B
Literature
One should distrust the compulsion to write,
but not the urge to formulate.
Godfried Bomans
The secret to creativity is
knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
There are many publications about Kapteyn that can serve as suggestions for
further reading, partly in Dutch, but for the most part in English. More details and in many cases links to electronic versions of these can be found on
my special Kapteyn Webpage www.astro.rug.nl/JCKapteyn. I will present an
overview here.
• First of all, there are five publications that I already mentioned in the Preface.
Of these Persoonlijke herinneringen aan J.C. Kapteyn (Personal memories of J.C.
Kapteyn) by Cornelis Easton, J.C. Kapteyn: Zijn leven en werken (J.C. Kapteyn:
His life and work) by Henriette Hertzsprung–Kapteyn and Lieve Lize: De minnebrieven van de Groningse astronoom J.C. Kapteyn aan Elise Kalshoven, 1878–
1879 (Dear Lize: The love letters of the Groningen astronomer J.C. Kapteyn
to Elise Kalshoven) by Klaas van Berkel and Annelies Noordhof-Hoorn are
very accessible to a wide Dutch audience. For English speakers the symposium
proceedings The Legacy of J.C. Kapteyn; Kapteyn and the development of modern
astronomy by myself and Klaas van Berkel and my extensive biography Jacobus
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
P. C. van der Kruit, Pioneer of Galactic Astronomy: A Biography of Jacobus C. Kapteyn,
Springer Biographies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55423-1
285
Literature
One should distrust the compulsion to write,
but not the urge to formulate.
Godfried Bomans
The secret to creativity is
knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
There are many publications about Kapteyn that can serve as suggestions for
further reading, partly in Dutch, but for the most part in English. More details and in many cases links to electronic versions of these can be found on
my special Kapteyn Webpage www.astro.rug.nl/JCKapteyn. I will present an
overview here.
• First of all, there are five publications that I already mentioned in the Preface.
Of these Persoonlijke herinneringen aan J.C. Kapteyn (Personal memories of J.C.
Kapteyn) by Cornelis Easton, J.C. Kapteyn: Zijn leven en werken (J.C. Kapteyn:
His life and work) by Henriette Hertzsprung–Kapteyn and Lieve Lize: De minnebrieven van de Groningse astronoom J.C. Kapteyn aan Elise Kalshoven, 1878–
1879 (Dear Lize: The love letters of the Groningen astronomer J.C. Kapteyn
to Elise Kalshoven) by Klaas van Berkel and Annelies Noordhof-Hoorn are
very accessible to a wide Dutch audience. For English speakers the symposium
proceedings The Legacy of J.C. Kapteyn; Kapteyn and the development of modern
astronomy by myself and Klaas van Berkel and my extensive biography Jacobus
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
P. C. van der Kruit, Pioneer of Galactic Astronomy: A Biography of Jacobus C. Kapteyn,
Springer Biographies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55423-1
285