica Chapman on the early development of Australian astronomy. The only serious intellectual distraction I faced during this period was planning for an IAU colloquium on transits of Venus scheduled for June 2004 in...
This is an unusual book, combining as it does papers on astrobiology, history of astronomy and sundials, but after all Woody Sullivan is an unusual ma...
