'Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1852-1922)', in Kox, A.J. and Chamalaun, M. eds: Van Stevin tot Lorentz. Portretten van Nederlandse natuurwetenschappers, Amsterdam 1980, p. 177-191. In Dutch.
'Early Explorations of the Southern Celestial Sky', in Annals of Science 44 (1987) pp. 439-470. [About the mapping of the southern sky by Dutch mariners at the end of the 16th century.]
'Frederik Kaiser en zijn pogingen tot hervorming van ‘het sterrekundig deel van onze zeevaart', Gewina / Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek TGGNWT 13 (1990) 23-41. In Dutch.[6]
'An Unrecorded Medieval AstrolabeQuadrant, c. 1300', in Annals of Science 52 (1995), pp. 1-47.
'A ‘Watermark’ of Eudoxan Astronomy', Journal for the History of Astronomy 39 (2008) 213-228
'Caspar Vopel's Ventures in Sixteenth-Century Celestial Cartography', Imago Mundi 62:2 (2010) 161-190
with Kristen Lippincott: The provenance of the stars in the Leiden Aratea picture book, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes eds. E.H. Gombrich et al. 73 2010 (2011), 1-37
'Construction and copy: aspects of the early history of celestial maps’, Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 13, Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 58 (2016), pp. 47–93.
'The Nuremberg maps: a Pythagorean-Platonic view of the cosmos', Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 13, Acta Historica Astronomiae, 58 (2016), pp. 95–124
Books
Spiral structure and the dynamics of flat stellar systems, PhD thesis Leiden : Rijksuniversiteit, 1975. 148 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
with Peter van der Krogt: Globes from the Western World, London, Zwemmer, 1993[7]
with Raf Van Laere: De verbeelde wereld. Globes, atlassen, kaarten en meetinstrumenten uit de 16de en 17de eeuw, [Antwerpen] Kredietbank 1997. In Dutch.
Globes at Greenwich: a catalogue of the globes and armillary spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Oxford University Press, 1999)[8]
Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Cataloghi di raccolte scientifiche, 5. Firenze, Giunti, 2004[9] 188 + 16 pp. of colour plates.
Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 2013[10], 467 p.
Personal life
Dekker was married to the astronomer and physicist Hendrik Gerard (Henk) van Bueren (1925–2012).[11]
^van der Kruit, Pieter C. (2019), "Appendix A.4: Oort and His Students: a List of Ph.D. Theses", Jan Hendrik Oort, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 459, Springer International Publishing, pp. 633–635, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17801-7, ISBN978-3-030-17800-0, S2CID199240526
Gingerich, Owen (August 2003), "Greenwich globes and armillary spheres", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34 (3): 339–340, doi:10.1177/002182860303400313, S2CID220915007
Heilbron, J. L. (March 2000), "Around the world via Greenwich", Nature, 404 (6773): 16–17, doi:10.1038/35003630, S2CID3606118
Milanesi, Marica (January 2002), Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 56 (1): 108–110, JSTOR532129{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Mokre, Jan (2002), Globe Studies, 154–156, JSTOR23993555{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR41628645
^Reviews of Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza:
Milanesi, Marica (2005), Globe Studies, 51/52: 145–147, JSTOR23993604{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR41628661
Mokre, Jan (2014), Globe Studies, 59/60: 230–231, JSTOR44755486{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link); also in German in Der Globusfreund, JSTOR44753622
^See the acknowledgements of Dekker, Elly (2002), "The doctrine of the sphere: A forgotten chapter in the history of globes", Globe Studies, 49/50 (49/50): 25–44, JSTOR23993546
