ASE Terminology Standards
From All Skies Encyclopaedia
The ASE is deeply rooted in both science and humanities, as cultural astronomy connects ancient terms to modern star catalogues and nomenclature. One of the biggest challenges of such a global collection of names from different cultures is finding a common language that works for all philologies, for science and humanities. Following in the footsteps of the philosophers of the Vienna Circle (e.g. Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap) of the 1930s, the editors seek to establish a common language of different branches of astronomy.
This requires some terms to be defined or redefined here:
