for non-scientists, which at the time of his retirement in 2000 was the longest-running course under the same management (with David Latham) at the University. He was known for his creativity in teaching, using, for example, medieval costumes and fire extinguishers. A notable example was when in one semester, when the number of students signing up for the course lagged, Gingerich hired a plane to fly over Harvard Yard with a banner: "Sci A-17. M, W, F. Try it!". In 1984, he won the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa prize for excellence in teaching In addition to over 20 books, Gingerich has published nearly 600 technical or educational articles and reviews, and he has written many other articles for a popular audience. Two anthologies of his essays have been released, The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History from Cambridge University Press and The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler in the American Institute of Physics "Masters of Modern Physics" series. He has been a councilor of the American Astronomical Society, and helped organize its Historical Astronomy Division. In 2000, he won their Doggett Prize for his contributions to the history of astronomy. He was awarded the Prix Jules Janssen of the Société astronomique de France (French Astronomical Society) in 2006. Gingerich won the Trotter Prize in 2009, an endowed lecture at Texas A&M. Asteroid 2658 Gingerich, discovered on February 13, 1980, at the Harvard College Observatory, is named in his honor. Personal life Gingerich and his wife, Miriam, have been married for over 60 years. They have three sons, Mark, Peter, and Jonathan, as well as three grandchildren named Philip, Yasmin, and Dilara. They enjoy traveling, photography, and collecting both sea shells and rare books. Though they do not own a copy of the first edition of De revolutionibus (they own two second editions), his collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ephemerides (books that give day-by-day positions of the planets) recently surpassed the runner-up, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Works Owen Gingerich: "Astronomy" in The Encounter between Christianity and Science, Edited by Richard H. Bube, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1968, pages 109-133 Owen Gingerich, Robert S. Westman: The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-century Cosmology, American Philosophical Society, 1988, Owen Gingerich: The Great Copernicus Chase and other Adventures in Astronomical History. Cambridge University Press, 1992 Owen Gingerich: The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler. New York: