About The Cosmic Elk

Small press and website design: science, history and the history of science.

Cosmic Elk Links
Cosmic Elk Main Page
with news updates
and information
Time Before Clocks
Useful astronomy data
Space links for children
(can be printed out)
asteroids
and exoplanets
Mercury - its history
- its transit
Messenger
Venus - its history
- its transit
Venus Express
Mars - its history
latest updates
Jupiter - its history
latest updates
Saturn - its history
and Cassini updates
Uranus - its history
Neptune - its history
Siberia
History of Siberia
Part One

the geology and
early history
mammoth hunters
and
World-Surveyor-Man
bronze and iron age
civilizations from Siberia
Medieval Siberian
Invaders
.
British and Russians
discover Siberia
.
16th century Yakutia:
origin of the Sakha
17th century Yakutia
and the Russian Invasion
18th century Yakutia
the explorers: part one
18th century Yakutia
the explorers: part two
Russian America
18th and 19th centuries
Yakutia1820 to 1890
extreme tourism
Japan attacks Russia
Siberia 1890-1912
and a British gold mine
starts a revolution
Tunguska event
As seen by
shamans and scientists
Siberia: 1917 to present
The Great Bear
and the Cosmic Hunt

the ancient sky
calendar and myths.
The Moon
The Moon and Calendars
Origins of modern calendar
Moon and Eclipses
and history links
Directions of Time
and feng shui origins
Chukchi Directions
Stonehenge
and Winter Solstice
Spring Equinox
Shamans and Time
The Cosmic Mill
Early views of
the rotation of
the northern
stars.
Iron Age astronomy:
the mathematicians.
The Ptolemy Effect
Medieval astronomy.
Ulughbek
Astronomy in the
17th century

The impact of the
telescope
new observatories
France, China and
other places.
Harrison
More on John Harrison
and the
Problem of Longitude

in this book which also
has information on
Harrison's scientific work.
18th century astronomy
drinking song
and fuzzy blobs
space travel - its history
astronomy
in the 19th to
21st centuries

red shift and big bang
problems with Big Bang
and dark matter.
observing
from back garden
and other parts
of the world
more history
Story of the
Westminster Clock
only clock
used as sewer
ventilation shaft
Hampton Court Clock
The story of the
astronomical clock
at Hampton Court Palace.
Full details are in
Inside the
Hampton Court Clock
.
Tudor Bastard:
Henry VIII's son
who died just as
he was about to be made
heir to the throne.
Booklet with information
and full references
has been used by
other historians
as a source
King Edward VI's
Defence of
Astronomy
Lady Jane Grey's Clocks
other links
The Cosmic Elk
and its history
.
to contact us
about the history and
science mentioned
or pictures used
on cosmicelk.net:
mail@cosmicelk.net
unauthorized use
of the name Cosmic Elk
or cosmicelk
is an infringement of
international
copyright laws

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Cosmic Elk Small Press

Topics are in science, history or history of science.

Books/booklets published by the Cosmic Elk have card and comb bindings with illustrated laminated covers. Books may have associated websites. We are doing more websites than booklets now.

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Cosmic Elk Small Web Design.

An integral part of the Cosmic Elk small press and therefore web sites have been mainly on - science, history or the history of science - topics. Websites designed and maintained by the Cosmic Elk have included: Global Warming, LincsBHI, Lincoln Colonia Rotary Club, and the Mary Gordon Electric Boat.

Web hosting if not already organised, can be arranged.

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Book requests, enquiries, payment.

Currently all the books we have for sale can also be obtained from Amazon.co.uk, Blackwell and other suppliers - and this makes payment easier and safer. Those by cosmicelk4 on amazon.co.uk, can be relied on to have the latest updated editions.

For websites payment would be after discussion, an approval of terms and a draft design. The invoice will be emailed.

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Link to us, link to you

We always appreciate links to us from other suitable websites and are happy to place relevant links from the cosmicelk.net site and other sites that we design and manage.

For security reasons, please only quote our website address: cosmicelk.net, and relevant webpages, - and do not use our postal address, phone number or emails, on the internet.

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Copyright Information

The copyright of the Cosmic Elk websites belongs to Heather Hobden, The Cosmic Elk. All Rights Reserved. For reproduction of text (including translations) and pictures in any media - either books or websites, - please enquire first re copyrights etc. as some material may not be freely available. Please also inquire first about links from us to you and from you to us. We are always pleased to have links to and from other suitable sites.

The Cosmic Elk is the registered imprint of The Cosmic Elk small press and website design. The Cosmic Elk, Cosmic Elk, cosmicelk, and the Cosmic Elk logo, are all copyright for the sole use of The Cosmic Elk small press and Heather Hobden. Any unauthorised use of The Cosmic Elk, Cosmic Elk, or cosmicelk name or logo, is an infringement of the international copyright laws and other international laws and regulations and the recommended rules governing the use of the internet.


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Where did the name come from

The Cosmic Elk is the constellation of Ursa Major. The name was originally the title of an article for Clocks Magazine as part of a series on early timekeeping. It stuck and became the imprint of the small publishing company. More about the Cosmic Elk.

cosmicelk logoThe Cosmic Elk logo comes from a small part of a rock drawing in Yakutia on an ancient sacred site in use for thousands of years. The drawings represent the sky and constellations, and ancient myths.


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About Heather Hobden

Heather Hobden has been writing about the history of astronomy for very many years. Worked in publishing and television. Adult education tutor (until retirement age), in astronomy, history of Siberia. Many published articles, and some small books on history of astronomy. Still gives talks, along with husband Mervyn Hobden. Publishes booklets, designs and maintains websites and does voluntary work. Husband, twin sons, daughter-in-law, grand-daughter, grand-cat.


A favourite bit of music.


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The Cosmic Elk