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Anonymous From the President of the History of
Astronomy Commission of the
International Astronomical Union . . . . 3--3
Anonymous Editorial Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
D. T. Whiteside Before the \booktitlePrincipia: The
Maturing of Newton's Thoughts on
Dynamical Astronomy, 1664--1684 . . . . 5--19
E. S. Kennedy and
Nazim Faris The solar eclipse technique of Ya\dhy\=a
B. Ab\=\i Man\ds\=ur . . . . . . . . . . 20--38
Donald deB. Beaver Bernard Walther: Innovator in
Astronomical Observation . . . . . . . . 39--43
Michael Hoskin The Cosmology of Thomas Wright of Durham 44--52
Stanley L. Jaki New Light on Olbers's Dependence on
Chéseaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. The Michelson--Morley--Miller
Experiments before and after 1905 . . . 56--78
A. G. Molland Book Review: Philosophy of Earth and
Heavens: \booktitleLe Livre du Ciel et
du Monde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Bernard Sharratt Book Review: Astronomy in English
Literature: \booktitleThe High Firmament 80--81
G. L'E. Turner Book Review: Prague Instrument
Collection: \booktitleAstronomy
Gnomonics. A Catalogue of Instruments of
the 15th to the 19th Centuries in the
Collections of the National Technical
Museum, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Messier's Catalogue:
\booktitleMessier's Nebulae and Star
Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Richard Schlegel Book Review: The Paradox of Olbers's
Paradox: \booktitleThe Paradox of
Olbers' Paradox: a Case History of
Scientific Thought . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
R. B. Berendzen Book Review: Shapley:
\booktitleOctogenarian Reminiscences:
Through Rugged Ways to the Stars . . . . 85--87
A. J. Meadows Book Review: \booktitlePulsars: Six
Months after Discovery: Pulsating Stars 88--89
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous University of London Theses and
Dissertations on the History of
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 93--94
David Pingree On the Classification of Indian
Planetary Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--108
Owen Gingerich The Satellites of Mars: Prediction and
Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
D. T. Whiteside The Mathematical Principles Underlying
Newton's \booktitlePrincipia Mathematica 116--138
Arthur Beer Hartner and the Riddle of the Golden
Horns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--143
Eric G. Forbes Tobias Mayer's Contributions to the
Development of Lunar Theory . . . . . . 144--154
G. L'E. Turner Book Review: The Construction of
Sundials: \booktitleSundials. A
Simplified Approach by Means of the
Equatorial Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
A. Armitage Book Review: Edmond Halley:
\booktitleEdmond Halley: Genius in
Eclipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
David M. Knight Book Review: Wright's Second Thoughts:
\booktitleSecond or Singular Thoughts
upon the Theory of the Universe . . . . 157--158
David W. Dewhirst Book Review: Alvan Clark and Sons:
\booktitleAlvan Clark and Sons, Artists
in Optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--159
Eric G. Forbes Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
Astronomy in East Germany: ``Forschungen
und Publikationen zur Geschichte der
Astronomie in der Deutschen
Demokratischen Republik'' . . . . . . . 159--159
A. J. Meadows Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--163
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164
Giovanna Grassi Conti A New Catalogue of Rare XVth- and
XVIth-Century Astronomical Books
Contained in the Libraries of European
Observatories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Anonymous Theses and Dissertations on the History
of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Eric G. Forbes Index of the Board of Longitude Papers
at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Part
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--179
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous Editorial Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
John A. Eddy The Schaeberle $ 40$-Ft Eclipse Camera
of Lick Observatory . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
Victor E. Thoren Anaxagoras, Eudoxus, and the Regression
of the Lunar Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . 23--28
Kenneth Glyn Jones The Observational Basis for Kant's
Cosmogony: a Critical Analysis . . . . . 29--34
Eric G. Forbes Schultz's Proposal for Finding Longitude
at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--41
Shigeru Nakayama Book Review: Chinese Astronomy:
\booktitleChugoku no tenmon rekiho . . . 42--43
Joseph Needham Book Review: Chinese Astronomy:
\booktitleCosmos and Computation in
Early Chinese Mathematical Astronomy . . 43--45
A. J. Meadows Book Review: Chaucer's Use of Astronomy:
\booktitleKalenderes Enlumyned Ben They:
Some Astronomical Themes in Chaucer . . 45--45
A. J. Turner Book Review: John Wilkins:
\booktitleJohn Wilkins, 1614--1672: an
Intellectual Biography . . . . . . . . . 46--48
W. H. Donahue Book Review: John Wilkins: \booktitleThe
Mathematical and Philosophical Works of
the Right Rev. John Wilkins . . . . . . 48--49
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
Mary Lea Shane The Archives of Lick Observatory . . . . 51--53
M. A. Hoskin Bibliography of Astronomy 1881--1898 . . 53--54
Anonymous Meetings of Commission 41 of IAU . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Future Meetings of Interest to
Historians of Astronomy . . . . . . . . 56--57
Eric G. Forbes Index of the Board of Longitude Papers
at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Part
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--70
Anonymous Theses and Dissertations on the History
of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Eric G. Forbes Index of the Board of Longitude Papers
at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Part
III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--70
G. M. Clemence The Concept of Ephemeris Time: a Case of
Inadvertent Plagiarism . . . . . . . . . 73--79
David Pingree On the Greek Origin of the Indian
Planetary Model Employing a Double
Epicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
O. Van De Vyver, S.J. Original Sources of Some Early Lunar
Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--97
O. Van De Vyver, S.J. Addendum: [Original Sources of Some
Early Lunar Maps] . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
D. B. Herrmann B. A. Gould and his Astronomical Journal 98--108
R. Hart and
R. Berendzen Hubble's Classification of Non-Galactic
Nebulae, 1922--1926 . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
G. L'E. Turner Book Review: China and the West:
\booktitleClerks and Craftsmen in China
and the West. Lectures and Addresses on
the History of Science and Technology 120--121
David Pingree Book Review: an Astronomical Treatise of
Brahmagupta: \booktitleThe
Khaá\dn\ddakhâdyaka (An Astronomical
Treatise) of Brahmagupta with the
Commentary of Bha\dt\dtotpala . . . . . 121--122
Victor E. Thoren Book Review: The Rudolphine Tables:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler Gesammelte
Werke, vol. x: Tabulae Rudolphinae . . . 123--124
M. A. Hoskin Book Review: Understanding the Universe:
\booktitleWidening Horizons: Man's Quest
to Understand the Structure of the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
Deborah J. Warner Book Review: Hevelius's Star Atlas:
\booktitleThe Star Atlas . . . . . . . . 125--126
John A. Eddy Book Review: The Golden Age of Solar
Physics: \booktitleEarly Solar Physics 126--128
W. F. Ryan Book Review: Historical Scientific
Instruments in Russia:
\booktitleNauchnye pribory. Pribory i
instrumenty istoricheskogo znacheniya
(Scientific Instruments. Instruments of
Historic Significance), Pamyatniki
russkoy kul'tury pervoy chetverti XVIII
veka v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo ordena
Lenina Ermitazha . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Anonymous Ernst Zinner (1886--1970) . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Greenwich Register of Source Material on
the History of Astronomy . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 146--146
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom The Astronomical Significance of the
Large Carnac Menhirs . . . . . . . . . . 147--160
Stanley L. Jaki The Milky Way before Galileo . . . . . . 161--167
Owen Gingerich Apianus's \booktitleAstronomicum
Caesareum and its Leipzig Facsimile . . 168--177
J. A. Ruffner The Curved and the Straight: Cometary
Theory from Kepler to Hevelius . . . . . 178--194
Eric G. Forbes Gauss and the Discovery of Ceres . . . . 195--199
R. Hart and
R. Berendzen Hubble, Lundmark and the Classification
of Non-Galactic Nebulae . . . . . . . . 200--200
Arthur Beer Book Review: Astronomy and Culture:
\booktitleOriens, Occidens . . . . . . . 201--202
Thaddeus M. Cowan Book Review: Prehistoric Astronomers:
\booktitleMegalithic Lunar Observatories 202--203
F. R. Allchin Book Review: Science in Sanskrit:
\booktitleCensus of the Exact Sciences
in Sanskrit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
W. H. Donahue Book Review: In Praise of Bruno:
\booktitleThe Infinite Worlds of
Giordano Bruno . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Victor E. Thoren Book Review: Brahe as Astronomer and
Printer: \booktitleTycho Brahe: a
Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
Alan E. Shapiro Book Review: Jakob Bernoulli's Early
Work: \booktitleDie Werke von Jakob
Bernoulli. Band 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
G. J. Whitrow Book Review: Heaven and the Stars:
\booktitleAn Original Theory or New
Hypothesis of the Universe, a Theory of
the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
Charles Weiner and
Joan N. Warnow Source Materials for the Recent History
of Astronomy and Astrophysics: a
Checklist of Manuscript Collections in
the United States . . . . . . . . . . . 210--218
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Editorial Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
Roderick W. Home The Origin of the Lunar Craters: an
Eighteenth-Century View . . . . . . . . 1--10
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom The Carnac Alignments . . . . . . . . . 11--26
David Pingree Precession and Trepidation in Indian
Astronomy before A.D. 1200 . . . . . . . 27--35
Noel Swerdlow Aristotelian Planetary Theory in the
Renaissance: Giovanni Battista Amico's
Homocentric Spheres . . . . . . . . . . 36--48
Ronald L. Numbers The Nebular Hypothesis of Isaac Orr . . 49--51
D. Seeley and
R. Berendzen The Development of Research in
Interstellar Absorption, c. 1900--1930 52--64
G. L'E. Turner Book Review: Measuring Instruments:
\booktitleTime and Space. Measuring
Instruments from the Fifteenth to the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
D. T. Whiteside Book Review: Seventeenth-Century
Planetary Theory: \booktitleHypothesen
zur Planetentheorie des 17. Jahrhunderts 66--67
M. A. Hoskin Book Review: Kant's \booktitleCosmogony 67--68
M. A. Sutton Book Review: Early Theories of
Spectroscopy: \booktitleNineteenth
Century Spectroscopy. Development of the
Understanding of Spectra 1802--1897 . . 69--70
Joseph Ashbrook Book Review: Astronomy at the Royal
Institution: \booktitleThe Royal
Institution Library of Science:
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Theses and Dissertations on the History
of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 74--74
D. Seeley and
R. Berendzen The Development of Research in
Interstellar Absorption, c. 1900--1930:
Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--86
Seymour L. Chapin ``In a Mirror Brightly'': French
Attempts to Build Reflecting Telescopes
Using Platinum . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104
Asger Aaboe Remarks on the Theoretical Treatment of
Eclipses in Antiquity . . . . . . . . . 105--118
Valentin L. Chenakal The astronomical instruments of John
Rowley in Eighteenth-Century Russia . . 119--135
Stanley L. Jaki The Original Formulation of the
Titius--Bode Law . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Willy Hartner Essay Review: Astronomy in Japan:
\booktitleA History of Japanese
Astronomy: Chinese Background and
Western Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
A. Armitage Book Review: \booktitleLord Rosse's
Telescope: The Astronomy of Birr Castle 146--146
W. D. Stahlman Book Review: Greek Mathematical
Astronomy: \booktitleThe Books of
Autolykos: On a Moving Sphere and on
Risings and Settings . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Theses and Dissertations on the History
of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Isis Cumulative Bibliography . . . . . . 149--150
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 150--150
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom The Uses of the Alignments at Le Menec
Carnac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--164
John A. Eddy Thomas A. Edison and Infra-Red Astronomy 165--187
Owen Gingerich and
David King and
George Saliba The `Abd Al-A'Imma Astrolabe Forgeries 188--198
Stanley L. Jaki The Milky Way from Galileo to Wright . . 199--204
D. J. Bryden Britain's First Observatory? . . . . . . 205--205
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Essay Review: Myth and Science:
\booktitleHamlet's Mill . . . . . . . . 206--211
A. Wasserstein Essay Review: Early Greek Astronomy:
\booktitleEarly Greek Astronomy to
Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--216
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Astronomy in Egypt:
\booktitleEgyptian Astronomical Texts,
Decans, Planets, Constellations and
Zodiacs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: Pre-Islamic Persian
Astrology: \booktitleThe Astrological
History of Masha'allah . . . . . . . . . 218--219
D. B. Herrmann Book Review: \booktitleLectures by
Tobias Mayer: Opera Inedita . . . . . . 219--220
J. R. Ravetz Book Review: Copernicanism in Poland:
\booktitleKopernik i heliocentryzm w
polskiej kulturze umyslowej do ko\'nca
XVIII wieku. (Polish) [Copernicus and
heliocentrism in the Polish mental
culture to the end of the Eighteenth
Century] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 221--221
Anonymous Editorial Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
David Pingree The Mesopotamian Origin of Early Indian
Mathematical Astronomy . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Ronald L. Numbers The American Kepler: Daniel Kirkwood and
His Analogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--21
Hugh L. Porteous Megalithic Yard or Megalithic Myth? . . 22--24
Victor E. Thoren New Light on Tycho's Instruments . . . . 25--45
R. Berendzen and
R. Hart Adriaan Van Maanen's Influence on the
Island Universe Theory: Part 1 . . . . . 46--56
Dieter B. Herrmann An Exponential Law for the Establishment
of Observatories in the Nineteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
David Pingree Book Review: Astrology in Antiquity:
\booktitleOrigins of Astrology . . . . . 59--59
N. Swerdlow Book Review: The Planetary Theory of
Campanus: \booktitleCampanus of Novara
and Medieval Planetary Theory: Theorica
Planetarum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
W. H. Donahue Book Review: The Comet Amidst the
Spheres: \booktitleThe Comet of 1577 . . 61--62
D. T. Whiteside Book Review: Cartesian Vortices:
\booktitleThe Vortex Theory of Planetary
Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Eric G. Forbes Book Review: Astronomical Journals in
Germany: \booktitleVeröffentlichungen der
Archenhold-Sternwarte Nr. 5 . . . . . . 63--64
Richard Berendzen and
Daniel Seeley Book Review: Popularising History of
Science: \booktitleThe Mind of the
Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Anonymous Astronomy Archives in Australia (1) . . 66--68
Simon Mitton Conference on Ancient Astronomy . . . . 68--71
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 72--72
R. Berendzen and
R. Hart Adriaan Van Maanen's Influence on the
Island Universe Theory: Part 2 . . . . . 73--98
David A. King Al-Khal\=\il\=\i's auxiliary tables for
solving problems of spherical astronomy 99--110
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom A Megalithic Lunar Observatory in
Orkney: The Ring of Brogar and its
Cairns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--123
Jerzy Dobrzycki The Aberdeen copy of Copernicus's
\booktitleCommentariolus (by Duncan
Liddel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
I. N. Veselovsky Copernicus and Na\ds\=\ir al-D\=\in
al-\dT\=us\=\i . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130
Ian Rodger Er Grah Identical with Bregon's Tower? 130--130
Herbert Dingle Essay Review: Sir Norman Lockyer:
\booktitleScience and Controversy: a
Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer . . . . 131--133
E. S. Kennedy Essay Review: Alpetragius's Astronomy:
\booktitleAl-Bi\dtruji: On the
Principles of Astronomy . . . . . . . . 134--136
Anonymous Essay Review: C. Doris Hellman
(1910--1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
K. A. Kazarian Book Review: Armenian Chronology:
\booktitleHistory of Chronology . . . . 137--138
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: Alhazen on Ptolemy:
\booktitleIbn al-Haytham, al-Shukuk `ala
Batlamyus (Dubitationes in Ptolemaeum) 138--139
Olaf Pedersen Book Review: an Introduction to
Copernicus: \booktitleThe Background to
Copernicus. The Copernican Revolution 139--140
Ewen A. Whitaker Book Review: Early Lunar Maps:
``\booktitleLunar Maps of the
Seventeenth Century'' . . . . . . . . . 140--141
D. G. King-Hele Book Review: Bode's Law: \booktitleThe
Titius--Bode Law of Planetary Distances:
Its History and Theory . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous Doctoral Theses . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Robert Fontenrose In Search of Vulcan . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
Valentin L. Chenakal John Bradlee and His Sundials . . . . . 159--167
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom The Kerlescan Cromlechs . . . . . . . . 168--173
Stillman Drake Galileo's ``Platonic'' cosmogony and
Kepler's \booktitleProdromus . . . . . . 174--191
Anonymous Historical Research with Planetarium . . 191--191
W. H. Donahue A Hitherto Unreported Pre-Keplerian Oval
Orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Guy C. Omer, Jr. A Reputed Portrait of Galileo by Ribera 194--195
Stanley Goldberg Essay Review: The Michelson--Morley
Experiment: \booktitleThe Etherial
Aether: a History of the
Michelson--Morley-Miller Aether-Drift
Experiments, 1880--1930 . . . . . . . . 196--199
W. H. Donahue Book Review: Understanding the Milky
Way: \booktitleThe Milky Way: an Elusive
Road for Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
K. Haramundanis Book Review: Mayan Astroarchaeology:
\booktitleDie Zeremonialzentren der Maya 201--202
Edward Rosen Book Review: Hoyle on Copernicus:
\booktitleNicolaus Copernicus . . . . . 202--203
Richard A. Jarrell Book Review: Reception of Copernicus:
\booktitleStudia Copernicana, v:
Colloquia Copernicana, I . . . . . . . . 203--204
M. A. Hoskin Book Review: Astronomy after Newton:
\booktitleAstronomical Lectures, the
Elements of Physical and Geometrical
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
J. O. Fleckenstein Book Review: \booktitleEuler, Mayer and
the Moon: The Euler-Mayer Correspondence 205--206
J. R. Ravetz Book Review: a Paradigm Case of Normal
Science: \booktitleScience at the
Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--208
Bart J. Bok Book Review: Education and History:
\booktitleEducation in and History of
Modern Astronomy, Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
A. Armitage Book Review: History to Our Own Times:
\booktitleDiscovering the Universe: a
History of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Lawrence A. Drake and
Jani Haenke Astronomy Archives in Australia (2): 1.
Archives of Riverview Observatory . . . 211--213
Anonymous Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--214
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Editorial Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv
D. T. Whiteside Keplerian Planetary Eggs, Laid and
Unlaid, 1600--1605 . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Eric G. Forbes The Foundation of the First Göttingen
Observatory: a Study in Politics and
Personalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--29
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom The Kermario Alignments . . . . . . . . 30--47
Noel Swerdlow The Origin of the Gregorian Civil
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
A. Thom A Megalithic Lunar Observatory in Islay 50--51
Norriss S. Hetherington Adriaan Van Maanen on the Significance
of Internal Motions in Spiral Nebulae 52--53
Luis de Albuquerque Essay Review: Renaissance Navigation:
\booktitleA Navigator's Universe, Libro
de Cosmographia . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Ernan McMullin Essay Review: Galileo's Methodology:
\booktitleGalileo's Intellectual
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--58
William R. Shea Essay Review: Kepler and Galileo:
\booktitleDissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo
and \booktitleNarratio de Quattuor Jovis
Stellibus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
Richard Berendzen Essay Review: Pioneer of American
Astronomy: \booktitleThe Legacy of
George Ellery Hale . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
A. Hewish Book Review: History of Radio Astronomy:
\booktitleThe Evolution of Radio
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
A. Armitage Book Review: an Historical Anthology:
\booktitleIllustrated Sources in
History: Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Heino Eelsalu Book Review: Schmidt the Optician:
\booktitleBernhard Schmidt . . . . . . . 65--65
John A. Eddy Book Review: Popular Astro-Archaeology:
\booktitleBeyond Stonehenge . . . . . . 66--66
Eric G. Forbes The Maskelyne Manuscripts at the Royal
Greenwich Observatory . . . . . . . . . 67--69
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Alexander Thom and
Archibald Stevenson Thom and
Alexander Strang Thom Stonehenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--90
Benik E. Tumanian Measurement of Time in Ancient and
Mediaeval Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . 91--98
N. A. Porter The Nova of A.D. 1006 in European and
Arab Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
Albert Van Helden Saturn and His Anses . . . . . . . . . . 105--121
John L. Russell Cosmological Teaching in the
Seventeenth-Century Scottish
Universities. I . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--132
Zdenek Horský Book Review: \booktitleNochmals Über
Kepler--Diesmal Illustriert: Johann
Kepler. Sein Leben in Bildern und
eigenen Berichten, Johannes Kepler.
Dokumente zu Leben und Werk . . . . . . 133--134
B. Rosenfeld Book Review: Biruni: \booktitleZhizn' i
Trudy Beruni (Life and Works of
al-Biruni) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Gerald S. Hawkins Book Review: Eclipses in Antiquity:
\booktitleSolar and Lunar Eclipses of
the Ancient Near East from 3000 B.C. to
0 with Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
David Pingree Book Review: \booktitleMayan Astronomy:
a Commentary on the Dresden Codex: a
Maya Hieroglyphic Book . . . . . . . . . 137--138
David Jhirad Book Review: The Concept of Time:
\booktitleWhat is Time? . . . . . . . . 138--139
Roderick Webster and
Marjorie Webster Book Review: Instruments and
Instrument-Makers: \booktitleScientific
Instruments of the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries and Their Makers 140--140
John T. Kelly Book Review: Benjamin Banneker:
\booktitleThe Life of Benjamin Banneker 140--141
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous A Computerized Checklist of Astrolabes 143--143
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 144--144
John L. Russell Cosmological Teaching in the
Seventeenth-Century Scottish
Universities. II . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154
Albert Van Helden ``Annulo Cingitur'': The Solution of the
Problem of Saturn . . . . . . . . . . . 155--174
B. L. van der Waerden The Earliest Form of the Epicycle Theory 175--185
Noel M. Swerdlow The Holograph of \booktitleDe
Revolutionibus and the Chronology of its
Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--198
F. Biraud Le souvenir du calendrier julien dans
les traditions populaires. (French) [The
memory of the Julian calendar in folk
traditions] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Edward Rosen Essay Review: Koyré in Translation:
\booktitleThe Astronomical Revolution:
Copernicus--Kepler--Borelli . . . . . . 201--203
Joseph Needham Book Review: The Jesuits in China:
\booktitleStudia Copernicana: Colloquia
Copernicana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Anonymous Copernicana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
Anonymous James Stewart Mackenzie (1719--1800) and
the Bute Mss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--214
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 214--214
Anonymous Editorial Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
David H. DeVorkin Michelson and the Problem of Stellar
Diameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Alexander Thom and
Archibald Stevenson Thom and
Alexander Strang Thom Stonehenge as a Possible Lunar
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
Bernard R. Goldstein Levi Ben Gerson's Analysis of Precession 31--41
R. J. C. Atkinson Megalithic Astronomy --- A
Prehistorian's Comments . . . . . . . . 42--52
Hermann Mucke The Planetarium as an Analogue Computer 53--57
D. T. Whiteside A Refined Computation of the Perigee
Angle in Ptolemy's Mercury Model . . . . 57--57
Curtis Wilson Essay Review: Kepler Symposium in Weil
Der Stadt: \booktitleInternationales
Kepler-Symposium, Weil der Stadt, 1971 58--62
Willy Hartner Essay Review: Copernican Biography and
Bibliography: \booktitleThree Copernican
Treatises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
Bina Chatterjee Essay Review: Astronomy in India:
\booktitleAstronomie Indienne:
Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
P. G. Kulikovsky Book Review: World Systems in Armenia:
\booktitleThe Geocentric and
Heliocentric Systems in Armenia . . . . 67--67
Brian G. Marsden Book Review: \booktitleBright Comets:
Helle Kometen -86 bis +1950: Ephemeriden
und Kurzbeschreibungen . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Hevelius's Catalogue in
Manuscript: \booktitleJohannes Hevelius
and His Catalog of Stars . . . . . . . . 69--69
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Of Bibliographical
Interest: \booktitleThe Awakening
Interest in Science during the First
Century of Printing, 1450--1550,
Milestones of Science . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Geneviéve Feuillebois Les manuscrits de la biblioth\`eque de
l'observatoire de Paris. (French) [The
manuscripts of the library of the
Observatory of Paris] . . . . . . . . . 72--74
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Alan E. Shapiro Archimedes's Measurement of the Sun's
Apparent Diameter . . . . . . . . . . . 75--83
Kristian Peder Moesgaard Tychonian Observations, Perfect Numbers,
and the Date of Creation:
Longomontanus's Solar and Precessional
Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--99
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom Further Work on the Brogar Lunar
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--114
Norriss S. Hetherington The Simultaneous `Discovery' of Internal
Motions in Spiral Nebulae . . . . . . . 115--125
A. J. Turner Essay Review: The Tragicall History of
Giovanni De' Dondi: \booktitleThe
Planetarium of Giovanni de Dondi,
Citizen of Padua . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--131
J. A. Lohne Essay Review: The Harriot Symposium:
\booktitleThomas Harriot, Renaissance
Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--134
Anonymous Essay Review: Science in India:
\booktitleA Concise History of Science
in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
Janice Henderson Book Review: Two Model Astrolabes:
\booktitleThe Astrolabe, the Astrolabe 138--140
Allan F. Cook Book Review: Research under
Difficulties: \booktitleFind a Falling
Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
M. A. Hoskin Book Review: Explaining the Milky Way:
\booktitleThe Discovery of Our Galaxy 141--142
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
Richard A. Jarrell Astronomical Archives in Canada . . . . 143--147
Anonymous American Dissertations in History of
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 148--148
J. A. Bennett Christopher Wren: Astronomy,
Architecture, and the Mathematical
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--184
Noel M. Swerdlow The Planetary Theory of François Vi\`ete.
I. The Fundamental Planetary Models . . 185--208
Christoffer Gefwert F. W. A. Argelander in Finland
(1823--1837) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--211
Emmanuel Poulle Essay Review: Science in the Middle
Ages: \booktitleA Source Book in
Medieval Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--217
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
P. R. Freeman Carnac Probabilities Corrected . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Albert Van Helden The Importance of the Transit of Mercury
of 1631 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Alexander Thom and
Archibald S. Thom and
J. M. Gorrie The Two Megalithic Lunar Observatories
at Carnac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--26
Kenneth Glyn Jones S Andromedae, 1885: an Analysis of
Contemporary Reports and a
Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--40
George A. Saliba The Double-Argument Lunar Tables of
Cyriacus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--46
M. A. Hoskin Ritchey, Curtis and the Discovery of
Novae in Spiral Nebulae . . . . . . . . 47--53
Bernard R. Goldstein Essay Review: The \booktitleAlmagest
Analysed, \booktitleA Survey of the
\booktitleAlmagest . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
D. T. Whiteside Essay Review: The Year of Kepler:
\booktitleKepler: Four Hundred Years.
Proceedings of Conferences Held in
Honour of Johannes Kepler . . . . . . . 57--61
M. A. Hoskin Book Review: Dictionary or Anthology?,
\booktitleDictionary of the History of
Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas 62--63
Norriss S. Hetherington Book Review: Recent Copernican
Revolutions, \booktitleThe Heritage of
Copernicus, Theories ``More Pleasing to
the Mind'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
Ewen A. Whitaker Book Review: Lunar Mapping,
\booktitleMapping of the Moon --- Past
and Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
J. A. Bennett Book Review: Discoverers of Nebulae,
\booktitleThe Search for the Nebulae . . 67--67
A. G. Molland Book Review: Fourteenth-Century
Astronomy, \booktitleL'Oeuvre
astronomique de Thémon Juif, ma\^\itre
parisien du XIV . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Anonymous Brief Review: Science and Society, Past,
Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Brief Review: Van Marum's Scientific
Instruments in Teyler's Museum, Part II,
Descriptive Catalogue . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
Norriss S. Hetherington New Source Material on Shapley, Van
Maanen and Lundmark . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 74--74
J. A. Bennett ``On the Power of Penetrating into
Space'': The Telescopes of William
Herschel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--108
David Pingree The Recovery of Early Greek Astronomy
from India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--123
Eric G. Forbes Early Astronomical Researches of John
Flamsteed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--138
Cicely M. Botley The Position of Supernova 1006 and the
St. Gallen Chronicle . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
William E. Dibble A Possible Pythagorean Triangle at
Stonehenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
R. J. C. Atkinson The Stonehenge Stations . . . . . . . . 142--144
Owen Gingerich Essay Review: Sixteenth-Century
Broadsides, \booktitleErschröckliche und
warhafftige Wunderzeichen 1543--1586.
Faksimiledruck von Einblattdrucken aus
der Sammlung Wikiana in der
Zentralbibliothek Zürich . . . . . . . . 145--150
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Stillman Drake Galileo's First Telescopic Observations 153--168
M. A. Hoskin The `Great Debate': What Really Happened 169--182
Alexander Thom and
Archibald S. Thom and
T. R. Foord Avebury (I): a New Assessment of the
Geometry and Metrology of the Ring . . . 183--192
Alexander Thom and
Alexander Strang Thom Avebury. (II). The West Kennet Avenue 193--197
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Kepler and the Theory of
Music: \booktitleDer Musiktheoretiker
Johannes Kepler (Neue Heidelberger
Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, Band 5) 198--201
Edward Grant Essay Review: Physical Sciences before
the Renaissance: \booktitleEarly Physics
and Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204
John B. Carlson Book Review: Archaeoastronomy in
America: \booktitleArchaeoastronomy in
Pre-Columbian America . . . . . . . . . 205--206
D. B. Herrmann Book Review: Observatories as
Architecture:
\booktitleSternwarten-Architektur und
Geschichte der Astronomischen
Observatorien (Europäische
Hochschulschriften, Reihe XXXII
Astronomie Bd. 1) . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli Book Review: Scientific Instruments:
\booktitleScientific Instruments . . . . 208--210
James MacLachlan Book Review: The Tragic Galileo:
\booktitleGalileo . . . . . . . . . . . 210--212
J. D. North Book Review: Levi's Astronomical Tables:
\booktitleThe Astronomical Tables of
Levi Ben Gerson . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
Janice Henderson Book Review: The Paris Copernicus
Symposium: \booktitleAvant, Avec,
Apr\`es Copernic. La représentation de
l'Univers et ses conséquences
épistémologiques . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
Anonymous Commission 41 at Grenoble . . . . . . . 216--224
Anonymous Angus Armitage (1902--1976) . . . . . . 224--224
Anonymous Per Collinder (1890--1975) . . . . . . . 224--224
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Willy Hartner The Rôle of Observations in Ancient and
Medieval Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
John E. Hodge Charles Dillon Perrine and the
Transformation of the Argentine National
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--25
Albert Van Helden The Development of Compound Eyepieces,
1640--1670 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--37
Owen Gingerich The 1582 ``\booktitleTheorica Orbium''
of Hieronymus Vulparius . . . . . . . . 38--43
Howard Plotkin Henry Draper, the Discovery of Oxygen in
the Sun, and the Dilemma of Interpreting
the Solar Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Robert Freer and
Jean-Luc Quinio The Kerlescan Alignments . . . . . . . . 52--54
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom A Fourth Lunar Foresight for the Brogar
Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--55
Gerald Holton Essay Review: Kepler and his Times:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler Gesammelte
Werke, Vol. XIX: Documente zu Leben und
Werk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
N. Sivin Book Review: Chinese Astronomy:
\booktitleSternkunde und Weltbild im
alten China. Gesammelte Aufsätze . . . . 59--60
Kristian Peder Moesgaard Book Review: \booktitleCopernicus
Washington Symposium: Copernicus,
Yesterday and Today . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
F. Richard Stephenson Book Review: Chronicles and the Earth's
Rotation: \booktitleAncient Astronomical
Observations and the Accelerations of
the Earth and Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Erna Hilfstein Book Review: Instruments in Copernicus's
Cracow: \booktitleInstrumenty
astronomiczne na Uniwersytecie
Krakowskim w XV wieku . . . . . . . . . 64--66
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitlePeucer's Library:
Caspar Peucer's Library: Portrait of a
Wittenberg Professor of the
Mid-Sixteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Richard S. Westfall Book Review: Newton on the Lunar Motion:
Isaac Newton's ``\booktitleTheory of the
Moon's Motion'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Astronomy and Melville's
\booktitle``Mardi'': That Lonely Game,
Melville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
Richard A. Jarrell Astronomical Archives in Canada (2) . . 71--72
Anonymous Symposium on Scientific Instruments . . 73--73
Anonymous Theses and Dissertations on the History
of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous World List of Astronomical
Observatories, Instruments and Clocks
1670--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
D. B. Herrmann Durchmusterung of Astronomical
Literature Begun . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Société Internationale de L'Astrolabe . . 76--76
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
Anonymous Instructions to Contributors . . . . . . iv--iv
M. A. Hoskin Newton, Providence and the Universe of
Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--101
Bernard R. Goldstein Levi Ben Gerson: On Instrumental Errors
and the Transversal Scale . . . . . . . 102--112
J. A. Cooke and
R. W. Few and
J. G. Morgan and
C. L. N. Ruggles Indicated Declinations at the Callanish
Megalithic Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--133
P. R. Freeman Thom's Survey of the Avebury Ring . . . 134--136
A. Wasserstein Book Review: \booktitlePythagoras, Lore
and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism 137--140
Robert Palter Book Review: \booktitleHanson on Early
Astronomy, Constellations and
Conjectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--142
Raymond Mercier Book Review: The Antikythera Mechanism,
\booktitleGears from the Greeks . . . . 143--145
Robert S. Westman Book Review: ``\booktitleDe
Revolutionibus'' in English,
\booktitleCopernicus: On the Revolutions
of the Heavenly Spheres . . . . . . . . 145--147
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Anonymous Corrigendum: [Essay Review: Kepler and
his Times] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Sir Bernard Lovell The Effects of Defence Science on the
Advance of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 151--173
Stephen C. McCluskey The Astronomy of the Hopi Indians . . . 174--195
A. J. Turner Some Comments by Caroline Herschel on
the use of the 40ft Telescope . . . . . 196--198
A. S. Thom and
T. R. Foord The Island of Eday . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
R. R. Newton Remarks on ``Hipparchus's Solar Theory
Derived from Lunar Eclipse
Observations'' by K. P. Moesgaard . . . 200--203
G. J. Toomer Essay Review: Ptolemaic Astronomy in
Islam, \booktitleDer Almagest: Die
Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius
Ptolemäus in arabischlateinischer
Überlieferung, Zur Kritik der
Koordinateniiberlieferung im
Sternkatalog des Almagest . . . . . . . 204--210
William A. Wallace Book Review: The UCLA Copernicus
Symposium, \booktitleThe Copernican
Achievement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
Woodruff T. Sullivan III Book Review: A Radio Astronomer
Reminisces, \booktitleBig Ear . . . . . 213--213
Trudy E. Bell Book Review: Harvard Pioneers,
\booktitleThe Harvard College
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Oklahoma History of Science
Catalogue, \booktitleThe Catalogue of
the History of Science Collections of
the University of Oklahoma Libraries . . 215--215
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: Baers's Astronomical
Tables, \booktitleLes tables
astronomiques de Louvain de 1528 par
Henri Baers ou Vekenstyl . . . . . . . . 216--216
Brian Warner Astronomical Archives in Southern Africa 217--222
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Stephen G. Brush A Geologist among Astronomers: The Rise
and Fall of the Chamberlin--Moulton
Cosmogony, Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 1--41
Walter G. Wesley The Accuracy of Tycho Brahe's
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--53
A. Thom and
Robert L. Merritt Some Megalithic Sites in Shetland . . . 54--60
Douglas C. Heggie Book Review: Megalithic Society:
\booktitleScience and Society in
Prehistoric Britain . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
S. R. Sarma Book Review: Sources in Sanskrit:
\booktitleCensus of the Exact Sciences
in Sanskrit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
E. S. Kennedy Book Review: \booktitleBiography of
Al-Biruni: Abu-r-Raihan al-Biruni,
973--1048 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
J. D. North Book Review: \booktitleThe Capri
Symposium: Reason, Experiment, and
Mysticism in the Scientific Revolution 67--68
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Reprint of Gunther's
\booktitleAstrolabes:
\booktitleAstrolabes of the World . . . 69--70
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: The Nebular Hypothesis in
America: \booktitleCreation by Natural
Law: Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis in
American Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Brian Warner Cape of Good Hope Royal Observatory
Papers in the Archives of the Royal
Greenwich Observatory . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Anonymous International Symposium on Christiaan
Huygens (1629--1695), Amsterdam, August
1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Stephen G. Brush A Geologist among Astronomers: The Rise
and Fall of the Chamberlin--Moulton
Cosmogony, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 77--104
Vincent H. Malmström A Reconstruction of the Chronology of
Mesoamerican Calendrical Systems . . . . 105--116
Terrie F. Bloom Borrowed Perceptions: Harriot's Maps of
the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--122
Umberto Dall'Olmo Meteors, Meteor Showers and Meteorites
in the Middle Ages: From European
Medieval Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--134
Michael Hoskin Essay Review: Lambert's Cosmology,
\booktitleCosmological Letters on the
Arrangement of the World-Edifice,
Lettres cosmologiques sur l'Organisation
de l'Univers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--139
Michael Hoskin Lambert and Herschel . . . . . . . . . . 140--142
J. R. Shakeshaft Book Review: \booktitleJodrell Bank and
Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--145
David H. Kelley Book Review: \booktitleInterpreting Maya
Lintels, Verhandlungen der
Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Basel . . 145--146
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Regiomontanus Facsimiles,
\booktitleJoannis Regiomontani Opera
Collectanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
John L. McKnight Book Review: Benjamin Martin,
\booktitleBenjamin Martin: Author,
Instrument-Maker and ``Country Showman'' 147--149
B. L. van der Waerden Book Review: Greek Astronomy,
\booktitleTheorien und Ansätze in der
griechischen Astronomie . . . . . . . . 149--150
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Anonymous Bernhard Sticker (1906--1977) . . . . . 153--153
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Ewan A. Whitaker Galileo's Lunar Observations and the
Dating of the Composition of
``\booktitleSidereus Nuncius'' . . . . . 155--169
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom A Reconsideration of the Lunar Sites in
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--179
Simon Schaffer The Phoenix of Nature: Fire and
Evolutionary Cosmology in Wright and
Kant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--200
Willy Hartner Essay Review: Mathematical Astronomy in
Antiquity, \booktitleA History of
Ancient Mathematical Astronomy . . . . . 201--212
David A. King Essay Review: Islamic Mathematics and
Astronomy, \booktitleIslamic Science: an
Illustrated Study . . . . . . . . . . . 212--219
Derek de Solla Price Book Review: Richard of Wallingford,
\booktitleRichard of Wallingford: an
Edition of his Writings with
Introductions, English Translation and
Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Sharon Gibbs Book Review: an Astrolabe Kit and
Booklet, \booktitleThe Planispheric
Astrolabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Calendars, \booktitleTime
and the Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
E. Robert Paul Book Review: The Nature of the Nebulae,
\booktitleMan Discovers the Galaxies . . 222--224
Norriss S. Hetherington Book Review: Percival Lowell,
\booktitleLowell and Mars . . . . . . . 224--225
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Index to volume 9 . . . . . . . . . . . 228--230
Anonymous Erratum: [Meteors, Meteor Showers and
Meteorites in the Middle Ages: From
European Medieval Sources] . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous The Archaeoastronomy Supplements . . . . iv--iv
Willy Hartner The Young Avestan and Babylonian
Calendars and the Antecedents of
Precession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
Michael Hoskin Goodricke, Pigott and the Quest for
Variable Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--41
Simon Schaffer John Michell and Black Holes . . . . . . 42--43
W. H. Donahue Essay Review: Works Ascribed to Galileo,
\booktitleGalileo against the
Philosophers in his ``\booktitleDialogue
of Cecco di Ronchitti'' (1605) and
``\booktitleConsiderations of Alimberto
Mauri'' (1606) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Book Review: \booktitleEarly Records of
Supernovae, the Historical Supernovae 47--50
George Saliba Book Review: Biruni's Mathematical
Geography, \booktitleA Commentary upon
Biruni's Kitab Ta\dhdid al-'Amakin . . . 50--51
David A. King Book Review: \booktitleAn Islamic
Astronomical Instrument, the Da'ire-yi
Mu'addel of Seydi `Ali Re'is . . . . . . 51--53
William R. Shea Book Review: Hermes and Copernicus,
\booktitleHermeticism and the Scientific
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
William A. Blanpied Book Review: \booktitleJai Singh's
Observatories, Stone Observatories in
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57
David C. Lindberg Book Review: The Invention of the
Telescope, the \booktitleInvention of
the Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
A. Przybylski Book Review: Astronomy in Poland,
\booktitleHistoria Astronomii w Polsce
(History of Astronomy in Poland) . . . . 58--61
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: John Flamsteed's Lectures,
\booktitleThe Gresham Lectures of John
Flamsteed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Brian Warner Book Review: The Study of Southern
Skies, \booktitleThe Astronomy of
Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
Seth G. Atwood Book Review: ``Longitude'' Harrison,
\booktitleThe Lost Science of John
``Longitude'' Harrison . . . . . . . . . 65--66
Guy C. Omer, Jr. Book Review: Astronomers in Distant
Lands, \booktitleThe Whisper and the
Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Joseph Ashbrook Book Review: Astronomy after Herschel,
\booktitleGeschichte der Astronomie von
Herschel bis Hertzsprung . . . . . . . . 67--69
Joseph Ashbrook Book Review: Noctilucent Clouds,
\booktitleEntwicklungsphasen der
Erforschung der Leuchtenden Nachtwolken 69--70
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--72
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 73--74
Stillman Drake Galileo and Satellite Prediction . . . . 75--95
Walter G. Wesley Tycho Brahe's Solar Observations . . . . 96--101
M. E. W. Williams Flamsteed's alleged measurement of
annual parallax for the Pole Star . . . 102--116
William Shea Essay Review: Improving on Copernicus,
\booktitleThe Ash Wednesday Supper . . . 117--122
D. W. Dewhirst Essay Review: Time and Place,
\booktitleFrancis Place and the Early
History of the Greenwich Observatory . . 122--126
Olaf Pedersen Book Review: Albertus (?) on Astronomy,
\booktitleAlberto Magno: Speculum
Astronomiae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
P. L. Rose Book Review: Fictional Copernicus,
\booktitleDoctor Copernicus . . . . . . 128--128
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: The Washington Copernicus
Symposium, \booktitleThe Nature of
Scientific Discovery . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
G. L'E. Turner Book Review: Historic Instruments in
Stockholm, \booktitleThe Chamber of
Physics. Instruments in the History of
Sciences Collections of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm 130--131
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 132--132
R. W. Smith The origins of the velocity--distance
relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--165
Michael Hoskin William Herschel's Early Investigations
of Nebulae: a Reassessment . . . . . . . 165--176
G. L'E. Turner The Number Code on Reflecting Telescopes
by Nairne and Blunt . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
Emmanuel Poulle Essay Review: Jordanus on the Astrolabe:
\booktitleJordanus de Nemore and the
Mathematics of Astrolabes: De plana
spera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--188
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Anonymous Commission 41 at the Montreal
International Astronomical Union
Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--192
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Index to volume 10 . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Anonymous Cumulative Indices to Volumes 1--10 . . 195--206
Anonymous Instructions to Contributors . . . . . . i--i
William B. Ashworth, Jr. A Probable Flamsteed Observation of the
Cassiopeia A Supernova . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Umberto Dall'Olmo Latin Terminology Relating to Aurorae,
Comets, Meteors and Novae . . . . . . . 10--27
Eric G. Forbes Tobias Mayer's Contributions to
Observational Astronomy . . . . . . . . 28--49
B. L. van der Waerden Two Treatises on Indian Astronomy . . . 50--62
A. T. Grafton Essay Review: Copernicus without Tears,
\booktitleIntroductions \`a l'astronomie
de Copernic. Le Commentariolus de
Copernic. La Narratio prima de Rheticus 63--68
J. Derral Mulholland Book Review: Planets and Their
Inhabitants, Planets and Planetarians:
\booktitleA History of Theories of the
Origin of Planetary Systems . . . . . . 68--69
Winfried Petri Book Review: Tibetan Calendars,
\booktitleUntersuchungen zur Geschichte
der tibetischen Kalenderrechnung . . . . 69--72
Silvio A. Bedini Book Review: Ready-to-Assemble
Instruments, \booktitleA Trilogy of Time
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Mapping the Skies,
\booktitleThe Sky Explored . . . . . . . 73--75
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 75--76
K. Imaeda and
T. Kiang The Japanese Record of the Guest-Star of
1408 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80
Simon Schaffer ``The Great Laboratories of the
Universe'': William Herschel on Matter
Theory and Planetary Life . . . . . . . 81--111
William B. Forbush III Johann Schroeter on the Light of the
Nebulae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
John L. Speller Astronomical Manuscript from the Library
of Oriel College, Oxford . . . . . . . . 113--113
Michel-Pierre Lerner ``Sicut Nodus in Tabula'': de la
rotation propre du soleil au seizi\`eme
si\`ecle. (French) [``As a node on the
Board'': on the proper rotation of the
Sun in the Sixteenth Century] . . . . . 114--129
John Lankford A Note on T. J. J. See's Observations of
Craters on Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
Kristian Peder Moesgaard Book Review: \booktitlePtolemy's
Failings, the Crime of Claudius Ptolemy 133--135
Frederick W. Sawyer III Book Review: Catalogue of Greek and
Roman Sundials, \booktitleGreek and
Roman Sundials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
David Pingree Book Review: Edition of a Commentary by
Theon, \booktitleLe ``Petit
Commentaire'' de Théon d'Alexandrie aux
Tables Faciles de Ptolémée . . . . . . . . 137--138
J. D. North Book Review: a Sixteenth Century
Polymath, \booktitleWilhelm Schickard,
1592--1635: Astronom, Geograph,
Orientalist, Erfinder der Rechenmaschine 138--140
Owen Gingerich Book Review: James Logan's Library,
\booktitleThe Library of James Logan of
Philadelphia, 1674--1751 . . . . . . . . 140--141
Stillman Drake Book Review: a Koestler-Type
Popularization, \booktitleThis Wild
Abyss: The Story of the Men Who Made
Modern Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
M. A. Hoskin Joachim Otto Fleckenstein (1914--1980) 144--145
Anonymous Umberto Dall'Olmo (1925--1980) . . . . . 145--145
Michael Hoskin and
Owen Gingerich On Writing the History of Modern
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Julie Morgan The Huggins Archives at Wellesley
College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous North American Theses and Dissertations
on the History of Astronomy . . . . . . 148--151
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Michael Hoskin Herschel's Determination of the Solar
Apex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--163
Kunitomo Sakurai The Solar Activity in the Time of
Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--173
Richard L. Kremer Bernard Walther's astronomical
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--191
Paul Kunitzsch Two Star Tables from Muslim Spain . . . 192--201
Anonymous Joseph Ashbrook (1918--1980) . . . . . . 201--201
John A. Eddy Book Review: History in the Service of
Astronomy, \booktitleApplications of
Early Astronomical Records . . . . . . . 202--204
G. E. R. Lloyd Book Review: Colloquium on Ancient
Astronomy, \booktitleL'Astronomie dans
l'Antiquité Classique . . . . . . . . . . 204--205
Mark Burnette Book Review: Dee on Celestial
Influences, \booktitleJohn Dee on
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
P. G. Kulikovskij Book Review: Two Great Astronomers,
\booktitleThe Star Atlas . . . . . . . . 207--208
Richard Kremer Book Review: Astronomy in Nuremberg,
\booktitle600 Jahre Astronomie in
Nürnberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--210
Derek Howse Book Review: Nautical Astronomy on
Microfiche, \booktitleA History of
Nautical Astronomical Tables . . . . . . 210--212
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Jost Bürgi at Kassel,
\booktitleDie erste Sternwarte Europas
mit ihren Instrumenten und Uhren. 400
Jahre Jost Bürgi in Kassel . . . . . . . 212--213
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: Newton and Flamsteed, the
Correspondence of Isaac Newton,
\booktitleThe Correspondence of Isaac
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Marc Rothenberg Book Review: Astronomers at the Cape
Observatory, \booktitleAstronomers at
the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good
Hope: a History with Emphasis on the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Donald E. Osterbrock Book Review: \booktitleAstronomy in the
Twentieth Century, a Source Book in
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900--1975 215--217
Arthur I. Miller Book Review: Anti-Einstein,
\booktitleThe Einstein Myth and the Ives
Papers: a Counter-Revolution in Physics 217--218
D. B. Herrmann Book Review: an Illustrated
Introduction, \booktitleMan's View of
the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Deborah Jean Warner Book Review: a Distinguished Amateur,
\booktitleStarlight Nights . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous Bibliography of Dissertations on the
History of Astronomy in the USSR after
the Second World War . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 225--226
William B. Ashworth, Jr. Halley's Discovery of NGC 6231 and the
Hazards of Early Star Nomenclature . . . 1--10
Simon Schaffer Uranus and the Establishment of
Herschel's Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 11--26
Michael Hoskin and
Brian Warner Caroline Herschel's Comet Sweepers . . . 27--34
Noel M. Swerdlow On Establishing the Text of
``\booktitleDe Revolutionibus'' . . . . 35--46
Owen Gingerich An Early Tradition of an Extended Errata
List for Copernicus's ``\booktitleDe
Revolutionibus'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--52
Owen Gingerich and
Robert S. Westman A Reattribution of the Tychonic
Annotations in Copies of Copernicus's
``\booktitleDe Revolutionibus'' . . . . 53--54
David A. King Essay Review: Early Islamic Astronomy:
\booktitleGeschichte des arabischen
Schrifttums, Band VI: Astronomie bis ca.
430H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--59
N. T. Hamilton and
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Judgement on Ptolemy:
\booktitleAncient Planetary Observations
and the Validity of Ephemeris Time . . . 59--63
O. Neugebauer Book Review: Translation of Cleomedes's
Handbook: \booktitleCléom\`ede: Théorie
élémentaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Almanacs and Society:
\booktitleEnglish Almanacs 1500--1800:
Astrology & the Popular Press . . . . . . 65--66
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Thomas Wright as Architect:
\booktitleArbours & Grottos . . . . . . . 66--67
Eric G. Forbes Book Review: Humboldt--Schumacher
Correspondence: \booktitleBriefwechsel
zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und
Heinrich Christian Schumacher. Zum 200.
Geburtstag von H. C. Schumacher . . . . 67--68
Gibson Reaves Book Review: The Discovery of Pluto:
\booktitlePlanets X and Pluto . . . . . 68--69
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Hegel's Dissertation:
\booktitleLes orbites des plan\`etes . . 69--71
Humphry M. Smith Book Review: Timekeeping in Canada:
\booktitleThe Beginning of the Long
Dash: a History of Timekeeping in Canada 71--72
Peter Muller Book Review: Observatories Illustrated:
\booktitleSternwarten der Welt . . . . . 72--73
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Book Review: M. Bunge and W. R. Shea,
\booktitleRutherford and Physics at the
Turn of the Century . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 75--76
E. Robert Paul The Death of a Research Programme:
Kapteyn and the Dutch Astronomical
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--94
Wolfgang Kokott The Comet of 1533 . . . . . . . . . . . 95--112
Olaf Pedersen The Origins of the ``\booktitleTheorica
Planetarum'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123
Richard L. Kremer The Use of Bernard Walther's
Astronomical Observations: Theory and
Observation in Early Modern Astronomy 124--132
F. Richard Stephenson and
Michael A. Houlden The Accuracy of Tuckerman's Solar and
Planetary Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--138
William Graves Hoyt T. J. J. See and Mercurian Craters . . . 139--142
A. Hayli Essay Review: Cosmology in Context:
\booktitleCosmology, History, and
Theology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--148
David Pingree Book Review: The ``Little Astronomy'' of
Autolycos: \booktitleLa sph\`ere en
mouvement. Levers et couchers héliaques.
Testimonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Richard Berendzen Book Review: Why Bother with Astronomy?:
\booktitleMan and the Stars . . . . . . 149--150
Edward Rosen Book Review: Galileo in Outline:
\booktitleGalileo . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Royal Society Portraits:
\booktitleThe Royal Society Catalogue of
Portraits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Ian R. Bartky and
Steven J. Dick The First Time Balls . . . . . . . . . . 155--164
J. A. Bennett Cosmology and the Magnetical Philosophy,
1640--1680 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--177
J.-P. Brunet and
R. Nadal Durées de lever et de coucher des signes
du zodiaque. (French) [Times of sunrise
and sunset of the zodiac signs] . . . . 178--194
J. A. Bennett A Surviving Flat from William Lassell's
Four-Foot Equatorial Newtonian Telescope 195--197
G. J. Toomer Essay Review: Copernicus in Translation:
\booktitleNicholas Copernicus on the
Revolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--204
Ray M. Hively Essay Review: Pre-Columbian Astronomy:
\booktitleSkywatchers of Ancient Mexico 204--207
D. J. Bryden Book Review: Astronomical Clockwork:
\booktitleGeared to the Stars . . . . . 207--209
Alice Stroup Book Review: Early Modern Clocks:
\booktitleThe Clockwork Universe . . . . 209--211
P. G. Kulikovskij Book Review: Science at Samarkand:
\booktitleFrom the History of Science in
the Time of Ulugh Beg . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Star of Bethlehem:
\booktitleThe Star of Bethlehem: an
Astronomer's Confirmation, Der Stern der
Weisen: Geschichte oder Legende?, the
Star of Bethlehem: a List of References 212--213
A. J. Meadows Book Review: Astrology in the British
Library: \booktitleAstrology . . . . . . 213--214
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
J. A. Bennett and
Michael Hoskin The Rosse Papers and Instruments . . . . 216--229
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 229--230
F. Graham Smith and
J. Dudley The Isaac Newton Telescope . . . . . . . 1--18
O. Neugebauer A Greek Arithmetical Method for Finding
Oblique Ascensions . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
John D. Weir The Venus Tablets: a Fresh Approach . . 23--49
Ian R. Bartky and
Steven J. Dick The First North American Time Ball . . . 50--54
James W. Montgomery, Jr. Nathaniel Bowditch's Classical ``Black
Hole'' Calculation of 1808 . . . . . . . 54--55
J. D. North Essay Review: Poulle on Equatoria:
\booktitleLes Instruments de la Théorie
des Plan\`etes selon Ptolémée: Équatoires
et Horlogerie Planétaire du XIII e au XVI
e si\`ecle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--60
Curtis Wilson Essay Review: Kepler's ``Mysterium'' in
Translation: \booktitleMysterium
Cosmographicum --- The Secret of the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
E. J. Aiton Book Review: Early Biographies of
Copernicus: \booktitleStarowolski's
Biographies of Copernicus (Studia
Copernicana, XXI) . . . . . . . . . . . 62--64
E. S. Kennedy Book Review: The Istanbul Symposium:
\booktitleOn the Observatories in Islam 64--66
Michael Shank Book Review: The Regiomontanus
Symposium:
\booktitleRegiomontanus--Studien . . . . 66--67
William Donahue Book Review: The Galileo of the
``Dialogue'': \booktitleGalileo and the
Art of Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Greenwich Time:
\booktitleGreenwich Time and the
Discovery of the Longitude . . . . . . . 69--70
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: G. K. Gilbert:
\booktitleGrove Karl Gilbert . . . . . . 71--72
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Mayer's Life and Work:
\booktitleTobias Mayer (1723--62):
Pioneer of Enlightened Science in
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Theses and Dissertations on the History
of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
Anonymous Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli (1917--1981) 74--74
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 75--76
R. D'E. Atkinson The Eros Parallax, 1930--31 . . . . . . 77--83
John S. Reid The Castlehill Observatory, Aberdeen . . 84--96
Michael Hoskin The First Drawing of a Spiral Nebula . . 97--101
Gerald S. Hawkins and
David A. King On the Orientation of the KA c BA . . . 102--109
Th. Weimer Une instrument en voie de disparition:
l'équatorial coude. (French) [An
endangered instrument: the elbow
equatorial] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--118
D. W. Dewhirst A Note on Polar Refractors . . . . . . . 119--120
David A. King and
Owen Gingerich Some astronomical observations from
Thirteenth-Century Egypt . . . . . . . . 121--128
Derek deS. Price Essay Review: Instruments in the British
Museum: \booktitleA Catalogue of
European Scientific Instruments in the
Department of Medieval and Later
Antiquities of the British Museum . . . 129--132
John A. Eddy Book Review: Ancient Records under
Attack: \booktitleThe Moon's
Acceleration and its Physical Origins 133--135
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Einstein's Special Theory
Analysed: \booktitleAlbert Einstein's
Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence
(1905) and Early Interpretation
(1905--1911) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
William Donahue Book Review: a Novelist's Kepler:
\booktitleKepler . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Kenneth R. Lang Book Review: The Discovery of Pluto:
\booktitleOut of the Darkness: The
Planet Pluto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
J. A. Bennett Book Review: The Huygens Symposium:
\booktitleStudies on Christiaan Huygens 138--139
Simon Schaffer Book Review: Astronomy in History:
\booktitleThe View from Planet Earth:
Man Looks at the Cosmos . . . . . . . . 139--141
E. Robert Paul Book Review: Festschrift for Oort:
\booktitleOort and the Universe . . . . 141--142
Sharon Gibbs Book Review: Your Very Own Nocturnal:
\booktitleMake-it-Yourself Nocturnal . . 142--143
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
Anonymous Book Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Michael Hoskin Archives of Dunsink and Markree
Observatories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--152
Anonymous Archives of Greenwich Observatory . . . 153--153
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 153--154
William Graves Hoyt G. K. Gilbert's Contribution to
Selenology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--167
Nicholas Jardine The Significance of the Copernican ORBS 168--194
S. J. Goldstein, Jr. Problems Raised by Ptolemy's Lunar
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205
J. A. Bennett The First Aplanatic Object Glass . . . . 206--208
Richard Berendzen Essay Review: Stellar Astronomy:
\booktitleStellar Astronomy: Historical
Studies, the Expanding Universe:
Astronomy's `Great Debate' 1900--1931 209--211
William B. Ashworth, Jr. Book Review: an Observer's Atlas:
\booktitleSky Atlas 2000$ \cdot $0 . . . 212--213
Jasminko Mulaomerovi\'c Book Review: \booktitleBuilding in Time:
Number from the Light --- The Old
Croatian Church of the Holy Cross at Nin 213--214
Eric G. Forbes Book Review: an Illustrated General
History: \booktitleWandel des
Weltbildes: Astronomie, Physik und
Mesztechnik in der Kulturgeschichte . . 214--215
Richard Kremer Book Review: Geophysics and the
Philosophers:
\booktitleDisziplingeschichte als
wissenschaftliche Selbstsreflexion der
historischen Wissenschaftsforschung.
Eine Darstellung unter Heranziehung von
Fallstudien der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
der Geophysik . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--217
G. R. Evans Book Review: Space and Vacuum:
\booktitleMuch Ado about Nothing:
Theories of Space and Vacuum from the
Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution 217--218
Stephen McCluskey Book Review: Calculators for
Astronomers: \booktitleMathematical
Astronomy with a Pocket Calculator,
\booktitlePractical Astronomy with Your
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--220
Zdenek Horský Book Review: Renaissance Cosmological
Diagrams: \booktitleThe Cosmographical
Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--222
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Biographies in Brief:
\booktitleConcise Dictionary of
Scientific Biography . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Nova of 1572 and
Tycho's Hand: \booktitleLibro del Nuevo
Cometa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225
Roderick S. Webster and
Marjorie Webster Book Review: an Instrument Collector's
Guide: \booktitleAntique Scientific
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225
K. S. Shukla Book Review: The Exact Sciences in
Sanskrit: \booktitleCensus of the Exact
Sciences in Sanskrit . . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Owen Gingerich IAU Commission 41 at Patras . . . . . . 227--228
Ray Hively and
Robert Horn Geometry and Astronomy in Prehistoric
Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S1--S20
C. L. N. Ruggles A Reassessment of the High Precision
Megalithic Lunar Sightlines, 1:
Backsights, Indicators and the
Archaeological Status of the Sightlines S21--S40
J. P. Parisot and
P. Petrequin Orientation astronomique des tombes
mérovingiennes du cimétiére de Soyria
(Jura). (French) [Astronomical
orientation of Merovingian tombs in the
cemetery of Soyria (Jura)] . . . . . . . S41--S48
G. Rosenfeldt A Statistical Analysis of Some Palenque
Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S49--S67
Douglas C. Heggie Book Review: \booktitleAstronomy and
Society in Britain during the Period
4000--1500 B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . S68--S71
Aubrey Burl Book Review: Megalithic Science:
\booktitleAncient Mathematics and
Astronomy in North-West Europe . . . . . S71--S72
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . S72--S72
Anonymous Newham and Stonehenge . . . . . . . . . S73--S74
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S75--S75
Olaf Pedersen Galileo and the Council of Trent: The
Galileo Affair Revisited . . . . . . . . 1--29
Robert W. Smith William Lassell and the Discovery of
Neptune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Emmanuel Poulle L'horloge planétaire de la cathédrale de
Strasbourg. (French) [The planetary
clock of the Cathedral of Strasbourg] 33--46
Kristian Peder Moesgaard Ancient Ephemeris Time in Babylonian
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60
Robert A. Hatch Book Review: Huygens in Paris:
\booktitleHuygens et la France . . . . . 61--62
David A. King Book Review: Bio-Bibliographies of
Muslim Astronomers: \booktitleDie
Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber
und ihre Werke . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Michael Hoskin Book Review: The Isis Bibliography by
Periods: \booktitleIsis Cumulative
Bibliography, volumes IV and V:
Civilizations and Periods . . . . . . . 63--64
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Applied History:
\booktitleCosmic Discovery: The Search,
Scope and Heritage of Astronomy . . . . 64--65
John Hedley Brooke Book Review: Other Worlds Than Ours:
\booktitlePlurality of Worlds: The
Extraterrestrial Life Debate from
Democritus to Kant . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
H. Eelsalu Book Review: Schmidt and the Potsdam
Observatory: \booktitleDie Jugendjahre
von Bernhard Schmidt und sein
Briefwechsel mit dem Potsdamer
Observatorium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Plates from the Sixteenth
Century: \booktitlePoklady Starého
Hvezdarstvi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Eric G. Forbes Book Review: The History of Geodesy:
\booktitleErdgestalt, Kosmologie und
Weltanschauung: Die Geschichte der
Geodäsie als Teil der Kulturgeschichte
der Menschheit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69
S. R. C. Malin and
D. Gubbins The Need for Archival Magnetic
Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--75
John Lankford Photography and the Long-Focus Visual
Refractor: Three American Case Studies,
1885--1914 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91
Stephen C. McCluskey Maya Observations of Very Long Periods
of Venus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--101
Anonymous Ejnar Hertzsprung Archive . . . . . . . 101--101
David H. DeVorkin and
Ralph Kenat Quantum Physics and the Stars (I): The
Establishment of a Stellar Temperature
Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--132
Allan Chapman The Accuracy of Angular Measuring
Instruments Used in Astronomy between
1500 and 1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--137
Albert van Helden Roemer's Speed of Light . . . . . . . . 137--141
Kurt Locher A Further Coffin-Lid with a Diagonal
Star-Clock from the Egyptian Middle
Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--144
F. Jamil Ragep Book Review: Biruni Remembered:
\booktitleAl-Biruni Commemorative Volume 144--146
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Post-Galilean Bibliography:
\booktitleThe History of Modern
Astronomy and Astrophysics: a Selected,
Annotated Bibliography . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: Source Materials for
Medieval Astronomy: \booktitleLes
Sources Astronomiques: Textes, Tables,
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: a Young Person's Guide to
History of Astronomy: \booktitleVesmir
(The Universe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Helmuth Grössing Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century
Astronomical and Mathematical
Manuscripts in the Austrian National
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--151
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Corrigenda: [``The Significance of the
Copernican ORBS'' and ``L'horloge
planétaire de la cathédrale de
Strasbourg''] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
F. Graham Smith and
Bernard Lovell On the Discovery of Extragalactic Radio
Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
Wilbur Applebaum and
Robert A. Hatch Boulliau, Mercator, and Horrocks's
``\booktitleVenus in Sole Visa'': Three
Unpublished Letters . . . . . . . . . . 166--179
David H. DeVorkin and
Ralph Kenat Quantum Physics and the Stars (II):
Henry Norris Russell and the Abundances
of the Elements in the Atmospheres of
the Sun and Stars . . . . . . . . . . . 180--222
Mary Ellen Bowden Book Review: Kepler as Astrologer:
\booktitleKepler astronome astrologue 223--225
Paolo Galluzzi Book Review: Galileo the Scientist:
\booktitleGalileo at Work: His
Scientific Biography . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
J. D. North Book Review: a Fourteenth-Century
Calendar: \booktitleThe Kalendarium of
Nicholas of Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Peter J. Huber Book Review: Planetary Positions:
\booktitleEphemeriden von Sonne, Mond
und hellen Planeten von -1000 bis -601 228--229
C. L. N. Ruggles A Reassessment of the High Precision
Megalithic Lunar Sightlines, 2:
Foresights and the Problem of Selection S1--S36
D. S. P. Dearborn and
R. E. White The ``Torreon'' of Machu Picchu as an
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S37--S49
J. Patrick and
P. R. Freeman Revised Surveys of Cork--Kerry Stone
Circles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S50--S56
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom Observation of the Moon in Megalithic
Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S57--S66
E. C. Krupp Book Review: Archaeoastronomy in the Old
World, \booktitleArchaeoastronomy in the
New World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S67--S70
David H. Kelley Book Review: The Paris Codex:
\booktitleDecoding an Astronomical
Ephemeris, Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society . . . . . . . . . S70--S72
Stephen C. McCluskey Book Review: At the Crossroads of the
Earth and the Sky: \booktitleAn Andean
Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S72--S73
J. Derral Mulholland Book Review: \booktitleArchaeoastronomy
in the Americas. Edited by Ray A.
Williamson (Ballena Press, Los Altos,
California, 1981). Pp. 405. \$19.95
(paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S73--S75
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S75--S76
Robert W. Smith and
Richard Baum William Lassell and the Ring of Neptune:
a Case Study in Instrumental Failure . . 1--17
D. J. Schove Maya Correlations, Moon Ages and
Astronomical Cycles . . . . . . . . . . 18--29
D. J. Schove Addendum: [Maya Correlations, Moon Ages
and Astronomical Cycles] . . . . . . . . 29--29
Noel M. Swerdlow On the Retrogradations of Planets . . . 30--32
Kurt Locher Ptolemy's Ivy Leaf . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34
A. H. Cook The Election of Edmond Halley to the
Savilian Professorship of Geometry . . . 34--36
Curtis Wilson Essay Review: The Sources of Ptolemy's
Parameters: \booktitleThe Origins of
Ptolemy's Astronomical Parameters . . . 37--47
David Pingree Book Review: Hindu Astronomy:
\booktitleThe Súrya Siddhánta, or An
Ancient System of Hindu Astronomy. With
the Exposition of Ranganátha, the
Gú\ddhártha-praká'saka, the Súrya Siddhánta,
or An Ancient System of Hindu Astronomy.
Followed by the Siddhánta Siromani . . . 47--48
Charles S. F. Burnett Book Review: The Zodiac in Antiquity:
\booktitleDie Eigenschaften der
Tierkreiszeichen in der Antike . . . . . 48--50
Jasminko Mulaomerovi\'c Book Review: Ten Centuries of Astronomy
in Croatia (Yugoslavia):
\booktitleProvijest egzaktnih znanosti u
Hrvata (The History of Exact Sciences of
the Croats) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Kepler in Graz:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler und Graz . . . 52--52
G. L'E. Turner Book Review: Early Testing of
Telescopes: \booktitleDivini and
Campani: a Forgotten Chapter in the
History of the Accademia del Cimento . . 52--54
J. A. Bennett Book Review: Seventeenth-Century English
Astronomers: \booktitleThree North
Country Astronomers . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Mordechai Feingold Book Review: Wren as Scientist:
\booktitleThe Mathematical Science of
Christopher Wren . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--58
Victor E. Thoren Book Review: Flamsteed and His Star
Catalogue: \booktitleThe Preface to John
Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis
Britannica or British Catalogue of the
Heavens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
Gibson Reaves Book Review: Discovering Planets:
\booktitleUranus and the Outer Planets,
the Planet Pluto . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Susan McKenna-Lawlor and
Michael Hoskin Correspondence of Markree Observatory 64--68
Michael Hoskin Astronomical Correspondence of William
Rowan Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--73
Donald E. Osterbrock Mary Lea Shane (1897--1983) . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 75--76
R. Hooykaas Rheticus's Lost Treatise on Holy
Scripture and the Motion of the Earth 77--80
Donald E. Osterbrock The Rise and Fall of Edward S. Holden:
Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--127
Owen Gingerich A Tusi Couple from Schöner's \booktitleDe
Revolutionibus? . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--133
S. J. Goldstein, Jr. Corrections to: ``Problems raised by
Ptolemy's lunar tables'' [J. Hist.
Astronom. \bf 13 (1982), no. 3,
195--205; MR0685069 (84i:01021)] . . . . 134--135
Emmanuel Poulle Essay Review: Two Medieval Texts:
Medieval Mensurations:
``\booktitleQuadrans vetus'' and
``\booktitleGeometrie Due sunt partes
principales'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--138
Barbara L. Welther Book Review: Topics in Brief:
\booktitleDictionary of the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Frank K. Edmondson Book Review: Observatory at Kitt Peak:
\booktitleRealm of the Long Eyes: a
Brief History of the Kitt Peak National
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--141
Martin Harwit Book Review: The Literature of
Cosmology: \booktitleDer Mythos der
Neuzeit: Das Thema der Mehrheit der
Welten in der Literaturund
Geistesgeschichte von der
Kopernikanischen Wende bis zur Science
Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Wayne Orchiston Book Review: Last Years of Sydney
Observatory: \booktitleSydney
Observatory 1958 to 1981 . . . . . . . . 142--143
Robert Palter Book Review: Cosmology in Outline:
\booktitleFrame of the Universe . . . . 143--144
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
G. J. Toomer Obituary: A. J. Sachs (1914--1983) . . . 146--149
Donald E. Osterbrock The Rise and Fall of Edward S. Holden:
Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--176
Gustav Teres Time Computations and Dionysius Exiguus 177--188
David W. Hughes and
Andrew Drummond Edmond Halley's Observations of Halley's
Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--197
Stillman Drake Galileo, Kepler, and Phases of Venus . . 198--208
Owen Gingerich Phases of Venus in 1610 . . . . . . . . 209--210
William T. Peters The Appearances of Venus and Mars in
1610 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214
Helmut Drubba Book Review: Spherical Harmonies:
\booktitleDie Harmonie der Sphären: Die
Geschichte der Idee des Welteneinklangs
und der Seeleneinstimmung . . . . . . . 215--215
Stillman Drake Book Review: Galileian Biographies:
\booktitleGalileo Galilei,
\booktitleGalileo Galilei . . . . . . . 215--216
Kenneth R. Lang Book Review: Mercury's Anomalous Motion:
\booktitleMercury's Perihelion from Le
Verrier to Einstein . . . . . . . . . . 216--218
Michael Hoskin Book Review: James Ferguson's
Publications: \booktitleA Bibliography
of James Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
William Graves Hoyt Book Review: Meteor Crater, Arizona:
\booktitleHeroic Efforts at Meteor
Crater, Arizona: Selected Correspondence
between Daniel Moreau Barringer and
Elihu Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Richard S. Westfall Book Review: Galileo's So-Called
``Juvenilia'': \booktitleGalileo's Early
Notebooks: The Physical Questions . . . 220--221
Anonymous Book Review: The 1979 Einstein
Centennial: \booktitleSome Strangeness
in the Proportion: a Centennial
Celebration to Celebrate the
Achievements of Albert Einstein, to
Fulfill a Vision: Jerusalem Einstein
Centennial Symposium on Gauge Theories
and Unification of Physical Forces . . . 222--222
Anonymous Book Review: The 1979 Einstein
Centennial: \booktitleAlbert Einstein:
Historical and Cultural Perspectives . . 222--222
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The 1979 Einstein
Centennial: \booktitleEinstein, the
First Hundred Years . . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Ray Hively and
Robert Horn Hopewellian Geometry and Astronomy at
High Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S85--S100
C. L. N. Ruggles and
N. J. Saunders The Interpretation of the Pecked Cross
Symbols at Teotihuacan: a Methodological
Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S101--S110
G. Rosenfeldt A Statistical Method of Evaluating
Megalithic Observatories . . . . . . . . S111--S118
Steven C. Haack The Astronomical Orientation of the
Egyptian Pyramids . . . . . . . . . . . S119--S125
Virendra Nath Sharma The Great Astrolabe of Jaipur and its
Sister Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S126--S128
A. Thom and
A. S. Thom The Two Major Megalithic Observatories
in Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S129--S148
Evan Hadingham Book Review: \booktitleCrystals in the
Sky: An Intellectual Odyssey Involving
Chumash Astronomy, Cosmology and Rock
Art, Travis Hudson and Ernest Underhay
(Ballena Press Anthropological Papers
no. 10; Ballena Press, Socorro, New
Mexico, 1978). Pp. 163. \$8.95.
\booktitle{When Stars Came Down to
Earth: Cosmology of the Skidi Pawnee
Indians of North America}. Von Del
Chamberlain (Ballena Press
Anthropological Papers no. 26, BaHena
Press\slash Center for Archaeoastronomy,
Los Altos, California, and College Park,
Maryland, 1983). Pp. 270. \$17.95 . . . S149--S151
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . S152--S152
G. Foder\`a Serio and
L. Indorato and
P. Nastasi G. B. Hodierna's Observations of Nebulae
and His Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36
Owen Gingerich Did Copernicus Owe a Debt to
Aristarchus? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Jean-Paul Parisot La rétrogradation de l'ombre dans les
cadrans solaires analemmatiques.
(French) [Downshift of shade in
Analemmatic sundials] . . . . . . . . . 43--48
Paul Kunitzsch Book Review: Arabic-Islamic Exact
Sciences: \booktitleStudies in the
Islamic Exact Sciences . . . . . . . . . 49--51
J. D. North Book Review: The Alphonsine Tables:
\booktitleLes Tables Alphonsines avec
les Canons de Jean de Saxe . . . . . . . 51--52
Michael H. Shank Book Review: Humanist Science in Vienna:
\booktitleHumanistische
Naturwissenschaft: Zur Geschichte der
Wiener mathematischen Schulen des 15.
und 16. Jahrhunderts . . . . . . . . . . 52--54
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Three of a Thesis Series:
\booktitleTychonic and Semi-Tychonic
World Systems, the Dissolution of the
Celestial Spheres, 1595--1650 . . . . . 54--55
E. S. Kennedy Book Review: Neugebauer Papers
Reprinted: \booktitleAstronomy and
History: Selected Essays . . . . . . . . 55--56
Brian Vickers Book Review: Science in Oxford and
Cambridge: \booktitleThe Mathematician's
Apprenticeship: Science, Universities
and Society in England 1560--1640 . . . 56--59
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Astronomical Biographies:
\booktitleThe Biographical Dictionary of
Scientists: Astronomers . . . . . . . . 59--59
Albert Van Helden Book Review: Variations on a Galileian
Theme: \booktitleTelescopes, Tides and
Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61
Seymour L. Chapin Book Review: Roemer's Place in History:
\booktitleRoemer et la Vitesse de la
Lumi\`ere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
D. C. Heggie Book Review: Edinburgh Astronomy:
\booktitleThe Story of Astronomy in
Edinburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
David H. DeVorkin Book Review: Payne-Gaposchkin:
\booktitleCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: an
Autobiography and other Recollections 64--66
Richard F. Hirsh Book Review: Pioneering Radio Astronomy:
\booktitleThe Early Years of Radio
Astronomy: Reflections Fifty Years after
Jansky's Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . 66--68
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleHerschel's Music:
The Symphony, 1720--1840 . . . . . . . . 68--68
Jack Meadows Book Review: Nineteenth-Century
Astronomy: \booktitleThe History of
Astronomy from Herschel to Hertzsprung 69--71
David H. DeVorkin Book Review: The Collected Works of
Saha: \booktitleCollected Works of
Meghnad Saha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Michael Hoskin Obituary: E. G. Forbes (1933--1984) . . 74--74
Michael Hoskin Stukeley's Cosmology and the Newtonian
Origins of Olbers's Paradox . . . . . . 77--112
George Saliba Solar Observations at the Maraghah
Observatory before 1275: a New Set of
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--122
Peter Broughton The First Predicted Return of Comet
Halley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--133
Michael Hoskin The First Edition of Halley's
``\booktitleSynopsis'' . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Emmanuel Poulle Essay Review: Astronomy in Cracow:
\booktitleScientific Writings and
Astronomical Tables in Cracow: A Census
of Manuscript Sources . . . . . . . . . 134--138
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Hartner's Legacy:
\booktitleOriens--Occidens II . . . . . 138--140
Martin Harwit Book Review: Early-Modern Cosmology:
\booktitleLa Science de l'Univers \`a
l'Âge du Positivisme: Étude sur les
origines de la cosmologie contemporaine 140--142
Robert W. Smith Book Review: X-Ray Astronomy in the USA:
\booktitleGlimpsing an Invisible
Universe: The Emergence of X-ray
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--144
Joann Eisberg Book Review: \booktitle``The Queen of
Nineteenth-Century Science'': Mary
Somerville and the Cultivation of
Science, 1815--1840 . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
F. Jamil Ragep Book Review: a Muslim Cosmology:
\booktitleIslamic Cosmology: a Study of
as-Suyuti's al-Hay'a as-saniya fi
l'hay'a as-Sunniya . . . . . . . . . . . 146--149
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Clocks and Watches:
\booktitleRevolution in Time . . . . . . 149--149
George L. Siscoe Book Review: Scandinavian Studies of the
Aurora: \booktitleThe Northern Light:
From Mythology to Space Research . . . . 150--151
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Martha R. Baldwin Magnetism and the Anti-Copernican
Polemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--174
Olaf Pedersen In Quest of Sacrobosco . . . . . . . . . 175--221
Niccolo Guicciardini Gravitation and the Stars . . . . . . . 221--223
Owen Gingerich Halley's Letter to Gregory concerning
the ``\booktitleSynopsis'' . . . . . . . 223--224
Roy Porter and
G. de Vaucouleurs Essay Review: Volume 4A of \booktitleThe
General History: Astrophysics and
Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950 . . 224--231
Michael Zeilik A Reassessment of the Fajada Butte Solar
Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S69--S85
Michael Zeilik Sun Shrines and Sun Symbols in the U.S.
Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S86--S96
Jean Meeus and
Virginia G. Smith A New Test for Maya Astronomical
Observation: Occultations of Venus by
the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S97--S101
Virginia Lee Davis Identifying Ancient Egyptian
Constellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . S102--S104
C. L. N. Ruggles The Linear Settings of Argyll and Mull S105--S132
Michael Hoskin The Talayotic Culture of Menorca: a
First Reconnaissance . . . . . . . . . . S133--S151
Kurt Locher Probable Identification of the Ancient
Egyptian Circumpolar Constellations . . S152--S153
Alvar Ellegård Essay Review: Megalithic Astronomy: a
New Archaeological and Statistical Study
of 300 Western Scottish Sites . . . . . S154--S157
Stephen C. McCluskey Book Review: Petroglyphs of Ohio . . . . S158--S158
Craig B. Waff Comet Halley's First Expected Return:
English Public Apprehensions, 1755--58 1--37
Michael Hoskin Stellar Astronomy: Historical Studies 38--38
P. Bretagnon and
J.-L. L. Simon and
J. Laskar Presentation of New Solar and Planetary
Tables of Interest for Historical
Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--50
Paul Kunitzsch John of London and His Unknown Arabic
Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57
Edward Rosen No Edition of Copernicus in 1640 or 1646 58--59
Craig B. Waff Book Review: Bibliographies of Halley's
Comet: \booktitleHalley's Comet: a
Bibliography, \booktitleHalley's Comet,
1755--1984: a Bibliography . . . . . . . 60--62
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Halley's Comet in Art:
\booktitleFire and Ice: a History of
Comets in Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Curtis Wilson Book Review: Kepler's Ephemerides:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler Gesammelte
Werke, XI, Part 1: Ephemerides novae
motuum coelestium . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Newton and Scientific
Revolutions: \booktitleThe Newtonian
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
William R. Shea Book Review: Galileo Documents
Re-Edited: \booktitleI Documenti del
Processo di Galileo Galilei . . . . . . 66--67
Jean Dietz Moss Book Review: Galileo the Iconoclast:
\booktitleGalileo Galilei --- Prozess
ohne Ende: Eine Biographie Piper . . . . 67--69
John A. Eddy Book Review: Pioneer of
Dendrochronology: \booktitleTree Rings
and Telescopes: The Scientific Career of
A. E. Douglass . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
W. H. Donahue Book Review: Biography of Harriot:
\booktitleThomas Harriot: a Biography 71--73
R. J. C. Atkinson Obituary: Alexander Thom . . . . . . . . 73--75
Frederic J. Baumgartner Scepticism and French Interest in
Copernicanism to 1630 . . . . . . . . . 77--88
Paul Kunitzsch The Star Catalogue Commonly Appended to
the Alfonsine Tables . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
Stillman Drake A Neglected Galilean Letter . . . . . . 99--108
Noel M. Swerdlow The Length of the Year in the Original
Proposal for the Gregorian Calendar . . 109--118
Donald E. Osterbrock Failure and Success: Two Early
Experiments with Concave Gratings in
Stellar Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . 119--129
K. P. Moesgaard and
Owen Gingerich Essay Review: \booktitleRheticus:
Narrationes Prima et Secunda: Georgii
Joachimi Rhetici Narratio Prima . . . . 130--133
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Rheticus:
\booktitleNarrationes Prima et Secunda:
G. J. Rheticus' Treatise on Holy
Scripture and the Motion of the Earth:
With translation, annotations,
commentary and additional chapters on
Ramus--Rheticus and the development of
the problem before 1650 . . . . . . . . 133--136
Edward Grant and
Volker Bialas Essay Review: Kepler, Hypothesis and
Scientific Methodology: \booktitleThe
Birth of History and Philosophy of
Science: Kepler's ``A Defence of Tycho
against Ursus'' with Essays on its
Provenance and Significance . . . . . . 137--143
Victor Thoren Book Review: Copernicus in Context:
\booktitleCopernicus and the Scientific
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
David S. Evans Book Review: Maclear and Herschel at the
Cape: \booktitleMaclear and Herschel:
Letters and Diaries at the Cape of Good
Hope 1834--1838 . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
Albert van Helden Book Review: Observations of Venus's
1769 Transit: \booktitleThe 1769 Transit
of Venus: The Baja California
Observations of Jean-Baptiste Chappe
d'Auteroche, Vicente de Doz, and Joaquín
Velazquez Cárdenas de León . . . . . . . . 146--147
William B. Ashworth, Jr. Book Review: The Gregorian Calendar in
Context: \booktitleGregorian Reform of
the Calendar: Proceedings of the Vatican
Conference to Commemorate its 400th
Anniversary, 1582--1982 . . . . . . . . 147--148
Michio Yano Book Review: Early Chinese Planetary
Astronomy: \booktitleLes Premi\`eres
Théories Planétaires Chinoises . . . . . . 148--150
I. Bernard Cohen Obituary: Edward Rosen (1906--1985) . . 150--152
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 153--154
E. Robert Paul J. C. Kapteyn and the Early
Twentieth-Century Universe . . . . . . . 155--182
Michelle Chapront-Touzé Les manuscrits Delambre du Bureau des
Longitudes. (French) [The Delambre
manuscripts of the Bureau of Longitude] 183--186
Kenneth Glyn Jones Some Notes on Hodierna's Nebulae . . . . 187--188
N. M. Swerdlow A Star Catalogue Used by Johannes Bayer 189--197
J. D. North Book Review: Astronomy in Medieval
Denmark: \booktitlePetri Philomenae de
Dacia et Petri de S. Audomaro: Opera
quadrivialia. Pars I: Opera Petri
Philomenae; pars II: Opera Petri de S.
Audomaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: Byzantine Astronomy:
\booktitleNicéphore Grégoras: Calcul de
l'eclipse de Soleil du 16 Juillet 1330 199--200
Katharine Park Book Review: Science and Magic:
\booktitleOccult and Scientific
Mentalities in the Renaissance . . . . . 200--202
A. J. Meadows Book Review: Astrology in English
Literature: \booktitleThe Forgotten Sky:
a Guide to Astrology in English
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
E. J. Aiton Book Review: Mysterium Cosmographicum in
French: \booktitleLe Secret du Monde . . 203--205
Mordechai Feingold Book Review: Reactions to Copernicus:
\booktitleIn Defense of the Earth's
Centrality and Immobility: Scholastic
Reaction to Copernicanism in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: Ephemerides for 1650--1805:
\booktitlePlanetary, Lunar, and Solar
Positions, New and Full Moons, A.D.
1650--1805 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--209
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: a Brief Biography of
Bessel: \booktitleFriedrich Wilhelm
Bessel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Bessel Family
Correspondence: \booktitleIch habe Euch
lieb aber der Himmel ist mir näher. Eine
Autobiographie in Briefen . . . . . . . 210--211
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Water-Clocks and
Sand-Glasses: \booktitleThe Time Museum,
Vol. I: Time Measuring Instruments. Part
3: Water-clocks, Sand-glasses,
Fire-clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Simon Mitton Book Review: Radio Astronomy Reprints:
\booktitleClassics in Radio Astronomy 212--212
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Derek Howse The Greenwich List of Observatories: a
World List of Astronomical
Observatories, Instruments and Clocks,
1670--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i-89
Michael Zeilik The Ethnoastronomy of the Historic
Pueblos, II: Moon Watching . . . . . . . S1--S22
A. F. Aveni and
G. Romano Archaeoastronomical Research in
Veneto-Friuli, Italy . . . . . . . . . . S23--S31
Bradley E. Schaefer Atmospheric Extinction Effects on
Stellar Alignments . . . . . . . . . . . S32--S42
M. Jane Young The Interrelationship of Rock Art and
Astronomical Practice in the American
Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S43--S58
Anna Sofaer and
Rolf M. Sinclair An Appraisal of Michael Zeilik's ``A
Reassessment of the Fajada Butte Solar
Marker'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S59--S69
John B. Carlson Book Review: \booktitleThe Cosmic
Serpent: A Catastrophist View of Earth
History, Victor Clube and Bill Napier
(Faber and Faber, London, 1982;
Universe, New York). Pp. 299. \pounds
12.50/\$17.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . S70--S72
Jack H. Robinson Book Review: \booktitleArchaeoastronomy
and the Roots of Science, Edited by E.
C. Krupp (The AAAS Selected Symposia
Series 71; Westview Press, Boulder,
1984). Pp. xii + 336. \$40} . . . . . . S73--S75
Michael Hoskin John Herschel's Cosmology . . . . . . . 1--34
George Saliba Theory and Observation in Islamic
Astronomy: The work of ibn al-Sh\=a\dtir
of Damascus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
Frederic J. Baumgartner Sunspots or Sun's Planets: Jean Tarde
and the Sunspot Controversy of the Early
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 44--54
Gibson Reaves and
Carlo Pedretti Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the
surface features of the Moon . . . . . . 55--58
Olaf Pedersen Essay Review: The \booktitleAlmagest in
Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
Anthony F. Aveni Book Review: The Expedition to Peru:
\booktitleLa Geometrización de la Tierra:
Observaciones y Resultados de la
Expedición Geodésica Hispano--Francesa al
Virreinato del Peru (1735--1744) . . . . 64--65
J. A. Bennett Book Review: Historic Scientific
Photographs: \booktitleBeyond Vision . . 65--65
D. W. Dewhirst Book Review: J.-C. Houzeau and Civil
Rights: \booktitleMy Passage at the New
Orleans Tribune: a Memoir of the Civil
War Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
A. H. Batten Book Review: Astronomy in Russia:
\booktitleLe Développement de
l'Astronomie en U.R.S.S. 1917--1935 . . 67--68
LeRoy E. Doggett Book Review: The Acceleration of the
Moon: \booktitleThe Moon's Acceleration
and its Physical Origins, II: As Deduced
from General Lunar Observations . . . . 68--70
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Scientists and Their
Publications: \booktitleA Historical
Catalogue of Scientists and Scientific
Books from the Earliest Times to the
Close of the Nineteenth Century . . . . 70--70
P. G. Kulikovsky Book Review: Peter the Great's
Astronomers: \booktitlePetersburgskaya
Astronomicheskaya Shkola XVIII B . . . . 71--72
Donald W. Goldsmith Book Review: Velikovsky and after:
\booktitleBeyond Velikovsky: The History
of a Public Controversy . . . . . . . . 72--74
William Shea Book Review: Bellarmine on the Heavens:
\booktitleThe Louvain Lectures
(Lectiones Lovanienses) of Bellarmine
and the Autograph Copy of His 1616
Declaration to Galileo . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Curtis Wilson On the Origin of Horrocks's Lunar Theory 77--94
Keizo Hashimoto Longomontanus's \booktitleAstronomia
Danica in China . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--110
R. Hooykaas The Aristotelian Background to
Copernicus's Cosmology . . . . . . . . . 111--116
Paul Kunitzsch Peter Apian and `Azophi': Arabic
Constellations in Renaissance Astronomy 117--124
John E. Gaustad Newton's \booktitleSystem of the world:
a Note on the Identity of the Translator 125--129
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Perfection of Circular
Motion: \booktitleCircles of God:
Theology and Science from the Greeks to
Copernicus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
Victor E. Thoren Book Review: Distances in the Heavens:
\booktitleMeasuring the Universe: Cosmic
Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley 132--133
E. S. Kennedy Book Review: Essays on Early Astronomy:
\booktitleTheory and Observation in
Ancient and Medieval Astronomy . . . . . 133--134
J. P. Verdet Book Review: Astronomy in Provence:
\booktitleAstronomie et Astronomes en
Provence, 1680--1730 . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
John Lankford Book Review: Illustrating the Paris
Observatory: \booktitleL'Observatoire de
Paris: Son Histoire, 1667--1963 . . . . 135--135
J. A. Bennett Book Review: Newton's Contemporaries:
\booktitleUnder Newton's Shadow:
Astronomical Practices in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
H. A. Brück Book Review: Letters of Zach:
\booktitleBriefe Franz Xaver von Zach's
in Sein Vaterland . . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
Virendra N. Sharma Book Review: European Astronomers in
India: \booktitleIntroduction of Modern
Western Astronomy in India during 18--19
Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
David S. Evans Book Review: C. P. Smyth at the Cape:
\booktitleCharles Piazzi Smyth,
Astronomer Artist: His Cape Years
1835--1845 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
Sara Schechner Genuth Book Review: Nineteenth-Century
Apparatus: \booktitlePike's Illustrated
Catalogue of Scientific & Medical
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Peggy Kidwell Book Review: James E. Keeler:
\booktitleJames E. Keeler: Pioneer
American Astrophysicist and the Early
Development of American Astrophysics . . 141--143
Richard Woolley Book Review: Eddington Commemorated:
\booktitleEddington: The Most
Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time 143--144
Bernard Lovell Book Review: British Space Science:
\booktitleHistory of British Space
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
George L. Siscoe Book Review: History and the
Geosciences: \booktitleDas Phänomen des
Polarlichts, Historical Events and
People in Geosciences . . . . . . . . . 146--147
Samuel J. Goldstein, Jr. Book Review: The Ashbrook Legacy:
\booktitleThe Astronomical Scrapbook:
Skywatchers, Pioneers, and Seekers in
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--149
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--152
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 153--154
James Evans On the Origin of the Ptolemaic Star
Catalogue: Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 155--172
Curtis Wilson Corrigendum: ``On the origin of
Horrocks's lunar theory'' . . . . . . . 172--172
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Observing with the Armillary Astrolabe 173--195
M. Turchetta and
G. Gavazzi Nineteenth-Century Italian Contributions
to Galactic Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 196--208
Morton Wagman Flamsteed's Missing Stars . . . . . . . 209--223
Michael H. Shank Essay Review: Newtonian Biographies:
\booktitleNever at Rest: a Biography of
Isaac Newton, in the Presence of the
Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times . . 224--228
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Three Manuscript
Catalogues: \booktitleCatalogus Codicum
Manuscriptorum Medii Aevi Latinorum qui
in Bibliotheca Jagellonica Cracovie
Asservantur, vol. III,
\booktitleManuscripts of the Dibner
Collection in the Dibner Library of the
History of Science and Technology of the
Smithsonian Institution Libraries,
1726--1799, \booktitleCatalogo della
Corrispondenza degli Astronomi di Brera,
vol. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 232--232
James Evans On the Origin of the Ptolemaic Star
Catalogue: Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 233--278
Magda Vargha and
El\Hod Both Astronomy in Renaissance Hungary . . . . 279--283
David A. King Essay Review: Ninth-Century Islamic
Astronomy: \booktitleThe Book of the
Reasons behind Astronomical Tables
(Kit\=ab f\=\i$^c$ ilal al-z\=\ijat) . . 284--286
William B. Ashworth, Jr. Book Review: Astronomical Charts:
\booktitleMaps of the Heavens . . . . . 287--288
Suzanne Débarbat Book Review: The Greenwich Symposium:
\booktitleThe Longitude Zero Symposium
1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--290
Albert van Helden Book Review: Comets in the Renaissance:
\booktitleCometary Theory in
Fifteenth-Century Europe . . . . . . . . 290--291
Curtis Wilson Book Review: Newton's ``\booktitleDe
gravitatione'': \booktitleDe la
Gravitation ou Les Fondements de la
Mécanique Classique . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
Brian G. Marsden Book Review: Records of Halley's Comet:
\booktitleHalley's Comet in History . . 292--294
John L. McKnight Book Review: More on Benjamin Martin:
\booktitleBenjamin Martin: Supplement 294--294
John Butler and
Michael Hoskin The Archives of Armagh Observatory . . . 295--307
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 308--308
Georgia Lee and
William Liller Easter Island's ``Sun Stones'': a
Re-Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . S1--S11
Cynthia W. Peterson and
Bella C. Chiu On the Astronomical Origin of the Offset
Street Grid at Teotihuacan . . . . . . . S13--S18
Bradley E. Schaefer Heliacal Rise Phenomena . . . . . . . . S19--S33
C. L. N. Ruggles The Borana Calendar: Some Observations S35--S53
Edoardo Proverbio and
Giuliano Romano and
Anthony Aveni Astronomical Orientations of Five
Megalithic Tombs at Madau, near Fonni in
Sardinia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S55--S65
Ray A. Williamson Book Review: Earth and Sky:
\booktitlePapers from the Northridge
Conference on Archaeoastronomy . . . . . S67--S69
William E. Shawcross Book Review: Lines to the Mountain Gods:
\booktitleNazca and the Mysteries of
Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S70--S71
C. F. Bartholomew Herbert Spencer's Contribution to Solar
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--28
Jan P. Hogendijk Three Islamic Lunar Crescent Visibility
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--44
Frank J. Tipler Olbers's Paradox, the Beginning of
Creation, and Johann Mädler . . . . . . . 45--48
R. P. Mercier Essay Review: Sources for Indian
Astronomy: \booktitleIndian Astronomy: a
Source Book (Based Primarily on Sanskrit
Texts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Curtis Wilson Essay Review: a Conceptual History of
Statistics: \booktitleThe History of
Statistics: The Measurement of
Uncertainty before 1900 . . . . . . . . 51--54
John North Book Review: The Kennedy Festschrift:
\booktitleFrom Deferent to Equant: a
Volume of Studies in the History of
Science in the Ancient and Medieval near
East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy . . . . . 55--56
James Evans Book Review: Theon of Alexandria's Big
Commentary: \booktitleLe Grand
Commentaire de Théon d'Alexandrie aux
Tables Faciles de Ptolémée: Livre I.
Histoire du Texte, Edition Critique,
Traduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--58
Sharon Gibbs Thibodeau Book Review: Pre-Telescopic Astronomy:
\booktitleAstronomy before the Telescope 58--59
David Pingree Book Review: Star Names and Their
Etymologies: \booktitleShort Guide to
Modern Star Names and Their Derivatives 59--59
Morton Wagman Book Review: Stellar Identification:
\booktitleSynopsis of the Nomenclature
of the Fixed Stars . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Robert A. Hatch Book Review: Western Astronomy in Brief:
\booktitleHistoire de l'Astronomie
Occidentale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Wesley M. Stevens Book Review: a Medieval Cosmology:
\booktitleDe mundi celestis
terrestrisque constitutione: a Treatise
on the Universe and the Soul . . . . . . 62--63
Cornelius O'Boyle Book Review: Duhem Englished:
\booktitleMedieval Cosmology: Theories
of Infinity, Place, Time, Void and the
Plurality of Worlds . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
W. H. Donahue Book Review: Kepler, Tycho and Ursus:
\booktitleThree Imperial Mathematicians:
Kepler Trapped between Tycho Brahe and
Ursus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--66
Giorgia Fodera` Serio Book Review: Recognition for Hodierna:
\booktitleLa Vita e le Opere di Giovan
Battista Hodierna . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Thomas F. Glick Book Review: Testing Newton:
\booktitleLos Caballeros del Punto Fijo:
Ciencia, política y aventura en la
expedición geodésica hispanofrancesa al
virreinato del Perú en el siglo XVIII . . 67--69
Wayne Orchiston Book Review: Biography of John Tebbutt:
\booktitleAstronomical Memoirs . . . . . 69--70
Derek Howse Book Review: U.S. Naval Observatory
Celebrations: \booktitleSky with Ocean
Joined: Proceedings of the
Sesquicentennial Symposia of the U.S.
Naval Observatory December 5 and 8, 1980 70--71
Joann Eisberg Book Review: Aspects of Astrophysics:
\booktitleThe Analysis of Starlight: One
Hundred and Fifty Years of Astronomical
Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
John Lankford Book Review: The McDonald Observatory:
\booktitleBig and Bright: a History of
the McDonald Observatory . . . . . . . . 72--74
Anonymous Notes on Contributor . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Peter Broughton Arthur Storer of Maryland: His
Astronomical Work and his Family Ties
with Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--96
Emmanuel Poulle The Alfonsine tables and Alfonso X of
Castille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--113
Julio Samsó and
Francisco Castelló An Hypothesis on the Epoch of Ptolemy's
Star Catalogue According to the Authors
of the Alfonsine Tables . . . . . . . . 115--120
Allan Chapman Private Research and Public Duty: George
Biddell Airy and the Search for Neptune 121--139
Anthony J. Cárdenas Book Review: The Symposium on Alfonsine
Astronomy: \booktitleDe Astronomia
Alphonsi Regis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
David Gubbins Book Review: Geomagnetic Instruments:
\booktitleA Brief History of
Geomagnetism and a Catalog of the
Collections of the National Museum of
American History . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Ageing Aaboe Apotheosized:
\booktitleFrom Ancient Omens to
Statistical Mechanics: Essays on the
Exact Sciences Presented to Asger Aaboe 142--143
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
Derek McNally and
Michael Hoskin William E. Wilson's Observatory at
Daramona House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--153
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 154--154
David A. King Ibn Y\=unus on lunar crescent visibility 155--168
C. M. Lowne The Object-Glass of the Greenwich
``Great Equatorial Telescope'' . . . . . 169--182
Corey Stevenson Powell J. Homer Lane and the Internal Structure
of the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--199
Owen Gingerich How Shapley Came to Harvard or,
Snatching the Prize from the Jaws of
Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: On Editing Copernicus;
\booktitleNicolaus Copernicus
Gesamtausgabe, II: \booktitleDe
Revolutionibus Kritischer Text . . . . . 208--211
Robert Paul Book Review: The Origins of Lick
Observatory: \booktitleJames Lick's
Monument: The Saga of Captain Richard
Floyd and the Building of the Lick
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
Donald K. Yeomans Book Review: a History of LPL:
\booktitleLunar and Planetary
Laboratory: Its Founding and Early Years 213--214
Owen Gingerich Zdenek Horský (1929--1988) . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 216--216
W. H. Donahue Kepler's Fabricated Figures: Covering up
the Mess in the \booktitleNew Astronomy 217--237
Randall C. Brooks Errors in Measurement of the Solar
Diameter in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . 239--255
Merc\`e Viladrich The Planetary Latitude Tables in the
\booktitleMumta\dhan Z\=\ij . . . . . . 257--268
Owen Gingerich Sacrobosco as a Textbook . . . . . . . . 269--273
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Early Astronomical
Textbooks in France:
\booktitleImprimeurs et Librairies
Parisiens du XVIe Si\`ecle: Fascicule
Cavellat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Timely Astrolabes:
\booktitleThe Time Museum . . . . . . . 275--275
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Copernican Reflections:
\booktitleThe Genesis of the Copernican
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Paul Kunitzsch Book Review: `Islamicate' Globes:
\booktitleIslamicate Celestial Globes:
Their History, Construction, and Use . . 278--280
Victor E. Thoren Book Review: Elucidating Kepler's
Physics: \booktitleKepler's Physical
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--282
Kevin Krisciunas Book Review: Lomonosov's Contribution to
Astronomy: \booktitleM. V. Lomonosov:
Astronomer and Astrophysicist . . . . . 282--284
Frank J. Tipler Book Review: More on Olbers's Paradox:
\booktitleDarkness at Night: a Riddle of
the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--286
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Charles Piazzi Smyth:
\booktitleThe Peripatetic Astronomer:
The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth . . . . 286--287
John A. Wood Book Review: Making Sense of Meteorites:
\booktitleCosmic Debris: Meteorites in
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
Joann Eisberg Book Review: Warfare at the Dudley
Observatory: \booktitleElites in
Conflict: The Antebellum Clash over the
Dudley Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . 288--290
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Instructions to Contributors . . . . . . i--i
Richard S. Westfall The trial of Galileo: Bellarmino,
Galileo, and the clash of two worlds . . 1--23
Jerzy Dobrzycki and
Lech Szczucki On the Transmission of Copernicus's
\booktitleCommentariolus in the
Sixteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
N. M. Swerdlow Ptolemy's Theory of the Inferior Planets 29--60
Kurt Locher A Further Hellenistic Conical Sundial
from the Theatre of Dionysos in Athens 60--62
David S. Landes Essay Review: Chinese Astronomical
Clocks, Heavenly Clockwork:
\booktitleThe Great Astronomical Clocks
of Medieval China . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
Ernan McMullin Essay Review: Coming to Terms with
Copernicanism, \booktitleIl suo Diario e
la Questione Galileiana . . . . . . . . 66--69
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The De' Dondi Astrarium,
\booktitleJohannis de Dondis Astrarium 69--70
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--73
Anonymous Commission 41 at the Baltimore General
Assembly of the IAU . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Donald E. Osterbrock To Climb the Highest Mountain:
\booktitleW. W. Campbell's 1909 Mars
Expedition to Mount Whitney . . . . . . 77--97
David Pingree and
Patrick Morrissey On the identification of the
yogat\=ar\=as of the Indian nak\dusatras 99--119
Steven A. Lloyd Lunar Volvelles and Moondials in Baroque
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127
Owen Gingerich Essay Review: Text and Context in
Analysing Copernicus,
\booktitleMathematical Astronomy in
Copernicus's \booktitleDe Revolutionibus 128--131
Ursula B. Marvin Essay Review: Controversies over
Craters, Meteorite Craters, Coon
Mountain Controversies: \booktitleMeteor
Crater and the Development of Impact
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Nathan Sivin Book Review: \booktitleThe New Delhi
Colloquium, History of Oriental
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Bruce Eastwood Book Review: \booktitleAdelard Analysed,
Adelard of Bath: an English Scientist
and Arabist of the Early Twelfth Century 138--139
Richard Kremer Book Review: Sixteenth-Century
Astrology, Astrologi hallucinati:
\booktitleStars and the End of the World
in Luther's Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Trigonometry from Tycho's
Library, \booktitleTychonis Brahe
Triangulorum Planorum et Sphaericorum
Praxis Arithmetica . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Jürgen Renn Book Review: Galileo in German,
\booktitleGalileo Galilei: Schriften,
Briefe, Dokumente . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Seymour L. Chapin Book Review: Jean Picard Commemorated,
\booktitleJean Picard et les Débuts de
l'Astronomie de Précision au XVIIe
Si\`ecle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
David DeVorkin Book Review: \booktitleWilhelm and Otto
Struve, Resolute and Undertaking
Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and
Otto Struve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Colin Ronan Book Review: The History of the RAS,
\booktitleHistory of the Royal
Astronomical Society . . . . . . . . . . 146--148
Robert W. Smith Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Lick Observatory, Eye on the Sky: Lick
Observatory's First Century . . . . . . 148--150
Richard Berendzen Book Review: To Err is Human, Science
and Objectivity: \booktitleEpisodes in
the History of Astronomy . . . . . . . . 150--152
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 155--156
George Saliba A Medieval Arabic Reform of the
Ptolemaic Lunar Model . . . . . . . . . 157--164
Pekka Teerikorpi Lundmark's Unpublished 1922 Nebula
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--170
Roberta J. M. Olson and
Jay M. Pasachoff Is Comet P/Halley of A.D. 684 Recorded
in the Nuremberg Chronicle? . . . . . . 171--174
Michael Hoskin Astronomers at War: South v. Sheepshanks 175--212
Adam J. Apt Book Review: Keplerian Cosmology,
\booktitleKepler's Geometrical Cosmology 213--215
Michael H. Shank Book Review: \booktitleCommemorating
Gmunden, Der Weg der Naturwissenschaft
von Johannes von Gmunden zu Johannes
Kepler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--217
James Evans Book Review: a Byzantine Treatise,
\booktitleAn Eleventh-Century Manual of
Arabo-Byzantine Astronomy . . . . . . . 217--219
Albert Van Helden Book Review: \booktitleCopernicanism and
Logic, Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition 219--221
Steven A. Lloyd Book Review: Nuremberg Sundials,
\booktitleThe Ivory Sundials of
Nuremberg, 1500--1700 . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Book Review: \booktitleThe Cracow Newton
Conference, Newton and the New Direction
in Science: Proceedings of the Cracow
Conference 25 to 28 May 1987 . . . . . . 222--223
Michael Hoskin Book Review: a New Facsimile Series,
\booktitleUranometria, Harmonia
macrocosmica seu Atlas universalis et
novus, Atlas celeste, Sidereus nuncius,
a pronostication euerlasting of ryght
goode effecte . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Anonymous Index to volume 20 . . . . . . . . . . . 226--228
Anonymous Cumulative Indices to Volumes 1--20 . . 229--250
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Stephen C. McCluskey The Mid-Quarter Days and the Historical
Survival of British Folk Astronomy . . . S1--S19
Wm Liller The Megalithic Astronomy of Easter
Island: Orientations of AHU and MOAI . . S21--S48
Robert D. Purrington and
Colby Allan Child, Jr. Poverty Point Revisited: Further
Consideration of Astronomical Alignments S49--S60
Owen Gingerich Two Astronomical Anniversaries . . . . . 1--2
Clark A. Elliott The History of Harvard Astronomy:
\booktitleA View from the Archives . . . 3--8
Sara Schechner Genuth Blazing Stars, Open Minds, and Loosened
Purse Strings: Astronomical Research and
its Early Cambridge Audience . . . . . . 9--20
Carlene E. Stephens Astronomy as Public Utility: The Bond
Years at the Harvard College Observatory 21--36
Marc Rothenberg Patronage of Harvard College
Observatory, 1839--1851 . . . . . . . . 37--46
Howard Plotkin Edward Charles Pickering . . . . . . . . 47--58
Philip M. Sadler William Pickering's Search for a Planet
beyond Neptune . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
Pamela E. Mack Strategies and Compromises: Women in
Astronomy at Harvard College
Observatory, 1870--1920 . . . . . . . . 65--76
Owen Gingerich Through Rugged Ways to the Galaxies . . 77--88
Leif J. Robinson Enterprise at Harvard College
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--103
Peggy Kidwell Harvard Astronomers in the Second World
War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
A. Hunter Dupree Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory:
From Washington to Cambridge . . . . . . 107--110
John A. Eddy Founding the Astrophysical Observatory:
The Langley Years . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120
David H. DeVorkin Defending a Dream: Charles Greeley
Abbot's Years at the Smithsonian . . . . 121--136
Ron Doel Redefining a Mission: The Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory on the Move 137--153
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Ralph Kenat and
David H. DeVorkin Quantum Physics and the Stars (III):
Henry Norris Russell and the Search for
a Rational Theory of Stellar Spectra . . 157--186
M. Shevchenko An analysis of errors in the star
catalogues of Ptolemy and Ulugh Beg . . 187--201
Wilbur R. Knorr Essay Review: Notes on Rosen's
Copernicus, \booktitleNicolas
Copernicus: Minor Works (Nicolas
Copernicus: Complete Works, Vol. III) 203--211
George Saliba Essay Review: Arabic Astronomy in
Byzantium, \booktitleThe Astronomical
Works of Gregory Chioniades . . . . . . 211--215
Edward Grant Essay Review: Chaucer Illuminated,
\booktitleChaucer's Universe . . . . . . 215--217
Merc\`e Viladrich Book Review: Cairo Manuscripts,
\booktitleA Survey of the Scientific
Manuscripts in the Egyptian National
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleThe Making of
Scientific Instruments, Early Scientific
Instruments: Europe 1400--1800 . . . . . 219--221
Steven A. Lloyd Book Review: Sundials in the Whipple
Museum, \booktitleSundials and Related
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Starry Mechanisms: The
Kassel Globes, \booktitleAstronomen ---
Sterne --- Gerate: Landgraf Wilhelm IV.
und seine sich selbst bewegenden Globen 222--222
A. J. Turner Book Review: The Farnese
Planisferologio, Clockwork Cosmos:
\booktitleBernardo Facini and the
Farnese Planisferologio . . . . . . . . 222--224
William Andrewes Book Review: Measurement of Angles, the
Divided Circle: \booktitleA History of
Instruments for Astronomy, Navigation
and Surveying . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--226
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Psychology and History,
Planets and Perception:
\booktitleTelescopic Views and
Interpretations, 1609--1909 . . . . . . 226--228
Mordechai Feingold Book Review: The Plurality of Worlds,
the Extraterrestrial Life Debate
1750--1900: \booktitleThe Idea of a
Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell 228--229
David Pingree Book Review: Astrology in the West,
\booktitleA History of Western Astrology 229--230
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Seymour L. Chapin The Vicissitudes of a Scientific
Institution: \booktitleA Decade of
Change at the Paris Observatory . . . . 235--274
Giorgia Foder\`a Serio Giuseppe Piazzi and the Discovery of the
Proper Motion of 61 Cygni . . . . . . . 275--282
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Notes on the Compilation of Ptolemy's
Catalogue of Stars . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295
Paul Kunitzsch Book Review: Naming the Heavens,
\booktitleDictionary of Astronomical
Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
David Park Book Review: \booktitleA Pocket
Encyclopedia of Time, Time in History 297--298
J. D. North Book Review: The Mariner's Astrolabe,
\booktitleThe Mariner's Astrolabe . . . 298--300
Ma\lgorzata H. Malewicz Book Review: \booktitleThe
Constellations in the Arabic-Latin
Tradition, Peter Apian und Azophi:
Arabische Sternbilder in Ingolstadt im
frühen 16. Jahrhundert . . . . . . . . . 300--301
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Early Printed Books in
European Observatories, \booktitleUnion
Catalogue of Printed Books of 15th, 16th
and 17th Centuries in European
Astronomical Observatories . . . . . . . 301--302
D. B. Herrmann Book Review: \booktitleThe Genesis of
Kant's General Natural History, Physik
und Physiktheologie des jungen Kant . . 302--303
Gerard L'E. Túrner Book Review: \booktitleJames Ferguson,
Wheelwright of the Heavens:
\booktitleThe Life and Work of James
Ferguson, FRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
Wayne Orchiston Book Review: Southern Hemisphere
Astronomy, under Capricorn: \booktitleA
History of Southern Hemisphere Astronomy 304--306
Alan H. Batten Book Review: Astronomy in Canada, the
Cold Light of Dawn: \booktitleA History
of Canadian Astronomy . . . . . . . . . 307--308
Katherine Bracher Book Review: On E. E. Barnard and other
Matters, \booktitleInterstellar Matters:
Essays on Curiosity and Astronomical
Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Spencer R. Weart Book Review: Aspects of Geophysical
Research, \booktitlePast, Present and
Future Trends in Geophysical Research 309--310
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 311--312
Wilbur R. Knorr Plato and Eudoxus on the Planetary
Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--329
Michael Hoskin Rosse, Robinson, and the Resolution of
the Nebulae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--344
Efthymios Nicola\"\idis Astronomy and Politics in Russia in the
Early Stalinist Period (1928--1932) . . 345--351
Anonymous Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives . . 352--352
N. Jardine Essay Review: How to Appropriate a World
System: \booktitleThe Wittich
Connection: Conflict and Priority in
Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology, Owen
Gingerich and Robert S. Westman
(Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, lxxviii, Part 7;
Philadelphia, 1988). Pp. viii + 148.
\$15 (paperback)} . . . . . . . . . . . 353--358
Simon Schaffer Essay Review: Galilean Perspectives,
\booktitleReinterpreting Galileo . . . . 359--361
N. M. Swerdlow Book Review: Renaissance Correspondence,
\booktitleTrigonometrisch--Astronomisches Rechnen kurz vor Copernicus: Der Breifwechsel Regiomontanus--Bianchini 362--363
Owen Gingerich Book Review: R. R. Newton Revisited,
\booktitleThe Origins of Ptolemy's
Astronomical Parameters . . . . . . . . 364--365
B. L. van der Waerden Book Review: \booktitleMithras and the
Bull, the Origins of the Mithraic
Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in
the Ancient World . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Anthony Grafton Book Review: Gallic Calendars,
\booktitleRecueil des Inscriptions
Gauloises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleHoroscopes and
Horoscopic Methods, Horoscopes and
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
Victor E. Thoren Book Review: \booktitleThe Warburg
Astrology Conference Volume, Astrology,
Science and Society . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Albert Van Helden Book Review: Mayr's \booktitleMundus
Iovialis in German, \booktitleMundus
Iovialis. Die Welt des Jupiter . . . . . 371--372
Richard S. Westfall Book Review: Volume 2A of the GHA,
\booktitleThe General History of
Astronomy, II: Planetary Astronomy from
the Renaissance to the Rise of
Astrophysics, Part A: Tycho Brahe to
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Christianity and Science,
\booktitleGod & Nature: Historical Essays
on the Encounter between Christianity
and Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Stillman Drake Book Review: Galileian Documents,
\booktitleThe Galileo Affair: a
Documentary History . . . . . . . . . . 374--376
Maurice A. Finocchiaro Book Review: \booktitleSidereus Nuncius,
\booktitleSidereus Nuncius, or the
Sidereal Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
Bruce Stephenson Book Review: Curtis Wilson's
Seventeenth-Century Studies,
\booktitleAstronomy from Kepler to
Newton: Historical Studies . . . . . . . 377--378
Victor E. Thoren Book Review: Astrology in England,
\booktitleProphecy and Power: Astrology
in Early Modern England . . . . . . . . 378--379
Sara Schechner Genuth Book Review: Biography of Maskelyne,
\booktitleNevil Maskelyne: The Seaman's
Astronomer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--381
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--384
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Stephen C. McCluskey Calendars and Symbolism: Functions of
Observation in Hopi Astronomy . . . . . S1--S16
J. Galindo Trejo Solar Observations in Ancient Mexico:
Malinalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S17--S36
Michael Hoskin and
Peter Hochsieder and
Doris Knösel The Orientations of the Taulas of
Menorca (2): The Remaining Taulas . . . S37--S48
Kurt Locher The Ancient Egyptian Constellation Group
``The Lion between the Two Crocodiles''
and the Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S49--S51
Peter Brosche and
Lucrecia Maupomé and
Anthony F. Aveni The Sacred Calendar and Venus . . . . . S51--S55
Douglas Scott Astronomical Survey of Three Groups of
Standing Stones in Strath Spey, Scotland S56--S58
Anna Sofaer and
Rolf M. Sinclair Changes in Solstice Marking at the
Three-Slab Site, New Mexico, USA . . . . S59--S60
Gordon Brotherston Book Review: \booktitleEmpires of Time:
Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures,A. F.
Aveni (Basic Books, New York, 1989). Pp.
371. \$24.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . S61--S62
Tsvetanka Radoslavova Book Review: \booktitleRecords in Stone:
Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom.
Edited by C. L. N. Ruggles (Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1988). Pp.
xvii + 519. \pounds 50/\$100} . . . . . S62--S66
Anonymous Instructions to Contributors . . . . . . i--i
Steven J. Dick National Observatories: an Overview . . 1--4
Robert W. Smith A National Observatory Transformed:
Greenwich in the Nineteenth Century . . 5--20
Philip C. Keenan The Earliest National Observatories in
Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
Steven J. Dick John Quincy Adams, the Smithsonian
Bequest and the Founding of the U.S.
Naval Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . 31--44
Richard A. Jarrell The Origins of the Dominion Observatory,
Ottawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--53
Allan A. Needell The Carnegie Institution of Washington
and Radio Astronomy: Prelude to an
American National Observatory . . . . . 55--67
Frank K. Edmondson Aura and KPNO: The Evolution of an Idea,
1952--58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--86
Adriaan Blaauw The Early Years of the European Southern
Observatory: an Effort in
Europeanization . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--99
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Alexander Jones Hipparchus's Computations of Solar
Longitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--125
Randall C. Brooks The Development of Micrometers in the
Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--173
Michael Hoskin More on ``South v. Sheepshanks'' . . . . 174--179
Wilbur R. Knorr Another Look at Ptolemy's Ivy Leaf . . . 180--183
Peter J. Huber Book Review: Late Babylonian
Astronomical Texts,
\booktitleAstronomical Diaries and
Related Texts from Babylonia . . . . . . 184--186
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Sachs Memorial Volume,
\booktitleA Scientific Humanist: Studies
in Memory of Abraham Sachs . . . . . . . 186--187
Peter Müller Book Review: Major Observatories,
\booktitleAstronomical Centers of the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Suzanne Débarbat Book Review: Measuring the Earth,
\booktitleFrom Plane to Spheroid . . . . 188--189
Richard J. Blackwell Book Review: Galileo and the Patronage
of Science, \booktitleEssays on the
Trial of Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
A. G. Davis Philip Book Review: Kopal's Autobiography,
\booktitleOf Stars and Men:
Reminiscences of an Astronomer . . . . . 191--192
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Scottish Workshops,
\booktitleBrass and Glass: Scientific
Instrument Making Workshops in Scotland 192--192
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--193
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 194--194
F. R. Stephenson and
S. S. Said Precision of Medieval Islamic Eclipse
Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--207
Wendell W. Huffman The United States Naval Astronomical
Expedition (1849--52) for the Solar
Parallax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--220
B. B. Price The use of astronomical tables by
Albertus Magnus . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--240
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Calculating Astronomers,
\booktitlePractical Astronomy with Your
Calculator, Astronomy with Your Personal
Computer, \booktitleAstronomical
Formulae for Calculators,
\booktitleAstronomical Tables of the
Sun, Moon, and Planets,
\booktitlePlanetary Programs and Tables
from -4000 to +2800,
\booktitleMathematical Astronomy with a
Pocket Calculator, \booktitlePractical
Ephemeris Calculations . . . . . . . . . 241--243
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: Essays on Revolutions,
\booktitleRevolutions in Science: Their
Meaning and Relevance . . . . . . . . . 243--243
J. A. Bennett Book Review: Symposium on Scientific
Instruments, \booktitleStudies in the
History of Scientific Instruments . . . 243--244
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Apianus Facsimile,
\booktitleInstrument Buch . . . . . . . 244--245
John North Book Review: a Jesuit in China,
\booktitleAstronoom van de Keizer:
Ferdinand Verbiest en zijn Europese
Sterrenkunde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Simon Schaffer Book Review: Armagh Observatory,
\booktitleChurch, State and Astronomy in
Ireland: 200 Years of Armagh Observatory 247--248
G. de Vaucouleurs Book Review: The Renaissance of French
Astronomy, \booktitleDes hommes, des
télescopes, des étoiles . . . . . . . . . 248--250
Craig B. Waff Book Review: How the Space Telescope
Came to Be, \booktitleThe Space
Telescope: a Study of NASA, Science,
Technology, and Politics . . . . . . . . 250--252
Richard S. Westfall Victor E. Thoren (1935--1991) . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous Eric J. Aiton (1920--1991) . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 255--256
David W. Dewhirst and
Michael Hoskin The Rosse Spirals . . . . . . . . . . . 257--266
J. K. Katgert-Merkelijn The Kenya Expeditions of Leiden
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--296
S. S. Said and
F. R. Stephenson Accuracy of Eclipse Observations
Recorded in Medieval Arabic Chronicles 297--310
Nicholas Jardine Essay Review: Writing off the Scientific
Revolution: \booktitleReappraisals of
the Scientific Revolution . . . . . . . 311--318
J. A. Bennett Book Review: Measuring Angles:
\booktitleDividing the Circle: The
Development of Critical Angular
Measurement in Astronomy 1500--1850 . . 319--320
Paul Kunitzsch Book Review: Star Names:
\booktitleCatalogue des étoiles nommées
/Catalogue of Named Stars . . . . . . . 320--322
Stephen C. McCluskey Book Review: Essays in Medieval
Astronomy and Optics:
\booktitleAstronomy and Optics from
Pliny to Descartes: Texts, Diagrams and
Conceptual Structures . . . . . . . . . 322--324
Christoph Luthy Book Review: Galilean Studies:
\booktitleGalileo: Pioneer Scientist . . 324--325
Jon Darius Book Review: Modern Physical Science
Illustrated: \booktitleAlbum of Science:
The Physical Sciences in the Twentieth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
Alexander Jones Book Review: a Babylonian Astronomical
Handbook: \booktitleMUL.APIN: an
Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform . . 327--329
John D. North Commission 41 at the Buenos Aires
General Assembly of the IAU . . . . . . 329--330
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Maria Papathanassiou On the Astronomical Explanation of
Phanes's Relief at Modena . . . . . . . S1--S13
Michael Hoskin and
Juan José Morales Núñez The Orientations of the Burial Monuments
of Menorca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S15--S42
J. McKim Malville and
Frank W. Eddy and
Carol Ambruster Lunar Standstills at Chimney Rock . . . S43--S50
Clive L. N. Ruggles and
Roger D. Martlew and
Peter D. Hinge The North Mull Project (2): The Wider
Astronomical Potential of the Sites . . S51--S75
Tristan Platt Essay Review: The Anthropology of
Astronomy: World Archaeoastronomy . . . S76--S83
Johanna Broda Essay Review: Archaeoastronomy in the
Americas: New Directions in American
Archaeoastronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . S84--S88
Michael Hoskin The Orientation of Taulas: Addenda . . . S89--S90
J. A. Bennett The English Quadrant in Europe:
Instruments and the Growth of Consensus
in Practical Astronomy . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Michael H. Shank The ``Notes on al-Bi\dtr\=uj\=\i''
attributed to Regiomontanus: second
thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--30
F. Richard Stephenson and
Kevin K. C. Yau Astronomical Records in the \em
Ch'un-Ch'iu Chronicle . . . . . . . . . 31--51
Norriss S. Hetherington and
Ronald S. Brashear Walter S. Adams and the Imposed
Settlement between Edwin Hubble and
Adriaan Van Maanen . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Michael Hoskin Orientations of Megalithic Sepulchres in
Salamanca, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--60
F. Jamil Ragep Essay Review: Thabit's Astronomical
Works: \booktitleThabit Ibn Qurra:
Oeuvres d'Astronomie . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
James Evans Essay Review: The Ptolemaic Star
Catalogue: \booktitleClaudius Ptolemäus:
Der Sternkatalog des Almagest. Die
arabisch--Mittelalterliche Tradition,
II: Die lateinische Übersetzung Gerhards
von Cremona, the History of Ptolemy's
Star Catalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--68
John North Book Review: a Christian Arab's
Chronology: \booktitleAbu Shaker's
``Chronography'': a Treatise of the 13th
Century on Chronological, Calendrical,
and Astronomical Matters, Written by a
Christian Arab, Preserved in Ethiopic 69--70
John North Book Review: Arguments over Easter:
\booktitleCummian's Letter: De
Controversia Paschali . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Gibson Reaves Book Review: Biography of Clyde
Tombaugh: \booktitleClyde Tombaugh:
Discoverer of Planet Pluto . . . . . . . 71--72
Richard F. Hirsh Book Review: Americans in Space:
\booktitleA Spacefaring Nation:
Perspectives on American Space History
and Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Vatican Centenary:
\booktitleIn the Service of Nine Popes:
100 Years of the Vatican Observatory . . 74--74
M. Eugene Rudd Book Review: Instrument Making in
Ireland: \booktitleVulgar & Mechanick:
The Scientific Instrument Trade in
Ireland, 1650--1921 . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 76--76
A. D. C. Simpson James Gregory and the Reflecting
Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--92
Thomas A. Hockey Seeing Red: Observations of Colour in
Jupiter's Equatorial Zone on the Eve of
the Modern Discovery of the Great Red
Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105
Giorgia Foder\`a Serio and
Michael Hoskin and
Frank Ventura The Orientations of the Temples of Malta 107--119
Roberta J. M. Olson and
Jay M. Pasachoff The 1816 Solar Eclipse and Comet 1811 I
in John Linnell's Astronomical Album . . 121--133
Morton Wagman Hercules, the Champion . . . . . . . . . 134--136
Robert C. Fleck, Jr. The Comet of Bethlehem: an Early
Thirteenth-Century Representation by
Nicholas of Verdun . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
W. H. Donahue Essay Review: On Editing Keplerian
Manuscripts: \booktitleJohannes Kepler
Gesammelte Werke, XX/1: Manuscripta
astronomica (I) . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--145
David Pingree Book Review: Seneca's Natural Questions:
\booktitleSenecas Naturales Quaestiones:
Komposition, Naturphilosophische
Aussagen und Ihre Quellen . . . . . . . 146--147
J. L. Berggren Book Review: Arabs and the Fixed Stars:
\booktitleThe Arabs and the Stars: Texts
and Traditions on the Fixed Stars, and
Their Influence in Medieval Europe . . . 147--149
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Drake Festschrift:
\booktitleNature, Experiment, and the
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Patrick Parrinder Book Review: Other Worlds: \booktitleThe
Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds
from the Copernican Revolution to Modern
Science Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Albert Van Helden Book Review: a Popular History of
Astronomy: \booktitleUne Histoire de
l'Astronomie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Donald E. Osterbrock ``The Appointment of a Physicist as
Director of the Astronomical Center of
the World'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
Michael Hoskin and
George D. Rochester Thomas Wright and the Royal Society . . 167--172
N. M. Swerdlow The Enigma of Ptolemy's Catalogue of
Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--183
N. Kollerstrom The Hollow World of Edmond Halley . . . 185--192
N. A. Roughton and
G. L. Canzoneri Babylonian Normal Stars in Sagittarius 193--200
Kurt Locher Two Further Coffin Lids with Diagonal
Star Clocks from the Egyptian Middle
Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
Edward Craig and
Michael Hoskin Hegel and the Seven Planets . . . . . . 208--210
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Amico's Homocentric
Spheres: \booktitleLe Sfere Omocentriche
di Giovan Battista Amico nell'Astronomia
del Cinquecento: Con il testo del . . . 211--215
Sara Schechner Genuth Book Review: Comets and Their
Malevolence: \booktitleThe Origin of
Comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--217
Donald E. Osterbrock Book Review: The History of Cometary
Astronomy: \booktitleComets: a
Chronological History of Observation,
Myth and Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Alexander Jones and
G. J. Toomer Book Review: Byzantine Astronomy of the
Fourteenth Century: \booktitleThéodore
Méliténiote: Tribiblos Astronomique, Livre
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--222
Edward R. Harrison Book Review: Jaki on Cosmology:
\booktitleOlbers Studies: With Three
Unpublished Manuscripts by Olbers,
Cosmos in Transition: Studies in the
History of Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . 222--223
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Hubble, Van Maanen, and
Spiral Nebulae: \booktitleThe Edwin
Hubble Papers: Previously Unpublished
Manuscripts on the Extragalactic Nature
of Spiral Nebulae . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Charles A. Whitney Book Review: Solar Physics and Patterns
of History: \booktitleExploring the Sun:
Solar Science since Galileo . . . . . . 224--226
Richard Dunn Book Review: Almanacs in America and
England: \booktitlePractical Astronomy
during the Seventeenth Century:
Almanac-Makers in America and England 226--227
Christoph Lüthy Book Review: Renaissance Art and the
Scientific Revolution: \booktitleThe
Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and
Science on the Eve of the Scientific
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--229
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Saros Cycle in
Babylonia: \booktitleSaros Cycle Dates
and Related Babylonian Astronomical
Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Bruce Stansfield Eastwood Heraclides and Heliocentrism: Texts,
Diagrams, and Interpretations . . . . . 233--260
John G. Hubbell and
Robert W. Smith Neptune in America: Negotiating a
Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--291
Sara Schechner Genuth Astronomical Imagery in a Passage of
Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--298
Richard Baum and
William Sheehan G. D. Cassini and the Rotation Period of
Venus: a Common Misconception . . . . . 299--301
Robert W. Smith Book Review: ESO's Early History:
\booktitleThe European Southern
Observatory from Concept to Reality . . 302--303
Raymond Mercier Book Review: Myth, Ritual and the Stars:
\booktitleThe Myth of Replacement:
Stars, Gods and Order in the Universe 303--305
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: Zinner on Regiomontanus:
\booktitleRegiomontanus: His Life and
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--307
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 307--308
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Clive L. N. Ruggles and
Roger D. Martlew The North Mull Project (3): Prominent
Hill Summits and Their Astronomical
Potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S1--S13
Sebastiano Tusa and
Giorgia Foder\`a Serio and
Michael Hoskin Orientations of the \em Sesi of
Pantelleria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S15--S20
David A. Allen Solstice Determination at Noon . . . . . S21--S31
Bradley E. Schaefer The Length of the Lunar Month . . . . . S32--S42
Maria Papathanassiou and
Michael Hoskin and
Helen Papadopoulou Orientations of Tombs in the Late-Minoan
Cemetery at Armenoi, Crete . . . . . . . S43--S55
Harold Exton A Fresh Analysis of Some Recent Data on
Atmospheric Refraction near the Horizon
with Implications in Archaeoastronomy S57--S58
Ivan Sprajc Essay Review: Space and Time in
Pre-Columbian Mexico: \booktitleDie
geordnete Welt indianischer Völker: Ein
Beispiel von Raumordnung und Zeitordnung
im vorkolumbischen Mexiko . . . . . . . S59--S61
Johan Reinhard Essay Review: Studies of Nazca:
\booktitleThe Lines of Nazca . . . . . . S62--S67
A. F. Aveni Essay Review: Time among the Inca:
\booktitleTime and Calendars in the Inca
Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S68--S73
Anonymous Summaries of Relevant Articles in JHA S73--S74
Curtis Wilson Clairaut's Calculation of the
Eighteenth-Century Return of Halley's
Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Ivan Sprajc The Venus--Rain--Maize Complex in the
Mesoamerican World View: Part I . . . . 17--70
W. H. Donahue Kepler's first thoughts on oval orbits:
text, translation, and commentary . . . 71--100
Howard Plotkin William H. Pickering in Jamaica: The
Founding of Woodlawn and Studies of Mars 101--122
José Chabás and
Anne Tihon Verification of Parallax in Ptolemy's
\booktitleHandy Tables . . . . . . . . . 123--141
Robert S. Westman Essay Review: a Poetics of the Cosmos:
\booktitleThe Poetic Structure of the
World: Copernicus and Kepler . . . . . . 142--145
James Evans Essay Review: Ptolemy Indicted Again:
\booktitleThe Origins of Ptolemy's
Astronomical Tables . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Saving Ptolemy:
\booktitleOn the Distances between Sun,
Moon & Earth: According to Ptolemy,
Copernicus & Reinhold . . . . . . . . . . 148--150
David C. Lindberg Book Review: Religion and Science:
\booktitleThe Book of Nature . . . . . . 150--151
Brian Warner Book Review: Lacaille Re-Established:
\booktitleLacaille: Astronomer,
Traveler: With a New Translation of His
Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
A. Mark Smith Book Review: a Galileian Anthology in
Spanish: \booktitleGalileo: Antología . . 153--154
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 155--156
David Strauss ``Fireflies Flashing in Unison'':
Percival Lowell, Edward Morse and the
Birth of Planetology . . . . . . . . . . 157--169
Frank Ventura and
Giorgia Foder\`a Serio and
Michael Hoskin Possible Tally Stones at Mnajdra, Malta 171--183
Christopher Cullen Motivations for Scientific Change in
Ancient China: Emperor Wu and the Grand
Inception Astronomical Reforms of 104
B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--203
Daniel McCarthy Easter Principles and a Fifth-Century
Lunar Cycle Used in the British Isles 204--224
James M. Lattis Book Review: \booktitleThoren on Tycho
Brahe: The Lord of Uraniborg: a
Biography of Tycho Brahe . . . . . . . . 225--226
Fernand Hallyn Book Review: Fludd in Context:
\booktitleRobert Fludd and the End of
the Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Schwarzschild's Collected
Works: \booktitleGesammelte Werke
/Collected Works . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
James Evans Book Review: Dynamics from Aristotle to
Newton: \booktitleAbsolute or Relative
Motion? A Study from a Machian Point of
View of the Discovery and the Structure
of Dynamical Theories, I: The Discovery
of Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--233
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Owen Gingerich and
Jerzy Dobrzycki The master of the 1550 radices:
Jofrancus Offusius . . . . . . . . . . . 235--253
F. Richard Stephenson and
Louay J. Fatoohi Lunar Eclipse Times Recorded in
Babylonian History . . . . . . . . . . . 255--267
Kevin Krisciunas A More Complete Analysis of the Errors
in Ulugh Beg's Star Catalogue . . . . . 269--280
J. A. Bennett Science Lost and Longitude Found: The
Tercentenary of John Harrison . . . . . 281--287
N. M. Swerdlow Otto E. Neugebauer: (26 May 1899--19
February 1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--299
Kurt Locher Two Greco--Roman Sundials from
Alexandria and Dion . . . . . . . . . . 300--302
Donald W. Olson Book Review: Computing Lunar Eclipses:
\booktitleCanon of Lunar Eclipses 1500
B.C.--A.D. 3000, Computer Software for
IBM-PC and Compatibles . . . . . . . . . 303--304
A. G. Molland Book Review: Medieval Science in
Context: \booktitleThe Beginnings of
Western Science: The European Scientific
Tradition in Philosophical, Religious,
and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to
A.D. 1450 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
J. A. Bennett Book Review: Telescopic Curiosities:
\booktitleUnusual Telescopes . . . . . . 306--306
Pamela E. Mack Book Review: Planetary Astronomy in the
Space Age: \booktitleSpace Technology
and Planetary Astronomy . . . . . . . . 306--307
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--309
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Michael Hoskin and
Elizabeth Allan and
Renate Gralewski The Tombe Di Giganti and Temples of
Nuraghic Sardinia . . . . . . . . . . . S1--S26
Ivan Sprajc The Venus--Rain--Maize Complex in the
Mesoamerican World View: Part II . . . . S27--S53
Maria Papathanassiou and
Michael Hoskin and
Helen Papadopoulou Orientations of Tombs at Armenoi, Crete:
Addenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S54--S54
Roger D. Martlew and
Clive L. N. Ruggles The North Mull Project (4): Excavations
at Ardnacross 1989--91 . . . . . . . . . S55--S64
Juan A. Belmonte and
Antonio Aparicio and
César Esteban A Solstitial Marker in Tenerife: The
``Majanos De Chacona'' . . . . . . . . . S65--S68
Robert W. E. Farrah The Megalithic Astronomy of Lundy:
Evidence for the Remains of a Solar
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S69--S72
Ivan Sprajc Essay Review: The 1984 Mexico City
Symposium: \booktitleArqueoastronomía y
Etnoastronomía en Mesoamérica . . . . . . S73--S74
Anonymous Summaries of Relevant Articles in JHA S75--S75
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S75--S76
Donald E. Osterbrock Getting the Picture: Wide-Field
Astronomical Photography from Barnard to
the Achromatic Schmidt, 1888--1992 . . . 1--14
George Saliba A Sixteenth-Century Arabic critique of
Ptolemaic astronomy: the work of Shams
al-D\=\in al-Khafr\=\i . . . . . . . . . 15--38
Philip J. Stooke Neolithic Lunar Maps at Knowth and
Baltinglass, Ireland . . . . . . . . . . 39--55
Albert Van Helden Essay Review: \booktitleSidereus Nuncius
in French: \booktitleGalileo Galilei: Le
Messager des Étoiles, Galileo Galilei:
Sidereus Nuncius, Le Messager Céleste . . 56--59
Michael H. Shank Essay Review: \booktitleThe Cosmology of
Francis of Marchia: Die Kosmologie des
Franciscus de Marchia: Texte, Quellen
und Untersuchungen zur Naturphilosophie
des 14. Jahrhunderts . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Geoffrey Lloyd Book Review: Ptolemy's Astronomy in
Context: \booktitlePtolemy's Universe:
The Natural Philosophical and Ethical
Foundations of Ptolemy's Astronomy . . . 62--63
Kevin Krisciunas Book Review: Observatories and
Telescopes: \booktitleSternwarten in
Bildern: Architektur und Geschichte der
Sternwarten von den Anfängen bis ca. 1950 63--65
Liba Taub Book Review: Diptych Sundials:
\booktitleIvory Diptych Sundials
1570--1750: a Catalogue of the
Collection of Historical Scientific
Instruments, Harvard University . . . . 65--67
Richard Berendzen Book Review: an Historian's Miscellany:
\booktitleThe Great Copernicus Chase:
And other Adventures in Astronomical
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--69
James R. Voelkel Book Review: Galileian Rhetoric:
\booktitleNovelties in the Heavens:
Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
Robert W. Smith Book Review: The Rhetoric of Simon
Newcomb: \booktitleA Scientist's Voice
in American Culture: Simon Newcomb and
the Rhetoric of Scientific Method . . . 71--72
James MacLachlan Stillman Drake (1910--1993) . . . . . . 73--75
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Lajos Bartha Astrophysical Instruments in Hungary,
1871--1911 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91
E. Zsoldos Three Early Variable Star Catalogues . . 92--98
F. Richard Stephenson and
Louay J. Fatoohi The Babylonian Unit of Time . . . . . . 99--110
Maria Papathanassiou and
Michael Hoskin Orientations of the Greek Temples on
Corfu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
George Saliba Early Arabic Critique of Ptolemaic
Cosmology: a Ninth-Century Text on the
Motion of the Celestial Spheres . . . . 115--141
Sarah Moore A Newly-Discovered Letter of J. F. W.
Herschel concerning the Plumian
Professorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Detlev Jordan Book Review: Old Norse Cosmography:
\booktitleAltnordische Kosmographie.
Studien und Quellen zu Weltbild und
Welt--Beschreibung in Norwegen und
Island vom 12. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert 144--145
Robert W. Smith Book Review: Friedmann as Hero:
\booktitleAlexander A. Friedmann: The
Man Who Made the Universe Expand . . . . 145--147
John Hearnshaw Book Review: The Anglo-Australian
Observatory: \booktitleThe Creation of
the Anglo-Australian Observatory . . . . 147--149
Ronald E. Doel Book Review: Exploring the Moon:
\booktitleTo a Rocky Moon: a Geologist's
History of Lunar Exploration . . . . . . 149--151
F. Richard Stephenson Oriental Astronomy from Guo Shoujing to
King Sejong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 153--154
David H. DeVorkin Quantum Physics and the Stars (IV):
Meghnad Saha's Fate . . . . . . . . . . 155--188
Bernard R. Goldstein Historical Perspectives on Copernicus's
Account of Precession . . . . . . . . . 189--197
Jean-Michel Faidit The Observatories of Languedoc . . . . . 199--206
Derek Howse The Greenwich List of Observatories: a
World List of Astronomical
Observatories, Instruments and Clocks,
1670--1850 Amendment List No. 1 . . . . 207--218
Anita McConnell Astronomers at War: The Viewpoint of
Troughton & Simms . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--235
Michael H. Shank Essay Review: Galileo's Day in Court:
\booktitleGalileo, Courtier: The
Practice of Science in the Culture of
Absolutism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--243
J. D. North Essay Review: a Gingerich Anthology:
\booktitleThe Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy,
Copernicus, Kepler . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Richard S. Westfall Essay Review: Kepler and Kepler's Laws:
\booktitleThe Discovery of Kepler's
Laws: The Interaction of Science,
Philosophy, and Religion . . . . . . . . 244--245
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Victorian Observing Practices, Printing
Technology, and Representations of the
Solar Corona, (1): The 1860s and 1870s 249--274
Dmitri Panchenko Thales's Prediction of a Solar Eclipse 275--288
Julio Samsó and
Honorino Mielgo Ibn al-Zarq\=alluh on Mercury . . . . . 289--296
Glen Van Brummelen Lunar and Planetary Interpolation Tables
in Ptolemy's \booktitleAlmagest . . . . 297--311
Michael Hoskin and
Elizabeth Allan and
Renate Gralewski Orientations of Corsican Dolmens . . . . 313--316
Scott L. Montgomery The First Naturalistic Drawings of the
Moon: Jan Van Eyck and the Art of
Observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--320
E. S. Kennedy Essay Review: \dTusi's Cosmology:
\booktitleNa\dsir al-Din al-\dTusi's
Memoir on Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 321--324
Norriss S. Hetherington Book Review: Science and Scientists:
\booktitleParadigms and Barriers: How
Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs 325--327
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleTreasures of the
Germanisches Museum: Focus Behaim Globus 327--328
Steven J. Harris Book Review: a Jesuit's Mathematics
Lectures: \booktitleMathematik im
Studienplan der Jesuiten . . . . . . . . 328--330
Barbara L. Welther Book Review: Lady Herschel at the Cape:
\booktitleLady Herschel: Letters from
the Cape 1834--1838 . . . . . . . . . . 330--331
Peter Dear Book Review: French Expansion and the
Exact Sciences: \booktitleCivilizing
Mission: Exact Sciences and French
Overseas Expansion, 1830--1940 . . . . . 331--332
Bruce Hevly Book Review: Building the Big
Telescopes: \booktitlePauper & Prince:
Ritchey, Hale, & Big American Telescopes 333--334
Elske V. P. Smith Book Review: Bart Bok: \booktitleThe Man
Who Sold the Milky Way: a Biography of
Bart Bok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--336
Dieter B. Herrmann Book Review: Astronomy in Bavaria:
\booktitleAstronomie in Bayern
1914--1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Clive L. N. Ruggles The Stone Rows of South-West Ireland: a
First Reconnaissance . . . . . . . . . . S1--S20
Anthony F. Aveni and
Lorren D. Hotaling Monumental Inscriptions and the
Observational Basis of Maya Planetary
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S21--S54
Michael Hoskin and
Elizabeth Allan and
Renate Gralewski Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (1)
Orientations of the Megalithic
Sepulchres of Almeria, Granada and
Malaga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S55--S82
Hugh Thurston A Mayan Table of Eclipses . . . . . . . S83--S84
César Esteban and
Juan A. Belmonte and
Antonio Aparicio A Solstitial Marker in Tenerife:
Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S84--S86
Anthony Aveni Book Review: Mayans Past and Present:
Time and the Highland Maya . . . . . . . S86--S87
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Mayans Past and Present:
\booktitleArcheoastronomia Italiana . . S87--S89
Anonymous The European Society for Astronomy in
Culture (SEAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . S90--S90
Anonymous Summaries of Relevant Articles in JHA S90--S90
Anonymous Conference Report: Oxford 4 . . . . . . S91--S91
Donald E. Osterbrock Walter Baade, Observational
Astrophysicist, (1): The Preparation
1893--1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--32
Andrea Murschel The Structure and Function of Ptolemy's
Physical Hypotheses of Planetary Motion 33--61
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Victorian Observing Practices, Printing
Technology, and Representations of the
Solar Corona, (2): The Age of
Photomechanical Reproduction . . . . . . 63--75
G. J. Toomer Essay Review: The New Astronomy
Englished: \booktitleNew Astronomy.
Johannes Kepler, translated by William
H. Donahue (Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1992). Pp. xvi + 665. \pounds
85/140. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--82
Michael Hoskin Book Review: a History of Astronomy for
All: \booktitleThe Fontana History of
Astronomy and Cosmology . . . . . . . . 83--84
David A. King Book Review: an Eleventh-Century Summary
of the \booktitleAlmagest: \booktitleIbn
al-Haytham's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Curtis Wilson Book Review: Kepler and Galileo:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler: Discussion
avec Le Messager Céleste et Rapport sur
l'Observation des Satellites de Jupiter 86--87
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Liebniz's Debt to the
\booktitlePrincipia:
\booktitleEquivalence and Priority:
Newton versus Leibniz, including
Leibniz's Unpublished Manuscripts on the
\booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Mordechai Feingold Book Review: Newton and Halley:
\booktitleStanding on the Shoulders of
Giants: a Longer View of Newton and
Halley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Suzanne Débarbat Commission 41 at the Hague General
Assembly of the IAU . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Helge Kragh Cosmology between the Wars: The
Nernst--Macmillan Alternative . . . . . 93--115
S. S. Said and
F. R. Stephenson Precision of Medieval Islamic
Measurements of Solar Altitudes and
Equinox Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--132
Mario di Bono Copernicus, Amico, Fracastoro and
\dT\=us\=\i's device: observations on
the use and transmission of a model . . 133--154
Bernard R. Goldstein and
Alan C. Bowen Pliny and Hipparchus's $ 600 $-year
cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--158
Kurt Locher Three Further Greco--Roman Conical
Sundials from Palmyra, Naples, and Abû
M\^\inâ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--163
Hugh Thurston Three Solar Longitudes in the
\booktitleAlmagest Due to Hipparchus . . 164--164
H. Floris Cohen Essay Review: Divinity at Work:
\booktitleThe Music of the Heavens:
Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy . . . . . . 165--167
George Saliba Essay Review: an Introduction to
Astrology: \booktitleAbu Ma'sar, The
Abbreviation of the Introduction to
Astrology: Together with the Medieval
Latin Translation of Adelard of Bath . . 168--170
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: Astronomy and Astrology in
Babylon: \booktitleDie Rolle der
Astronomie in den Kulturen Mesopotamiens 170--171
Subhash C. Kak Book Review: Indian Astronomy:
\booktitleIndian Mathematics and
Astronomy: Some Landmarks . . . . . . . 172--173
Michael Hoskin Book Review: a Fourteenth-Century Cycle
of Syzygies: \booktitleL'Astronomia de
Jacob ben David Bonjorn . . . . . . . . 173--173
Gerald Holton Book Review: Caspar's Kepler Referenced:
\booktitleKepler . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--175
E. M. Standish Book Review: Kepler's Equation down the
Centuries: \booktitleSolving Kepler's
Equation: Over Three Centuries . . . . . 175--177
James A. Van Allen Book Review: Science from Balloons:
\booktitleRace to the Stratosphere:
Manned Scientific Ballooning in America 177--179
James A. Van Allen Book Review: War and Peace:
\booktitleScience with a Vengeance: How
the Military Created the US Space
Sciences after World War II . . . . . . 179--181
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Lowell's Observatory
Commemorated: \booktitleThe Explorers of
Mars Hill: a Centennial History of
Lowell Observatory, 1894--1994 . . . . . 181--182
E. Robert Paul Book Review: The Carnegie Institution
and Astronomy: \booktitleThe Earth, the
Heavens and the Carnegie Institution of
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Anonymous The Organizing Committee of IAU
Commission 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
R. C. Ceragioli The Debate concerning `Red' Sirius . . . 187--226
F. R. Stephenson and
L. J. Fatoohi Accuracy of Solar Eclipse Observations
Made by Jesuit Astronomers in China . . 227--236
Nick Kollerstrom and
Bernard D. Yallop Flamsteed's Lunar Data, 1692--95, Sent
to Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246
Michael Hoskin and
Elizabeth Allan and
Renate Gralewski Further Orientations of Corsican Dolmens 247--252
David A. King The Orientation of Medieval Islamic
Religious Architecture and Cities . . . 253--274
Anonymous Corrigendum: [Three Solar Longitudes in
the \booktitleAlmagest Due to
Hipparchus] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Kansas State University and
John Lankford Book Review: Materials for a History of
the RASC: \booktitleLooking up: a
History of the Royal Astronomical
Society of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Helen Wallis (1924--1995) . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Anthony F. Aveni and
Steven J. Morandi and
Polly A. Peterson The Maya Number of Time: Intervalic Time
Reckoning in the Maya Codices, Part 1 S1--S28
Michael Hoskin and
Elizabeth Allan and
Renate Gralewski Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (2)
Orientations of the Tholos Tombs of
Almeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S29--S40
Michael Hoskin and
Elizabeth Allan and
Renate Gralewski Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (3)
Customs and Motives in Andalucia . . . . S41--S48
Martin J. Powell Astronomical Indications at a
Bell-Barrow in South Wales . . . . . . . S49--S56
Frederick Martin Venus and the Dresden Codex Eclipse
Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S57--S73
Anthony F. Aveni Essay Review: Frombork 1992: Where
Worlds and Disciplines Collide:
\booktitleTime and Astronomy at the
Meeting of Two Worlds, Proceedings of
the International Symposium held April
27--May 2, 1992, in Frombork, Poland,
organized by the Department of
Historical Anthropology. Edited by
Stanis\law Iwaniszewski, Arnold Lebeuf,
Andrzej Wierci\'nski and Mariusz S.
Zió\lkowski (Publication no. 10,
Institute of Archaeology, Warsaw
University Centre for Latin American
Studies (CESLA); Warsaw, 1994). Pp. 527 S74--S79
Anonymous Corrigenda: [Aveni and Hotaling in
\booktitleArchaeoastronomy, no. 19,
Table 1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S79--S79
Clive Ruggles Essay Review: Co-Operation: The Ideal
and the Reality: \booktitleColloquio
Internazionale: Archeologia e Astronomia S80--S86
Philip P. Arnold Essay Review: Interpreting Mesoamerican
Texts: \booktitleThe Sky in Mayan
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S86--S89
Anonymous Richard Atkinson (1920--1994) . . . . . S90--S90
Anonymous Summaries of Relevant Articles in JHA S90--S90
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S91--S91
Bernard R. Goldstein The Pre-Telescopic Treatment of the
Phases and Apparent Size of Venus . . . 1--12
Thomas R. Williams The Development of Astronomy in the
Southern United States, 1840--1914 . . . 13--44
Suzanne Débarbat An Unusual Use of an Astronomical
Instrument: The Dreyfus Affair and the
Paris `Macro--Microm\`etre' . . . . . . 45--52
Maria Papathanassiou and
Michael Hoskin The Late-Minoan Cemetery at Armenoi: a
Reappraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
L. J. Fatoohi and
F. R. Stephenson Accuracy of Lunar Eclipse Observations
Made by Jesuit Astronomers in China . . 61--67
John Hedley Brooke Essay Review: Matters of Fact and Faith:
\booktitleGalileo: For Copernicanism and
for the Church, Galileo: a Life,
Galileo: Decisive Innovator . . . . . . 68--74
Emmanuel Poulle Essay Review: Copernicus's Minor Works
in Facsimile: \booktitleNicholas
Copernicus, Complete Works, IV: The
Manuscripts of Nicholas Copernicus'
Minor Works Facsimiles, Nicolas
Copernic, OEuvres compl\`etes, II
(Version française): Facsimilés des
manuscrits des écrits mineurs . . . . . . 75--78
Liba Taub Book Review: Reappraising Philolaus:
\booktitlePhilolaus of Croton:
Pythagorean and Presocratic . . . . . . 79--81
John North Book Review: Astrology without
Mathematics: \booktitleAncient Astrology 81--82
Virendra N. Sharma Book Review: Source Materials in
Sanskrit: \booktitleCensus of the Exact
Sciences in Sanskrit . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Bruce Eastwood Book Review: The Cosmos in the Middle
Ages and After: \booktitlePlanets,
Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos,
1200--1687 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--85
Joann Eisberg Book Review: Perspectives on Cosmology:
\booktitleCosmology: Historical,
Literary, Philosophical, Religious, and
Scientific Perspectives,
\booktitleEncyclopedia of Cosmology:
Historical, Philosophical, and
Scientific Foundations of Modern
Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleInstruments of
Stone: Sawai Jai Singh and his Astronomy 87--89
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: Copernicus in Context:
\booktitleNicolaus Copernicus: Leben,
Werk und Wirkung . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
R. C. Ceragioli Solving the Puzzle of `Red' Sirius . . . 93--128
Jay M. Pasachoff and
Roberta J. M. Olson and
Martha L. Hazen The Earliest Comet Photographs:
Usherwood, Bond, and Donati 1858 . . . . 129--145
Jukka Nevalainen The Accuracy of the Ecliptic Longitude
in Ptolemy's Mercury Model . . . . . . . 147--160
David Pingree B\=\ija-corrections in Indian astronomy 161--172
Kurt Locher Book Review: Ancient Egyptian Astronomy:
\booktitleAncient Egyptian Science, II:
Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy . . . . 173--174
G. J. Toomer Book Review: Hypatia of Alexandria:
\booktitleHypatia of Alexandria . . . . 174--176
Sara Schechner Genuth Book Review: The Gerard Turner
Festschrift: \booktitleMaking
Instruments Count: Essays on Historical
Scientific Instruments Presented to
Gerard L 'Estrange Turner . . . . . . . 176--177
A. J. Turner Book Review: P\`elerin's Treatise on the
Astrolabe: \booktitleP\`elerin de Prusse
on the Astrolabe . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
R. S. Westfall Book Review: Galileo in the Cross-Fire:
\booktitleGalileo and the Church:
Political Inquisition or Critical
Dialogue? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
Albert Van Helden Book Review: Cassini Researched:
\booktitleGio: Domenico Cassini: Uno
Scienziato del Seicento . . . . . . . . 182--183
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Memoirs of a Jesuit in
China: \booktitleThe Astronomia Europaea
of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (Dillingen,
1687): Text, Translation, Notes and
Commentaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
David H. DeVorkin Book Review: \booktitleA Limited View of
Hubble: Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the
Nebulae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Jerzy Dobrzycki and
Richard L. Kremer Peurbach and Mar\=agha Astronomy? The
\booktitleEphemerides of Johannes
Angelus and Their Implications . . . . . 187--237
Patricia Fara Lord Derwentwater's Lights: Prediction
and the Aurora Polaris . . . . . . . . . 239--258
S. S. Said and
F. R. Stephenson Solar and lunar eclipse measurements by
medieval Muslim astronomers. I.
Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--273
Raymond Mercier Book Review: Studies in Islamic
Astronomy: \booktitleAstronomy in the
Service of Islam, Islamic Astronomy and
Medieval Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Owen Gingerich Book Review: a Survey of Early
Astronomy: \booktitleEarly Astronomy . . 277--277
P. A. Wayman Book Review: Chronicling the IAU:
\booktitleHistory of the IAU: The Birth
and First Half-Century of the
International Astronomical Union . . . . 278--279
William H. Donahue Kepler's Approach to the Oval of 1602,
from the Mars Notebook . . . . . . . . . 281--295
Bernard R. Goldstein Levi Ben Gerson and the Brightness of
Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
Donald E. Osterbrock Walter Baade, Obervational
Astrophysicist, (2): Mount Wilson
1931--1947 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--348
E. J. Hysom Tests of the Shape of Mirrors by
Herschel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--352
George E. Smith Essay Review: Chandrasekhar's
\booktitlePrincipia: \booktitleNewton's
\booktitlePrincipia for the Common
Reader. S. Chandrasekhar (Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1995). Pp. xx + 593.
\$135.00; [MR1352683 (96h:01010)]} . . . 353--362
Wesley M. Stevens Book Review: The Quadrivium in the Early
Middle Ages: \booktitleDie Artes
Liberales im frühen Mittelalter (5.--9.
Jh.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Throwing Out the Baby with
the Bath Water: \booktitleRevolution and
Continuity: Essays in the History and
Philosophy of Early Modern Science . . . 365--368
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: Solar System Astronomy
before Sputnik: \booktitleSolar System
Astronomy in America: Communities,
Patronage, and Interdisciplinary
Research, 1920--1960 . . . . . . . . . . 368--370
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Anthony F. Aveni and
Steven J. Morandi and
Polly A. Peterson The Maya Number of Time: Intervalic Time
Reckoning in the Maya Codices, Part II S1--S32
Mauro Zedda and
Michael Hoskin and
Renate Gralewski and
Giacobbe Manca Orientations of 230 Sardinian Tombe Di
Giganti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S33--S54
Clive L. N. Ruggles Stone Rows of Three or More Stones in
South-West Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . S55--S71
César Esteban and
Rosa Schlueter and
Juan A. Belmonte and
Oswaldo González Pre-Hispanic Equinoctial Markers in Gran
Canaria, Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . S73--S79
Anonymous Conference Report: Oxford 5 . . . . . . S80--S80
Stanis\law Iwaniszewski Essay Review: Archaeoastronomy in Spain:
\booktitleArqueoastronomía Hispánica.
Prácticas Astrónomicas en la Prehistoria
de la Península Ibérica y los Archipiélagos
Balear y Canario . . . . . . . . . . . . S81--S85
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Proceedings of Oxford 3:
\booktitleAstronomies and Cultures,
Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s . . . . . S85--S87
Carlos Jaschek Book Review: Papers of the Warsaw
Conference: \booktitleReadings in
Archaeoastronomy: Papers Presented at
the International Conference, ``Current
Problems and Future of
Archaeoastronomy'', Held at the State
Archaeological Museum in Warsaw in
November 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . S88--S89
Carlos Jaschek Book Review: an Introduction to
Archaeoastronomy: \booktitleSterne und
Steine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S89--S89
Anonymous Summary of a Relevant Article in JHA . . S90--S90
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S90--S91
Bernard R. Goldstein Saving the Phenomena: The Background to
Ptolemy's Planetary Theory . . . . . . . 1--12
Sree Ram Valluri and
Curtis Wilson and
William Harper Newton's Apsidal Precession Theorem and
Eccentric Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--27
S. S. Said and
F. R. Stephenson Solar and lunar eclipse measurements by
medieval Muslim astronomers. II.
Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--48
Robert W. Smith Engines of Discovery: Scientific
Instruments and the History of Astronomy
and Planetary Science in the United
States in the Twentieth Century . . . . 49--77
Michael Hoskin A Possible Solstice Marker in Northern
Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--82
James R. Voelkel Essay Review: Keplerian Miscellany:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler: Gesammelte
Werke, Band IX, 2: Calendaria et
Prognostica, Astronomica Minora, Somnium 83--86
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Two Seventeenth-Century
Treatises: \booktitleThe Man in the
Moone, Observations concerning the
Planet Venus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Philip Morrison Book Review: Celestial Mythology
Worldwide: \booktitleBeyond the Blue
Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun,
Moon, Stars, and Planets . . . . . . . . 87--89
Alexander Jones Book Review: More Papyrus Horoscopes:
\booktitleOroscopi Greci: Documentazione
Papirologica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Hubble with Commentary:
\booktitleHubble's Cosmology: a Guided
Study of Selected Texts . . . . . . . . 91--91
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein Computational Astronomy: Five Centuries
of Finding True Syzygy . . . . . . . . . 93--105
Mario Arnaldi and
Karlheinz Schaldach A Roman Cylinder Dial: Witness to a
Forgotten Tradition . . . . . . . . . . 107--117
J. M. Steele and
F. R. Stephenson Lunar Eclipse Times Predicted by the
Babylonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--131
J. M. Steele Solar Eclipse Times Predicted by the
Babylonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--139
Engel Sluiter The First Known Telescopes Carried to
America, Asia and the Arctic, 1614--39 141--145
Edward Grant The Medieval Cosmos: Its Structure and
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--167
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Astronomy in Antiquity and
the Middle Ages: \booktitleAstronomy
before the Telescope . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Ann Blair Book Review: Focus on Clavius:
\booktitleBetween Copernicus and
Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the
Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology . . . . 170--172
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: Flamsteed Correspondence:
\booktitleThe Correspondence of John
Flamsteed, First Astronomer Royal . . . 172--174
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Astronomy and Astronomers
at Yale: \booktitleAstronomy at Yale
1701--1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--175
Kevin Krisciunas Book Review: The Travails of Pulkovo:
\booktitlePulkovo/St. Petersburg: Spuren
der Sterne und der Zeiten; Geschichte
der Russischen Hauptsternwarte . . . . . 176--177
John Hearnshaw Book Review: Astronomy down Under:
\booktitleExplorers of the Southern Sky:
a History of Australian Astronomy . . . 177--179
Owen Gingerich Book Review: More on Alvan Clark and His
Sons: \booktitleAlvan Clark & Sons,
Artists in Optics . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleFrankfurt Jubilee
Celebrations: Ad Radices . . . . . . . . 180--180
Virginia Trimble Book Review: Source Readings in
Cosmology: \booktitleModern Theories of
the Universe from Herschel to Hubble . . 180--181
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Owen Gingerich Richard S. Westfall (1924--1996) . . . . 184--185
Wilbur R. Knorr Sacrobosco's \booktitleQuadrans: date
and sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--222
Engel Sluiter The Telescope before Galileo . . . . . . 223--234
Bruce Stansfield Eastwood Astronomy in Christian Latin Europe c.
500--c. 1150 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--258
Anonymous Errata: [The Development of Astronomy in
the Southern United States, 1840--1914] 258--258
Robert S. Westman Essay Review: Zinner, Copernicus, and
the Nazis: \booktitleEntstehung und
Ausbreitung der copernicanischen Lehre.
Ernst Zinner, ed. by. Heribert M. Nobis
and Felix Schmeidler (Verlag C. H. Beck,
Munich, 1988; first edition,
\booktitleSitzungberichte der
physikalisch-medizinischen Sozietdt zu
Erlangen, lxxiv (1943)). Pp. xvi + 636.
DM 198 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--270
Len Berggren Book Review: Islamic Astronomers and the
Equant: \booktitleA History of Arabic
Astronomy: Planetary Theories during the
Golden Age of Islam . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
William E. Carroll Book Review: How the Heavens Go:
\booktitleGalileo, Bellarmine, and the
Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
Tom Williams Book Review: Mars Observed:
\booktitleThe Planet Mars: a History of
Observation & Discovery . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Wealth in the Renaissance:
\booktitleWorldly Goods . . . . . . . . 275--275
Donald E. Osterbrock Book Review: Papers by Spitzer:
\booktitleDreams, Stars, and Electrons:
Selected Writings of Lyman Spitzer, Jr 276--277
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 278--278
F. Richard Stephenson and
Louay J. Fatoohi Thales's Prediction of a Solar Eclipse 279--282
Donald E. Osterbrock Walter Baade, Observational
Astrophysicist, (3): Palomar and
Göttingen 1948--1960 (Part A) . . . . . . 283--316
William L. Vanderburgh Empirical Equivalence and Approximative
Methods in the \booktitleNew Astronomy:
a Defence of Kepler against the Charge
of Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--336
J. M. Steele and
F. R. Stephenson and
L. V. Morrison The Accuracy of Eclipse Times Measured
by the Babylonians . . . . . . . . . . . 337--345
J. D. North Book Review: an Encyclopedia of
Intermediate Type: \booktitleHistory of
Astronomy: an Encyclopedia . . . . . . . 346--348
Roger Ceragioli Book Review: History and Science in
Collaboration: \booktitleCaesar's Comet:
The Comet of 44 B.C. and Caesar's
Funeral Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--350
Isabela Zbikowska Book Review: Aristarchus and His
Influence: \booktitleAristarch von Samos 351--352
E. C. Krupp Book Review: Myths and Their
Interpretation: \booktitleStar Myths of
the Vikings: a New Concept of Norse
Mythology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Ma\lgorzata Malewicz Book Review: Astrology and Theology:
\booktitleHistory, Prophecy, and the
Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre
d'Ailly, 1350--1420 . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Rhonda Martens Book Review: Music and the Scientific
Revolution: \booktitleMusic and Science
in the Age of Galileo . . . . . . . . . 355--357
Alan Cook Book Review: Modern Planetary Physics:
\booktitleA History of Modern Planetary
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--359
Richard Berendzen Book Review: a Century-Old Revolution:
\booktitleThe Milky Way Galaxy and
Statistical Cosmology 1890--1924 . . . . 359--360
George Saliba Book Review: Pre-Modern Astronomy and
Culture: \booktitleTradition,
Transmission, Transformation:
Proceedings of Two Conferences on
Pre-Modern Science Held at the
University of Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . 360--362
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
Steven J. Dick Commission 41 at the Kyoto General
Assembly of the IAU . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Anonymous Errata: [Essay Review: Zinner,
Copernicus, and the Nazis] . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Editorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Michael Hoskin and
Mauro Zedda Orientations of Sardinian Dolmens . . . S1--S16
Harvey M. Bricker and
Victoria R. Bricker and
Bettina Wulfing Determining the Historicity of Three
Astronomical Almanacs in the Madrid
Codex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S17--S36
Juan Antonio Belmonte Mediterranean Archaeotopography and
Archaeoastronomy: Two Examples of
Dolmenic Necropolises in the Jordan
Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S37--S43
Clive L. N. Ruggles Whose Equinox? . . . . . . . . . . . . . S44--S50
César Esteban and
Rosa Schlueter and
Juan A. Belmonte and
Oswaldo González Pre-Hispanic Equinoctial Markers in Gran
Canaria, Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . S51--S56
Vytautas Straizys and
Libertas Klimka The Cosmology of the Ancient Balts . . . S57--S81
Brian Farhi and
Anthony F. Aveni Solar Eclipses and the Temple of the
Plumed Serpents, Xochicalco, Mexico . . S83--S85
Anthony F. Aveni Book Review: The Incas and the Sky:
\booktitleAstronomy and Empire in the
Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins of
Inca Sky Watching . . . . . . . . . . . S85--S87
Gerardo V. Aldana Book Review: a View of Andean Culture:
\booktitleThe Secret of the Incas: Myth,
Astronomy, and the War against Time . . S88--S89
Anonymous Summary of a Relevant Article in JHA . . S90--S90
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S90--S91
Owen Gingerich and
James R. Voelkel Tycho Brahe's Copernican Campaign . . . 1--34
J. M. Steele and
F. R. Stephenson Astronomical Evidence for the Accuracy
of Clocks in Pre-Jesuit China . . . . . 35--48
Nicholas Jardine The Places of Astronomy in Early-Modern
Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62
Michael Hoskin and
Toni Palomo i Pérez Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (4)
The Orientations of Megalithic Tombs of
Eastern Catalunya . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
Adriaan Blaauw Essay Review: The First Half-Century of
Yerkes: \booktitleYerkes Observatory,
1892--1950: The Birth, near Death, and
Resurrection of a Scientific Research
Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
Albert Van Helden Book Review: Pictures That Tell a Story:
\booktitleThe Cambridge Illustrated
History of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Gale E. Christianson Book Review: The First Barnard
Biography: \booktitleThe Immortal Fire
Within: The Life and Work of Edward
Emerson Barnard . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--86
Robert W. Smith Book Review: Steady-State versus Big
Bang: \booktitleCosmology and
Controversy: The Historical Development
of Two Theories of the Universe . . . . 86--87
Christopher J. Corbally, S.J. Book Review: `SETI' and the Limits of
Science: \booktitleThe Biological
Universe: The Twentieth-Century
Extratesrrestrial Life Debate and the
Limits of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
William Donahue Book Review: The Hall Festschrift:
\booktitleRenaissance and Revolution:
Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and
Natural Philosophers in Early Modern
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Julio Samsó An Outline of the History of Maghrib\=\i
Zijes from the End of the Thirteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--102
David Pingree Some Fourteenth-Century Byzantine
astronomical texts . . . . . . . . . . . 103--108
Anne Tihon The Astronomy of George Gemistus Plethon 109--116
Raymond Mercier The astronomical tables of George
Gemistus Plethon . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127
Wolfgang Kokott Syzygies as Pivots: an Unusual
Mid-Fifteenth-Century Working Ephemeris 129--135
Y. Tzvi Langermann Peurbach in the Hebrew Tradition . . . . 137--150
Graziella Federici Vescovini The Place of the Sun in Medieval
Arabo--Latin Astronomy: The
\booktitleLucidator Dubitabilium
Astronomiae (1303--10) of Peter De Padua 151--155
Michael H. Shank Regiomontanus and Homocentric Astronomy 157--166
José Chabás Astronomy in Salamanca in the
mid-Fifteenth Century: the
\booktitleTabulae Resolutae . . . . . . 167--175
Bernard R. Goldstein Abraham Zacut and the Medieval Hebrew
Astronomical Tradition . . . . . . . . . 177--186
Richard L. Kremer and
Jerzy Dobrzycki Alfonsine Meridians: Tradition versus
Experience in Astronomical Practice c.
1500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--199
Emmanuel Poulle and
Denis Savoie La survie de l'astronomie alphonsine.
(French) [The survival of Alphonsine
astronomy] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 209--210
J. D. North Olaf Pedersen (1920--1997) . . . . . . . 211--214
Bruno M. Deiss and
Volker Nebel On a Pretended Observation of Saturn by
Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--220
Steven J. Dick and
Wayne Orchiston and
Tom Love Simon Newcomb, William Harkness and the
Nineteenth-Century American Transit of
Venus Expeditions . . . . . . . . . . . 221--255
Donn MacMinn An Analysis of Ptolemy's Treatment of
Retrograde Motion . . . . . . . . . . . 257--270
Glen Van Brummelen Computer Animations of Ptolemy's Models
of the Motions of the Sun, Moon and
Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
John M. Steele Predictions of Eclipse Times Recorded in
Chinese History . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--285
Michael Nauenberg Essay Review: The Mathematical
Principles Underlying the
\booktitlePrincipia Revisited:
\booktitleThe Key to Newton's Dynamics:
The Kepler Problem and the
\booktitlePrincipia. J. Bruce
Brackenridge (University of California
Press, Berkeley, 1995). Pp. x +299.
\$19.95 (paperback) [MR1658137
(99j:01006)]}. {{\booktitle{Newton's
\booktitle{Principia}}: The Central
Argument}. Dana Densmore (Green Lion
Press, Santa Fe, 1995). Pp. xii + 425.
\$42; [MR1658501 (99h:01021)] . . . . . 286--300
Albert Van Helden Book Review: a Dutch
Farmer--Philosopher:
\booktitleSpeculatie, Wetenschap en
Vernuft: Fysica en astronomie volgens
Wytze Foppes Dongjuma (1707--1778),
Instrumentmaker te Leeuwarden . . . . . 301--302
Nathan Sivin Book Review: a Chinese Text Analysed:
\booktitleAstronomy and Mathematics in
Ancient China: The Zhou bi Suanjing . . 302--304
Deborah Jean Warner Book Review: Telescope-Building in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland:
\booktitleVictorian Telescope Makers:
The Lives and Letters of Thomas and
Howard Grubb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Bruce Stephenson Book Review: Kepler's \booktitleHarmony
Translated: \booktitleThe Harmony of the
World by Johannes Kepler . . . . . . . . 306--307
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 307--308
Frank K. Edmondson The Ford Foundation and the European
Southern Observatory . . . . . . . . . . 309--326
Dennis D. McCarthy The Julian and Modified Julian Dates . . 327--330
John M. Steele and
F. Richard Stephenson Eclipse Observations Made by
Regiomontanus and Walther . . . . . . . 331--344
Donald E. Osterbrock Walter Baade, Observational
Astrophysicist, (3): Palomar and
Göttingen 1948--1960 (Part B) . . . . . . 345--377
Louay J. Fatoohi A Computer Program for the Conversion of
Babylonian into Julian Dates . . . . . . 378--379
Raymond Mercier A General Calendar Conversion Program 379--380
John P. Britton Essay Review: Planetary Theory in
Babylon: \booktitleThe Babylonian Theory
of the Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--385
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: \booktitleDocumenta
Copernicana: Nicolaus Copernicus
Gesamtausgabe, VI/1: Briefe: Texte und
Übersetzungen, Nicolaus Copernicus
Gesamtausgabe, VI/2: Urkunden, Akten und
Nachrichten: Texte und Übersetzungen . . 386--389
David DeVorkin Essay Review: The American Astronomical
Community: \booktitleAmerican Astronomy:
Community, Careers, and Power,
1859--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Rise of Science in the
West: \booktitleThe Rise of Early Modern
Science: Islam, China, and the West . . 393--394
Adriaan Blaauw Book Review: Aura Seen from Within:
\booktitleAura and its US National
Observatories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--396
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Owen Gingerich and
James R. Voelkel Tycho Brahe's Copernican Campaign:
Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Derek Howse (1919--1998) . . . . . . . . 398--398
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 398--399
William Breen Murray Models of Temporality in
Archaeoastronomy and Rock Art Studies S1--S6
Juan A. Belmonte and
César Esteban and
José Juan Jiménez González Mediterranean Archaeoastronomy and
Archaeotopography: Pre-Roman Tombs of
Africa Proconsularis . . . . . . . . . . S7--S24
Keith Snedegar First Fruits Celebrations Among the
Nguni Peoples of Southern Africa: an
Ethnoastronomical Interpretation . . . . S31--S38
Michael Hoskin and
Oriol Mercadal i Fern\`andez and
Sara Aliaga i Rodrigo and
Luix Mari Zaldua and
Antón A. Rodríguez Casal and
Nuno Miguel Soares and
M. Socorro López Plaza and
Joao Carlos De Senna-Martinez and
Francisco Henriques and
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
Miguel Lago and
Joao Albergaria and
Manuel Calado and
Artur Martins Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (5)
Orientations of Megalithic Tombs of
Northern and Western Iberia . . . . . . S39--S87
Anonymous Summary of a Relevant Article in JHA . . S88--S88
Stephen McCluskey Book Review: Cosmovisions and Power:
Skywatchers, \booktitleShamans & Kings:
Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power S89--S90
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . -
Alfonso López Borgoñtoz Orientations of Graves in the Late Roman
Necropolises of Ampurias . . . . . . . . -
N. M. Swerdlow Regiomontanus's Concentric-Sphere Models
for the Sun and Moon . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Thomas J. Sherrill A Career of Controversy: The Anomaly of
T. J. J. See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--50
Louay J. Fatoohi and
F. Richard Stephenson and
Shetha S. Al-Dargazelli The Babylonian First Visibility of the
Lunar Crescent: Data and Criterion . . . 51--72
William E. Carroll Book Review: Galileo's Dialogo:
\booktitleGalileo on the World Systems:
a new abridged translation and guide . . 73--74
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Aspects of the Exact
Sciences in Islam: \booktitleFrom
Baghdad to Barcelona: Studies in the
Islamic Exact Sciences in Honour of
Prof. Juan Vernet . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Kurt Locher Book Review: The Ecliptic in Ancient
Egypt: \booktitleAstronomische Konzepte
und Jenseitsvorstellungen in den
Pyramidentexten . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Simon Schaffer Book Review: Harrison's Rights and
Wrongs: \booktitleThe Quest for
Longitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--78
Jim Bennett Book Review: Essays in the History of
Horology: \booktitleOf Time and
Measurement: Studies in the History of
Horology and Fine Technology . . . . . . 78--79
Woodruff T. Sullivan III Book Review: Lauding the NRAO:
\booktitleThe History of Radio Astronomy
and the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory: Evolution toward Big
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--81
William Liller Book Review: Measuring Magnitudes:
\booktitleThe Measurement of Starlight:
Two Centuries of Astronomical Photometry 81--82
J. L. Heilbron Book Review: The DSB on Laplace
Reprinted: \booktitlePierre-Simon
Laplace, 1749--1827: a Life in Exact
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Michael H. Shank Book Review: a Sixteenth-Century
Viennese Intellectual:
\booktitleHumanismus zwischen Hof und
Universität: Georg Tanstetter
(Collimitius) und sein
wissenschaftliches Umfeld im Wien des
frühen 16. Jahrhunderts . . . . . . . . . 83--85
Steven J. Dick Book Review: The Perihelion of Mercury:
\booktitleIn Search of Planet Vulcan:
The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe 85--87
Helge Kragh Book Review: Einstein and the Einstein
Tower: \booktitleThe Einstein Tower: an
Intertexture of Dynamic Construction,
Relativity Theory, and Astronomy . . . . 87--88
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Klaus Hentschel Photographic Mapping of the Solar
Spectrum 1864--1900, Part I . . . . . . 93--119
Jerzy Dobrzycki Saturn, Aristotelian Astronomy, and
Cracow Astronomers: an Episode from the
Early Years of Telescopic Astronomy . . 121--129
David Cook A Survey of Muslim Material on Comets
and Meteors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--160
Y. Li and
C. Z. Zhang Accuracy of Solar Eclipse Calculations,
1644--1785, with the Chinese Shoushi
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--167
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Empirical Foundations of
Babylonian Lunar Theory: \booktitleZur
Entstehung der babylonischen
Mondtheorie, Beobachtung und
theoretischen Berechnung von Mondphasen 169--172
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Mathematics in Renaissance
Ingolstadt: \booktitleMathematik und
Astronomie an der Universität Ingolstadt
im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert . . . . . . . 173--175
Ido Yavetz Book Review: Big Astronomy:
\booktitleThe Perfect Machine: Building
the Palomar Telescope . . . . . . . . . 175--177
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Keplerian Bibliography:
\booktitleBibliographia Kepleriana:
Verzeichnis der Gedruckten Schriften von
und über Johannes Kepler . . . . . . . . 177--178
Adam Jared Apt Book Review: Flamsteed Observed:
\booktitleFlamsteed's Stars: New
Perspectives on the Life and Work of the
First Astronomer Royal, 1646--1719 . . . 178--180
Stephen McCluskey Book Review: Theory Versus
Instrumentation: \booktitleAstronomy
Through the Ages: The Story of the Human
Attempt to Understand the Universe . . . 180--181
Maurice A. Finocchiaro Book Review: The Spread of Copernicanism
in Italy: \booktitleLa Diffusione del
Copernicanesimo in Italia 1543--1610 . . 182--183
Owen Gingerich Book Review: John Herschel's
Correspondence Listed: a
\booktitleCalendar of the Correspondence
of Sir John Herschel . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Bernard R. Goldstein and
José Chabás An Occultation of Venus Observed by
Abraham Zacut in 1476 . . . . . . . . . 187--200
Klaus Hentschel Photographic Mapping of the Solar
Spectrum 1864--1900, Part II . . . . . . 201--224
E. Zsoldos and
Zs. Lévai ``Novae'' over Kiskartal . . . . . . . . 225--230
Hu Zhongwei and
Ren Jinyi and
Guo Jiuli and
Hu Xianliang and
Xu Dengli A Chinese Observing Site from Remote
Antiquity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
James Evans The Material Culture of Greek Astronomy 237--307
Michael H. Shank Essay Review: Cosmology in 1588:
\booktitleEl Debate Cosmológico en 1588:
Bruno, Brahe, Rothmann, Ursus, Röslin . . 309--311
John Steele Book Review: Venus Omens in Babylon:
\booktitleBabylonian Planetary Omens,
Part 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Roger C. Ceragioli Book Review: Star Myths of Antiquity:
\booktitleStar Myths of the Greeks and
Romans: a Sourcebook . . . . . . . . . . 313--315
Alexander Jones Book Review: \booktitleOn Isagogical
Questions: Prolegomena Mathematica: From
Apollonius of Perga to the Late
Neoplatonists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Robert H. Van Gent Book Review: Adler Astrolabes:
\booktitleWestern Astrolabes: Historic
Scientific Instruments of the Adler
Planetarium & Astronomy Museum . . . . . 316--317
Faith Wallis Book Review: Early Medieval Astronomies:
\booktitleAstronomies and Cultures in
Early Medieval Europe . . . . . . . . . 317--319
J. D. North Book Review: ``The Book of Aristotle'':
\booktitleThe Liber Aristotilis of Hugo
of Santalla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--321
Daniel W. E. Green Book Review: Comets as Signs and Causes:
\booktitleComets, Popular Culture, and
the Birth of Modern Cosmology . . . . . 321--323
Rhonda Martens Book Review: Educating Kepler:
\booktitleKepler's Tübingen: Stimulus to
a Theological Mathematics . . . . . . . 324--325
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: Flamsteed under Pressure:
\booktitleThe Correspondence of John
Flamsteed, First Astronomer Royal, II:
1682--1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--327
Don Yeomans Book Review: Imaging Comets and Meteors:
\booktitleFire in the Sky: Comets and
Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in
British Art and Science . . . . . . . . 327--328
Richard Sanderson Book Review: Looking at the Leonids:
\booktitleThe Heavens on Fire: The Great
Leonid Meteor Storms . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Klaus Staubermann Book Review: The Genesis of the Meridian
Circle: \booktitleDie Entwicklung des
Meridiankreises 1700--1850: Genesis
eines astronomischen Hauptinstrumentes
unter Berücksichtigung des
Wechselverhältnisses zwischen Astronomie,
Astro-Technik und Technik . . . . . . . 330--330
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: a History of Astronomy in
German: \booktitleGeschichte der
Astronomie: Von den Anfängen bis zur
Gegenwart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
John Hearnshaw Book Review: The Observatory at the
Cape: \booktitleRoyal Observatory, Cape
of Good Hope, 1820--1831: The Founding
of a Colonial Observatory . . . . . . . 332--333
Barbara J. Becker Book Review: Five Women of Science:
\booktitleWhatever Shines Should Be
Observed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--334
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Calendar of the Oort
Archive: \booktitleThe Letters and
Papers of Jan Hendrik Oort . . . . . . . 335--335
Donat G. Wentzel Book Review: In Piam Memoriam Edith
Müller: \booktitleRemembering Edith Alice
Müller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Art in Islamic Scientific
Instruments: \booktitleScience, Tools
and Magic: The Nasser D. Khalili
Collection of Islamic Art, XII . . . . . 336--337
Joseph N. Tatarewicz Book Review: European Space Missions:
\booktitleA New Force at a New Frontier:
Europe's Development in the Space Field
in the Light of its Main Actors,
Policies, Law and Activities from its
Beginnings up to the Present . . . . . . 337--338
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 340--342
Peter Barker Copernicus and the Critics of Ptolemy 343--358
Richard A. Jarrell J. S. Plaskett and the Modern Large
Reflecting Telescope . . . . . . . . . . 359--390
J. Wünsch The Accuracy of Hevelius's Astrometric
Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--406
David H. Kelley Book Review: Calendrical Systems
Explored: \booktitleCalendrical
Calculations, Mapping Time: The Calendar
and its History . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--409
David Strauss Book Review: The Biological Universe
Abridged, \booktitleLife on other
Worlds: The 20th-Century
Extraterrestrial Life Debate . . . . . . 409--410
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Anthony Aveni Astronomy in the Mexican Codex Borgia S1--S20
J. A. Belmonte and
C. Esteban and
L. Cuesta and
M. A. Perera Betancort and
J. J. Jiménez González Pre-Islamic Burial Monuments in Northern
and Saharan Morocco . . . . . . . . . . S21--S34
Michael Hoskin and
Carme Sauch i Aparicio Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (6)
Orientations of Megalithic Tombs of
Badajoz and Neighbouring Portugal . . . S35--S40
Gail Higginbottom and
Roger Clay Reassessment of Sites in Northwest
Scotland: a New Statistical Approach . . S41--S46
Yves Chevalier Orientations of 935 Dolmens of Southern
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S47--S82
Clive Ruggles Essay Review: Sun, Moon, Stars, and
Stonehenge: \booktitleStonehenge:
Neolithic Man and the Cosmos . . . . . . S83--S88
Michael Hoskin and
Toni Palomo i Pérez The Orientations of Megalithic Tombs of
Eastern Catalunya: Addendum . . . . . . S89--S90
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S91--S92
Bruce S. Eastwood Astronomical Images and Planetary Theory
in Carolingian Studies of Martianus
Capella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--28
Michael Feast Stellar Populations and the Distance
Scale: The Baade--Thackeray
Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Kim Plofker The Astrolabe and Spherical Trigonometry
in Medieval India . . . . . . . . . . . 37--54
Michel-Pierre Lerner Copernicus in Paris in 1612: a Teaching
Text Edition of \booktitleDe
Revolutionibus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--67
José Chabás Book Review: a Manual of Byzantine
Astronomy: \booktitleGeorges Gémiste
Pléthon: Manuel d'astronomie . . . . . . 68--69
Alan Cook Book Review: Understanding the Tides:
\booktitleTides: a Scientific History 69--70
William H. Donahue Book Review: Kepler's Notebook on Mars:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler Gesammelte
Werke 20,2 (Manuscripta Astronomica
(II): Commentaria in Theoriam Martis) 71--72
Paul Richard Blum Book Review: Giordano Bruno Considered:
\booktitleGiordano Bruno and Renaissance
Science, Cause, Principle and Unity . . 72--75
James Evans Book Review: Copernicus on CD-ROM:
\booktitleDe Revolutionibus orbium
coelestium libri VI . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Joshua Lipton Book Review: Reading and Believing:
\booktitleThe Nature of the Book: Print
and Knowledge in the Making . . . . . . 76--78
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Illuminating Eddington:
\booktitleThe Eddington Enigma . . . . . 78--79
Ronald E. Doel Book Review: Studying the Planets by
Radar: \booktitleTo See the Unseen: a
History of Planetary Radar Astronomy . . 79--81
Mara Miniati Book Review: Bedini's Collected Papers:
\booktitleScience and Instruments in
Seventeenth-Century Italy . . . . . . . 81--82
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: Unpublished Greek Papyri:
\booktitleAstronomical Papyri from
Oxyrhynchus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--84
Tofigh Heidarzadeh Book Review: Ottoman Astronomy:
\booktitleOsmanli Astronomi Literatürü
Tarihi (History of Astronomy Literature
during the Ottoman Period) . . . . . . . 84--86
Klaus Staubermann Book Review: an Amateur Selenographer:
\booktitlePhilipp Fauth: Leben und Werk 86--86
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 91--92
William Sheehan and
Donald E. Osterbrock Hale's ``Little Elf'': The Mental
Breakdowns of George Ellery Hale . . . . 93--114
A. K. Dambis and
Yu. N. Efremov Dating Ptolemy's Star Catalogue through
Proper Motions: The Hipparchan Epoch . . 115--134
Yunli Shi Eclipse Observations Made by Jesuit
Astronomers in China: a Reconsideration 135--147
Bradley E. Schaefer The Helical Rise of Sirius and Ancient
Egyptian Chronology . . . . . . . . . . 149--155
Valerie Shrimplin Michelangelo and Copernicus: a Note on
the Sistine Last Judgment . . . . . . . 156--160
David DeVorkin Book Review: Astronomical Science down
the Ages: \booktitleThe Cambridge
Concise History of Astronomy . . . . . . 161--163
James M. Lattis Book Review: Commenting on the
Commentators: \booktitleMethod and Order
in Renaissance Philosophy of Nature: The
Aristotle Commentary Tradition . . . . . 163--164
Michael Hoskin Book Review: The North Festschrift:
\booktitleBetween Demonstration and
Imagination: Essays in the History of
Science and Philosophy Presented to John
D. North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Ihor Sevcenko Book Review: Copernicus in Orthodox
Greece: \booktitleDie religiöse Kritik am
kopernikanischen Weltbild in
Griechenland zwischen 1794 und 1821.
Aspekte griechisch--Orthodoxer
Apologetik angesichts
naturwissenchaftlicher Fortschritte . . 165--168
Paolo Brenni Book Review: Cathedral Meridian Lines:
\booktitleThe Sun in the Church:
Cathedrals as Solar Observatories . . . 168--170
Bruce Stephenson Book Review: a Celestial Canvas:
\booktitlePainting the Heavens: Art and
Science in the Age of Galileo . . . . . 170--171
Sara Schechner Book Review: The Many Facets of Halley:
\booktitleEdmond Halley: Charting the
Heavens and Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
William J. H. Andrewes Book Review: Creating the National
Maritime Museum: \booktitleOf Ships and
Stars: Maritime Heritage and the
Founding of the National Maritime
Museum, Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Light on Galileo:
\booktitleThe Cambridge Companion to
Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Adventures of a Spacefaring
People: \booktitleSpace and the American
Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--177
Charles A. Whitney Book Review: Studying the Galaxy:
\booktitleThe Alchemy of the Heavens:
Searching for Meaning in the Milky Way 177--178
Joseph S. Tenn Book Review: a Century of Astronomy:
\booktitleA History of Astronomy from
1890 to the Present . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Louay Fatoohi Book Review: Software for Calendar
Conversion: \booktitleKairos, General
Calendar Conversion Program, for Windows
9x or NT; current version 2.3 . . . . . 180--181
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Detroit Observatory:
\booktitleA Creation of His Own:
Tappan's Detroit Observatory . . . . . . 181--181
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Horace A. Smith Bailey, Shapley, and Variable Stars in
Globular Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . 185--201
Mario Catamo and
Nicoletta Lanciano and
Kurt Locher and
Manuel Lombardero and
Manuel Valdés Fifteen Further Greco--Roman Sundials
from the Mediterranean Area and Sudan 203--221
Barbara J. Becker Priority, Persuasion, and the Virtue of
Perseverence: William Huggins's Efforts
to Photograph the Solar Corona without
an Eclipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--243
Andrew Gregory and
Virginia Trimble Plato and Aristotle on Eclipses . . . . 245--264
Nick Jardine Book Review: Celestial Architect:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler and the New
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Daniel W. E. Green Book Review: a String of
Sixteenth-Century Comets: \booktitleDie
Kometen der Jahre 1531 bis 1539 und ihre
Bedeutung für die spätere Entwicklung der
Kometenforschung . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
J. D. North Book Review: Pedro Alfonso and his
Times: \booktitleEstudios sobre Pedro
Alfonso de Hiesca . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Jerzy Dobrzycki Book Review: Constellations Old and New:
\booktitleThe Cambridge Guide to the
Constellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
Christoph Lüthy Book Review: Optics and Visual
Perception: \booktitleLa Mutation du
Visible. Essai sur la portée
épistémologique des Instruments d'optique
au XVIIe si\`ecle. Vol. I: Du Sidereus
Nuncius de Galilée \`a la Dioptrique
cartésienne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
Adam Perkins Book Review: a Flamsteed Biography:
\booktitleJohn Flamsteed: The First
Astronomer Royal at Greenwich . . . . . 274--276
Pasquale Tucci Book Review: Letters to Boscovich:
\booktitleGiovan Stefano Conti: Lettere
a Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich. Vol. II:
(1771--1784) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 277--278
Paul R. Mueller, S.J. An Unblemished Success: Galileo's
Sunspot Argument in the
\booktitleDialogue . . . . . . . . . . . 279--299
David H. DeVorkin Quantum Physics and the Stars (V):
Physicists at Mount Wilson Prior to 1922 301--321
Klaus Staubermann The Trouble with the Instrument:
Zöllner's Photometer . . . . . . . . . . 323--338
N. M. Swerdlow Kepler's Iterative Solution to Kepler's
Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
F. Richard Stephenson A Lunar Occultation of Mars Observed by
Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--344
Dana Densmore Essay Review: Writing, and Reading,
\booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . . . . . 345--348
Kurt Locher Book Review: The Egyptian Calendar in
Context: \booktitleThe Egyptian
Calendar: a Work for Eternity . . . . . 349--349
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Concordance of Ptolemaic
Star Positions: \booktitleDer
Sternkatalog des Almagest: Die
arabisch-Mittelalterliche Tradition. III
Gesamtkordanz der Sternkoordinaten . . . 350--350
Edward Grant Book Review: The Dissolution of the
Cosmos: \booktitleThe Unmaking of the
Medieval Christian Cosmos, 1500--1760:
From Solid Heavens to Boundless Aether 350--352
Curtis Wilson Book Review: Life on Hven: \booktitleOn
Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His
Assistants, 1570--1601 . . . . . . . . . 352--353
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Two Centuries of
Astrometry: \booktitleThe Message of the
Angles: Astrometry from 1798 to 1998 . . 354--355
Michael J. Crowe Book Review: Early Observations of
Jupiter: \booktitleGalileo's Planet:
Observing Jupiter before Photography . . 355--356
Owen Gingerich Book Review: an Amateur's View of
Galileo: \booktitleGalileo: His Science
and His Significance for the Future of
Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357
David W. Dewhirst Book Review: Practical Astronomers:
\booktitleAstronomical Instruments and
Their Users, the Victorian Amateur
Astronomer: Independent Astronomical
Research in Britain 1820--1920 . . . . . 357--359
J. D. North Book Review: Further Einstein Studies:
\booktitleThe Expanding Worlds of
General Relativity . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Don Yeomans Book Review: Briefing for the Next Venus
Transit: \booktitleJune 8, 2004: Venus
in Transit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
Steven J. Dick Commission 41 at the Manchester General
Assembly of the IAU . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 367--369
Gérard Sauzade Orientations of the Provençal Dolmens . . S1--S10
Ivan Sprajc Astronomical Alignments at the Templo
Mayor of Tenochtitlan, Mexico . . . . . S10--S40
Adriano Gómez Ruiz and
Michael Hoskin Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (7)
Orientations of Megalithic Tombs of
Huelva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S41--S50
Anthony Aveni and
Giuliano Romano Temple Orientations in Magna Graecia and
Sicily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S51--S57
Jaume García Rosselló and
Joan Fornés Bisquerra and
Michael Hoskin Orientations of the Talayotic
Sanctuaries of Mallorca . . . . . . . . S58--S64
Clive Ruggles Inaugural Lecture: Ancient Astronomies
--- Ancient Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . S65--S76
Patrick Ashmore Essay Review: Archaeoastronomy of the
British Isles: \booktitleAstronomy in
Prehistoric Britain and Ireland . . . . S77--S85
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Dolmens in France:
\booktitleLes Dolmens: Sociétés
Néolithiques et Pratiques Funéraires. Les
Sépultures Collectives d'Europe
Occidentale, La France des Dolmens et
des Sépultures Collectives (4500-2000
avant J.-C.): Bilans Documentaires
Régionaux, Mégalithismes de l'Atlantique
\`a l'Ethiopie . . . . . . . . . . . . . S86--S87
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Astronomy in Mediterranean
Cultures: \booktitleLas Leyes del Cielo:
Astronomía y Civilizaciones Antiguas . . S87--S88
John B. Carlson Conference Report: Oxford 6 . . . . . . S89--S90
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S91--S92
Bradley E. Schaefer The Latitude of the Observer of the
\booktitleAlmagest Star Catalogue . . . 1--42
Barbara J. Becker Visionary Memories: William Huggins and
the Origins of Astrophysics . . . . . . 43--62
Beatriz Porres and
José Chabás John of Murs's \booktitleTabulae
permanentes for finding true syzygies 63--72
Bernard R. Goldstein Before the Sun in the Church . . . . . . 73--77
James Evans Essay Review: Greek Astronomy from
Alexandria, Byzantium and
Louvain-La-Neuve: \booktitleLe ``Grande
Commentaire'' de Théon d'Alexandrie aux
Tables Faciles de Ptolémée: Livres II et
III: Le ``Grand Commentaire'' de Théon
d'Alexandrie aux Tables Faciles de
Ptolémée: Livre IV: Études d'Astronomie
Byzantine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Calculating the Birth of
Christ: \booktitleAnno Domini: The
Origins of the Christian Era . . . . . . 81--82
James R. Voelkel Book Review: Teaching Ancient Astronomy:
\booktitleThe History and Practice of
Ancient Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 82--84
Owen Gingerich Book Review: a Reverent Clerke's
Kalendar: \booktitleThe Kalendarium of
John Somer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Illustrating the History of
Astronomy: \booktitleThe Mapping of the
Heavens, Landmarks in Western Science:
From Prehistory to the Atomic Age, the
Universe Unveiled: Instruments and
Images through History . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Mysterious Meteorites:
\booktitleThe Tucson Meteorites, Their
History from Frontier Arizona to the
Smithsonian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Philip Morrison Book Review: Astronomy in Myth:
\booktitleMedusa: Solving the Mystery of
the Gorgon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Donald E. Osterbrock Herman Zanstra, Donald H. Menzel, and
the Zanstra Method of Nebular
Astrophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--108
Paolo Palmieri Galileo and the Discovery of the Phases
of Venus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--129
Bernard R. Goldstein Kepler and Hebrew Astronomical Tables 130--136
Glen Van Brummelen and
J. L. Berggren Ab\=u Sahl al-K\=uh\=\i on the Distance
to the Shooting Stars . . . . . . . . . 137--151
Anonymous Corrigendum: [The Latitude of the
Observer of the \booktitleAlmagest Star
Catalogue] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Anonymous [Obituary:] Roger Louis Billard . . . . 151--151
Rumen Kolev Witnessing the Heliacal Rise of Sirius
and Procyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Rumen Kolev Babylonian Horoscope MLC 1870 . . . . . 154--154
Hugh Thurston Early Greek Solstices and Equinoxes . . 154--156
Craig B. Waff Essay Review: a Prime Meridian for the
United States?: \booktitleThe Jefferson
Stone: Demarcation of the First Meridian
of the United States . . . . . . . . . . 157--159
Leslie Morrison Essay Review: History in the Service of
Astronomy: \booktitleObservations and
Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early
Astronomers, Historical Eclipses and
Earth's Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--162
Michael Nauenberg Essay Review: Newton and the Lunar
Motion: \booktitleNewton's Forgotten
Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the
Quest for Longitude . . . . . . . . . . 162--168
John P. Britton Book Review: Light on the East:
\booktitleAstral Sciences in Mesopotamia 169--170
F. Jamil Ragep Book Review: \booktitleThe Qibla
Revisited: World-maps for Finding the
Direction and Distance to Mecca:
Innovation and Tradition in Islamic
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Owen Gingerich Book Review: a Rare Form of Astrolabe
Construction: \booktitleThe Melon-Shaped
Astrolabe in Arabic Astronomy . . . . . 173--173
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Facing Mecca: \booktitleLa
Alquibla en al-Andalus y al-Magrib
al--Aq\ds\`a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Edward Grant Book Review: Translation and
Interpretation: \booktitleScience in
Translation: Movements of Knowledge
through Cultures and Time . . . . . . . 174--176
John M. McMahon Book Review: Ovidian Astronomy:
\booktitleOvid, Aratus and Augustus:
Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti . . . . . . . 176--178
Peter de Clercq Book Review: Instrument Makers of
Augsburg: \booktitleAugustanus Opticus.
Johann Wiesel (1583--1662) und 200 Jahre
optisches Handwerk in Augsburg . . . . . 178--179
Ann Blair Book Review: The Heavens in French
Poetry: \booktitleLa Poésie du Ciel en
France dans la Seconde Moitié du
Seizi\`eme Si\`ecle . . . . . . . . . . 179--181
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Formation of the
Elements: \booktitleThe Magic Furnace:
The Search for the Origins of Atoms . . 181--182
Marc Rothenberg Book Review: The Nautical Almanac Office
in Perspective: \booktitleProceedings:
Nautical Almanac Office Sesquicentennial
Symposium: U.S. Naval Observatory, March
3--4, 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Richard Berendzen Book Review: Light on Kapteyn:
\booktitleThe Legacy of J. C. Kapteyn:
Studies on Kapteyn and the Development
of Modern Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Richard L. Kremer The Vancouver Conference on ``Astronomy
and its Histories'' . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Sara Schechner The Material Culture of Astronomy in
Daily Life: Sundials, Science, and
Social Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--222
Jerzy Dobrzycki Notes on Copernicus's Early
Heliocentrism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--225
Robert S. Westman Kepler's early physical--astrological
problematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--236
James R. Voelkel and
Owen Gingerich Giovanni Antonio Magini's ``Keplerian''
Tables of 1614 and Their Implications
for the Reception of Keplerian Astronomy
in the Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . 237--262
Joann Eisberg Making a Science of Observational
Cosmology: the Cautious Optimism of
Beatrice Tinsley [1941--1981] . . . . . 263--278
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 279--280
Bruce Stansfield Eastwood Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Sun-Centred
Planets, and Carolingian Astronomy . . . 281--324
Bradley E. Schaefer The Transit of Venus and the Notorious
Black Drop Effect . . . . . . . . . . . 325--336
Tom J. York An Analysis of Close Conjunctions
Recorded in Ancient China . . . . . . . 337--344
Bernard R. Goldstein and
José Chabás The maximum solar equation in the
Alfonsine Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--348
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: The New
\booktitlePrincipia, the
\booktitlePrincipia: Mathematical
Principles of Natural Philosophy . . . . 349--356
John M. Steele Essay Review: Babylonian Astronomy
Reassessed, \booktitleMesopotamian
Planetary Astronomy--Astrology . . . . . 356--362
Ahmad Dallal Essay Review: Arabic Studies Assembled,
\booktitleArabic Mathematical Sciences:
Instruments, Texts, Transmission,
Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval
Islamic World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--365
Curtis Wilson Book Review: \booktitlePrincipia in
German, \booktitleDie Mathematischen
Prinzipien der Physik . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Ronald E. Doel Book Review: DeVorkin on Russell,
\booktitleHenry Norris Russell: Dean of
American Astronomers . . . . . . . . . . 366--369
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Science and Biblical
Symbolism, \booktitleThe Bible,
Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Raymond Mercier Roger Louis Billard (1922--2000) . . . . 369--370
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Juan Antonio Belmonte On the Orientation of Old Kingdom
Egyptian Pyramids . . . . . . . . . . . S1--S20
Victoria R. Bricker A Method for Dating Venus Almanacs in
the Borgia Codex . . . . . . . . . . . . S21--S44
Michael Hoskin and
José Manuel Quinta Ventura and
Luis Tirapicos and
J. Carlos Vera Rodríguez and
Martí Mas Cornellá and
R. Cruz-Auñón Briones and
L. García Sanjuá and
J. A. Belmonte and
Fernando Pimenta and
J. Carlos Vera Rodríguez and
José C. Martín De La Cruz Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (8)
Orientations of Megalithic and Tholos
Tombs of Portugal and Southwest Spain S45--S64
César Esteban and
Juan A. Belmonte and
María A. Perera Betancort and
Rita Marrero and
José J. Jiménez González Orientations of Pre-Islamic Temples of
Northwest Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . S65--S84
Juan Antonio Belmonte Book Review: Rider of the Lost
Megaliths: \booktitleTombs, Temples and
Their Orientations: a New Perspective on
Mediterranean Prehistory . . . . . . . . S85--S89
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Circles Codified:
\booktitleThe Stone Circles of Britain,
Ireland and Brittany . . . . . . . . . . S89--S90
Anonymous Errata: [Anthony Aveni, ``Astronomy in
the Mexican Codex Borgia'',
\booktitleArchaeoastronomy, no. 24
(1999), Table 2] . . . . . . . . . . . . S90--S90
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S91--S92
Anonymous Instructions to Contributors . . . . . . i--i
Bernard R. Goldstein On the Babylonian Discovery of the
Periods of Lunar Motion . . . . . . . . 1--13
Alexander Jones Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, and the
Obliquity of the Ecliptic . . . . . . . 15--19
Christopher Cullen The First Complete Chinese Theory of the
Moon: The Innovations of Liu Hong c.
A.D. 200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39
O. S. Tursunov and
S. H. Azizov A Medieval Observational Instrument in
Tashkent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--44
Dennis W. Duke Dating the \booktitleAlmagest Star
Catalogue Using Proper Motions: a
Reconsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
Michael Hoskin The Leviathan of Parsonstown: Ambitions
and Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70
Steven W. Ruskin A Newly-Discovered Letter of J. F. W.
Herschel concerning the ``Great Moon
Hoax'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--74
James Evans Book Review: New Light on Babylon,
\booktitleAncient Astronomy and
Celestial Divination . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Lovely Pictures, Shame
about the Text, \booktitleCelestial
Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres
to the Conquest of Space . . . . . . . . 76--77
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Unusual Galileiana, against
the Donning of the Gown;
\booktitleEnigma, Dialogo sopra i Due
Massimi Sistemi del Mondo . . . . . . . 77--78
Daniel W. E. Green Book Review: Another Cometography,
\booktitleCometography: a Catalog of
Comets. Vol. I: Ancient--1799 . . . . . 78--81
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Instrument Makers in
Elizabethan London,
\booktitleElizabethan Instrument Makers:
The Origins of the London Trade in
Precision Instrument Making . . . . . . 81--82
Ewen A. Whitaker Book Review: Observation of the Moon,
\booktitleThe Moon and the Western
Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Gareth Williams Book Review: Names of Asteroids,
\booktitleDictionary of Minor Planet
Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Robert Van Gent Book Review: Neglected Dutch Amateurs,
\booktitleVan `Konstgenoten' en Hemelse
Fenomenen: Nederlandse Sterrenkunde in
de Achttiende Eeuw . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Don Yeomans Book Review: The Creator of
Astrogeology, \booktitleShoemaker by
Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--91
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Owen Gingerich Donald H. Menzel: Scientist, Educator,
Builder. 11 April 1901--14 December 1976 93--94
Donald E. Osterbrock Young Don Menzel's Amazing Adventures at
Lick Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--118
David DeVorkin Menzel at Princeton . . . . . . . . . . 119--131
David Layzer Atoms, Stars, and Nebulae: Remembering
Donald H. Menzel . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--138
Jay M. Pasachoff Menzel and Eclipses . . . . . . . . . . 139--156
Thomas J. Bogdan Donald Menzel and the Beginnings of the
High Altitude Observatory . . . . . . . 157--192
Ruth Prelowski Liebowitz Donald Menzel and the Creation of the
Sacramento Peak Observatory . . . . . . 193--211
I. B. Cohen and
G. E. Smith Book Review: Newton and the Lunar
Motion, \booktitleNewton's Forgotten
Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the
Quest for Longitude . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213
David A. King Frans Bruin (1922--2001) . . . . . . . . 214--216
F. Richard Stephenson and
Alexander Gurshtein and
Steven J. Dick and
Wayne Orchiston The Inter-Union Commission for History
of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 218--218
Bernard R. Goldstein Copernicus and the Origin of his
Heliocentric System . . . . . . . . . . 219--235
David A. King A Vetustissimus Arabic Treatise on the
Quadrans Vetus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--255
Sarah Symons Two Fragments of Diagonal Star Clocks in
the British Museum . . . . . . . . . . . 257--260
John M. Steele BM 36948: a Saturn Ephemeris Calculated
Using System a from Babylon . . . . . . 261--264
Hermann R. Dobler The Dating of Ptolemy's Star Catalogue 265--277
Lásló Tóth and
György Mezõ and
Ottó Gerlei Haynald Observatory Photosphere
Observations 1880--1919 . . . . . . . . 278--278
A. J. M. Clarke and
J. M. Steele A Computer Generated Babylonian System a
Lunar Ephemeris . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Rivka Feldhay Essay Review: Copernicus, Galileo and
the Inquisition, \booktitleLa
Condamnation des Livres Coperniciens et
sa Révocation: Á la lumi\`ere de Documents
inédits des Congregation de l'Index et de
l'Inquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--284
Albert Van Helden Essay Review: Moon Maps in History,
\booktitleMapping and Naming the Moon: a
History of Lunar Cartography and
Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--289
Wilbur Applebaum Book Review: A Flawed Guide,
\booktitleReader's Guide to the History
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--291
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Abraham Zacut of Salamanca,
\booktitleAstronomy in the Iberian
Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the
Transition from Manuscript to Print . . 291--292
John North Book Review: a Treatise on the
Astrolabe, \booktitleKrist'an z
Prachatic: Stavba a Uzití Astrolábu . . . 293--294
Nick Campion Book Review: Reading a Painting,
\booktitleThe Ambassadors' Secret:
Holbein and the World of the Renaissance 294--295
William H. Donahue Book Review: Philosophy in Kepler's
Astronomy, \booktitleKepler's Philosophy
and the New Astronomy . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Bruce Stephenson Book Review: Composing the
\booktitleAstronomia Nova, \booktitleThe
Composition of Kepler's
\booktitleAstronomia nova . . . . . . . 297--299
Alan E. Shapiro Book Review: Kepler's Optics in
Translation, \booktitleOptics:
Paralipomena to Witelo & Optical Part of
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Early Astronomy Explained,
\booktitleEpisodes from the Early
History of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 301--301
Tom English Book Review: Eclipses Illustrated,
\booktitleGlorious Eclipses: Their Past,
Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
Martha L. Hazen Book Review: Exploring Plate Archives,
\booktitleTreasure-Hunting in
Astronomical Plate Archives . . . . . . 303--303
Robert W. Smith Book Review: Talent in the Parsons
Family, \booktitleFrom Galaxies to
Turbines: Science, Technology and the
Parsons Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Jack Meadows Book Review: Early Spectroscopy,
\booktitleMapping the Spectrum:
Techniques of Visual Representation in
Research and Teaching . . . . . . . . . 305--307
David DeVorkin Book Review: More on Lowell,
\booktitlePercival Lowell: The Culture
and Science of a Boston Brahmin . . . . 307--308
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 310--312
Bradley E. Schaefer The Latitude and Epoch for the Formation
of the Southern Greek Constellations . . 313--350
Paul Charbonneau The Rise and Fall of the First Solar
Cycle Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--372
A. J. Turner The Observatory and the Quadrant in
Eighteenth-Century Europe . . . . . . . 373--385
Owen Gingerich and
Michael Hoskin and
David W. Hughes and
J. Neville Birdsall Review Symposium: The Star of Bethlehem,
\booktitleThe Star of Bethlehem: The
Legacy of the Magi . . . . . . . . . . . 386--394
Kenneth J. Howell Book Review: Faith Issues in Historical
Context, \booktitleScience in Theistic
Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions . . . . . 394--397
James R. Voelkel Book Review: The Sphericity of the
Earth, \booktitleDie Vorstellung von der
Kugelgestalt der Erde in europäischen
Mittelalter bis zum Ende des 13.
Jahrhunderts --- Dargestellt nach den
Quellen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--398
Craig B. Waff Book Review: Selling Time in the United
States, \booktitleSelling the True Time:
Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--399
W. T. Sullivan III Book Review: The Sociology of Jodrell
Bank, Science and Spectacle:
\booktitleThe Work of Jodrell Bank in
Post-War British Culture . . . . . . . . 399--401
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 402--403
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
César Esteban and
Maria Antonia Perera Betancort and
Rita Marrero Archaeoastronomy in the Sahara: The
Tombs of the Garamantes at Wadi El
Agial, Fezzan, Libya . . . . . . . . . . S1--S19
Richard Iund Orientations of Dolmens North of the
Eastern Pyrénées . . . . . . . . . . . . . S21--S28
Gerardo Aldana Solar Stelae and a Venus Window: Science
and Royal Personality in Late Classic
Copán . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S29--S50
Michael Hoskin Orientations of Dolmens of West-Central
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S51--S61
Amanda-Alice Maravelia The Orientations of the Nine Tholos
Tombs at Mycenae . . . . . . . . . . . . S63--S66
Javier Aramburu-Zabala and
Juan Antonio Belmonte On the Astronomical Orientation of the
Square Talayots of Mallorca . . . . . . S67--S74
Michael Hoskin Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (9)
an Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S75--S82
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . S83--S84
Michael Hoskin Herschel's 40ft Reflector: Funding and
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--32
Gerardo Aldana K'uk'ulkan at Mayapán: Venus and
Postclassic Maya Statecraft . . . . . . 33--51
William Sheehan and
Thomas Dobbins The Spokes of Venus: an Illusion
Explained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--63
Bernard R. Goldstein Ancient and Medieval Values for the Mean
Synodic Month . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
David Topper Colluding with Galileo: On Mueller's
Critique of My Analysis of Galileo's
Sunspots Argument . . . . . . . . . . . 75--77
Owen Gingerich The Galileo Sunspot Controversy: Proof
and Persuasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Stanis\law Iwaniszewski Archaeoastronomical Analysis of Assyrian
and Babylonian Monuments: Methodological
Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93
Michael Hoskin Discovery of Thomas Wright's A New
Theory of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
John Tracy Spaight Alexander Herschel as Telescope Maker 95--96
Adam Mosley Essay Review: The History and Reception
of Copernicus's \booktitleDe
Revolutionibus: \booktitleAn Annotated
Census of Copernicus' \booktitleDe
Revolutionibus (Nuremberg, 1543 and
Basel, 1566) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111
Anonymous Essay Review: East Asian Observations:
\booktitleEast-Asian Archaeoastronomy:
Historical Records of Astronomical
Observations of China, Japan and Korea 111--114
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Fontana's Telescopic
Observations: \booktitleNew Observations
of Heavenly and Earthly Objects . . . . 115--115
Rhonda Martens Book Review: Nature and Revelation:
\booktitleGod's Two Books: Copernican
Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in
Early Modern Science . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Owen Gingerich Book Review: How to Make Sundials and
Astrolabes: \booktitleHartmann's
\booktitlePractika: a Manual for Making
Sundials and Astrolabes with Compass and
Rule, Written from 1518 to 1528 by Georg
Hartmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Sara Schechner Book Review: Comets: Sublunary or
Celestial?: \booktitleThe Age of
Two-Faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and
1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian
World View in the Netherlands . . . . . 118--119
Virginia Trimble Book Review: Historical Supernovae
Updated: \booktitleHistorical Supernovae
and Their Remnants . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Kevin J. Kilburn and
Jay M. Pasachoff and
Owen Gingerich The Forgotten Star Atlas: John Bevis's
\booktitleUranographia Britannica . . . 125--144
Anthony F. Aveni and
Harvey M. Bricker and
Victoria R. Bricker Seeking the Sidereal: Observable
Planetary Stations and the Ancient Maya
Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--161
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein John Vimond and the Alfonsine
Trepidation Model . . . . . . . . . . . 163--170
Simon Olling Rebsdorf Bengt Strömgren: Growing up with
Astronomy, 1908--1932 . . . . . . . . . 171--199
Stephen C. McCluskey Changing Contexts and Criteria for the
Justification of Computistical Knowledge
and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--217
A. César González-García and
Lourdes Costa-Ferrer Orientations of the Dutch Hunebedden . . 219--226
Dennis W. Duke The Depth of Association between the
Ancient Star Catalogues . . . . . . . . 227--230
Hugh Thurston Ptolemy and the Arc between the Tropics 231--232
Arndt Latusseck and
Michael Hoskin The Murder of Jacob Herschel . . . . . . 233--234
David Pingree Essay Review: Ptolemy's Geographical
Guide Explored: \booktitlePtolemy's
\booktitleGeography. An Annotated
Translation of the Theoretical Chapters 235--237
Jay M. Pasachoff Book Review: Bedside Reading:
\booktitleSetting Sail for the Universe:
Astronomers and Their Discoveries . . . 238--239
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Euclid on Spherical
Astronomy: \booktitleEuclid's
Phaenomena: a Translation and Study of a
Hellenistic Treatise in Sphaerical
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
Raymond Mercier Book Review: Indian Astronomy and
Chronology: \booktitleHindu Zodiac and
Ancient Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
Mordechai Feingold Book Review: The Flamsteed
Correspondence Completed: \booktitleThe
Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the
First Astronomer Royal, III: 1703--1719 241--243
Joann Eisberg Book Review: Agnes Clerke in Context:
\booktitleAgnes Mary Clerke and the Rise
of Astrophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
David H. DeVorkin Book Review: Payne-Gaposchkin
Remembered: \booktitleThe Starry
Universe: The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Centenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Maestlin Commemorated:
\booktitleZwischen Copernicus und
Kepler: M. Michael Maestlinus
Mathematicus Goeppingensis 1550--1631 246--247
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Contacts between East and
West: \booktitleFrom China to Paris:
2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical
Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Owen Gingerich and
Albert Van Helden From Occhiale to Printed Page: The
Making of Galileo's \booktitleSidereus
Nuncius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--267
J. M. Steele Planetary Latitudes in Babylonian
Mathematical Astronomy . . . . . . . . . 269--289
Timothy Knowlton Seasonal Implications of Maya Eclipse
and Rain Iconography in the Dresden
Codex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--303
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
Marie Antonia Perera Betancort and
Rita Marrero and
Antonio Tejera Gaspar The Dolmens and Hawanat of Africa
Proconsularis Revisited . . . . . . . . 305--320
William B. Ashworth, Jr. Faujas-De-Saint-Fond Visits the
Herschels at Datchet . . . . . . . . . . 321--324
Michael R. Molnar The Evidence for Aries the Ram as the
Astrological Sign of Judea . . . . . . . 325--327
Brenda Corbin Essay Review: Caroline Herschel's
Perspective: \booktitleThe Herschel
Partnership: As Viewed by Caroline,
\booktitleCaroline Herschel's
Autobiographies . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--331
Theodor Schmidt-Kaler Essay Review: Baade and his Influence:
\booktitleWalter Baade: a Life in
Astrophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--333
Owen Gingerich and
Alessandro Massarotti Book Review: a Seventeenth-Century
Florentine: \booktitleNel Segno di
Galileo: Erudizione, Filosofia e Scienza
a Firenze nel Seculo XVII. I Trattati
Accademici di Vincenzio Capponi (In the
Signshadow of Galileo: Scholarship,
Philosophy and Science in Florence in
the XVII Century) . . . . . . . . . . . 334--334
H. Darrel Rutkin Book Review: Astrology Surveyed:
\booktitleAstrology: a History . . . . . 335--336
Gustav Holmberg Book Review: Cosmology in Outline:
\booktitleFra Kaos til Kosmos:
Verdensbilledets Historie Gennem 3000 År
(From Chaos to Cosmos: The History of
Cosmology during 3000 Years) . . . . . . 337--338
James R. Voelkel Book Review: History of Astronomy in
Germany: \booktitleBeiträge zur
Astronomiegeschichte, I, II and IV (Acta
Historica Astronomiae, I, V and XIII) 338--339
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Greenwich Globes and
Armillary Spheres: \booktitleGlobes at
Greenwich: a Catalogue of the Globes and
Armillary Spheres in the National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich . . . . . . . 339--340
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 343--344
Peter Barker and
Bernard R. Goldstein Patronage and the Production of
\booktitleDe Revolutionibus . . . . . . 345--368
Sven Dupré Galileo's Telescope and Celestial Light 369--399
Michael Hoskin Orientations of Neolithic Monuments of
Brittany: (1) Context . . . . . . . . . 401--420
Adam Mosley and
Nicholas Jardine and
Karin Tybjerg Epistolary Culture, Editorial Practices,
and the Propriety of Tycho's
Astronomical Letters . . . . . . . . . . 421--451
Fernand Hallyn Book Review: Copernicus's Reception in
Holland: \booktitleThe Calvinist
Copernicans: The Reception of the New
Astronomy in the Dutch Republic,
1575--1750. Rienk Vermij (Koninklijke
Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen,
Amsterdam, 2002). Pp. x + 433. EUR49.
ISBN 90-698-3404 . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
A. J. Turner Book Review: Medieval Craftsmanship
Elucidated: \booktitleTractatus Astrarii 455--456
Ernan McMullin Book Review: Galileian Studies:
\booktitleGalileo in Context . . . . . . 456--458
Jay M. Pasachoff Book Review: The Spots on the Sun:
\booktitleThe Enigma of Sunspots: a
Story of Discovery and Scientific
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Curtis Wilson Book Review: D'Alembert's Lunar Theory:
\booktitleJean Le Rond D'Alembert,
Oeuvres Compl\`etes, Série I, Traités et
mémoires mathématiques, 1736--1756,
Premiers textes de mécanique céleste
(1747--1749) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--461
Leon Golub Book Review: Space Science in Depth:
\booktitleThe Century of Space Science 461--462
Marc Rothenberg Book Review: Regional Science in the
U.S.A.: \booktitleScience in the
American Southwest: a Topical History 462--463
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Measuring the Metre:
\booktitleThe Measure of All Things: The
Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That
Transformed the World . . . . . . . . . 464--465
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 465--466
James Evans The Astrologer's Apparatus: a Picture of
Professional Practice in Greco--Roman
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--44
John Tracy Spaight ``For the Good of Astronomy'': The
Manufacture, Sale, and Distant Use of
William Herschel's Telescopes . . . . . 45--69
Nathan Sidoli Hipparchus and the Ancient Metrical
Methods on the Sphere . . . . . . . . . 71--84
Mauro Zedda and
Juan Antonio Belmonte On the Orientations of Sardinian
Nuraghes: Some Clues to Their
Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--107
Stephen McCluskey Essay Review: Early Medieval Planetary
Astronomy: \booktitleThe Revival of
Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and
Post-Carolingian Europe . . . . . . . . 109--111
Peter D. Hingley Book Review: a Century of the AAS:
\booktitleThe American Astronomical
Society's First Century . . . . . . . . 112--113
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleThe Louvain
Instrument Makers: a Catalogue Raisonné
of Scientific Instruments from the
Louvain School, 1530 to 1600 . . . . . . 113--115
Volker Bialas Book Review: Tycho and Kepler:
\booktitleTycho and Kepler: The Unlikely
Partnership That Forever Changed Our
Understanding of the Heavens . . . . . . 115--116
George E. Smith I. Bernard Cohen (1914--2003) . . . . . 117--119
Alexander Gurshtein Piotr Grigor'evich Kulikovsky
(1910--2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 121--122
William Sheehan and
Anthony Misch Ménage \`a Trois: David Peck Todd, Mabel
Loomis Todd, Austin Dickinson, and the
1882 Transit of Venus . . . . . . . . . 123--134
N. M. Swerdlow Galileo's Horoscopes . . . . . . . . . . 135--141
Patricia Fara Heavenly Bodies: Newtonianism, Natural
Theology and the Plurality of Worlds
Debate in the Eighteenth Century . . . . 143--160
Bradley E. Schaefer The Latitude and Epoch for the Origin of
the Astronomical Lore of Eudoxus . . . . 161--223
Dennis Duke Computer Animations of Ancient Greek and
Arabic Planetary Models . . . . . . . . 225--228
Clive Ruggles Essay Review: Cross-Cultural Astronomy:
\booktitleAstronomy across Cultures: The
History of Non-Western Astronomy . . . . 229--236
Anonymous Erratum: [On the Orientations of
Sardinian Nuraghes: Some Clues to Their
Interpretation] . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
Donald E. Osterbrock Book Review: Chronicling the U.S. Naval
Observatory: \booktitleSky and Ocean
Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory,
1830--2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Daniel W. E. Green Book Review: Another Cometography: Part
Two: \booktitleCometography: a Catalog
of Comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--240
Ronald P. Olowin Book Review: Virginia Woolf and
Astronomy: \booktitleVirginia Woolf and
the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics
of Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--242
Allan Mills Book Review: Vermeer and His Scientific
Contemporaries: \booktitleGiants of
Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Natural
Philosophers. The Parallel Search for
Knowledge during the Age of Discovery 242--244
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Troublesome Stars:
\booktitleLost Stars: Lost, Missing, and
Troublesome Stars from the Catalogues of
Johannes Bayer, Nicholas-Louis de
Lacaille, John Flamsteed, and Sundry
others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Theories of the Milky Way
Surveyed: \booktitleLa Voie Lactée:
Histoire des Conceptions et des
Mod\`eles de Notre Galaxie des Temps
Anciens aux Années 1930 . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Anonymous Jerzy Dobrzycki . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
N. M. Swerdlow The Empirical Foundations of Ptolemy's
Planetary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--271
Giora Hon and
Bernard R. Goldstein Symmetry in Copernicus and Galileo . . . 273--292
Charles J. Peterson The Education of an Astronomical
Maverick: T. J. J. See and the
University of Missouri . . . . . . . . . 293--304
Katherine A. Tredwell Michael Maestlin and the Fate of the
Narratio Prima . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--325
L. V. Morrison and
F. R. Stephenson Historical Values of the Earth's Clock
Error $ \Delta $ and the Calculation of
Eclipses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--336
J. M. Steele Applied Historical Astronomy: an
Historical Perspective . . . . . . . . . 337--355
Michael Hoskin Was William Herschel a Deserter? . . . . 356--358
Curtis Wilson Book Review: a Pocket-Sized History:
\booktitleThe History of Astronomy: a
Very Short Introduction . . . . . . . . 359--360
Dennis Danielson Book Review: Conducting the Census:
\booktitleThe Book Nobody Read: Chasing
the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus 360--362
Craig B. Waff Book Review: Science Amidst the Snows:
\booktitleThe Man Who Flattened the
Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in
the Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . 363--365
Michael Hoskin Book Review: More on Galileo and the
Church: Galileo: \booktitleFor
Copernicanism and for the Church, Studi
Galileiani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Robert Alan Hatch Book Review: The Newton Industry:
\booktitleThe Foundations of Newtonian
Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Michael Hoskin Book Review: John Herschel's Cape
Expedition in Context: \booktitleJohn
Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science,
Public Imagination and the Ambitions of
Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Owen Gingerich Jerzy Dobrzycki (1927--2004) . . . . . . 371--372
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Anonymous Erratum: [Galileo's Horoscopes] . . . . 374--374
Alexander Jones A Route to the Ancient Discovery of
Non-Uniform Planetary Motion . . . . . . 375--386
Michael Hoskin Alexander Herschel: The Forgotten
Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--420
Edmundo R. Edwards and
Juan Antonio Belmonte Megalithic Astronomy of Easter Island: a
Reassessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--433
Karlheinz Schaldach The Arachne of the Amphiareion and the
Origin of Gnomonics in Greece . . . . . 435--445
Klaus Staubermann The Oldest Collection of Astronomical
Plates: Recreating Photographic Practice
of the 1880S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--456
Dennis Danielson Achilles Gasser and the Birth of
Copernicanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--474
C. Marciano Da Silva The Spring Full Moon . . . . . . . . . . 475--478
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Alfonsine Tables of Toledo
and Later Alfonsine Tables:
\booktitleThe Alfonsine Tables of
Toledo, Archimedes . . . . . . . . . . . 479--484
John North Book Review: Scrutinizing Astrolabes:
\booktitleRenaissance Astrolabes and
Their Makers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--487
Marcelo Gleiser Book Review: Kepler in the Dock:
\booktitleHeavenly Intrigue: Johannes
Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder
behind One of History's Greatest
Scientific Discoveries . . . . . . . . . 487--489
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Globes of the Florence
Museum: \booktitleCatalogue of Orbs,
Spheres and Globes . . . . . . . . . . . 489--490
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Nineteenth-Century British
Scientists: \booktitleThe Dictionary of
Nineteenth-Century British Scientists 490--492
Michael Hoskin Book Review: The Temples of Malta:
\booktitleMalta before History: The
World's Oldest Freestanding Stone
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--493
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 496--497
Dennis W. Duke Comment on the Origin of the Equant
Papers by Evans, Swerdlow, and Jones . . 1--6
Patrick J. Boner Soul-Searching with Kepler: an Analysis
of Anima in His Astrology . . . . . . . 7--20
William C. Saslaw and
Paul Murdin The Double Heads of Istrus: The Oldest
Eclipse on a Coin? . . . . . . . . . . . 21--27
Michael Hoskin Caroline Herschel's `Small' Sweeper . . 28--30
Anthony F. Aveni Observations on the Pecked Designs and
other Figures Carved on the South
Platform of the Pyramid of the Sun at
Teotihuacan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--47
Sheila J. Rabin Was Kepler's Species Immateriata
Substantial? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
Françoise Launay and
Peter D. Hingley Jules Janssen's `Revolver
Photographique' and its British
Derivative, `the Janssen Slide' . . . . 57--79
Nicholas Jardine and
Dieter Launert and
Alain Segonds and
Adam Mosley and
Karin Tybjerg Tycho v. Ursus: The Build-up to a Trial,
Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--106
Mauro Zedda Orientations of Additional Sardinian
Dolmens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Annibale Fantoli Book Review: Galileo and Rome:
\booktitleGalileo in Rome. The Rise and
Fall of a Troublesome Genius . . . . . . 109--111
S. M. R. Ansari Book Review: The Transmission of Islamic
Astronomy: \booktitleArabic Astronomy in
Sanskrit: Al-Birjandion Tadhkira II,
Chapter 11 and its Sanskrit Translation 112--114
Simon Schaffer Book Review: Imperial Eclipse
Expeditions: \booktitleEmpire and the
Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions 114--116
Barbara Welther Book Review: a Life of Maria Mitchell:
\booktitleMaria Mitchell: a Life in
Journals and Letters . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Donald E. Osterbrock Book Review: Bernhard Schmidt:
\booktitleDen Himmel fest im Blick: Eine
wissenschaftliche Biografie über dem
Astro-Optiker Bernhard Schmidt . . . . . 118--120
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Indian Astronomical
Instruments: \booktitleAstronomical
Instruments in the Rampur Raza Library 120--121
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Nicholas Jardine and
Katherine Harloe and
Dieter Launert and
Alain Segonds Tycho v. Ursus: The Build-up to a Trial,
Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--165
Bradley E. Schaefer The Epoch of the Constellations on the
Farnese Atlas and Their Origin in
Hipparchus's Lost Catalogue . . . . . . 167--196
Martin Clutton-Brock Copernicus's Path to His Cosmology: an
Attempted Reconstruction . . . . . . . . 197--216
F. Richard Stephenson and
David A. Green A Reappraisal of Some Proposed
Historical Supernovae . . . . . . . . . 217--229
Michael Hoskin William Herschel's Sweeps for Nebulae 230--230
Owen Gingerich Was Horrocks a Curate? A Tangled
Bibliographical Ramble . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Jeremiah Horrocks:
\booktitleThe Transit of Venus: The
Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah
Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy 233--234
Robert H. van Gent Book Review: an Overview of Mayan
Astronomy: \booktitleDas mathematische
Weltbild der Maya . . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
John P. Britton Book Review: Babylonian Eclipse Records:
\booktitleBabylonian Eclipse
Observations from 750 BC to 1 BC . . . . 235--236
Edward Grant Book Review: Medieval Planetary
Diagrams: \booktitlePlanetary Diagrams
for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe,
ca. 800--1500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Curtis Wilson Book Review: Mathematical Astronomy in
Overview: \booktitleFrom Eudoxus to
Einstein: a History of Mathematical
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--240
Nathan Sivin Book Review: a Jesuit Astronomer's
Report from China: \booktitleFerdinand
Verbiest, S.J. (1623--1688) and the
Chinese Heaven: The Composition of the
Astronomical Corpus, its Diffusion and
Reception in the European Republic of
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
Wilbur Applebaum Book Review: Copernicus and the
Scientific Revolution: \booktitleIt
Started with Copernicus: How Turning the
World inside Out Led to the Scientific
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
James Caplan and
Françoise Le Guet Tully Book Review: Astronomy at Altitude:
\booktitleL'Observatoire du Pic du Midi:
Cent Ans de Vie et de Science en Haute
Montagne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
Donald E. Osterbrock Book Review: a Decade of Nuclear
Physics: \booktitleFrom Nuclear
Transformation to Nuclear Fission,
1932--1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Michael Hoskin The Herschel Archive in Electronic
Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Harald Siebert The Early Search for Stellar Parallax:
Galileo, Castelli, and Ramponi . . . . . 251--271
Mosalam Shaltout and
Juan Antonio Belmonte On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian
Temples: (1) Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia 273--298
Miguel A. Granada Kepler v. Roeslin on the Interpretation
of Kepler's Nova: (1) 1604--1606 . . . . 299--319
Eric Graff The Thirteenth Figure in the Munich
Computus Zodiac . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--334
R. Lange and
N. M. Swerdlow Two Programs, for Ephemeris and
Visibility Calculations, Useful for
Historical Applications . . . . . . . . 335--336
Christopher Cullen Translating Ancient Chinese Astronomical
Systems with Excel: How Not to Stew the
Strawberries? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--338
L. V. Morrison and
F. R. Stephenson Erratum: Historical Values of the
Earth's Clock Error . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
James Evans Book Review: a Greek Textbook of
Astronomy: \booktitleCleomedes' Lectures
on Astronomy: a Translation of the
Heavens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--342
Silke Ackermann Book Review: Islamic Mathematical
Instruments: \booktitleMathematical
Instrumentation in Fourteenth-Century
Egypt and Syria: The Illustrated
Treatise of Najm al-Din al-Misri . . . . 342--343
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Images of Copernicus:
\booktitleDie Copernicus-Biographien des
16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts (Nicolaus
Copernicus Gesamtausgabe), IX . . . . . 343--345
James A. Connor and
Petra S. Jung Book Review: Kepler the Philosopher:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler . . . . . . . 345--346
Kenneth J. Howell Book Review: Kepler and His God:
\booktitleKepler's Witch: an
Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order
amid Religious War, Political Intrigue,
and the Heresy Trial of His Mother . . . 346--347
Ronald E. Doel Book Review: Planetary Astronomy in
Outline: \booktitleBabylon to Voyager
and Beyond: a History of Planetary
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--349
David DeVorkin Book Review: Astrophysics in Outline:
\booktitleA Concise History of Solar and
Stellar Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--351
John Steele Book Review: Crossing Boundaries:
\booktitleAstronomy in the Orient and
Occident: Selected Papers on its
Cultural and Scientific History . . . . 351--352
David B. Wilson Book Review: James Clerk Maxwell
Popularized: \booktitleThe Man Who
Changed Everything: The Life of James
Clerk Maxwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--354
Suzanne Débarbat Book Review: Foucault and His Pendulum:
\booktitleThe Life and Science of Léon
Foucault: The Man Who Proved the Earth
Rotates, Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the
Triumph of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Anonymous Errata: [Tycho v. Ursus: The Build-up to
a Trial, Part 2] . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358
F. Jamil Ragep $^c$Al\=\iqushj\=\i and Regiomontanus:
Eccentric Transformations and Copernican
Revolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--371
Michael Hoskin Caroline Herschel as Observer . . . . . 373--406
Michel-Pierre Lerner The Origin and Meaning of ``World
System'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--441
Owen Gingerich Essay Review: Fresh Perspectives on the
Galileo Affair: \booktitleRetrying
Galileo, 1633--1992, the Church and
Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--447
Ernan McMullin Essay Review: Religion and Modern
Cosmology: \booktitleMatter and Spirit
in the Universe: Scientific and
Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology 448--452
Marvin Bolt Book Review: Globes and Spheres:
\booktitleSpheres: The Art of the
Celestial Mechanic . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Peter Barker Book Review: Method in Copernicus:
\booktitleCopernicus's Originality:
Towards Integration of Contemporary
Copernican Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 454--456
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Tycho Assessed:
\booktitleTycho Brahe and Prague:
Crossroads of European Science . . . . . 456--458
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Extracts Ancient and
Modern: \booktitleArchives of the
Universe: a Treasury of Astronomy's
Historic Works of Discovery . . . . . . 458--458
Ronald Brashear Book Review: More on Venus Transits:
\booktitleThe Transits of Venus . . . . 459--460
S. J. Sabino Maffeo Book Review: Jesuit Astronomers:
\booktitleSearching the Heavens and the
History of Jesuit Observatories . . . . 460--461
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--463
Owen Gingerich Publication of Materials Prepared for
GHA IVB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
Steven Vanden Broecke Teratology and the Publication of Tycho
Brahe's New World System (1588) . . . . 1--17
Klaus Staubermann Exercising Patience: On the
Reconstruction of F. W. Bessel's Early
Star Chart Observations . . . . . . . . 19--36
André Goddu Reflections on the Origin of
Copernicus's Cosmology . . . . . . . . . 37--53
F. R. Stephenson and
J. M. Steele Astronomical Dating of Babylonian Texts
Describing the Total Solar Eclipse of
S.E. 175 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69
George Beekman I. O. Yarkovsky and the Discovery of
`His' Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--86
Dennis W. Duke Analysis of the Farnese Globe . . . . . 87--100
Rienk Vermij Albertus Leoninus (1543--1614) and
Copernicus's ``Third Motion'' of the
Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--109
Michael Hoskin Caroline Herschel's Revenge . . . . . . 109--110
Malcolm Longair Essay Review: Hoyle Assessed:
\booktitleConflict in the Cosmos: Fred
Hoyle's Life in Science, Fred Hoyle's
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Cosmovisions:
\booktitleSongs from the Sky: Indigenous
Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions
of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Toledan Tables:
\booktitleThe Toledan Tables . . . . . . 116--117
John North Book Review: Mathematical Astronomy
across Cultures: \booktitleStudies on
the Transmission of Medieval
Mathematical Astronomy . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Science in Mediaeval
Catalonia: \booktitleLa Ci\`encia en la
Hist\`oria des Pa\"\isos Catalans . . . 119--120
William F. Romain Book Review: a Native American Site:
\booktitleCahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos 120--121
George Wise Book Review: Joseph Henry at the
Smithsonian: \booktitleThe Papers of
Joseph Henry, X: January 1858--December
1865, the Smithsonian Years . . . . . . 121--122
Miguel A. Granada Did Tycho Eliminate the Celestial
Spheres before 1586? . . . . . . . . . . 125--145
Bernard R. Goldstein and
Joséa Chabás Isaac Ibn Al-Hadib and Flavius
Mithridates: The Diffusion of an Iberian
Astronomical Tradition in the Late
Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--172
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
Mosalam Shaltout On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian
Temples: (2) New Experiments at the
Oases of the Western Desert . . . . . . 173--192
Alan C. Bowen Geminus and the Length of the Month: The
Authenticity of Intro. Ast. 8.43--45 . . 193--202
Karl Hufbauer Stellar Structure and Evolution,
1924--1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--227
Alexander Jones David Pingree (1933--2005) . . . . . . . 229--231
Stanislav Juznic Copernicus in Ljubljana . . . . . . . . 231--232
Owen Gingerich Supplement to the Copernican Census . . 232--232
George Saliba Essay Review: Islamic Science at its
Best: \booktitleIn Synchrony with the
Heavens: Studies in Astronomical
Timekeeping and Instrumentation in
Medieval Islamic Civilization, I: The
Call of the Muezzin, \booktitleIn
Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in
Astronomical Timekeeping and
Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic
Civilization, II: Instruments of Mass
Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--238
James Evans Book Review: Representing the Heavens:
\booktitleHimmelsgloben und Sternkarten:
Astronomie und Astrologie in Vorzeit und
Altertum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Karl Hufbauer Book Review: The Hubble Space Telescope:
\booktitleThe Hubble Space Telescope:
Imaging the Universe . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
Raymond Mercier Book Review: a Sailing Manual in the
Arabic Tradition: \booktitleThe Rahmani
of M. P. Kunhikunhi Malmi of Kavaratti:
a Sailing Manual of Lakshadweep . . . . 241--243
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Three Generations at Mount
Wilson: \booktitleThe Mount Wilson
Observatory: Breaking the Code of Cosmic
Evolution (Centennial History of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, I) 243--245
C. R. O'Dell Book Review: Tools for Optical
Astronomers: \booktitleGiant Telescopes:
Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Michael Hoskin Caroline Herschel's Catalogue of Nebulae 251--255
Nicholas Jardine Kepler as Castigator and Historian: His
Preparatory Notes for \booktitleContra
Ursum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--297
Ghjasippina Thury-Bouvet and
Jean-François Santucci and
El Hadi Khoumeri and
Antoine Ottavi Orientations of Corsican Dolmens . . . . 299--306
Robert W. Smith Beyond the Big Galaxy: The Structure of
the Stellar System 1900--1952 . . . . . 307--342
Emily Winterburn British Library Microfilms of Herschel
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--348
Merle F. Walker The Alignment of the Egyptian Pyramids 349--352
Alexander Jones Essay Review: Astral Sciences in
Mesopotamia: \booktitleThe Heavenly
Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and
Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture . . . 353--356
Juan Antonio Belmonte Essay Review: Egyptian Astronomy:
\booktitleLa Astronomía del Antiguo
Egipto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--359
Monica Azzolini Book Review: \booktitleAstrology in the
Low Countries: The Limits of Influence:
Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of
Renaissance Astrology . . . . . . . . . 360--361
John M. Steele Book Review: Jupiter Omens in Babylon:
\booktitleBabylonian Planetary Omens,
Part 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Mediaeval Star Names and
Their Implications: \booktitleStars and
Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in
the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds . . 363--363
Alexander A. Gurshtein Book Review: Venus Transits:
\booktitleTransits of Venus: New Views
of the Solar System and Galaxy . . . . . 364--365
Peter J. Ramberg Book Review: NASA and Astrobiology:
\booktitleThe Living Universe: NASA and
the Development of Astrobiology . . . . 365--366
Bruce Stephenson Book Review: Greenwich Astrolabes:
\booktitleAstrolabes at Greenwich . . . 367--368
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Anthony F. Aveni Errata: [Astronomy in the Mexican Codex
Borgia] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
José Lull and
Juan Antonio Belmonte A Firmament above Thebes: Uncovering the
Constellations of Ancient Egyptians . . 373--392
Michael Hoskin and
David W. Dewhirst William Herschel and the Prehistory of
Stellar Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . 393--403
David Sellers A Letter from William Gascoigne to Sir
Kenelm Digby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--416
A. César González-García and
Lourdes Costa-Ferrer Orientation of TRB-West Megalithic
Monuments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--427
David H. De Vorkin The Changing Place of Red Giant Stars in
the Evolutionary Process . . . . . . . . 429--469
Anonymous Essay Review: Imagineering the
Astronomical Revolution: \booktitleI.
Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images,
and Instruments in Early Modern Europe,
II. Widmung, Welterklärung und
Wissenschaftslegitimierung: Titelbilder
und ihre Funktionen in der
wissenschaftlichen Revolution, III. The
Power of Images in Early Modern Science,
IV. Immagini per conoscere: Dal
Rinascimento alla rivoluzione
scientifica, V. Erkenntnis Erfindung
Konstruktion: Studien zur Bildgeschichte
von Naturwissen-schaften und Technik vom
16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert . . . . . . 471--484
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Correspondence of Gottfried
Kirch: \booktitleDie Korrespondenz des
Astronomen und Kalendermachers Gottfried
Kirch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
Margaret J. Osler Book Review: Science and Religion over
Two Millennia: \booktitleScience and
Religion, 400 B.C.--A.D. 1550: From
Aristotle to Copernicus . . . . . . . . 486--487
Juergen Hamel Book Review: Tycho's \booktitleNova:
Ergo perit coelum\ldots: Die Supernova
des Jahres 1572 und die Ueberwindung der
aristotelischen Kosmologie . . . . . . . 488--489
Edward B. Davis Book Review: Religion and the Rise of
Science: \booktitleReligious Values & the
Rise of Science in Europe . . . . . . . 489--491
Michel-Pierre Lerner Book Review: The Origins of the
Alphonsine Tables: \booktitleHistoire
Littéraire de la France (Académie des
Inscriptions et Belles Lettres) . . . . 491--493
Bernard R. Goldstein and
Giora Hon Celestial Charts and Spherical
Triangles: The Unifying Power of
Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
John Lewis Truth and Propaganda in Images of the
Trial of Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--29
Donald E. Osterbrock Frank Ross, His Ross Lens Design, and
the Lick Observatory $ 20$-inch
Astrograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--73
Christopher Cullen Huo Rong's Observation Programme of A.D.
102 and the Han Li Solar Table . . . . . 75--98
Miguel A. Granada Michael Maestlin and the New Star of
1572 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--124
Richard L. Kremer Essay Review: Astronomy in Kassel:
\booktitleDie astronomische Forschungen
in Kassel unter Wilhelm IV, mit einer
Teiledition der deutschen Übersetzung des
Hauptwerkes von Copernicus um 1586,
Christoph Rothmann's Handbuch der
Astronomie von 1589 . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
Helge Kragh Book Review: Lema\^\itre in Context:
\booktitleThe Day without Yesterday:
Lema\^\itre, Einstein, and the Birth of
Modern Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Stephen M. Stigler Book Review: Laplace: \booktitlePierre
Simon Laplace 1749--1827: a Determined
Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Clive Ruggles Book Review: Archaeoastronomy in
Overview: \booktitleExploring Ancient
Skies: an Encyclopedic Survey of
Archaeoastronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
David DeVorkin Book Review: Changing the Face of the
Cosmos: \booktitleRevolutionaries of the
Cosmos: The Astro-Physicists . . . . . . 134--136
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Mosalam Shaltout and
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
Magdi Fekri On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian
Temples: (3) Key Points in Lower Egypt
and Siwa Oasis, Part I . . . . . . . . . 141--160
J. B. Holberg and
F. Wesemael The Discovery of the Companion of Sirius
and its Aftermath . . . . . . . . . . . 161--174
John T. Ramsey A Catalogue of Greco--Roman Comets from
500 B.C. to A.D. 400 . . . . . . . . . . 175--197
John J. Wall The Star Alignment Hypothesis for the
Great Pyramid Shafts . . . . . . . . . . 199--206
Patrick J. Boner Kepler V. The Epicureans: Causality,
Coincidence and the Origins of the New
Star of 1604 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221
Ernie Wright Visualization of the \booktitleAlmagest
Star Catalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--226
Rumen Kolev Six Observations of the Heliacal Rise of
Sirius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Stephen McCluskey Essay Review: Archaeoastronomy at the
Crossroads: \booktitleCurrent Studies in
Archaeoastronomy: Conversations across
Time and Space, Viewing the Sky through
Past and Present Cultures . . . . . . . 229--236
Matthew Stanley Book Review: Testing Relativity:
\booktitleEinstein's Jury: The Race to
Test Relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Edith Dudley Sylla Book Review: Richard of Wallingford:
\booktitleGod's Clockmaker: Richard of
Wallingford and the Invention of Time 238--241
Trudy E. Bell Book Review: The Dudley Observatory:
\booktitleCivic Astronomy: Albany's
Dudley Observatory, 1852--2002 . . . . . 241--244
Thomas R. Williams Book Review: Finding the Cepheid
Period-Luminosity Relationship:
\booktitleMiss Leavitt's Stars: The
Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered
How to Measure the Universe . . . . . . 244--245
A. D. Morrison-Low Book Review: Festschrift for a Museum:
\booktitleThe Whipple Museum of the
History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
E. G. Richards Book Review: Calendars of the Western
World: \booktitleThe Structure and
Mathematics of the Principal Calendars
of the Western World: Muslim, Gregorian,
Jewish, and other Systems . . . . . . . 247--248
Howard Smith Book Review: Travails at NASA:
\booktitleThe Last of the Great
Observatories: Spitzer and the Era of
Faster, Better, Cheaper at NASA . . . . 248--250
Donald Yeomans Book Review: When is a Planet Not a
Planet?: \booktitleIs Pluto a Planet? A
Historical Journey through the Solar
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
George V. Coyne Book Review: More on the Galileo Affair:
\booktitleGalileo Observed: Science and
the Politics of Belief . . . . . . . . . 251--253
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Sources for
Astronomy/Scripture: \booktitleLe
Conflit entre l'Astronomie Nouvelle et
l'Écriture Sainte aux XVI . . . . . . . . 253--254
André Goddu Book Review: Copernicus in Person:
\booktitlePoszukiwanie grobu Mikolaja
Kopernika. (Polish) [The search for the
grave of Nicolaus Copernicus] . . . . . 255--256
Anthony Turner Book Review: Architectural Contrasts:
\booktitleLes Riviera de Charles Garnier
et Gustave Eiffel: Le Rêve de la Raison
/Charles Garnier and Gustave Eiffel on
the French and Italian Rivieras: The
Dream of Reason . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--258
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--260
Anonymous Asger Hartvig Aaboe (1922--2007) . . . . 261--263
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 264--266
José Chabás and
Richard L. Kremer The Circulation of Astronomical
Practices in Late Medieval Europe . . . 267--268
José Chabás From Toledo to Venice: The Alfonsine
Tables of Prosdocimo De' Beldomandi of
Padua (1424) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--281
Richard L. Kremer ``Abbreviating'' the Alfonsine Tables in
Cracow: The \booktitleTabulae Aureae of
Petrus Gaszowiec (1448) . . . . . . . . 283--304
Alena Hadravová and
Petr Hadrava Astronomy in Paulerinus's
Fifteenth-Century Encyclopaedia
\booktitleLiber Viginti Arcium . . . . . 305--324
Michael H. Shank Regiomontanus as a Physical Astronomer:
Samplings from \booktitleThe Defence of
Theon against George of Trebizond . . . 325--349
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Solar Eclipse Observations in the Time
of Copernicus: Tradition or Novelty? . . 351--364
Michael Hoskin Novae and Variables before the
Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--379
Adam Mosley Book Review: Festschrift for Volker
Bialas,\booktitle Miscellanea
Kepleriana: Festschrift für Volker Bialas
zum 65. Geburtstag . . . . . . . . . . . 380--381
Michael Sharratt Book Review: Galileo and His Spyglass,
\booktitleGalileo's Instruments of
Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy . . 382--383
John North Book Review: Astrology in History,
\booktitleHoroscopes and Public Spheres:
Essays on the History of Astrology . . . 383--386
Bradley E. Schaefer Book Review: Sirius, \booktitleSirius:
Brightest Diamond in the Night Sky . . . 386--387
Ingrid D. Rowland Book Review: Kircher in Context,
\booktitleDie Große Kosmologische
Kontroversie: Rekonstruktionsversuche
anhand des Itinerarium Exstaticum von
Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602--1680) 388--389
David Kaiser Book Review: Twentieth-Century
Astrophysics, \booktitleThe Cosmic
Century: A History of Astrophysics and
Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--390
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 391--392
Helge Kragh Cosmic Radioactivity and the Age of the
Universe, 1900--1930 . . . . . . . . . . 393--412
Mosalam Shaltout and
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
Magdi Fekri On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian
Temples: (3) Key Points at Lower Egypt
and Siwa Oasis, Part II . . . . . . . . 413--442
J. M. Steele and
J. M. K. Gray A Study of Babylonian Observations
Involving the Zodiac . . . . . . . . . . 443--458
Françoise Launay The Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of
1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--475
Gábor F. Farkas and
Endre Zsoldos The New Star of 1572 and Hungary . . . . 477--486
Michael Hoskin Orientations of Neolithic Monuments of
Brittany: (2) the Early Dolmens . . . . 487--492
Michael Hoskin Orientations of Neolithic Monuments of
Brittany: (3) the Allées Couvertes . . . 493--501
Anonymous Retirement of Reviews Editor . . . . . . 502--502
James Evans Book Review: Simplicius on Aristotle's
Astronomy, \booktitleSimplicius: On
Aristotle's ``On the Heavens'' 2.1-9 and
2.10-14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--505
Anne Tihon Book Review: Geminos under Scrutiny,
\booktitleGeminos's Introduction to the
Phenomena: a Translation and Study of a
Hellenistic Survey of Astronomy . . . . 505--507
Julio Samsó Book Review: Al-Farghani's Treatise on
the Astrolabe, \booktitleAl-Farghani on
the Astrolabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--509
David Lindberg Book Review: Oresme on Optics,
\booktitleNicole Oresme's \booktitleDe
Visione Stellarum (On Seeing the Stars):
a Critical Edition of Oresme's Treatise
on Optics and Atmospheric Refraction,
with an Introduction, Commentary, and
English Translation . . . . . . . . . . 509--510
Owen Gingerich Book Review: an Astrologer-Friend of
Tycho Brahe, \booktitleHeinrich Rantzau
und die Astrologie . . . . . . . . . . . 510--511
Jole Shackelford Book Review: Tycho in Context,
\booktitleAtt låta själen flyga mellan
himlens tinnar: Tycho Brahe och
Renässansen. (Swedish) [To let the soul
fly from the battlements of heaven:
Tycho Brahe and the Renaissance] . . . . 511--513
James R. Voelkel Book Review: a Kepler Miscellany,
\booktitleJohannes Kepler Gesammelte
Werke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--515
Jesse Kraai Book Review: Rheticus as Copernican, the
First Copernican: \booktitleGeorg
Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the
Copernican Revolution . . . . . . . . . 516--517
Miguel A. Granada Book Review: Origins of the Infinite
Universe, \booktitleDieu, l'Univers et
la Sph\`ere Infinie: Penser l'Infinité
Cosmique \`a l'Aube de la Science
Classique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--519
Silvan Sam Schweber Book Review: Eddington, Chandra, et al.;
\booktitleEmpire of the Stars:
Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in
the Quest for Black Holes . . . . . . . 519--522
Marcelo Gleiser Book Review: Relativity's Later Years,
\booktitleThe Curious History of
Relativity: How Einstein's Theory Was
Lost and Found Again . . . . . . . . . . 522--524
Jay M. Pasachoff and
Naomi Pasachoff Book Review: Linking Earth and Sun,
\booktitleThe Sun Kings: The Unexpected
Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the
Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began . . . 524--525
David A. King Henry C. King (1915--2005) . . . . . . . 526--527
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 528--530
James Evans and
Marcel Marée A Miniature Ivory Sundial with Equinox
Indicator from Ptolemaic Tanis, Egypt 1--17
Sacha Stern The Babylonian Month and the New Moon:
Sighting and Prediction . . . . . . . . 19--42
David Marshall Miller O Male Factum: Rectilinearity and
Kepler's Discovery of the Ellipse . . . 43--63
Jean-François Santucci and
El Hadi Khoumeri Orientations of Megalithic Tombs in
Algeria (1): Djebel Mazela and Rocknia
Necropolises, and the Kabylian Allées
Couvertes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--76
Elly Dekker Carolingian Planetary Observations: The
Case of the Leiden Planetary
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--90
Robert W. Smith Beyond the Galaxy: The Development of
Extragalactic Astronomy 1885--1965, Part
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--119
Michael Hoskin George III's Purchase of Herschel
Reflectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--124
James Evans Book Review: Ancient Greek Sundials;
\booktitleDie antiken Sonnenuhren
Griechenlands: Festland und Peloponnes 125--125
Michael H. Shank Book Review: \booktitleJohn of Gmunden
Commemorated; Johannes von Gmunden (ca.
1384--1442): Astronom und Mathematiker 126--127
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: a Sourcebook on Motion and
its Causes; \booktitleMechanics from
Aristotle to Einstein . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Kenneth J. Howell Book Review: Galileo and the Holy
Office: \booktitleBehind the Scenes at
Galileo's Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
Michael Hoskin Book Review: John Herschel's Cape
Sketches; \booktitleCape Landscapes: Sir
John Herschel's Sketches 1834--1838 . . 129--130
Kathryn A. Neeley Book Review: Somerville in Context;
\booktitleMary Somerville and the World
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
James Caplan and
Françoise Le Guet Tully Book Review: The Meudon Refractor;
\booktitleLa Grande Lunette de Meudon:
Les Yeux de la Découverte . . . . . . . . 131--133
Ronald E. Doel Book Review: JPL's Recent Past:
\booktitleInto the Black: JPL and the
American Space Program, 1976--2004 . . . 133--135
Ed C. Krupp Book Review: Planetaria in the U.S.;
\booktitleTheaters of Time and Space:
American Planetaria, 1930--1970 . . . . 135--136
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 138--140
Malcolm Wilson Hippocrates of Chios's Theory of Comets 141--160
François Wesemael and
René Racine Why Was the Companion of Sirius Not Seen
Prior to 1862? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--179
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
Mosalam Shaltout and
Magdi Fekri On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian
Temples: (4) Epilogue in Serabit El
Khadim and Overview . . . . . . . . . . 181--212
Elly Dekker A `Watermark' of Eudoxan Astronomy . . . 213--228
F. Richard Stephenson How Reliable are Archaic Records of
Large Solar Eclipses? . . . . . . . . . 229--250
Michael Hoskin Gravity and Light in the Newtonian
Universe of Stars . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264
Miguel A. Granada Essay Review: Early Translations of
\booktitleDe Revolutionibus:
\booktitle\booktitleDe Revolutionibus:
Die erste deutsche Übersetzung in der
Grazer Handschrift . . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
Michael Hoskin Book Review: a DSB of Astronomers;
\booktitleBiographical Encyclopedia of
Astronomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Catalan Dolmens in Context,
\booktitleEls D\`olmens Catalans en el
Context de l'Europa Occidental . . . . . 274--275
Anne-Laurence Caudano Book Review: Carolingian Astronomy;
\booktitleOrdering the Heavens: Roman
Astronomy and Cosmology in the
Carolingian Renaissance . . . . . . . . 275--277
Catherine Eagleton Book Review: German Sundials;
\booktitleInventar der historischen
Sonnenuhren in Mecklenburg--Vorpommern 278--278
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Dennis Duke Four Lost Episodes in Ancient Solar
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--296
Michael Nauenberg Edmund C. Stoner and the Discovery of
the Maximum Mass of White Dwarfs . . . . 297--312
Luís Miguel Carolino The Making of a Tychonic Cosmology:
Cristoforo Borri and the Development of
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical System . . . 313--344
Bernard R. Goldstein and
José Chabás Transmission of Computational Methods
within the Alfonsine Corpus: The Case of
the Tables of Nicholaus De Heybech . . . 345--355
Rita Fink Inca Shadow Casting Observations in
Cuzco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--361
Michael Hoskin Nebulae, Star Clusters and the Milky
Way: From Galileo to William Herschel 363--396
Bruce N. Whitson William Herschel's ``Eccho Catch'' . . . 397--401
Michael Hoskin Derek Thomas Whiteside (1932--2008) . . 402--404
Michael J. Crowe Book Review: The Herschel Family:
\booktitleThe Herschels of Hanover . . . 405--406
Clemency Coggins Book Review: Astronumerology at
Palenque: \booktitleThe Apotheosis of
Janaab' Pakal: Science, History, and
Religion at Classic Maya Palenque . . . 406--408
John North Book Review: More on the Star of
Bethlehem: \booktitleThe Star of the
Magi: The Mystery That Heralded the
Coming of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
Sven Dupré Book Review: The Telescope in History;
\booktitleDer Meister und die Fernrohre:
Das Wechselspiel zwischen Astronomie und
Optik in der Geschichte . . . . . . . . 410--411
Catherine Eagleton Book Review: German Sundials;
\booktitleInventar der historischen
Sonnenuhren in Mecklenburg--Vorpommern 411--412
Robert A. McCutcheon Book Review: Early Russian Astronomy;
\booktitleAstronomiya drevnei Rusi . . . 412--414
Deborah Jean Warner Book Review: \booktitleTreasures of the
Dresden Kunstkammer, the Geometry of
Power /the Power of Geometry:
Mathematical Instruments and Princely
Mechanical Devices from around 1600 . . 414--415
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Copernicus's
\booktitleOpera Omnia Completed,
\booktitleMikolaj Kopernik Dziela
Wszystkie, III: Pisma Pomniejsze [Minor
Works] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Edward B. Davis Book Review: Eddington the Quaker,
\booktitlePractical Mystic: Religion,
Science, and A. S. Eddington . . . . . . 417--419
Holly Henry Book Review: Thomas Hardy and Astronomy;
\booktitleThomas Hardy's Novel Universe:
Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the
Post-Darwinian World . . . . . . . . . . 419--421
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 422--424
Paolo Palmieri Galileus Deceptus, Non Minime Decepit: a
Re-Appraisal of a Counter-Argument in
Dialogo to the Extrusion Effect of a
Rotating Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--452
Curtis Wilson The Nub of the Lunar Problem: From Euler
to G. W. Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--468
Miguel A. Granada Kepler and Bruno on the Infinity of the
Universe and of Solar Systems . . . . . 469--495
David Le Conte Orientations of Channel Islands
Megalithic Tombs . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--506
Michael Hoskin Orientations of Dolmens of Western
Europe: Summary and Conclusions . . . . 507--514
Geoffrey Kolbe A Test of the ``Simultaneous Transit
Method'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--517
Robert Alan Hatch Essay Review: The Correspondence of
Pierre Gassendi: \booktitleLettres
Latines, Opera Omnia, and the ``Primal
Archive'', Pierre Gassendi (1592--1655):
Introduction \`a la Vie Savante, Pierre
Gassendi (1592--1655): Lettres Latines 518--528
Gérald Péoux Book Review: Tycho and His
Correspondence, \booktitleBearing the
Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the
Astronomical Community of the Late
Sixteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 528--529
J. L. Heilbron Book Review: The Invention of the
Telescope, \booktitleGalileo's
Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror 530--531
John D. North Book Review: Astronomy as a Model?,
\booktitleAstronomy as a Model for the
Sciences in Early Modern Times . . . . . 532--534
Volker R. Remmert Book Review: Harmonia Macrocosmica
Reprinted, \booktitleAndreas Cellarius,
Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660: The
Finest Atlas of the Heavens . . . . . . 534--535
Robert Morrison Book Review: \booktitleEpicycles and
Eccentrics in the Middle Ages, Studies
in Medieval Astronomy and Optics . . . . 535--537
George Ellis Book Review: Cosmology down the Ages,
\booktitleConceptions of Cosmos, from
Myths to the Accelerating Universe: a
History of Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . 537--538
Emilie Savage-Smith Book Review: Islamic Influence on
Copernicus, \booktitleIslamic Science
and the Making of the European
Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--541
Francesca Rochberg Book Review: Calendrics in the Ancient
near East, \booktitleCalendars and
Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient
near East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--543
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--544
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 545--546
Anonymous Journals under Threat: a Joint Response
from History of Science, Technology and
Medicine Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . v--viii
Helge Kragh The Second Moon of the Earth . . . . . . 1--10
Luciano Boschiero Giovanni Borelli and the Comets of
1664--65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--30
F. Richard Stephenson and
David A. Green A Catalogue of ``Guest Stars'' Recorded
in East Asian History from Earliest
Times to A.D. 1600 . . . . . . . . . . . 31--54
A. E. L. Davis Kepler's `\booktitleVia Ovalis
Composita': Unity from Diversity . . . . 55--69
Robert W. Smith Beyond the Galaxy: The Development of
Extragalactic Astronomy 1885--1965, Part
2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--107
Curtis Wilson Corrigendum: [The Nub of the Lunar
Problem: From Euler to G. W. Hill] . . . 108--108
Gerardo Aldana Essay Review: Aveni Honoured,
\booktitleSkywatching in the Ancient
World: New Perspectives in Cultural
Astronomy. Studies in Honor of Anthony
F. Aveni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
Nick Jardine Essay Review: Astral Projections and
Pies in the Sky, \booktitleImagination
des Himmels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
Arkadiusz Soltysiak Book Review: Sumero--Akkadian Star
Names, \booktitleZvezdnoe nebo drevnei
Mesopotamii: Shumero--Akkadskie
nazvaniia sozvezdii i drugikh svetil
[The Star Heaven of Ancient Mesopotamia:
Sumero--Akkadian Names of Constellations
and other Heavenly Bodies] . . . . . . . 120--122
George Saliba Book Review: Astronomy in the Western
Islamic World, \booktitleAstronomy and
Astrology in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib 122--124
Anthony F. Aveni Book Review: North American
Constellation Myths, \booktitleReachable
Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of
Eastern North America . . . . . . . . . 124--125
Raymond Mercier Book Review: Astrology down the Ages,
\booktitleA History of Horoscopic
Astrology: From the Babylonian Period to
the Modern Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Laura A. Smoller Book Review: a Classic of Mediaeval
Astrology, \booktitleThe Book of
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Patrick J. Boner Book Review: Tertius Interveniens in
Translation, \booktitleKepler's
Astrology: The Baby, the Bath Water, and
the Third Man in the Middle . . . . . . 128--130
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Global Time Zones,
\booktitleOne Time Fits All: The
Campaigns for Global Uniformity . . . . 130--132
Richard Hirsh Book Review: a Pioneer's Autobiography,
\booktitleSecrets of the Hoary Deep: a
Personal History of Modern Astronomy . . 132--133
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 134--136
J. B. Holberg The Discovery of the Existence of White
Dwarf Stars: 1862 to 1930 . . . . . . . 137--154
Andrea Gualandi and
Fabrizio B\`onoli The Search for Stellar Parallaxes and
the Discovery of the Aberration of
Light: The Observational Proofs of the
Earth's Revolution, Eustachio Manfredi,
and the `Bologna Case' . . . . . . . . . 155--172
Anastasia Guidi Itokazu On the Equivalence of Hypotheses in Part
1 of Johannes Kepler's \booktitleNew
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190
Ernan McMullin The Galileo Affair: Two Decisions . . . 191--212
Dennis Duke A Year Length Hidden in Ancient
Planetary Mean Motions . . . . . . . . . 213--216
David Le Conte Orientations of Channel Islands
Megalithic Tombs: Addendum . . . . . . . 217--218
Andrea Gualandi Book Review: Kepler's Astronomy and
Music, \booktitleKeplero: Una biografia
scientifica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Geoffrey Lloyd Book Review: Cosmogony in Antiquity,
\booktitleAncient Greek Cosmogony . . . 220--221
James Evans Book Review: Explaining the Astrolabe,
\booktitleThe Astrolabe . . . . . . . . 221--222
W. F. Ryan Book Review: Cosmology among the Slavs,
`\booktitleLet There Be Lights in the
Firmament of the Heaven': Cosmological
Depictions in Early Rus . . . . . . . . 222--224
Robert Hannah Book Review: Calendars in Ancient Rome,
\booktitleCaesar's Calendar: Ancient
Time and the Beginnings of History . . . 224--226
Jim Bennett Book Review: Jesse Ramsden,
\booktitleJesse Ramsden (1735--1800):
London's Leading Scientific Instrument
Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Liba Taub Book Review: Ancient Astrology in
Outline, \booktitleA Brief History of
Ancient Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . 227--229
Rienk Vermij Book Review: Gemma Frisius on Earth and
Sky, \booktitleGemma Frisius, Arpenteur
de la Terre et du Ciel . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Jürgen Hamel Book Review: Kiel Observatory,
\booktitle``\ldots eine ausnehmende
Zierde und Vortheil'': Geschichte der
Kieler Universitätssternwarte und ihrer
Vorgängerinnen, 1770--1950 . . . . . . . 230--232
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Transits of Venus in
Victorian Times, \booktitleThe Transit
of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain 232--233
Jimena Canales Book Review: Rehabilitating Janssen,
\booktitleUn Globe-Trotter de la
Physique Céleste: L'astronome Jules
Janssen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
Hubert Goenner Book Review: Mythos Einstein,
\booktitleEinstein for the 21st Century:
His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern
Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237
Robert W. Smith Book Review: NASA's History in Pictures,
\booktitleNASA: The Complete Illustrated
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Frederick Gregory Book Review: Thermodynamics and the
Creation of the Universe,
\booktitleEntropic Creation: The
Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and
Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Emmanuel Poulle Book Review: The Astrolabe in the Latin
West, \booktitleAspects of the
Astrolabe: `Architectonica Ratio' in
Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Europe . . . 240--242
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 244--246
María M. Portuondo Lunar Eclipses, Longitude and the New
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--276
François Wesemael Harkins, Perrin and the Alternative
Paths to the Solution of the
Stellar-Energy Problem, 1915--1923 . . . 277--296
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein John of Murs's Tables of 1321 . . . . . 297--320
Ileana Chinnici The Relationship between the Ramsden
Circles at Palermo and Dunsink . . . . . 321--333
Owen Gingerich John David North (1934--2008) . . . . . 335--337
Robert S. Westman Essay Review: Cognizing the Copernican
Revolution, \booktitleThe Cognitive
Structure of Scientific Revolutions . . 339--345
F. Jamil Ragep Book Review: Astronomy in the Middle
East, \booktitleA Brief Introduction to
Astronomy in the Middle East . . . . . . 346--347
José Chabás Book Review: \booktitleArabic Astrology
Enters the West, Les Alchandreana
Primitifs: Étude sur les Plus Anciens
Traités Astrologiques Latins d'Origine
Arabe (Xe Si\`ecle) . . . . . . . . . . 348--350
Robert Hannah Book Review: Astrology in the West,
\booktitleThe Dawn of Astrology: a
Cultural History of Western Astrology,
vol. I: The Ancient and Classical Worlds 350--351
Juan Antonio Belmonte Book Review: a Reader in New World
Astronomy, \booktitleFoundations of New
World Cultural Astronomy: a Reader with
Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--353
Isabelle Pantin Book Review: Bruno's Astronomy,
\booktitleI Dintorni dell'Infinito:
Giordano Bruno e l'Astronomia del
Cinquecento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
Yunli Shi Book Review: Astronomy in Korea,
\booktitleAstronomy: Traditional Korean
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357
Adam Mosley Book Review: \booktitleLandgrave Wilhelm
IV, Der Ptolomäus von Kassel: Landgraf
Wilhelm IV. Von Hessen--Kassel und die
Astronomie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Annibale Fantoli Book Review: More on the Trial of
Galileo, \booktitleGalileo's Inquisition
Trial Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: Determining the Age of the
Earth, \booktitleA Natural History of
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--361
James Evans Book Review: The Saga of the Antikythera
Mechanism, \booktitleDecoding the
Heavens: a $ 2000$-Year-Old Computer and
the Century-Long Search to Discover its
Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
Trudy E. Bell Book Review: British University
Observatories, \booktitleBritish
University Observatories, 1772--1939 . . 364--366
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Theories of Cometary Tails,
\booktitleDer Komet in der
Entladungsröhre: Eugen Goldstein, Wilhelm
Foerster und die Elektrizität im Weltraum 367--368
Tayra Lanuza-Navarro Book Review: Jesuit Science in Portugal,
\booktitleSphaera Mundi: a Ciência na
Aula da Esfera. Manuscritos científicos
do Colégio de Santo Antão nas colecções da
BNP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Book Review: Kepler on Optics,
\booktitleJohannes Kepler, Schriften zur
Optik, 1604--1611 . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 372--374
Nick Jardine Kepler as Transgressor and Amalgamator
of Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--380
Patrick J. Boner A Tenuous Tandem: Patrizi and Kepler on
the Origins of Stars . . . . . . . . . . 381--391
Miguel A. Granada Novelties in the Heavens between 1572
and 1604 and Kepler's Unified View of
Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--402
Aviva Rothman Forms of Persuasion: Kepler, Galileo,
and the Dissemination of Copernicanism 403--419
A. D. C. Simpson The Beginnings of Commercial Manufacture
of the Reflecting Telescope in London 421--466
Richard L. Kremer Essay Review: Updating the DSB,
\booktitleNew Dictionary of Scientific
Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--471
Noah Lowenstein Essay Review: Updating the DSB,
\booktitleComplete Dictionary of
Scientific Biography . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
William Donahue Book Review: Mechanics in Early Modern
Cosmology: \booktitleMechanics and
Cosmology in the Medieval and Early
Modern Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Joseph N. Tatarewicz Book Review: The Hubble Space Telescope:
\booktitleThe Universe in a Mirror: The
Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and
the Visionaries Who Built it . . . . . . 474--475
David W. Pankenier Book Review: The 1280 Reform of Chinese
Astronomy: \booktitleGranting the
Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform
of 1280, with a Study of its Many
Dimensions and an Annotated Translation
of its Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--477
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 477--478
James Evans and
Christián C. Carman and
Alan S. Thorndike Solar Anomaly and Planetary Displays in
the Antikythera Mechanism . . . . . . . 1--39
J. B. Holberg Sirius B and the Measurement of the
Gravitational Redshift . . . . . . . . . 41--64
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
Magdi Fekri and
Yasser A. Abdel-Hadi and
Mosalam Shaltout and
A. Céasar González García On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian
Temples: (5) Testing the Theory in
Middle Egypt and Sudan . . . . . . . . . 65--93
F. Richard Stephenson Investigation of Medieval European
Records of Solar Eclipses . . . . . . . 95--104
Endre Zsoldos Starting the Classification: New and Old
Stars, and Sometimes Comets, Too . . . . 105--116
David A. King Edward Stewart Kennedy (1912--2009) . . 117--119
Marvin Bolt Essay Review: The Invention of the
Telescope: \booktitleThe Long Route to
the Invention of the Telescope . . . . . 120--122
Dennis Duke Book Review: Early Trigonometry:
\booktitleThe Mathematics of the Heavens
and the Earth: The Early History of
Trigonometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Nathan Sidoli Book Review: Parapegmata:
\booktitleAstronomy, Weather, and
Calendars in the Ancient World:
Parapegmata and Related Texts in
Classical and Near-Eastern Societies . . 124--126
K. Ramasubramanian Book Review: Early Indian Astronomical
Instruments: \booktitleThe Archaic and
the Exotic: Studies in the History of
Indian Astronomical Instruments . . . . 126--127
Eileen Reeves Book Review: Galileian Selections:
\booktitleThe Essential Galileo . . . . 127--129
Günther Oestmann Book Review: Elector August I's Clock:
\booktitleDie Planetenlaufuhr: Ein
Meisterwerk der Astronomie und Technik
der Renaissance geschaffen von Eberhard
Baldewein, 1563--1568 . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Klaus Staubermann Book Review: Astronomical Spectrographs:
\booktitleAstronomical Spectrographs and
Their History . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
Gustav Holmberg Book Review: Hands-on History:
\booktitleAstronomers at Work: a Study
of the Replicability of 19th Century
Astronomical Practice . . . . . . . . . 132--133
Barbara Becker Book Review: Cosmology in the Early
Twentieth Century: \booktitleThe Day We
Found the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
Helmuth Trischler Book Review: The Space Age:
\booktitleRemembering the Space Age:
Proceedings of the 50 th Anniversary
Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137
Helge Kragh Book Review: Recollections of Big Bang
Cosmology: \booktitleFinding the Big
Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Kevin Krisciunas and
Yulia Ivanova Book Review: Otto Struve: \booktitleOtto
Ludwigovich Struve, 1897--1963 . . . . . 138--140
Stephanie L. Taylor Book Review: Joseph Cornell and
Astronomy: \booktitleJoseph Cornell and
Astronomy: a Case for the Stars . . . . 140--141
Randall C. Brooks Book Review: Documenting the U.S. Space
Program: \booktitleExploring the
Unknown: Selected Documents in the
History of the U.S. Civil Space Program,
VII: Human Spaceflight: Projects
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . . . . . 142--143
Owen Gingerich Book Review: a Bibliography of
Astrology: \booktitleAstrologia Opere a
Stampa (1472--1900) . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Françoise Le Guet Tully and
James Caplan Book Review: Lalande Remembered:
\booktitleUn Astronome des Lumi\`eres:
Jérôme Lalande . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Catalogue of a
Memorable Exhibition: \booktitleGalileo:
Images of the Universe from Antiquity to
the Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
Peter D. Bedini Book Review: Pioneering Deep Space:
\booktitleWilliam H. Pickering:
America's Deep Space Pioneer . . . . . . 146--147
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--152
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 153--156
Jonathan Green The First Copernican Astrologer: Andreas
Aurifaber's Practica for 1541 . . . . . 157--165
David Baneke Teach and Travel: Leiden Observatory and
the Renaissance of Dutch Astronomy in
the Interwar Years . . . . . . . . . . . 167--198
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein Astronomical Activity in Portugal in the
Fourteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 199--212
Michael Hoskin Mary Herschel's Fortune: Origins and
Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--223
A. César González Garcia and
Juan Antonio Belmonte Statistical Analysis of Megalithic Tomb
Orientations in the Iberian Peninsula
and Neighbouring Regions . . . . . . . . 225--238
Lee T. MacDonald Isaac Roberts, E. E. Barnard and the
Nebulae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--259
J. M. Steele A New Scheme from Babylon for the
Synodic Arc of Saturn . . . . . . . . . 261--268
Charles J. Lada Book Review: Imaging the Heavens:
\booktitleShrouds of the Night: Masks of
the Milky Way and Our Awesome New View
of Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--271
Karsten Gaulke Book Review: Astronomy in the
Wolfenbüttel Library: \booktitleDie
Sterne Lügen Nicht: Astronomische und
Astrologische Literatur in der Herzog
August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel . . . . . 271--273
Agathe Keller Book Review: Astronomy of the Kerala
School: \booktitleRationales in
Mathematical Astronomy of Jye\dsthadeva:
a Critical Translation of the Original
Malayalam Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
Simon Werrett Book Review: Russian Astronomy Surveyed:
\booktitleNebo v Zemnom Otrazhenii:
Istoriia Astronomii v Rossii v XIX ---
Nachale XX veka . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--276
Silke Ackermann Book Review: Eastern Astrolabes at the
Adler: \booktitleHistoric Scientific
Instruments of the Adler Planetarium &
Astronomy Museum, II: Eastern Astrolabes 276--278
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Myths about Science and
Religion: \booktitleGalileo Goes to Jail
and other Myths about Science and
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Nicholas Jardine and
Renée Raphael Introduction: Forms and Functions of
Early Modern Celestial Imagery . . . . . 283--286
Isabelle Pantin The Astronomical Diagrams in Oronce
Finé's Protomathesis (1532): Founding a
French Tradition? . . . . . . . . . . . 287--310
Christoph Lüthy Centre, Circle, Circumference: Giordano
Bruno's Astronomical Woodcuts . . . . . 311--327
Katie Taylor A ``Practique Discipline''? Mathematical
Arts in John Blagrave's \booktitleThe
Mathematical Jewel (1585) . . . . . . . 329--353
Kathrin Müller How to Craft Telescopic Observation in a
Book: Hevelius's \booktitleSelenographia
(1647) and its Images . . . . . . . . . 355--379
Stephen Johnston Wren, Hooke and Graphical Practice . . . 381--392
Boris Jardine and
Nicholas Jardine Critical Editing of Early-Modern
Astronomical Diagrams . . . . . . . . . 393--414
Elizabeth Burns Book Review: Theories of Comets:
\booktitleA History of Physical Theories
of Comets: From Aristotle to Whipple . . 415--416
Alexander Jones Book Review: Indian Mathematics and
Astronomy: \booktitleMathematics in
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Dario Tessicini Book Review: Giordano Bruno:
\booktitleGiordano Bruno: Philosopher
/Heretic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--419
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Messier's Objects in
Colour: \booktitleAtlas of the Messier
Objects: Highlights of the Deep Sky . . 419--420
Raymond Mercier Book Review: Manilius in Context:
\booktitleManilius and His Intellectual
Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--422
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 423--424
J. A. Ruffner Isaac Newton's Historia Cometarum and
the Quest for Elliptical Orbits . . . . 425--451
Christopher M. Graney The Telescope against Copernicus: Star
Observations by Riccioli Supporting a
Geocentric Universe . . . . . . . . . . 453--467
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
A. César González García Antiochos's Hierothesion at Nemrud Dag
Revisited: Adjusting the Date in the
Light of Astronomical Evidence . . . . . 469--481
Richard L. Kremer Calculating with Andreas Aurifaber: a
New Source for Copernican Astronomy in
1540 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--502
Michael Hoskin William Herschel and the Southern Skies 503--503
E. J. A. Meurs The Objective Lens of the Dunsink
Ramsden Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--506
Adam Mosley Book Review: Spanish Cosmography:
\booktitleSecret Science: Spanish
Cosmography and the New World . . . . . 507--508
C. Bigg Book Review: Meadows on Lockyer:
\booktitleScience and Controversy: a
Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer, Founder
Editor of Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--510
Bruce S. Eastwood Book Review: Medieval Astronomical
Diagrams: \booktitleVisuelle
Weltaneignung: Astronomische und
Kosmologische Diagramme in Handschriften
des Mittelalters . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--512
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Book Review: The Supposed Moon of Venus:
\booktitleThe Moon That Wasn't: The Saga
of Venus' Spurious Satellite . . . . . . 512--513
Elizabeth A. Kessler Book Review: Photographs from Space:
\booktitleApollo through the Eyes of the
Astronauts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--514
Glen van Brummelen Book Review: Bianchini's
\booktitleTabulae Astronomiae: The
Astronomical Tables of Giovanni
Bianchini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--516
Raz Chen-Morris Book Review: Kepler's Work in Context:
\booktitleJohannes Kepler, from Tübingen
to \.Zaga\'n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--518
David W. Hughes Book Review: Comets in History:
\booktitleThe Greatest Comets in
History: Broom Stars and Celestial
Scimitars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--519
Sachiko Kusukawa Book Review: Copernicanism in Germany:
\booktitleNouveau Ciel, Nouvelle Terre:
La Révolution Copernicienne dans
l'Allemagne de la Réforme (1530--1630) 519--521
Nathan Sivin Book Review: Computing Ephemerides in
China: \booktitleLe Calendrier Chinois:
Structure et Calculs (104 av.
J.-C.--1644) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--523
Giorgio Strano Book Review: Comets in the Seventeenth
Century: \booktitleTeorie sulle Comete
da Galileo a Newton . . . . . . . . . . 523--525
Maurice A. Finocchiaro Book Review: \booktitleSidereus Nuncius
in Translation: \booktitleGalileo's
\booktitleSidereus Nuncius or a Sidereal
Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--526
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--527
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 528--530
Monica Azzolini Refining the Astrologer's Art:
Astrological Diagrams in Bodleian MS
Canon. Misc. 24 and Cardano's
\booktitleLibelli Quinque (1547) . . . . 1--25
Adam Mosley Vincenzo Maria Coronelli's
\booktitleAtlante Veneto and the
Diagrammatic Tradition of Cosmography 27--53
Anthony Grafton Petrus Apianus Draws up a Calendar . . . 55--72
Renée Raphael A Non-Astronomical Image in an
Astronomical Text: Visualizing Motion in
Riccioli's \booktitleAlmagestum Novum 73--90
Sachiko Kusukawa Andreas Nolthius's \booktitleAlmanach
for 1575 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--110
Gerardo V. Aldana Book Review: a Mayan Day of Doom:
\booktitleThe End of Time: The Maya
Mystery of 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Juan Antonio Belmonte Book Review: Archaeoastronomy Debated:
\booktitleArcheoastronomia: Un Dibattito
tra Archaeologi ed Astronomi alla
Ricerca di un Metodo Comune . . . . . . 113--114
Huib J. Zujdervaart Book Review: The Origins of the
Telescope: \booktitleGalileo's
Telescope: The Instrument That Changed
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Italian Astronomy since
Galileo: \booktitleAstrum 2009.
Astronomy and Instruments: Italian
Heritage Four Hundred Years after
Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Geoffrey Lloyd Book Review: Plato's \booktitleTimaeus:
\booktitleOne Book, the Whole Universe:
Plato's Timaeus Today . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Bernard F. Schutz Book Review: Spinning Black Holes:
\booktitleCracking the Einstein Code:
Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: The Scientific Writings of
Abraham Ibn Esra: \booktitleAbraham Ibn
Ezra: The Book of Reasons, a Parallel
Hebrew--English Critical Edition of the
Two Versions of the Text,
\booktitleAbraham Ibn Ezra's
Astrological Writings, I, Études sur le
Juda\"\isme Médiéval, \booktitleAbraham
Ibn Ezra: The Book of the World, a
Parallel Hebrew--English Critical
Edition of the Two Versions of the Text,
\booktitleAbraham Ibn Ezra's
Astrological Writings, II, Études sur le
Juda\"\isme Médiéval . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Nebulae from Herschel to
Dreyer: \booktitleObserving and
Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters:
From Herschel to Dreyer's New General
Catalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 123--124
François Wesemael and
Karl Del Duchetto and
René Racine From J. Winthrop, Jr., to E. E. Barnard:
The Arduous Path to the First Sighting
of Amalthea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139
Mario Arnaldi An Ancient Rule for Making Portable
Altitude Sundials from an `Unedited'
Medieval Text of the Tenth Century . . . 141--160
Ileana Chinnici and
Donatella Randazzo Tracing Ramsden's `Plumbline Level' . . 161--176
Michael Hoskin William Herschel and the Nebulae, Part
1: 1774--1784 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--192
Stephen Pumfrey The Selenographia of William Gilbert:
His Pre-Telescopic Map of the Moon and
His Discovery of Lunar Libration . . . . 193--203
James Steven Byrne The Mean Distances of the Sun and
Commentaries on the Theorica Planetarum 205--221
Richard L. Kremer Experimenting with Paper Instruments in
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century
Astronomy: Computing Syzygies with
Isotemporal Lines and Salt Dishes . . . 223--258
Owen Gingerich and
Albert van Helden How Galileo Constructed the Moons of
Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--264
Stephen C. McCluskey Book Review: The Christian Era: The
Easter Computus and the Origins of the
Christian Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Science and Theology in
16th-Century Germany: \booktitleScience
and Theology in the Reformation: Studies
in Theological Interpretation and
Astronomical Observation in
Sixteenth-Century Germany . . . . . . . 267--267
Alberto Meschiari Book Review: Zach's Collected
Correspondence: \booktitleThe Collected
Correspondence of Baron Franz Xaver von
Zach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
Nicky Reeves Book Review: The Greenwich Sextants in
Context: \booktitleSextants at
Greenwich: a Catalogue of the Mariner's
Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes,
Cross-Staffs, Backstaffs, Octants,
Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles,
and Artificial Horizons in the National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich . . . . . . . 269--271
Marilyn Bailey Ogjlvie Book Review: Women in British Astronomy:
Women in Early British and Irish
Astronomy: Stars and Satellites . . . . 271--273
Michel-Pierre Lerner Book Review: Ptolemy's Geography in the
West: \booktitleLa Géographie de Ptolémée
en Occident (IVe--XVIe si\`ecle) . . . . 273--275
Pedro M. P. Raposo Book Review: an 1870 Eclipse Expedition:
\booktitleL'Éclisse Totale di Sole del
1870 in Sicilia: Lettere di Pietro
Tacchini a Gaetano Cacciatore . . . . . 275--276
Patrick J. Boner Book Review: Astrology since Antiquity:
\booktitleA History of Western Astrology 276--278
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Essays on Lalande:
\booktitleJérôme Lalande (1732--1807): Une
Trajectoire Scientifique . . . . . . . . 278--279
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 280--282
Clifford J. Cunningham and
Brian G. Marsden and
Wayne Orchiston Giuseppe Piazzi: The Controversial
Discovery and Loss of Ceres in 1801 . . 283--306
M. G. Edmunds An Initial Assessment of the Accuracy of
the Gear Trains in the Antikythera
Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320
Michael Hoskin William Herschel and the Nebulae, Part
2: 1785--1818 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--338
Claus Clausen and
Per Kjærgaard and
Ole Einicke The Orientation of Danish Passage Graves
on the Islands of Samsò and Zealand . . . 339--351
Miguel A. Granada After the Nova of 1604: Roeslin and
Kepler's Discussion on the Significance
of the Celestial Novelties (1607--1613) 353--390
Michael H. Shank Essay Review: Piero's Flagellation of
Christ Elucidated? . . . . . . . . . . . 391--403
Yunli Shi Book Review: Far-Eastern Observational
Records: \booktitleArchaeoastronomy in
East Asia: Historical Observational
Records of Comets and Meteor Showers
from China, Japan and Korea . . . . . . 404--405
Raymond Mercier Book Review: Ptolemy in Perspective:
\booktitlePtolemy in Perspective: Use
and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity
to the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . 405--408
Renée J. Raphael Book Review: Oronce Fine Considered:
\booktitleThe Worlds of Oronce Fine:
Mathematics, Instruments, and Print in
Renaissance France . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
Liba Taub Book Review: Insights into \booktitlede
Caelo: \booktitleNew Perspectives on
Aristotle's \booktitleDe caelo . . . . . 409--411
Sonja Brentjes Book Review: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in
the Mediterranean:
\booktitleCross-Cultural Scientific
Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean,
1560--1660 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--415
Jürgen Hamel Book Review: Nuremberg Astronomy:
\booktitleAstronomie in Nürnberg . . . . 415--416
Dennis Duke Book Review: Pedersen's Survey of the
\booktitleAlmagest Revised: \booktitleA
Survey of the Almagest with Annotation
and New Commentary by Alexander Jones 416--418
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Zodiac of Dendera:
\booktitleThe Zodiac of Paris: How an
Improbable Controversy over an Ancient
Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern
Debate between Religion and Science . . 418--419
Nicolas Campion Book Review: Astrology in Medieval
Ireland and Wales: \booktitleFiery
Shapes: Celestial Portents and Astrology
in Ireland and Wales 700--1700 . . . . . 419--421
Anthony F. Aveni Book Review: Astronomy and Civilization:
\booktitleThe Power of Stars: How
Celestial Observations Have Shaped
Civilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 422--424
Staso Forenbaher and
Alexander Jones The Nakovana Zodiac: Fragments of an
Astrologer's Board from an
Illyrian--Hellenistic Cave Sanctuary . . 425--438
Pietro Daniel Omodeo David Origanus's Planetary System (1599
and 1609) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--454
Terry Stancliffe An Early Astronomical Manuscript of
Jeremiah Horrocks . . . . . . . . . . . 455--460
A. César González García and
Juan Antonio Belmonte Thinking Hattusha: Astronomy and
Landscape in the Hittite Lands . . . . . 461--494
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Libration of the Moon, Hevelius's
Theory, and its Early Reception in
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--519
Wolfgang Steinicke A Website of Deep-Sky Objects . . . . . 520--520
Curtis Wilson Essay Review: Tobias Mayer's Lunar
Theory: \booktitleBetween Theory and
Observations: Tobias Mayer's
Explorations of Lunar Motion, 1751--1755 521--526
Pietro Omodeo Book Review: The Foundations of
Copernicus's \booktitleBook I:
\booktitleNiccol\`o Copernico e la
Fondazione del Cosmo Eliocentrico, con
testo, traduzione e commentario del
Libro I de Le Rivoluzioni Celesti . . . 527--529
James Evans Book Review: Time in the Classical
World: \booktitleTime in Antiquity . . . 530--531
Pedro Ruis-Castell Book Review: Nineteenth-Century
Observatories in Context: \booktitleThe
Heavens on Earth: Observatories and
Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science
and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--532
Dennis Danielson Book Review: In Praise of Rheticus:
\booktitleRheticus, Wegbereiter der
Neuzeit (1514--1574) . . . . . . . . . . 533--534
Thomas F. Mayer Book Review: On Galileo's Letter to the
Grand Duchess: \booktitleLibertas
Philosophandi: Teologia e Filosofa nella
Lettera alla Granduchessa Cristina di
Lorena di Galileo Galilei . . . . . . . 534--536
Volker R. Remmert Book Review: an Early-Modern
Mathematician: \booktitleBetween Raphael
and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the
Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance
Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--537
Keizo Hashimoto Book Review: a Jesuit Astronomer in
China: \booktitleFerdinand Verbiest and
Jesuit Science in 17th-Century China: an
Annotated Edition and Translation of the
Constantinople Manuscript (1676) . . . . 537--538
Helge Kragh Book Review: The Herschel Siblings:
\booktitleDiscoverers of the Universe:
William and Caroline Herschel . . . . . 538--540
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--541
Michel-Pierre Lerner Alain-Philippe Segonds (1942--2011) . . 542--543
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 544--545
Isla Fay and
Nicholas Jardine Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Isabelle Pantin The First Phases of the Theoricæ
Planetarum Printed Tradition
(1474--1535): The Evolution of a Genre
Observed through its Images . . . . . . 3--26
Michael H. Shank The Geometrical Diagrams in
Regiomontanus's Edition of His Own
Disputationes (c. 1475): Background,
Production, and Diffusion . . . . . . . 27--55
Gerd Grasshoff Michael Maestlin's Mystery: Theory
Building with Diagrams . . . . . . . . . 57--73
Djoeke van Netten Astronomia Instaurata? The Third Edition
of Copernicus's \booktitleDe
Revolutionibus (Amsterdam, 1617) . . . . 75--91
Christián C. Carman and
Alan Thorndike and
James Evans On the Pin-and-Slot Device of the
Antikythera Mechanism, with a New
Application to the Superior Planets . . 93--116
Alexander Jones Theon of Alexandria's Observation of the
Solar Eclipse of A.D. 364 June 16 . . . 117--118
Darrel Rutkin Book Review: Michael Scot's
\booktitleLiber de Signis:
\booktitleSternstunden am Kaiserhof:
Michael Scotus und sein Buch von den
Bildern und Zeichen des Himmels . . . . 119--120
Denis Savoie Book Review: The `Navicula' Sundial:
\booktitleMonks, Manuscripts and
Sundials: The Navicula in Medieval
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Sara J. Schechner Book Review: an American of Many Lives:
\booktitleTwo Brides for Apollo: The
Life of Samuel Williams, 1743--1817 . . 122--123
Jeremy Vetter Book Review: Measuring Longitude by
Telegraphy: \booktitleFinding North
America: Longitude by Wire . . . . . . . 123--125
Michael J. Crowe Book Review: Planets of other Stars:
\booktitleStrange New Worlds: The Search
for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our
Solar System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Roger Hutchins Book Review: Touring Observatories in
1777: \booktitleAn Observer of
Observatories: The Journal of Thomas
Bugge's Tour of Germany, Holland and
England in 1777 . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Karl Grandin Book Review: Astronomy in Finland:
\booktitleHistory of Astronomy in
Finland 1828--1918 . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
James Palmer Book Review: Irish Computistics:
\booktitleThe Munich Computus: Text and
Translation. Irish Computistics between
Isidore of Seville and the Venerable
Bede and its Reception in Carolingian
Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--131
Patrick J. Boner Book Review: The Controversy on
Sunspots: \booktitleOn Sunspots . . . . 131--132
Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: Tartu Observatory:
\booktitleTartu Tähetorn, Tartu Old
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Michelle Chapront-Touzé Book Review: The Hill--Brown Theory:
\booktitleThe Hill--Brown Theory of the
Moon's Motion: Its Coming-to-Be and
Short-Lived Ascendancy (1877--1984) . . 134--136
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--138
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 138--140
Max E. Lippitsch and
Sonja Draxler A Medieval Planetary Diagram in Graz
University Library . . . . . . . . . . . 141--149
Simon Schaffer The Bombay Case: Astronomers, Instrument
Makers and the East India Company . . . 151--180
Yaakov Zik and
Giora Hon The Eccentricity of the Sun: Kepler's
Novel Method of Calculation . . . . . . 181--189
Fabio Silva and
Fernando Pimenta The Crossover of the Sun and the Moon 191--208
René Bourtembourg Messier's Missed Discovery of Pallas in
April 1779 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--214
Christopher M. Graney Science Rather Than God: Riccioli's
Review of the Case for and against the
Copernican Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . 215--225
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
A. César González García The `Genetic' Analysis of Iberian
Dolmens: a Test of the Idea in the
Central Pyrénées . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--231
Anonymous Johannes Kepler Working Group . . . . . 231--231
David Baneke Astronomers of 1908 Online . . . . . . . 232--232
Michel-Pierre Lerner and
Miguel Granada Essay Review: Planetary Order in the
Long Sixteenth Century, the Copernican
Question: Prognostication, Skepticism,
and Celestial Order . . . . . . . . . . 233--243
J. L. Heilbron Essay Review: \booktitleSidereus Nuncius
Debated, Galileo's \booktitleO.,
Galileo's \booktitleSidereus Nuncius: a
Comparison of the Proof Copy (New York)
with other Paradigmatic Copies, Galileo
Makes a Book: The First Edition of the
\booktitleSidereus Nuncius, Venice 1610 244--246
John Steele Book Review: The Chronology of Old
Babylon, \booktitleDie Venustafeln des
Ammi-$ \cdot $ aduqa und ihre Bedeutung
für die astronomische Datierung der
altbabylonischen Zeit . . . . . . . . . 247--249
Elly Dekker Book Review: King on Astrolabes,
\booktitleAstrolabes from Medieval
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Len Berggren Book Review: The Spherics of Theodosius,
\booktitleTheodosius, Sphaerica: Arabic
and Medieval Latin Translations . . . . 250--252
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Early History of the
Telescope, \booktitleThe Origins of the
Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: Abraham Ibn Ezra on
Elections, \booktitleAbraham Ibn Ezra on
Elections, Interrogations, and Medical
Astrology: a Parallel Hebrew--English
Critical Edition of the Book of
Elections, the Book of Interrogations
and the Book of the Luminaries,
\booktitleAbraham Ibn Ezra's
Astrological Writings, Études sur le
Juda\"\isme Médiéval . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Rhonda Martens Book Review: New Stars in the
Renaissance, \booktitleChange and
Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology . . 255--256
James Caplan Book Review: The Story of the Telescope,
\booktitleHistoire du Télescope: La
Contemplation de Léunivers, des Premiers
Instruments aux Actuelles Machines
Célestes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--257
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Bayer's
\booktitleUranometria in Facsimile,
\booktitleUranometria von Johann Bayer
1603 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
Andrew Han Book Review: Hoyle Portrayed,
\booktitleFred Hoyle: a Life in Science 259--260
Marcus Granato Book Review: Astronomy in Argentina,
\booktitleLos Cielos del Sur: Los
Observatórios Astronómicos de Córdoba y de
La Plata, 1870--1920 . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 264--266
Richard L. Kremer and
Matthieu Husson Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
José Chabás Characteristics and Typologies of
Medieval Astronomical Tables . . . . . . 269--286
Jean-Patrice Boudet and
Matthieu Husson The Earliest Astronomical Tables in
French (c. 1271) . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--298
Matthieu Husson Ways to Read a Table: Reading and
Interpolation Techniques in Canons of
Early Fourteenth-Century Double-Argument
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--319
Richard L. Kremer Marcus Schinnagel's Winged Polyptych of
1489: Astronomical Computation in a
Liturgical Format . . . . . . . . . . . 321--345
Helge Kragh Karl Popper on Physical Cosmologies . . 347--350
Michael Hoskin William Herschel's Residence in Bath,
1799--1801 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--358
Owen Gingerich Book Review: an Outstanding Star Atlas,
\booktitleThe Cambridge Photographic
Star Atlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Jean-Claude Martzloff Book Review: Calendars and Chronological
Tables, \booktitleCalendars and Years
II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient
and Medieval World . . . . . . . . . . . 360--361
F. Richard Stephenson Book Review: The Measurement of Time,
\booktitleTime: From Earth Rotation to
Atomic Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--363
Dennis Danielson Book Review: Copernicus in Fact and
Fiction, \booktitleA More Perfect
Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized
the Cosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364
Dennis Danielson Book Review: Fictional Tools in
Seventeenth-Century Science, Fictions of
the Cosmos: \booktitleScience and
Literature in the Seventeenth Century 364--366
James Evans Book Review: The Phaenomena of Aratus,
\booktitleAratus. Phaenomena . . . . . . 366--366
Horace Smith Book Review: Citizen-Scientists and the
AAVSO, \booktitleAdvancing Variable Star
Astronomy: The Centennial History of the
American Association of Variable Star
Observers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Woody Sullivan Book Review: Mars in the Spotlight,
\booktitleGeographies of Mars: Seeing
and Knowing the Red Planet . . . . . . . 368--370
Claire E. Max Book Review: a History of Adaptive
Optics, \booktitleThe Adaptive Optics
Revolution: a History . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Elena Canadelli Book Review: Arcetri Observatory,
\booktitleGiovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
e l'Osservatorio di Arcetri . . . . . . 371--372
Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: The Great Melbourne
Telescope, \booktitleThe Great Melbourne
Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Luigi Guerrini Echoes from the Pulpit: a Preacher
against Galileo's Astronomy (1610--1615) 377--389
Teije de Jong Babylonian Observations of Venus: Arcus
Visionis, Atmospheric Extinction and
Observational Practice . . . . . . . . . 391--409
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein John of Murs Revisited: The Kalendarium
Solis Et Lune for 1321 . . . . . . . . . 411--437
Michael Hoskin William Herschel's Agenda for His Son
John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--454
F. Richard Stephenson and
Joshua T. Baylis Early Chinese Observations of
Occultations of Planets by the Moon . . 455--477
Rita Gautschy Directions of Obscuration in Babylonian
Eclipse Records . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--489
A. E. L. Davis Kepler's Archetypes: How They Increased
the Scale of the Universe . . . . . . . 491--496
Mathieu Ossendrijver Book Review: New Light on MUL.APIN:
\booktitleWriting Science before the
Greeks: a Naturalistic Analysis of the
Babylonian Astronomical Treatise
MUL.APIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Light on Egypt:
\booktitlePirámides, Templos y Estrellas:
Astronomía y Arqueología en el Egipto
Antiguo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500
Dennis Duke Book Review: Eclipse Reckoning in
Antiquity: \booktitleChasing Shadows:
Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early
History of Eclipse Reckoning . . . . . . 500--502
Rienk H. Vermij Book Review: On the Date of Easter:
\booktitleDating the Passion: The Life
of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific
Chronology (200--1600) . . . . . . . . . 502--503
Gabrielle Vail Book Review: The Dresden Codex Venus
Pages: \booktitleTying Headbands or
Venus Appearing: New Translations of
k'al, the Dresden Codex Venus Pages and
Classic Period Royal `Binding' Rituals 503--505
Bruce Stephenson Book Review: Insights into
\booktitleAstronomia Nova:
\booktitleKepler: La Physique Celeste,
Autour de \booktitlel'Astronomia Nova
(1609) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
James Lattis Book Review: a Contemporary of Galileo:
\booktitleIlario Altobelli: Scienziato,
Teologo, Corrispondente di Galileo
Galilei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--508
Alistair Kwan Book Review: On Telescopes:
\booktitleFrom Earth-Bound to Satellite:
Telescopes, Skills and Networks . . . . 508--510
David Aubin Book Review: Margaret and William
Huggins: \booktitleUnravelling
Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins
and the Rise of the New Astronomy . . . 510--511
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--512
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 513--514
Anthony F. Aveni and
William Saturno and
David Stuart Astronomical Implications of Maya
Hieroglyphic Notations at Xultun . . . . 1--16
Juan D. Serrano Trying Ursus: a Reappraisal of the
Tycho--Ursus Priority Dispute . . . . . 17--46
Bradley E. Schaefer The Thousand Star Magnitudes in the
Catalogues of Ptolemy, Al Sufi, and
Tycho are All Corrected for Atmospheric
Extinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--A91
Geoffrey Blumenthal Diplomacy, Patronage, and the Preface to
De Revolutionibus . . . . . . . . . . . 75--92
Owen Gingeri Curtis Alan Wilson (1921--2012) . . . . 93--94
Julio Samsó Essay Review: Astronomical Tables in the
Middle Ages: \booktitleA Survey of
European Astronomical Tables in the Late
Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
N. M. Swerdlow Essay Review: Babylonian Astronomy and
Celestial Divination: \booktitleIn the
Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial
Divination and its Legacy . . . . . . . 98--100
Faith Wallis Book Review: Computus:
\booktitleComputus and its Cultural
Context in the Latin West, AD 300--1200.
Proceedings of the 1st International
Conference on the Science of Computus in
Ireland and Europe, Galway, 14--16 July,
2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--104
Simon A. Mitton Book Review: Cultural Evolution:
\booktitleCosmos & Culture: Cultural
Evolution in a Cosmic Context . . . . . 104--105
Peter Barker Book Review: Dobrzycki's Legacy:
\booktitleSelected Papers on Medieval
and Renaissance Astronomy . . . . . . . 105--107
Matthieu Husson Book Review: Raymond of Marseilles:
\booktitleRaymond de Marseille, Opera
omnia, i: Traité de l'astrolabe. Liber
cursuum planetarum . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Craig Sean McConnell Book Review: Radio Astronomy in Infancy:
\booktitleCosmic Noise: a History of
Early Radio Astronomy . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Michael Hoskin Book Review: Herschel's Nebulae:
\booktitleThe Complete Guide to the
Herschel Objects: Sir William Herschel's
Star Clusters, Nebulae and Galaxies . . 110--112
Michela Malpangotto Book Review: Pedro Nunes on Peurbach:
\booktitlePedro Nunes --- Obras, in
Theoricas planetarum Georgii Purbachii
annotationes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Richard Dunn Book Review: Transits of Venus:
\booktitleChasing Venus: The Race to
Measure the Heavens . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Immo Warntjes Book Review: The Gregorian Calendar
Reform: \booktitleDie Gregorianische
Kalenderreform von 1582: Korrektur der
christlichen Zeitrechnung in der Frühen
Neuzeit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Prophetic Texts:
\booktitlePrinting and Prophecy:
Prognostication and Media Change,
1450--1550 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Christopher M. Graney Book Review: Horrocks on the Transit of
Venus: \booktitleVenus Seen on the Sun:
The First Observation of a Transit of
Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks . . . . . . . 119--121
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--121
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Peter Barker Albert of Brudzewo's Little Commentary
on George Peurbach's
`\booktitleTheoricae Novae Planetarum' 125--148
Andrew Hanham and
Michael Hoskin The Herschel Knighthoods: Facts and
Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--164
Christopher M. Graney Stars as the Armies of God: Lansbergen's
Incorporation of Tycho Brahe's Star-Size
Argument into the Copernican Theory . . 165--172
Magdalini Anastasiou and
John H. Seiradakis and
James Evans and
Stella Drougou and
Kyriakos Efstathiou The Astronomical Events of the Parapegma
of the Antikythera Mechanism . . . . . . 173--A10
Clifford J. Cunningham and
Wayne Orchiston Olbers's Planetary Explosion Hypothesis:
Genesis and Early Nineteenth-Century
Interpretations . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--205
S. Mohammad Mozaffari Biruni's Four-Point Method for
Determining the Eccentricity and the
Direction of the Apsidal Lines of the
Superior Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--211
Andreas Maurer William Herschel's Planned $ 30$-ft
Reflector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Jim Bennett Book Review: William Herschel's
Cosmology, \booktitleThe Construction of
the Heavens: William Herschel's
Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Matthew Stanley Book Review: Was Einstein's Science
Jewish?, \booktitleEinstein's Jewish
Science: Physics at the Intersection of
Politics and Religion . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Pietro Daniel Omodeo Book Review: Telesio on Comets and the
Milky Way, \booktitleBernardino Telesio:
Sobre los Cometas y la Vía Láctea (edición
Bilingüe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
Frank Verbunt Book Review: The Hipparcos Satellite,
\booktitleThe Making of History's
Greatest Star Map . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Steven J. Dick Book Review: Cosmic Evolution,
\booktitleThe Stardust Revolution: The
New Story of Our Origin in the Stars . . 219--220
H. Darrel Rutkin Book Review: Astrology and Magic,
\booktitleAstrology and Magic from the
Medieval Latin and Islamic World to
Renaissance Europe: Theories and
Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--222
Virginia Trimble Book Review: The First Woman Radio
Astronomer, \booktitleUnder the Radar:
The First Woman in Radio Astronomy, Ruby
Payne-Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Adolf Miethe's
Autobiography, \booktitleAdolf Miethe
(1862--1927): Lebenserinnerungen . . . . 223--225
Renée Raphael Book Review: Galileo Selections,
\booktitleGalileo, Selected Writings . . 225--226
Roshdi Rashed Book Review: Theodosius's on
Habitations, \booktitleTheodosius, De
habitationibus: Arabic and Medieval
Latin Translations . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Paolo Brenni Book Review: a Nineteenth-Century
Clockmaker, \booktitleHeinrich Johann
Kessels (1781--1849): Ein bedeutender
Verfertiger von Chronometern und
Präzisionspendeluhren . . . . . . . . . . 228--229
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 232--234
Pietro Daniel Omodeo and
Irina Tupikova The Post-Copernican Reception of
Ptolemy: Erasmus Reinhold's Commented
Edition of the \booktitleAlmagest, Book
One (Wittenberg, 1549) . . . . . . . . . 235--256
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein Computing Planetary Positions:
User-Friendliness and the Alfonsine
Corpus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
Marina Rieznik The Córdoba Observatory and the History
of the `Personal Equation' (1871--1886) 277--301
Owen Gingerich Transits in the Seventeenth Century and
the Credentialling of Keplerian
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--312
S. Mohammad Mozaffari Limitations of Methods: The Accuracy of
the Values Measured for the
Earth's/Sun's Orbital Elements in the
Middle East, A.D. 800--1500, Part 1 . . 313--336
Daniel Spelda The Search for Antediluvian Astronomy:
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century
Astronomers' Conceptions of the Origins
of the Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--362
J. M. Steele Book Review: Moving beyond `Act',
\booktitleBabylonian Mathematical
Astronomy: Procedure Texts . . . . . . . 363--364
Owen Gingerich Book Review: The Schöner Sammelband,
\booktitleA Renaissance Globemaker's
Toolbox: Johannes Schöner and the
Revolution of Modern Science, 1475--1550 364--365
André Goddu Book Review: The Moon in Western
Culture, \booktitleKsiezyc w nauce i
kulturze Zachodu . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Suzanne Débarbat Book Review: Lacaille,
\booktitleNicolas-Louis De La Caille,
Astronomer and Geodesist . . . . . . . . 367--368
Liba Taub Book Review: Manilius Elucidated,
\booktitleForgotten Stars: Rediscovering
Manilius' \booktitleAstronomica . . . . 368--370
James Evans Book Review: Tommy Gold,
\booktitleTaking the Back off the Watch:
a Personal Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . 370--372
W. Patrick McCray Book Review: Sublime Images from Hubble,
\booktitlePicturing the Cosmos: Hubble
Space Telescope Images and the
Astronomical Sublime . . . . . . . . . . 372--374
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 375--376
René Bourtembourg Was Uranus Observed by Hipparchus? . . . 377--387
S. Mohammad Mozaffari Limitations of Methods: The Accuracy of
the Values Measured for the
Earth's/Sun's Orbital Elements in the
Middle East, A.D. 800--1500, Part 2 . . 389--411
Alain-Philippe Segonds and
Concetta Luna The Greek Text of Ptolemy,
\booktitleAlmagest XIII, as Source of
Book VI of Copernicus's \booktitleDe
Revolutionibus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--427
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
A. César González García and
Andrea Polcaro On the Orientation of Megalithic
Monuments of the Transjordan Plateau:
New Clues for an Astronomical
Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--455
Sarah Symons and
Robert Cockcroft An Ancient Egyptian Diagonal Star Table
in Mallawi, Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . 457--463
Bernard R. Goldstein and
José Chabás Planetary Velocities and the
Astrological Month . . . . . . . . . . . 465--478
Anonymous Corrigenda: [Computing Planetary
Positions: User-Friendliness and the
Alfonsine Corpus] . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
Barbara J. Becker Historic Photographs by William and
Margaret Lindsay Huggins . . . . . . . . 481--484
Stephen McCluskey Essay Review: Lunar Calendars,
\booktitleLiving the Lunar Calendar . . 485--487
Silvia De Bianchi Book Review: Kant and Astronomy,
\booktitleImmanuel Kant, Natural Science 487--488
David Baneke Book Review: an Observatory That Failed,
\booktitleBetween Rhetoric and Reality:
Astronomical Practices at the
Observatory of the Amsterdam Society
`Felix Meritis', 1786--1889 . . . . . . 489--490
Helge Kragh Book Review: The Invisible Universe,
\booktitleHeart of Darkness: Unraveling
the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe 490--491
Jacqueline Feke Book Review: Astrology and Cosmology,
\booktitleAstrology and Cosmology in the
World's Religions . . . . . . . . . . . 492--493
Mario Livio Book Review: Slipher's Observations of
Red-Shifts of Spirals, \booktitleOrigins
of the Expanding Universe, 1912--1932:
Proceedings of a Conference Held at
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, 13--15
September 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Simon Werrett Book Review: Paradoxes in
Seventeenth-Century Science,
\booktitleBaroque Science . . . . . . . 495--496
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--496
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Nicholas Jardine and
Elisabeth Leedham-Green and
Christopher Lewis Johann Baptist Hebenstreit's Idyll on
the Temple of Urania, the Frontispiece
Image of Kepler's \booktitleRudolphine
Tables, Part 1: Context and Significance 1--19
Elisabeth Leedham-Green and
Nicholas Jardine and
Christopher Lewis and
Isla Fay Johann Baptist Hebenstreit's Idyll on
the Temple of Urania, the Frontispiece
Image of Kepler's \booktitleRudolphine
Tables, Part 2: Annotated Translation 21--34
C. Philipp E. Nothaft The Reception and Application of Arabic
Science in Twelfth-Century Computistics:
New Evidence from Bavaria . . . . . . . 35--60
Hamid-Reza Giahi Yazdi The Fragment of Al-Kindi's Lost Treatise
on Observations of Halley's Comet in
A.D. 837 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--77
Rita Gautschy On the Babylonian Sighting-Criterion for
the Lunar Crescent and its Implications
for Egyptian Lunar Data . . . . . . . . 79--90
Miguel A. Granada Michael Maestlin and His Unpublished
Treatise on the Nova of 1604 . . . . . . 91--122
S. Mohammad Mozaffari Biruni's Examination of the Path of the
Centre of the Epicycle in Ptolemy's
Lunar Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--127
Francesca Rochberg Astronomy in the Ancient Near East . . . 127--129
David Devorkin Book Review: an Encyclopedia:
\booktitleEncyclopedia of the History of
Astronomy and Astrophysics . . . . . . . 130--131
Daniel W. Graham Book Review: Greek Cosmology:
\booktitleHeaven and Earth in Ancient
Greek Cosmology: From Thales to
Heraclides Ponticus . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Sven Dupré Book Review: Astrology in the
Renaissance: \booktitleInfluences: Art,
Optics, and Astrology in the Italian
Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--134
Sara J. Schechner Book Review: Historical Instruments in
the Mikulov Collections:
\booktitleHistorické vedecké prístroje v
mikulovských sbírkách: Katalog vedeckých
prístroju z 16. az 19. Století ve sbírkách
Regionálního muzea v Mikulove [Historical
Scientific Instruments in the Mikulov
Collections: Catalogue of Scientific
Instruments from the 16th to 19th
Centuries in the Collection of the
Regional Museum in Mikulov] . . . . . . 134--135
David Sellers Book Review: The Unloved Le Verrier:
\booktitleLe Verrier: Magnificent and
Detestable Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 135--137
Owen Gingerich Book Review: Kepler on Astrology:
\booktitleKepler's Cosmological
Synthesis: Astrology, Mechanism and the
Soul, \booktitleKepler's Astrology,
\booktitleJohannes Kepler Gesammelte
Werke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 139--140
William L. Vanderburgh Putting a New Spin on Galaxies: Horace
W. Babcock, the Andromeda Nebula, and
the Dark Matter Revolution . . . . . . . 141--159
Arndt Latusseck The Milky Way in Johann Bayer's
\booktitleUranometria, 1603 . . . . . . 161--181
Viktor Blåsjö A Critique of the Arguments for Maragha
Influence on Copernicus . . . . . . . . 183--195
Robert Cockcroft and
Sarah L. Symons Ancient Egyptian Diagonal Star Tables: a
New Fragment, and Updates for S16C and
S1C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--208
Michael Hoskin William Herschel and The Planetary
Nebulae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--225
C. Philipp E. Nothaft John of Pulchro Rivo and John of Saxony:
a Mise au Point . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--242
Adam Morawiec On the Provenance of a Prague Copy of
Copernicus's \booktitleDe Revolutionibus 243--246
Michael Hoskin William Herschel and God . . . . . . . . 247--252
Barbara Obrist Constellations in the Middle Ages . . . 253--256
Jay M. Pasachoff Book Review: a History of Telescopes:
\booktitle400 Years of Astronomical
Telescopes: A Review of History, Science
and Technology, ISBN 978-90-481-2232-5 256--258
J. L. Berggren Book Review: Astronomy in Islam:
\booktitleIslamic Astronomy and
Geography, ISBN 978-1-4094-4201-1 . . . 258--259
Andrew Gregory Book Review: The Presocratics
Reassessed: \booktitleScience Before
Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and
the New Astronomy, ISBN
978-0-19-995978-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
Frances Willmoth Book Review: Hevelius Investigated:
\booktitleJohannes Hevelius and his
World: Astronomer, Cartographer,
Philosopher and Correspondent, ISBN
978-83-86062-94-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Lea Leppik Book Review: a Story of Bernhard
Schmidt: \booktitleSailing Against the
Wind: A Novel. Jaan Kross. Translated
from Estonian by Eric Dickens
(Northwestern University Press,
Evanston, IL, 2012). Pp. xiv + 347.
\$24.95 (paperback). ISBN
978-0-8101-2652-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
Juan Antonio Belmonte Book Review: The Archaeotopography of
Egypt: \booktitleArchitecture, Astronomy
and Sacred Landscape in Ancient Egypt.
Giulio Magli (Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, 2013). Pp. xii + 272.
\pounds 60. ISBN 978-1-10703-208-8 . . . 264--266
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Nicholas Jardine Kepler = Koestler: On Empathy and Genre
in the History of the Sciences . . . . . 271--286
Wolfgang Steinicke William Herschel, Flamsteed Numbers and
Harris's Star Maps . . . . . . . . . . . 287--303
Erin Nell and
Clive Ruggles The Orientations of the Giza Pyramids
and Associated Structures . . . . . . . 304--360
Albert Van Helden Unmasking a Galileo Forgery . . . . . . 361--376
Roger D. Launius Astronomy By Satellite: \booktitleDreams
of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of
Unmanned Space Exploration. By Chris
Impey and Holly Henry (Princeton
University Press, Princeton, 2013). Pp.
450. \$35. ISBN 978-0-691-14753-6} . . . 377--378
Barbara J. Becker Biographies of Astrophotographers . . . 378--379
Rebekah Higgitt Caroline Herschel . . . . . . . . . . . 380--381
Martin Harwit Classification in Astronomy . . . . . . 381--383
Michael Hoskin Avete atque Valete . . . . . . . . . . . 397--399
Jim Bennett Rosse, Robinson and Rambaut: Creating a
Regime of Observing at Birr Castle,
1840--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--417
M. Anastasiou and
J. H. Seiradakis and
C. C. Carman and
K. Efstathiou The Antikythera Mechanism: The
Construction of the Metonic Pointer and
the Back Plate Spirals . . . . . . . . . 418--441
Michael Hoskin Caroline Herschel's Life of
``Mortifications and Disappointments'' 442--466
A. César González García and
Mauro Zedda and
Juan Antonio Belmonte On the Orientation of Prehistoric
Sardinian Monuments: a Comparative
Statistical Approach . . . . . . . . . . 467--481
Tofigh Heidarzadeh Book Review: Novae and Comets
1572--1618: \booktitleNovas y Cometas
entre 1572 y 1618: Revolución Cosmológica
y Renovación Política y Religiosa. Edited
by Miguel Á. Granada (Universitat de
Barcelona Publicacions i Edicions,
Barcelona, 2012). Pp. 363. EUR 32
(paperback). ISBN 978-84-475-3588-0 . . 482--483
Woodruff Sullivan Book Review: Radio Astronomy and
Internationalism: \booktitleA Single
Sky: How an International Community
Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy.
David P. D. Munns (The MIT Press,
Cambridge, 2013). Pp. xii + 247. \$34.
ISBN 978-0-262-01833-3} . . . . . . . . 483--485
J. L. Heilbron Book Review: Visualizing Astronomical
Knowledge in Rome. \booktitleSonne, Mond
und Venus: Visualisierungen
astronomischen Wissens in frühzeitlichen
Rom. Ulrike Feist (Actus et imago, ed.
by Horst Bredekamp and Jürgen Trabant, x;
Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2013). Pp. viii
+ 259. EUR 75. ISBN 978-3-05-006365-2 485--487
A. César González-García Book Review: Easter Island:
\booktitleWhen the Universe Was an
Island: Exploring the Cultural and
Spiritual Cosmos of Ancient Rapa Nui.
Edmundo Edwards and Alexandra Edwards
(Hangaroa Press, Easter Island, 2013).
Pp. xii + 536. \$140. ISBN
978-956-353-131-2} . . . . . . . . . . . 487--488
Louise Devoy Book Review: How to Navigate:
\booktitleThe Lost Art of Finding Our
Way. John Edward Huth (Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,
2013). Pp. 528. \$35. ISBN
978-0-674-07282-4} . . . . . . . . . . . 488--490
Adam Jared Apt Book Review: William Gascoigne:
\booktitleIn Search of William
Gascoigne: Seventeenth Century
Astronomer. David Sellers (Springer, New
York, 2012). Pp. x + 222. \$100. ISBN
978-1-4614-4096-3} . . . . . . . . . . . 490--492
Andreas Kleinert Book Review: Tobias Mayer as
Cartographer and Astronomer:
\booktitleTobias Mayers Beiträge zur
Wissenschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts im
Lichte neuerer Untersuchungen. Edited by
Erhard Anthes and Armin Hüttermann (Acta
historica astronomiae, xlviii;
Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig,
2013). Pp. 331. EUR 29 (paperback). ISBN
978-3-944913-39-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 492--494
R. Charles Mollan Book Review: Telescopes Restored:
\booktitleClassical Telescopes: A Guide
to Collecting, Restoring, and Using
Telescopes of Yesteryear. Neil English
(Springer, New York, 2013). Pp. xvi +
239 (paperback). \$39.95. ISBN
978-1-4614-4423-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495
A. D. Morrison-Low Book Review: Astronomy in Glasgow:
\booktitleReflections on the Astronomy
of Glasgow: A Story of Some Five Hundred
Years. David Clarke (Edinburgh
University Press, Edinburgh, 2013). Pp.
x + 373. \pounds 90. ISBN
978-0-7486-7889-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 495--496
Craig Martin Book Review: Aristotle's Logic and
Copernicus's Astronomy:
\booktitleCopernicus and the
Aristotelian Tradition: Education,
Reading, and Philosophy in Copernicus's
Path to Heliocentricism. André Goddu
(Medieval and Early Modern Science, xii;
Brill, Leiden, 2010). Pp. xxviii + 545.
EUR 129. ISBN 978-90-04-18107-6 . . . . 497--500
David R. Bellhouse Book Review: Statistical Techniques for
Analyzing Astronomical Tables:
\booktitleIslamic Astronomical Tables:
Mathematical Analysis and Historical
Investigation. Benno van Dalen (Variorum
Collected Studies Series, CS1040;
Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, Surrey,
2013). Pp. xii + 350. \pounds 81. ISBN
978-1-4724-2238-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 500--504
Adam R. Shapiro Book Review: The Pseudoscience Wars:
\booktitleImmanuel Velikovsky and the
Birth of the Modern Fringe. Michael D.
Gordin (University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, 2012). Pp. x + 291. \$29. ISBN
978-0-226-30442-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 504--506
Davide Cenadelli Book Review: The Secchi--Tacchini
Correspondence: \booktitleAlle Origini
dell Astrofisica Italiana: Il Carteggio
Secchi Tacchini 1861 1877. Ileana
Chinnici and Antonella Gasperini
(Fondazione ``Giorgio Ronchi'', cxvi;
Edizioni Tassinari, Florence, 2013). Pp.
496. EUR 57 (paperback). ISBN
978-88-88649-38-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 506--507
Anonymous Corrigendum: ``Unmasking a Galileo
forgery'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous Index to Volume 45 . . . . . . . . . . . 508--511
James Evans A Note from the Editor . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Kathleen Crowther and
Ashley Nicole McCray and
Leila McNeill and
Amy Rodgers and
Blair Stein The Book Everybody Read: Vernacular
Translations of Sacrobosco's Sphere in
the Sixteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 4--28
Anthony S. Drennan Variations Within the Fortin--Flamsteed
Atlas of 1776: Taurus Poniatowski . . . 29--47
Jacques Gapaillard By How Much Did Le Verrier Err on the
Position of Neptune? . . . . . . . . . . 48--65
Sarah Symons Classification of Ancient Egyptian
Astronomical `Diagrams' . . . . . . . . 66--75
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Critical Analysis of the Alfonsine
Tables in the Fourteenth Century: The
Parisian \booktitleExpositio Tabularum
Alfonsii of 1347 . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--99
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Newsworthy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleStudien zur
`Sphaera' des Johannes de Sacrobosco . . 101--102
John Hedley Brooke Reassessing Lema\^\itre's science and
religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Malcolm Longair Creating Infrared Astronomy . . . . . . 103--105
Michael Hoskin A Life and Letters of John Michell . . . 105--106
Ilana Wartenberg Two Medieval Hebrew astrological
classics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
C. Philipp E. Nothaft The Astronomical Data in the
\booktitleTr\`es Riches Heures and their
Fourteenth-Century Source . . . . . . . 113--129
Ileana Chinnici Nineteenth-Century Comets: Studies and
Observations in Sicily . . . . . . . . . 130--158
Michael Hoskin William Herschel's Yorkshire Years . . . 159--172
Juan Antonio Belmonte and
Giulio Magli Astronomy, Architecture, and Symbolism:
The Global Project of Sneferu at Dahshur 173--205
José Chabás A List of Stars ``\booktitleCorrecte Cum
2 Magnis Armillis'' in 1362 . . . . . . 206--217
Jay M. Pasachoff Simon Marius's \booktitleMundus
Iovialis: 400th Anniversary in Galileo's
Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--234
Maryland Laurel and
Jerry L. Fields Book Review: Astronomy on Postage
Stamps. \booktitleStamping Through
Astronomy. Renato Dicati (Springer, New
York, 2013). Pp. xii + 373. \$40
(paperback). ISBN 978-88-470-2828-9} . . 235--236
Günther Oestmann Book Review: German astronomers and the
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
\booktitleFormeln und Sterne,
Korrespondenz deutscher Gelehrter mit
der Kaiserlichen Akademie der
Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg: Briefe
von Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff, Johann
Sigismund Gottfried Huth, Wilhelm
Struve, Martin Bartels, Magnus Georg
Paucker aus der Autographensammlung von
Wilhelm Stieda in der
Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig. Karin
Reich and Elena Roussanova (Aachen:
Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2013). Pp. 435.
EUR 62,50. ISBN 978-3-8440-2450-0 . . . 236--237
Elizabeth A. Kessler Book Review: Sketching the nebulae.
\booktitleObserving by Hand: Sketching
the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century.
Omar W. Nasim (University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, 2013). Pp. 304. \$45.
ISBN 978-0-226-08440-4} . . . . . . . . 237--239
Charles Burnett Book Review: The Gerland computus.
\booktitleDer Computus Gerlandi:
Edition, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen.
Alfred Lohr (Sudhoffs Archiv Beihefte,
lxi; Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart,
2013). Pp. 493 + CD-ROM. EUR 74. ISBN
978-3-515-10468-5 (paper) . . . . . . . 239--240
Bradley E. Schaefer Book Review: The star of Bethlehem.
\booktitleThe Star of Bethlehem: A
Skeptical View. Aaron Adair (Onus Books,
Fareham, Hampshire, 2013). Pp. 155.
\$14. ISBN 978-0-9566948-6-7} . . . . . 240--242
Klaus Hentschel Book Review: Updating a handbook on
astronomical spectroscopy. \booktitleThe
Analysis of Starlight: Two Centuries of
Astronomical Spectroscopy, 2nd edition.
John B. Hearnshaw (Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, 2014). Pp. xvi + 367.
\$120. ISBN 978-1-107-03174-6} . . . . . 242--243
Barbara J. Becker Book Review: A concise summary of the
Herschels. \booktitleWilliam and
Caroline Herschel: Pioneers in Late
18th-Century Astronomy. Michael Hoskin
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2014). Pp. viii +
122. ISBN 978-94-007-6874-1 (paper,
\$49.99), 978-94-007-6875-8 (eBook,
\$39.99) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Volker Remmert Book Review: For the cultivated coffee
table. \booktitleCosmigraphics:
Picturing Space through Time. Michael
Benson (Abrams, New York, 2014). Pp.
320. \$50. ISBN 978-1-4197-1387-3} . . . 244--245
Richard J. Oosterhoff Book Review: New sources for history of
early modern astronomy.
\booktitleCelestial Novelties on the Eve
of the Scientific Revolution,
1540--1630. Edited by Dario Tessicini
and Patrick J. Boner (Biblioteca di
Galilaeana, iii: Leo S. Olschki Editore,
Florence, 2013). Pp. xvi + 282. EUR 32.
ISBN 978-88-222-6254-7 (paper) . . . . . 245--247
Lisa Messeri Book Review: On dark matters and
metaphors: \booktitleThe Cosmic
Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter.
Katherine Freese (Princeton University
Press, Princeton, 2014). Pp. xi + 250.
\$29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-15335-3} . . . . 247--249
Kristen Lippincott Book Review: The Aratean corpus in
\booktitleVat. Grec. 1087.
\booktitleAntiche stele a Bisanzio. Il
codice Vaticano Greco 1087. Edited by
Fabio Guidetti and Anna Santoni
(Edizioni della Normale), Pisa, 2013.
Pp. 208 + 31 illustrations. EUR 20. ISBN
978-88-7642-485-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Marisa Brandt Book Review: Hawking: The man and the
corporation. \booktitleHawking
Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the
Anthropology of the Knowing Subject.
Hélene Mialet (University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, IL, 2012). Pp. 266.
\$31.00 (paperback). ISBN
978-0-226-52228-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 250--252
Marco Panza Book Review: \booktitleNewton and the
origin of civilization . . . . . . . . . 252--254
John Davis and
Michael Lowne An early English astrolabe at Gonville &
Caius College, Cambridge, and Walter of
Elveden's Kalendarium . . . . . . . . . 257--290
Michael Hoskin Herschel Telescopes for Sale . . . . . . 291--296
A. E. L. Davis The Geometrical Root of the Area-Measure
of Time (From Kepler's
\booktitleAstronomia nova) . . . . . . . 297--324
M\`onica Rius-Piniés and
Roser Puig-Aguilar Al-Asfi's Description of the Zawiya
Nasiriyya: The Use of Buildings as
Astronomical Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 325--342
Hayim Y. Sheynin Claudius Ptolemy? Pseudo-Ptolemy? The
Main Source of Moses Almosnino's
\booktitleTreatise on Astrolabe . . . . 343--350
Glen Dash On the Field Testing of Methods the
Egyptians May Have Used to Find Cardinal
Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364
Michael A. Covington Hodierna's \em Luminosa $ 8 = \psi^{1,
2, 3} $ Aquarii . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Martin Gansten Book Review: A ``Beautiful Treatise'' In
Verse: \booktitleThe Siddh\=antasundara
of Jñãnarãja: An English Translation with
Commentary. Toke Lindegaard Knudsen
(John Hopkins University Press,
Baltimore, MD, 2014). Pp. xvii + 351.
\$89.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-1442-3} . . . . 367--368
Nick Wilding Book Review: A Galileo Facsimile:
\booktitleThe Starry Messenger, Venice
1610 \ldots with Symposium Proceedings.
Galileo Galilei, edited by John W.
Hessler and Daniel De Simone (Levenger
Press, Delray Beach, FL, 2013). Pp. xiv
+ 209. \$79. ISBN 978-1-929154-49-4} . . 368--370
J. McKim Malville Book Review: Alternate Ontologies and
Cultural Astronomies: \booktitleAfrican
Cosmos: Stellar Arts. Edited by
Christine Mullen Kreamer (The Monacelli
Press, New York, 2012). Pp. 367. \$60.
ISBN 978-1-58093-343-8} . . . . . . . . 370--371
G. E. R. Lloyd Book Review: Aristotle on Circular
Motion: \booktitleAristotle's
Empiricism: Experience and Mechanics in
the 4th Century BC. Jean De Groot
(Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, NV,
2014). Pp. xxv + 442. \$127 (paper).
ISBN 978-1-930972-83-4} . . . . . . . . 372--373
Robert Crossley Book Review: Flammarion on Mars in
English: \booktitleCamille Flammarion's
the Planet Mars (Astrophysics and Space
Science Library, vol. cdix). Translated
by Patrick Moore, Edited by William
Sheehan (Springer, Heidelberg, 2015).
Pp. xxii + 528. EUR 107. ISBN
978-3-319-09640-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Book Review: Shakespeare and Astronomy,
yet again: \booktitleThe Science of
Shakespeare: A New Look at the
Playwright's Universe. Dan Falk (St.
Martin's Press, New York, 2014). Pp. xv
+ 364. \$27. ISBN 978-1-250-00877-0} . . 375--376
Alexi Baker Book Review: The Achromatic Telescope
Controversy: \booktitleFrancis Watkins
and the Dollond Telescope Patent
Controversy. Brian Gee, edited by Anita
McConnell and A.D. Morrison-Low
(Ashgate, Farnham, 2014). Pp. xxvi +
392. \pounds 85. ISBN 978-1-4094-6643-7 376--377
Renee Raphael Book Review: The Global Galileo:
\booktitleGalileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco
Sagredo & the Politics of Knowledge. Nick
Wilding (University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, IL, 2014). Pp. 200. \$35. ISBN
978-0-226-16697-1} . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
John Hearnshaw Book Review: \booktitleThe Story of
Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics,
Biman B. Nath (Springer, New York,
2013). Pp. xi + 274. \$29.25
(paperback). ISBN 978-1-4614-5362-8} . . 379--381
Stephen Chase Book Review: \booktitleWilliam Parsons,
3rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the
Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland,
Edited by Charles Mollan (Manchester
University Press, Manchester, 2014). Pp.
xxii + 368. \pounds 70. ISBN
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978-1-137-48178-8.
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Himmelsbahnen: Festschrift zum 60.
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by Wolfgang R. Dick and Dietmar
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lii; Akademische Verlagsanstalt,
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astronomiae, liii; Akademische
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EUR 14. ISBN 978-3-944913-43-8.
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1515: Transcription and Study}. Chet Van
Duzer (Transactions of the American
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Philadelphia, PA, 2005). Pp. vi + 216.
\$35. ISBN 978-1-60618-005-1 . . . . . . 383--384
John S. Henderson Calendar Structures for Venus in
Mesoamerican Divinatory Books: Common
Approaches to Commensuration and
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--412
Anthony Turner Concerning a Pointer on the Astrolabe 413--418
Renée J. Raphael Copernicanism in the Classroom: Jesuit
Natural Philosophy and Mathematics after
1633 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--440
Gabriele Vanin Much Better Than Thought: Observing with
Galileo's Telescopes . . . . . . . . . . 441--468
Lee T. Macdonald ``Solar Spot Mania'': The Origins and
Early Years of Solar Research at Kew
Observatory, 1852--1860 . . . . . . . . 469--490
Fritz S. Pedersen Latin Authors Discuss the Jewish
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--493
Klaus Staubermann Popularizing Astronomy in Germany . . . 493--494
Jörg Rüpke Political Power and Calendar-Making in
Antiquity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495
Alan H. Batten Observational Astronomy in New Zealand 496--497
Stephen Case Galactic Encounters . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Volker Bialas Kepler's Sygkepleriazein . . . . . . . . 498--500
André Goddu Debating Copernicus . . . . . . . . . . 500--501
Robert W. Smith Discovering the Modern Universe . . . . 502--503
Helge Kragh Kapteyn in detail . . . . . . . . . . . 503--504
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--504
Anonymous Index to Volume 46 . . . . . . . . . . . 505--508
Sara J. Schechner and
David Sliski The Scientific and Historical Value of
Annotations on Astronomical Photographic
Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29
Peter J. Ramberg Popularizing Astronomy in the German
Free Religious Movement, 1851--1852 . . 30--51
Andreas Maurer and
Vasily Belokurov and
Michael Hoskin William Herschel's Russian Telescopes 52--60
María José Martínez Usó and
Francisco J. Marco Castillo and
Loli Ibáñez OSCURAUIT SOL: Stone Engravings and
Other Contemporary Spanish Records for
the A.D. 1239 and A.D. 1354 Eclipses and
Their Astronomical Implications . . . . 61--75
Alexander Jones Unruly Sun: Solar Tables and
Calculations in the Papyrus P. Fouad 267
A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--99
Anonymous Notices of Publications . . . . . . . . 100--101
Francesca Rochberg Pathways into the Study of Ancient
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--105
Howard Plotkin Planetary Research in Germany . . . . . 106--107
James Strick Astrobiology and Cultural Beliefs . . . 107--109
Mario Livio Imagined Conversations with
Twentieth-Century Cosmologists . . . . . 109--110
Andrew Han Public Relations at NASA . . . . . . . . 110--112
Yaël Nazé Tribute to an Astronomer: The Work of
Max Ernst on Wilhelm Tempel . . . . . . 115--135
Ralph Neuhäuser and
Paul Kunitzsch and
Markus Mugrauer and
Daniela Luge and
Rob van Gent Tycho Brahe, Abu Macshar, and the comet
beyond Venus (ninth century A.D.) . . . 136--158
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein The Moon in the Oxford Tables of 1348 159--167
María José Martínez Usó and
Francisco J. Marco Castillo A Survey of Meteoric Activity over Spain
during the Eighth--Fifteenth Centuries 168--193
Pedro Ruiz-Castell Making Telescopes and Partying with the
Stars: Amateur Astronomy in Spain during
Franco's Dictatorship . . . . . . . . . 194--209
Michael Hoskin William Herschel's Application for a
Coat of Arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--213
Pamela Gossin Milton's Mashups . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--216
André Goddu Rheticus' \booktitleNarratio prima in
Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
Robert G. Morrison Shirazi's Non-Ptolemaic Models . . . . . 218--219
Giorgio Strano and
Museo Galileo The Louwman Collection of Historic
Telescopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Gerhard Aulenbacher Two Golden Ages of Gnomonics . . . . . . 220--222
John Heilbron Logic and the Sizes of Stars . . . . . . 222--224
Owen Gingerich Longitude for the Coffee Table . . . . . 224--225
Dennis W. Duke Festschrift for F. Richard Stephenson 225--226
Chantal Grell Hevelius in Gda\'nsk and the Republic of
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--228
David Aubin Jeanne Dumée as Astronomer and Woman in
Seventeenth-Century France: The Myth and
Her Lost Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--255
William B. Black and
David Clarke Glasgow time signals . . . . . . . . . . 256--293
S. Mohammad Mozaffari A Medieval Bright Star Table: The
Non-Ptolemaic Star Table in the Ilkhani
Zij . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--316
Michael Hoskin Harlow Shapley: The Making of an
Observatory Director . . . . . . . . . . 317--331
Oddbjòrn Engvold and
Jack B. Zirker The Parallel Worlds of Christoph
Scheiner and Galileo Galilei . . . . . . 332--345
Miquel Forcada Astronomy in tenth-century Islamic
encyclopaedism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347
Ad Maas Dutch astronomy in the twentieth century 347--349
Michael Nauenberg Isaac Newton and Émilie du Châtelet . . . 349--350
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anne Tihon and
Jean-Luc Fournet A New Fragment of P. Fouad inv. 267A:
The PSI inv. 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . 355--358
Ralph Neuhäuser and
Wafiq Rada and
Paul Kunitzsch and
Dagmar L. Neuhäuser Arabic Reports about Supernovae 1604 and
1572 in \booktitleRaw\dh al-R\=u\dh by
$^c$\=Is\=a b. Lu\dtf All\=ah from Yemen 359--374
Sarah Symons and
Himanshi Khurana A Catalogue of Ancient Egyptian Sundials 375--385
Gheorghe Stratan On a Newly Discovered Copy of
Copernicus' \booktitleDe Revolutionibus
1543 Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--394
F. Jamil Ragep Ibn al-Sh\=a\dtir and Copernicus: The
Uppsala Notes Revisited . . . . . . . . 395--415
Guangchao Wang and
Xiaochun Sun Chinese Records of Supernovae in A.D.
1408 Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--423
Francesco Barreca Galileo under the Sign of
Interdisciplinarity . . . . . . . . . . 424--425
Rebekah Higgitt Astronomy in the Shadows . . . . . . . . 425--426
Douglas Scott Dark Energy for Everyone . . . . . . . . 427--428
F. Jamil Ragep Egyptian Curiosities . . . . . . . . . . 428--429
Eileen A. Reeves Galileo's Telescope in a Philosophical
Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--431
Patrick J. Boner Kepler and the Quest for World Harmony 431--433
Patrick J. Boner The Moon in Early Modern Imagination . . 433--434
Kim Plofker Mathematics in the Classical Sanskrit
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--436
H. Darrel Rutkin Maximilian I and His Astrologers . . . . 436--439
Juan Antonio Belmonte Mayan Architecture and the Sky . . . . . 439--440
Leofranc Holford-Strevens Calendar Reform in the 1170s . . . . . . 440--441
Joshua Nall Popularizing Astronomy in Late
Nineteenth-Century America . . . . . . . 442--443
Stephen Case Restoring a Tarnished Reputation . . . . 443--444
Juan Antonio Belmonte Landscapes, Skyscapes, Archaeoastronomy 445--446
John Steele Stars in Babylonian Astronomy . . . . . 446--448
Owen Gingerich The Abridged Almagest . . . . . . . . . 448--449
Petra G. Schmidl and
Flora Vafea Two Editions of the Earliest Text on the
Astrolabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--451
Anonymous Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--452
Anonymous Index to Volume 47 . . . . . . . . . . . 453--458
John Davis A Royal English Medieval Astrolabe Made
for Use in Northern Italy . . . . . . . 3--32
N. M. Swerdlow Copernicus's Derivation of the
Heliocentric Theory from Regiomontanus's
Eccentric Models of the Second
Inequality of the Superior and Inferior
Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--61
María José Martínez Usó and
Francisco J. Marco Castillo A Review of the Dall'Olmo Survey of
Meteors, Meteor Showers and Meteorites
in the Middle Ages from Medieval
European Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--120
Anonymous Michael Hoskin Receives Gold Medal from
the King of Spain . . . . . . . . . . . 121--121
Raz Chen-Morris The Historical Continuity of Optics . . 122--124
Owen Gingerich Telescopes and Journalism in Galileo's
Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
Cian Duffy Astronomy and the ``Greater Romantic
Lyric'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Michael Nauenberg The French \booktitlePrincipia . . . . . 126--128
Karsten Gaulke Book Review: \booktitleAstronomischer
Grund: Fundamentum Astronomicum 1588 des
Nicolaus Reimers Ursus. Übersetzung aus
dem Lateinischen ins Frühneuhochdeutsche
(1594) durch Caspar Thierfelder . . . . 128--129
Paolo Brenni Building the World's Best Telescopes in
Bavaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--131
Pietro Daniel Omodeo The Scientific Culture of the Baltic
Mathematician, Physician, and
Calendar-Maker Laurentius Eichstadt
(1596--1660) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--159
Miguel de Asúa Los phisicos modernos quasi todos son
copernicanos: Copernicanism and its
Discontents in Colonial Río De La Plata 160--179
Christopher Carter ``I Still Continue Convinced'':
Expecting the Great Comet of 1848 . . . 180--206
Siebren van der Werf History and Critical Analysis of
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Nautical
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--232
Michael A. Covington Where, if anywhere, did Rheita see
Veronica's Veil? . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--237
Alexander Jones Ptolemy's Handy Tables . . . . . . . . . 238--241
N. M. Swerdlow Early Responses to Copernicus: an
Essential Edition . . . . . . . . . . . 242--246
Theresa Levitt Arago the Astronomer . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Henrique Leitão Astronomy in Early Modern Spain . . . . 248--249
Dennis Danielson Imagination, Art and Science . . . . . . 249--251
Jean Seidengart Rothmann on the Comet of 1585, in
English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Tony Lévy Early Calendars and Astronomy . . . . . 252--253
Helge Kragh The Nobel Prize System and the
Astronomical Sciences . . . . . . . . . 257--280
Noam Andrews Tabula III: Kepler's Mysterious
Polyhedral Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--311
Christián C. Carman The Final Date of the Antikythera
Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--323
José Chabás An Early Witness of Alfonsine Astronomy:
The London Tables for 1336 . . . . . . . 324--328
Stephen C. McCluskey Archaeoastronomy and Refraction Near the
Earth's Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--345
Arndt Latußeck More Light on the Flamsteed Numbers . . 346--353
Francesca Rochberg Neugebauer and Premodern Science. Essay
Review: \booktitleA Mathematician's
Journeys: Otto Neugebauer and Modern
Transformations of Ancient Science.
Edited by Alexander Jones, Christine
Proust, and John M. Steele (Springer,
Berlin, 2016). Pp. xi + 342. EUR 83.
ISBN 978-3-319-25863-8 . . . . . . . . . 354--357
N. M. Swerdlow The Most Complex Homocentric Astronomy.
Essay Review: Joseph Ibn Na\dhmias,
\booktitleThe Light of the World:
Astronomy in al-Andalus. Edited,
translated, and with a commentary by
Robert G. Morrison (University of
California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2016).
Pp. xiv + 429. \$95. ISBN
978-0-520-28799-0} . . . . . . . . . . . 358--361
Slava Gerovitch Cultural Images of Humans in Space.
Essay Review: \booktitleSpacefarers:
Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in
the Heroic Era of Spaceflight. Edited by
Michael J. Neufeld (Smithsonian
Institution Scholarly Press, Washington,
DC, 2013). Pp. 256. \$29.95. ISBN
978-1-935623-19-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
Marc Rothenberg Paying for Astrophysics in the United
States. Essay review: \booktitleIn
Search of the True Universe: The Tools,
Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological
Thought. Martin Harwit (Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 2013). Pp.
xvii + 393. \pounds 35. ISBN
978-1-107-04406-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
James Evans Laplace in His Letters. Essay Review:
\booktitleCorrespondance de Pierre Simon
Laplace (1749--1827), 2 vols. Edited by
Roger Hahn (Brepols, Turnhout, 2013).
Pp. xiv + 1416. EUR 120. ISBN
978-2-503-54129-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Ec Krupp Surveying Archaeoastronomy in
Mesoamerica. Essay Review:
\booktitleArchaeoastronomy and the Maya.
Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos and Edwin L
Barnhart (Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2014).
Pp. vii + 165. \$50. ISBN
978-1-78297-643-1 (paper)} . . . . . . . 367--369
Davide Cenadelli Early Italian Astrophysics on Exhibit.
Essay Review: \booktitleStarlight: La
Nascita dell'Astrofisica in Italia: The
Origins of Astrophysics in Italy. Ileana
Chinnici (Prismi Editrice Politecnica,
Naples, 2016). Pp. 127. EUR 25. ISBN
978-88-569-0522-9 (paper) . . . . . . . 369--371
Tang Quan Chinese Astronomical Systems. Essay
Review: \booktitleThe Foundations of
Celestial Reckoning: Three Ancient
Chinese Astronomical Systems.
Christopher Cullen (Routledge, New York,
2017). Pp. xi + 434. \pounds 84. ISBN
978-1-138-10117-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Anna Cetera-W\lodarczyk and
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Digging (up) the Bard. Essay review:
\booktitleShakespeare and Saturn:
Accounting for Appearances. Peter D.
Usher (Peter Lang, New York, 2015). Pp.
xxii + 244. \$87. ISBN
978-1-4331-2860-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 372--375
Benjamin Mirwald Astronomers' Networks and the Discovery
of Ceres. Essay Review:
\booktitleDiscovery of the First
Asteroid, Ceres: Historical Studies in
Asteroid Research. Clifford Cunningham
(Springer, Heidelberg, 2016). Pp. xiii +
333. \$35. ISBN 978-3-319-21776-5} . . . 375--377
Daniel Spelda Kepler in the Early Historiography of
Astronomy (1615--1800) . . . . . . . . . 381--404
Leslie V. Morrison and
Catherine Y. Hohenkerk and
F. Richard Stephenson The Almagest Greek and Roman
Occultations Re-Visited . . . . . . . . 405--416
Tatiana Yu Feklova and
Natalia M. Vekshina From the Borders of Russia to the
Capital of China: Russian Astronomical
Researches in China in the Nineteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--431
Quan Tang and
Anjing Qu Research on the Motion of Mars in the
Sovereign Pole System (A.D. 600) . . . . 432--459
Michael H. Shank Essay Review: The French Copernicus
Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--480
Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: \booktitleA Children's Book
on the Greenwich Observatory . . . . . . 481--482
Rienk Vermij Book Review: \booktitleA Polymathic
Astronomer of the Sixteenth Century . . 482--483
O. L. Lizzini Book Review: \booktitleAstronomy and
Metaphysics in al-Farabi's Thought . . . 483--485
John Steele Book Review: \booktitleAstronomy in the
Dead Sea Scrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487
Michel-Pierre Lerner Book Review: \booktitleA Very Short
Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--489
Angela Axworthy Book Review: \booktitleEarly Modern
Cosmological Debates . . . . . . . . . . 489--491
Anne-Laurence Caudano Book Review: \booktitleThe First
Byzantine Astronomical Text . . . . . . 491--492
Anne Tihon Book Review: \booktitleA Byzantine
Exposition of Ptolemy . . . . . . . . . 492--494
Steven vanden Broecke Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Astrology in the Renaissance . . . . 494--496
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--497
Anonymous Index To Volume 48 . . . . . . . . . . . 498--501
John S. Reid David Gill FRS (1843--1914): The Making
of a Royal Astronomer . . . . . . . . . 3--26
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas A Treatise on the Construction of
Astrolabes by Jacob ben Abi Abraham
Isaac al-Corsuno (Barcelona, 1378):
Edition, Translation and Commentary . . 27--82
Julia Remchin and
Andreas Schrimpf Research on Asteroids of Christian
Ludwig Gerling and His Students in the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 83--98
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein Adaptations of the Oxford Tables to
Paris, Mantua, and Louvain . . . . . . . 99--115
Robert W. Smith A Sociologist in the Gravitational Wave
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Sara J. Schechner ``Girl-Hours'' at the Harvard
Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Marc Rothenberg Amateurs in American Astronomy . . . . . 119--120
Robert S. Westman Copernican Transformations . . . . . . . 120--123
Jim Bennett Coronelli's Globes . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Mathieu Ossendrijver Ancient Astral Sciences . . . . . . . . 125--129
Hermann Hunger ``Science'' in the Cuneiform World . . . 129--130
Geoffrey Lloyd Ancient Whizz-Kiddery . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Stephen Courtney The Historical Meridian: Antiquity and
Scripture in the Public Work of George
Biddell Airy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--157
Jacek P. Szubiakowski and
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk The Solar Dial in the Olsztyn Castle:
Its Construction and Relation to
Copernicus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--195
Aníbal Szapiro Assumptions behind Ptolemy's Proof of
the Earth's Centrality . . . . . . . . . 196--215
Aristeidis Voulgaris and
Christophoros Mouratidis and
Andreas Vossinakis Conclusions from the Functional
Reconstruction of the Antikythera
Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--238
Alberto Bardi The Paradosis of the Persian Tables, A
Source on Astronomy between the
Ilkhanate and the Eastern Roman Empire 239--260
Wt Sullivan Herschel's Story on Film . . . . . . . . 261--262
Barbara J. Becker An Irish Amateur Astronomer . . . . . . 263--264
Silke Ackermann From Globes to Celestial Maps . . . . . 264--265
Pedro M. P. Raposo Merz Telescopes in Italy . . . . . . . . 265--266
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk and
Richard L. Kremer and
Howard C. Hughes Edward Gresham, Copernican Cosmology,
and Planetary Occultations in
Pre-Telescopic Astronomy . . . . . . . . 269--305
Aditya Kolachana and
Clemency Montelle and
Jambugahapitiye Dhammaloka and
Keshav Melnad and
K. Mahesh and
Pravesh Vyas and
K. Ramasubramanian and
Ms Sriram and
Venketeswara Pai The \booktitleCandr\=ark\=\i of
Dinakara: a Text Related to Solar and
Lunar Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--344
Luís Campos Ribeiro and
Henrique Leitão Astrology With New Eyes: The Telescope
in Astrological Prognostication . . . . 345--362
Andrea Rodríguez-Antón and
Antonio César González-García and
Juan Antonio Belmonte Astronomy in Roman Urbanism: a
Statistical Analysis of the Orientation
of Roman Towns in the Iberian Peninsula 363--387
Anonymous Galileo as Practising Astrologer . . . . 388--391
Paolo Brenni Klingenstierna and the Invention of the
Achromatic Lens: review of \booktitleThe
Invention of the Achromatic and
Aplanatic Lens: With Special Regard to
the Role Played by Samuel Klingenstierna
N. V. E. Nordenmark & J. Nordström, edited
by Roger C. Ceragioli, translated by
Elisabeth Goodwin (Antique Telescope
Society, Inc., Plymouth Meeting, PA,
2016). Pp. 142. US\$25} . . . . . . . . 392--393
Anthony Aveni Astronomers as Oracular Technicians in
the Pre-Columbian Andes: review of
\booktitleConstructions of Time and
History in the Pre-Columbian Andes,
Edward Swenson & Andrew P. Roddick
(University Press of Colorado, Boulder,
CO, 2018). Pp. xiv + 288. \$72. ISBN
978-1-60732-641-0} . . . . . . . . . . . 393--395
Robert W. Smith Early Astrophysics in Canada: review of
\booktitleNorthern Star: J. S. Plaskett
R. Peter Broughton with a foreword by &
James E Hesser (University of Toronto
Press, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2018). Pp.
xx + 539. CAD 67.50. ISBN
978-1-4426-3017-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
Emma Gee Astronomical Facts or Poetic Form?
Review of \booktitleAstronomical
Knowledge Transmission through
Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts. Marion
Dolan (Springer Nature, Cham, 2017). Pp.
xxiv + 464. EUR 155. ISBN
978-3-319-56783-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Gonzalo L. Recio and
Christián C. Carman On the Equant Point for the Planets and
the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--424
F. Richard Stephenson and
Leslie V. Morrison and
Catherine Y. Hohenkerk The Provenance of Early Chinese Records
of Large Solar Eclipses and the
Determination of the Earth's Rotation 425--471
Quan Tang and
Anjing Qu A Comparison of Chinese and Indian Solar
Theories in the Sui and Early Tang
Periods (Seventh--Eighth Centuries C.E.) 472--495
James Lequeux A Biography of Cassini I . . . . . . . . 496--497
David H. DeVorkin From Dallas to LIGO . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Roger D. Launius An Insider's View of Planetary Science 498--499
Brendan Dooley Astrology as a Bookish Science . . . . . 500--501
Leofranc Holford-Strevens Fixing the Calendar in the Fifteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503
Rita Gautschy Culminating Stars in Babylonian
Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--504
Richard L. Kremer 29,500 Astronomers . . . . . . . . . . . 504--505
Anonymous Index To Volume 49 . . . . . . . . . . . 506--508
Leslie V. Morrison and
F. Richard Stephenson and
Catherine Y. Hohenkerk On the Eclipse of Hipparchus . . . . . . 3--15
Christopher M. Graney How to Make the Earth Orbit the Sun in
1614 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--30
John Steele An Early Compilation of Saturn
Observations from Babylon . . . . . . . 31--45
S. Mohammad Mozaffari The Orbital Elements of Venus in
Medieval Islamic Astronomy: Interaction
Between Traditions and the Accuracy of
Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--81
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein The Master and the Disciple: The Almanac
of John of Lign\`eres and the
Ephemerides of John of Saxony . . . . . 82--96
Li Liang Book Review: A Narrative History of
Astronomy in Early Imperial China . . . 97--98
Stephen McCluskey Book Review: 1000 Years of Calendar
Reform: \booktitleScandalous Error:
Calendar Reform and Calendrical
Astronomy in Medieval Europe C. Philipp
E. Nothaft, (Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 2018). Pp. xvii + 357. \pounds
75. ISBN 978-0-19-879955-9 . . . . . . . 98--100
Sky Michael Johnston Book Review: Calendar Making in
Confessional Germany: \booktitleDie
deutschen Kalenderschreiber im Zeitalter
der Konfessionsbildung 1531--1630:
Register und Analyse Robin B. Barnes,
(Verlag HKD, Jena, 2018). Pp. 70. EUR
28. ISBN 978-3-941563-19-3 . . . . . . . 100--101
Patrick J. Boner Book Review: Between Celestial and
Terrestrial Harmony: \booktitleThe
Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos,
Confession, and Community Aviva Rothman,
(University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
IL, 2017). Pp. viii + 355. \$55. ISBN
978-0-226-49697-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
Janet Danielson Book Review: Polyphonic Minds: Music of
the Hemispheres: \booktitlePolyphonic
Minds: Music of the Hemispheres Peter
Pesic, (The MIT Press, Cambridge MA,
2017). Pp. viii + 330. \$38. ISBN
978-0-262-03691-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Nadine Löhr Book Review: Jaghm\=\in\=\i's
\booktitleMulakhkha\ds: an Islamic
Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy,
Sally P. Ragep, (Springer, Cham, 2016).
Pp. ix + 347. EUR 91. ISBN
978-3-319-31992-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Ilana Wartenberg Book Review: Ibn Ezra on Astrology:
\booktitleAbraham Ibn Ezra's
Introductions to Astrology: A Parallel
Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the
Book of the Beginnings of Wisdom and the
Book of the Judgments of the Zodiacal
Signs Shlomo Sela, (Brill, Leiden,
2017). Pp. xiii + 822. EUR 225. ISBN
978-90-04-34227-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Barbara J. Becker Book Review: From Celestial Placeholders
to Physical Objects: \booktitleMaking
Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir
John Herschel Stephen Case, (University
of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA,
2018). Pp. viii + 319. US\$39.95. ISBN
978-0-8229-4530-7} . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
Simon Mitton Book Review: Radio Astronomy in
Australia: \booktitleFour Pillars of
Radio Astronomy: Mills, Christiansen,
Wild, Bracewell. Robert H Frater, W
Miller Goss and Harry W Wendt (Springer,
Cham, 2017). Pp. xvii + 199. EUR 32.
ISBN 978-3-319-65598-7 (paper) . . . . . 111--112
Henry Zepeda Book Review: \booktitleWalcher of
Malvern: \booktitleDe lunationibus and
\booktitleDe dracone: Study, Edition,
Translation, and Commentary C. Philipp &
E. Nothaft, (Brepols Publishers,
Turnhout, 2017). Pp. xix + 346. EUR 90.
ISBN 978-2-503-56876-8 . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Jeremy Vetter Book Review: \booktitleAmerican Eclipse:
a Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow
of the Moon and Win the Glory of the
World, David Baron, (Liveright
Publishing Corporation, New York, 2017).
Pp. xii + 330. \$38. ISBN
978-1-63149-016-3} . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Alberto Bardi Copernicus on Film \ldots Again.
\booktitleThe Secrets of De
Revolutionibus Micha\l Juszczakiewicz &
Nicolaus Copernicus Foundation,
(Truszczyny, Poland, 2018). 53 minutes.
Available from the Nicolaus Copernicus
Foundation
(copernicus@ekoprussia.home.pl) . . . . 116--117
John Davis The ``Chaucerian'' Astrolabe in the
British Museum: a Reassessment of Its
Dating and Ownership . . . . . . . . . . 121--154
Christopher M. Graney The Starry Universe of Johannes Kepler 155--173
Guangchao Wang and
Xiaochun Sun A Chinese Innovation Based on Western
Methods: The Double-Epicycle Solar Model
in the Lixiang kaocheng, 1722 . . . . . 174--191
María José Martínez Usó and
Francisco J. Marco Castillo Occultation of Planets by the Moon in
European Narrative Medieval Sources . . 192--220
Michael Kershaw Twentieth-Century Longitude: When
Greenwich Moved . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--248
Alain Bernard Book Review: a Philosophically Coherent
Ptolemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Levente László Book Review: Ptolemy from Greek to Latin 250--252
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Book Review: Medieval Astrology
Practically Applied . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Pietro Daniel Omodeo Book Review: an Apology for Giordano
Bruno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Patrick J. Boner Book Review: Between Celestial and
Terrestrial Harmony . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
Huib J. Zuidervaart Book Review: an Italian Inspiration for
the Dutch Telescope? . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
David Cahan Book Review: From Personal Observatory
to National Standards Testing . . . . . 258--260
Richard Strom Book Review: The Birth of Radio
Astronomy in The Netherlands . . . . . . 260--262
David H. DeVorkin When to Send Your Telescope Aloft . . . 265--305
Stephen Case A ``Confounded Scrape'': John Herschel,
Neptune, and Naming the Satellites of
the Outer Solar System . . . . . . . . . 306--325
Siebren van der Werf Nautical Tables for Vasco da Gama,
1497--1500? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--338
Gennady E. Kurtik $^{mul}$ uz$_3$, $^{mul d}$Gula, and the
Early History of Mesopotamian
Constellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--359
Julio Samsó Ibn Is\dhaq and the Alfonsine Tables . . 360--365
L. V. Morrison and
F. R. Stephenson and
C. Y. Hohenkerk Rome and the Total Solar Eclipse of BC
188 July 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--372
Hamid Bohloul Book Review: Medieval Astrolabes:
\booktitleAstrolabes in Medieval
Cultures, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas,
Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann & Ryan
Szpiech, (Brill, Leiden, 2019). Pp. vi +
508. EUR 87. ISBN 978-90-04-38380-7
(paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Ronald E. Doel Book Review: Building the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics: \booktitleFred Whipple's
Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory, 1955--1973, David H.
DeVorkin, (Smithsonian Institution
Scholarly Press, Washington, DC, 2018).
Pp. xvii + 401. Open access. ISBN
978-1-944466-18-3 (pbk) . . . . . . . . 375--376
Maurice A. Finocchiaro Book Review: 1616 is before 1633:
\booktitleCopernicus Banned: The
Entangled Matter of the Anti-Copernican
Decree of 1616, Natacha Fabbri & Federica
Favino, (Leo S. Olschki Editore,
Florence, 2018). Pp. xxv + 252. EUR 32.
ISBN 978-88-222-6584-5 (pbk) . . . . . . 376--378
José Chabás Book Review: a Castilian Translation of
Copernicus' \booktitleDe revolutionibus
orbium coelestium: \booktitleYdea
astronomica de la fabrica del mundo y
movimiento de los cuerpos celestiales
(Traducción de ``\booktitleDe
revolutionibus I--III'' de Nicolás
Copérnico) Juan Cedillo, Miguel Ángel
Granada & Félix Gómez Crespo, (Edicions de
la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona,
2019). Pp. 482. EUR 30. ISBN
978-84-9168-164-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 378--380
Frank Verbunt and
Marc van der Sluys Why Halley Did Not Discover Proper
Motion and Why Cassini Did . . . . . . . 383--397
Christián C. Carman A Possible Date for Ptolemy's
Development of a Model for the Second
Lunar Anomaly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--410
Liang Li New Astronomy in Service of Old
Astrology: Close Planetary Conjunctions
in Pre-Modern China . . . . . . . . . . 411--427
Bernard R. Goldstein and
José Chabás Ibn al-\dHadib's Tables for Finding True
Syzygy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--446
Yong-Ki Jong and
Jik-Su Kim and
Chol-Jun Kim and
Chol-Min Choe Comet 27 P/Crommelin Observed in Ancient
Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--455
Claus Fabricius Paris 1676: The Discovery of the
Velocity of Light and the Roles of Ròmer
and Cassini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--475
Francesca Rochberg Book Review: Resonances within Ancient
Astronomical Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 476--480
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Completing Kepler's
\booktitleGesammelte Werke . . . . . . . 480--481
Juan Antonio Belmonte Book Review: Cultural Landscapes . . . . 482--483
Kristen Lippincott Book Review: Imaging the Cosmos . . . . 483--485
Dag Nikolaus Hasse Book Review: Copernicus's
Fifteenth-Century World . . . . . . . . 485--487
André Goddu Book Review: Copernicus from 30,000 Feet 487--489
James M. Lattis Book Review: a Textbook about How
Science Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--491
Samuel Gessner Book Review: Early Portable Watches . . 491--493
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk and
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Book Review: Selene's Many Faces . . . . 493--495
B. Obrist Book Review: Making Christian the Images
of Ancient Constellations in Carolingian
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--497
Dennis Danielson Book Review: Kepler as Poet . . . . . . 497--498
Lois Rosson Book Review: When the Western Frontier
Met the Final Frontier . . . . . . . . . 499--500
Anonymous Index to Volume 50 . . . . . . . . . . . 501--504
Christopher Cullen and
Catherine Jami Christmas 1668 and After: How Jesuit
Astronomy Was Restored to Power in
Beijing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--50
C. Philipp E. Nothaft The \booktitleLiber Theoreumacie (1214)
and the Early History of the \em
Quadrans Vetus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--74
F. Richard Stephenson and
Leslie V. Morrison and
Catherine Y. Hohenkerk Astronomical Assessment of the Solar and
Lunar Eclipse Records in Bede's
Ecclesiastical History and Its
Continuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87
Kane Mullen Temporary Measures: Women Computers at
the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
1890--1895 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--121
Eileen Reeves Book Review: Galileo's Early
Biographers. \booktitleOn the Life of
Galileo: Viviani's Historical Account
and Other Early Biographies. Stefano
Gattei (Princeton University Press,
Princeton, NJ, 2019). Pp. lxviii + 348.
\$49.95. ISBN 978-0-691-17489-1} . . . . 122--123
Richard Dunn Book Review: More Than a Catalogue of
Sundials. \booktitleTime of Our Lives:
Sundials of the Adler Planetarium. Sara
J. Schechner (Adler Planetarium,
Chicago, 2019). Pp. xiii + 474. \$40.
ISBN 978-0-578-49710-5} . . . . . . . . 123--124
Jim Bennett Book Review: William Bond & Son, Boston:
\booktitleFrom Celestial to Terrestrial
Timekeeping: Clockmaking in the Bond
Family. Donald Saff (Antiquarian
Horological Society, London, 2019). Pp.
xiii + 424. \pounds 45. ISBN
978-0-901180-54-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
David Juste Book Review: Abraham Ibn Ezra in Latin:
\booktitleAbraham Ibn Ezra Latinus on
Nativities: A Parallel Latin-English
Critical Edition of Liber Nativitatum
and Liber Abraham Iudei de
Nativitatibus. Abraham Ibn Ezra's
Astrological Writings. Shlomo Sela
(Brill, Leiden, 2019). Pp. xiv + 564.
EUR 226. ISBN 978-90-04-39234-2 . . . . 126--128
Maciej Jasi\'nski Otto von Guericke's Cometary Theory in
Stanis\law Lubieniecki's Correspondence 131--151
Kristóf Petrovay The Determination of Stellar
Temperatures From Baron B. Harkányi to
the Gaia Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--161
Christián C. Carman Longomontanus' Model for the Longitudes
of Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--186
Carlos Sanhueza-Cerda and
Lorena B. Valderrama Finding a Point of Observation in the
Global South: The C. L. Gerling and J.
M. Gilliss Correspondence (1847--1856) 187--208
Leslie V. Morrison and
F. Richard Stephenson and
Catherine Y. Hohenkerk Fotheringham's 1920 Accelerations of the
Sun and Moon Revisited . . . . . . . . . 209--224
Endre Zsoldos From Mythology to Astronomy: Lists and
Catalogues of Variable Stars . . . . . . 225--244
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: Four Centuries of Wall
Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Rebecca Giesemann Book Review: Hevelius' Observational
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Charles Burnett Book Review: Astrological Weather
Forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Marvin Bolt Book Review: William Herschel's
Astronomical Work . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251
Georg Zotti and
S. Mohammad Mozaffari New Light on the Main Instrument of the
Samarqand Observatory . . . . . . . . . 255--271
Lee T. Macdonald Proposals to Move the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, 1836--1944 . . . . . . . . . 272--304
James Brannon Bi-Daily Venus in the Medieval Thought
of William of Conches: Explaining an
Uncommon Celestial Event by
Circumsolarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--323
Ad Meskens Astronomy and the Archduke: Unpublished
Letters on SN1604 by Brengger, Coignet,
and Kepler in the Archives of Albert VII
of Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--367
Stefano Gattei Completing the National Edition of
Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--370
Omar W. Nasim The Newspaper Astronomers . . . . . . . 371--372
Todd K. Timberlake The ``Big Four'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
David H. DeVorkin An Encyclopaedic Biography . . . . . . . 374--376
Fabio Acerbi Hipparchus in French . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
Pedro M. P. Raposo A Book with Postage Stamps . . . . . . . 378--379
Robert W. Smith Astronomy's Past and Future . . . . . . 379--380
Gonzalo L. Recio A Marvellous Connection: Longomontanus'
Battle With the Latitudes of Mars . . . 383--400
Daniel Belteki Trust in Glass: Negotiating the Purchase
of the Object Glass for the Airy Transit
Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--422
Anthony Lattis Constructing the Electric Eye: Situating
the Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum's Wisconsin Collection of
Photoelectric Detectors in Historical
Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--460
Fernando B. Figueiredo and
João Fernandes José Monteiro da Rocha (1734--1819) and
His 1782 Work on the Determination of
Comet Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--481
Helge Kragh Building the Standard Cosmological Model 482--483
Connemara Doran The Search for Dark Energy . . . . . . . 483--485
Feraz Azhar Interdisciplinarity and Modern Cosmology 485--486
Pietro Daniel Omodeo Ideas on Stellar Agency and Life in
Early Modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . 486--488
Miguel Ángel Granada Speaking of Comets . . . . . . . . . . . 488--490
Marion Gindhart Early Modern Comets and Printing . . . . 490--492
Elly Dekker Stars and Constellations in Medieval
Manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--493
Klaus-Dieter Herbst Asteroids Around 1800 . . . . . . . . . 494--495
Liba Taub Instruments in the Library . . . . . . . 495--497
Petra G. Schmidl Astronomical Instruments in the Ottoman
Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--499
Anonymous Cumulative Index to Volumes 41--50 . . . 500--513
Anonymous Index to Volume 51 . . . . . . . . . . . 514--518
Noam Andrews Gilding Kepler's cosmology . . . . . . . 3--32
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Ephemerides in high medieval Europe: The
textual evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--52
Gennady E. Kurtik On the origin of the 12 zodiac
constellation system in ancient
Mesopotamia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--66
V. N. Tryapitsyn and
D. A. Pavlov and
E. I. Yagudina and
V. V. Rumyantsev The 1970--1984 lunar laser ranging
observations in the Crimean
Astrophysical Observatory . . . . . . . 67--76
S. Mohammad Mozaffari and
Jeremy J. Drake Algol anomaly or careful observations of
its brightness? The values recorded for
the magnitude of Algol in the medieval
astronomical corpus . . . . . . . . . . 77--103
N. M. Swerdlow The \booktitleAlmagest in the Manner of
Euclid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
H. Darrel Rutkin Astronomical predictions of the
Antichrist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Agustín Udías In Secchi's Own Words . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Lindsay Smith Zrull Women in Glass: Women at the Harvard
Observatory during the Era of
Astronomical Glass Plate Photography,
1875--1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--146
Christopher M. Graney The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini:
Century-old Echoes of Kepler . . . . . . 147--167
Ma\lgorzata Królikowska and
Ma\lgorzata Królikowska and
Andrzej M. So\ltan and
Andrzej M. So\ltan Jan Walery J\kedrzejewicz (1835=-1887)
and his Observations of Comets . . . . . 168--188
Glen Van Brummelen and
James Steven Byrne Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of
the Secant Function . . . . . . . . . . 189--211
Christián C. Carman The Tychonic Method for Calculating the
Ratio between the Eccentricities of Mars 212--234
Anonymous Paul Kunitzsch (1930--2020) . . . . . . 235--236
Peter Adamson Abu Ma'sar's astrological classic in
English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--239
Ileana Chinnici Astronomical dialogues with learned
ladies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Wolfgang R. Dick Six hundred calendar makers . . . . . . 240--242
Helena Avelar Ibn Ezra from Hebrew to Latin . . . . . 242--243
Nicol\`as de Hilster Training early modern navigators . . . . 244--245
Ad Meskens Astrology and the Archduke: Two
unpublished letters by Tycho Brahe on
the horoscope of Albert VII of Austria 249--266
Seb Falk `El Capri Kylex': a Franciscan
astronomical mnemonic . . . . . . . . . 267--288
Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio and
A. César González-García and
Juan Antonio Belmonte East or Easter? Keys to the orientation
of Romanesque churches along the Way of
Saint James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--310
Sergei J. Maslikov The Greek portable sundial from Memphis
rediscovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--324
Viktor Abramovich Shor Twentieth-century milestones in the
history of the Russian ephemeris
service: Marking 100 years of the
Calculation Institute and astronomical
yearbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--351
Miguel Ángel Granada The book everybody read . . . . . . . . 352--365
Paul Richrd Blum A Reading Guide for Bruno's \booktitleOn
the Infinite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Barbara Bienias An Introduction to English Calendars . . 367--370
John Haine John Harrison's clockmaking science . . 370--371
Hsiang-fu Huang Machines for representing the cosmos . . 371--372
Gary Urton The astronomy of Tawantinsuyu . . . . . 373--374
Robert Hannah More ancient Greek sundials . . . . . . 374--376
Gonzalo Recio A Festschrift on Early Astronomy . . . . 376--378
Alexander Jones Three Gallo--Roman bronze disks with
astral inscriptions . . . . . . . . . . 381--396
Leslie V. Morrison and
F. Richard Stephenson and
Catherine Y. Hohenkerk Accuracy of medieval Chinese and
Middle-Eastern timings of eclipses . . . 397--413
Eric Chassefi\`ere Obstacles encountered by four major
European astronomical observatories
belonging to academies in the 18th
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--441
Raúl Caballero-Sánchez On the chronology of the Anonymous
Commentary to Ptolemy's
\booktitleTetrabiblos: Analysis of the
astronomical evidence . . . . . . . . . 442--461
Jacques Gapaillard The heliocentric path of the Moon . . . 462--490
Stephen Case Amici's double star observations . . . . 491--492
M. Willis Monroe Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology 492--494
S. Mohammad Mozaffari Photographing Indian observatories . . . 494--495
Anne Tihon Late Byzantine astronomy . . . . . . . . 496--498
Robert G. Morrison A definitive survey of Iberian and
Maghribi astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500
Anonymous Index to Volume 52 . . . . . . . . . . . 501--504
Gonzalo Luis Recio A Spanish study of the 1572 nova:
Jerónimo Muñoz and his \booktitleBook on
the New Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
Ting Chen and
Lingfeng Lü Astronomical or political:
Interpretation of comets in times of
crisis in Qing China . . . . . . . . . . 13--26
Julien Gressot and
Romain Jeanneret Determining the right time, or the
establishment of a culture of
astronomical precision at Neuchâtel
Observatory in the mid-19th century . . 27--48
Marina Escolano-Poveda Astrologica athribitana: Four
demotic-hieratic horoscopes from
Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and
ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited) . . . . . . 49--87
Pier Franco Nali Annibale Ricc\`o and the catoptric proof
of the Earth's curvature . . . . . . . . 88--119
James Evans and
Richard L. Kremer Michael Hoskin (1930--2021) . . . . . . 120--123
E. C. Krupp Time in Pre-Columbian America . . . . . 124--125
Annette Imhausen Indicating hours in ancient cultures . . 125--127
Anonymous Corrigendum to `The Heliocentric Path of
the Moon' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous Erratum to `A Reading Guide for Bruno's
\booktitleOn the Infinite' . . . . . . . 129--129
Miguel Á. Granada Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140
Bruce D. Popp Early application of kinetic theory of
gases to star clusters . . . . . . . . . 141--162
S. Mohammad Mozaffari An analysis of Ibn al-Sha\dtir's star
table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--196
Moema de Rezende Vergara Observational astronomy and the mapping
of Brazil at the turn of the 20th
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--208
Leslie V. Morrison and
F. Richard Stephenson and
Catherine Y. Hohenkerk Accuracy of eclipse records in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . . . . . . . . . 209--216
Michael H. Shank Completing the Copernicus
\booktitleGesamtausgabe . . . . . . . . 217--222
J. Lennart Berggren The Long Legacy of Ptolemy . . . . . . . 223--229
Luís Tirapicos A Muñoz Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Barbara J. Becker Gauging the Herschels' star gauging
programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Juan Antonio Belmonte Myth and meteorology . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Helge Kragh Book Review: Celebrating the Centenary
of the IAU: \booktitleUnder One Sky: The
IAU Centenary Symposium, Christiaan
Sterken, John Hearnshaw & David
Valls-Gabaud (Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, 2019). Pp. xii + 542.
\$120.84. ISBN 978-1-108-47159-6} . . . 235--236
Christián C. Carman and
Gonzalo L. Recio Tycho Brahe's \booktitleAppendix ad
Observationes anni 1593 and the date of
Brahe's theory of Mars, the prototype
for Kepler's vicarious hypothesis . . . 239--265
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an
observing instrument? . . . . . . . . . 266--299
Jean-Pierre Rozelot and
Jagdev Singh Spectrographic observations of the
ionized iron coronal emission lines at
Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the
mid-60s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--327
Andreas Winkler On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from
Athribis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--337
M. Willis Monroe Astronomical and astrological diagrams
from cuneiform sources . . . . . . . . . 338--361
L. V. Morrison and
F. R. Stephenson and
C. Y. Hohenkerk Rome and the total solar eclipse of
BC188 July 17: Apology . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Richard L. Kremer and
James Evans Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941--2021 . . . . . . 364--368
Peter Barker Peurbach's influential textbook . . . . 369--370
Samantha M. Thompson Two biographies of Vera Rubin . . . . . 370--372
Nicolas Weill-Parot Medieval Structures of Astrology . . . . 372--376
Dennis Danielson Poetic Structures of the Cosmos . . . . 376--378
Eileen Reeves Drawing Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Victor Gysembergh and
Peter J. Williams and
Emanuel Zingg New evidence for Hipparchus'
\booktitleStar Catalogue revealed by
multispectral imaging . . . . . . . . . 383--393
Robert W. Smith Stellar movements and working
hypotheses: A. S. Eddington's early
astronomical career . . . . . . . . . . 394--414
María José Martínez Usó and
Francisco J. Marco Castillo A possible reference to the solar corona
in a contemporary report of the AD1239
eclipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--421
Christopher Cullen and
Catherine Jami Prediction and politics in Beijing,
1668: a Jesuit astronomer and his
technical resources in a time of crisis 422--474
Stanislav Sisulák and
Ladislav Pastorek Instrumentation and observations at the
astronomical observatory in Hurbanovo in
1871--1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--496
Emily A. Margolis Managing innovation in telescope making 497--498
Stephan Heilen An astrological practitioner analyzed 498--503
Klaus-Dieter Herbst Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin
circa 1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--505
Sibylle Gluch Astronomers in the chair . . . . . . . . 505--507
Luís Tirapicos Bridging the gap between archaeology and
archaeoastronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--508
Anonymous Index to volume 53 . . . . . . . . . . . 509--512
Stefan Zieme Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation of
the \booktitleAlmagest and the revision
of tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--33
Ole Schou Tycho Brahe's observations of Præsepe
Cancri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--75
Gail Higginbottom and
A. César González-Garc\'ìa and
Benito Vilas-Estévez and
V\'ìctor López-López and
Felipe Criado-Boado Landscape, orientation and celestial
phenomena on the `Coast of Death' of NW
Iberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--106
James M. Lattis Thirty years of the HST . . . . . . . . 107--108
Richard Dunn A festschrift for Clive Ruggles . . . . 108--109
Jean-Patrice Boudet Two editions of an Italian translation
of Ps.-Ptolemy's \booktitleCentiloquium 110--111
Giulio Magli A Festschrift for Clive Ruggles . . . . 111--112
C. Philipp E. Nothaft A new series on Alfonsine astronomy . . 113--118
Anthony Turner A survey of Arabic astrolabe makers . . 119--121
Andreas Winkler and
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer Zodiacs and monuments: an early
pictorial ``horoscope'' from Egypt . . . 125--152
María José Martínez Usó and
Francisco J. Marco Castillo The total eclipse of the sun of July 29,
AD1478, in contemporary Spanish
documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--170
Flavia Marcacci G. B. Riccioli's geo-heliocentric use of
Epicepicycles, ellipses and spirals . . 171--192
Koji Murata and
Hisashi Hayakawa and
Mitsuru Sôma A critical assessment of questionable
solar eclipse memories in the Byzantine
Empire from the fourth to sixth
centuries CE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--212
David Juste The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 1304 213--219
William Crozier St. Albert the Great and Robert
Grosseteste on the nature and causes of
comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--240
Kathrin Chlench-Priber A handbook of medieval Latin
astronomical tables . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
John Steele Numerical tables in the history of
astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--244
Hans Gaab A biography of Gottfried Kirch . . . . . 245--246
Delaware Astronomical Society Book Club The coolest book cover ever . . . . . . 246--248
Go-Eun Choi and
Byeong-Hee Mihn and
Ki-Won Lee Investigating calendrical methods of
calculating sunrise and sunset times in
the Shixian calendar . . . . . . . . . . 251--272
Jean-Marie Malherbe 130 years of spectroheliograms at
Paris--Meudon observatories (1893--2023) 274--315
Gábor Kutrovátz Kepler's struggle with the problem of
force obstruction . . . . . . . . . . . 316--332
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Astronomical observations in Bologna,
Montpellier, and Genoa in the early 14th
century: Iohannes de Luna Theutonicus
revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--352
Richard L. Kremer and
James Evans Owen Gingerich, 1930--2023 . . . . . . . 353--359
Raz Chen-Morris New stars, old cosmologies in early
modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--362
Hamid Bohloul Toward a standardization of Hay'a works 363--366
Giorgio Strano Time-keeping devices and astronomy . . . 366--367
Steven Vanden Broecke A new edition and translation of Pico's
\booktitleDisputationes . . . . . . . . 368--369
Julien Gressot Actors, networks and scientific
instruments at the Bureau des longitudes 369--370
Kathleen Crowther Book Review: Printing the book everybody
read: Publishing Sacrobosco's
\booktitleDe sphaera in Early Modern
Europe: Modes of Material and Scientific
Exchange. Edited by Matteo Valleriani
and Andrea Ottone (Cham, Springer,
2022). Pp. xiv + 492. \$60. ISBN
978-3-030-86599-3} . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Christián C. Carman A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th
century: François Vi\`ete and his first
lunar model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--403
James Brannon Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty
in the positions of Mercury and Venus 404--424
Lihua Ma The solar eclipse of A.D. 1221 May 23
and the value of $ \Delta T $ . . . . . 425--435
Bradley E. Schaefer The recurrent nova T CrB had prior
eruptions observed near December 1787
and October 1217 AD . . . . . . . . . . 436--455
Ehgamberdiev Shuhrat Abdumannapovich and
Yuldoshev Qudratillo Khabibullaevich and
Turaev Sobir Jurakobilovich and
Jianhai Zhao and
Meiting Yang and
Zhenghong Tang and
Yong Yu Present status of UBAI plate archive . . 456--468
Leslie V. Morrison and
Catherine Y. Hohenkerk and
Marek Zawilski and
F. Richard Stephenson Total solar eclipse of AD 1133 and $
\Delta T $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--480
Seb Falk Book Revew: John of Lign\`eres as a
table compiler: \booktitleThe Tables of
1322 by John of Lign\`eres: An Edition
with Commentary. Chabás José and Saby
Marie-Madeleine (Brepols, Turnhout,
2022). Pp. 159. 65. ISBN
978-2-503-59609-9. Open access at doi
\tt 10.1484/M.ALFA-EB.5.12503 . . . . . 481--483
Barbara Kirsi Silva Book Review: Physicists becoming
astronomers: \booktitleGolden Years of
Australian Radio Astronomy: An
Illustrated History. Orchiston Wayne,
Robertson Peter, and Sullivan Woodruff
T. III (Springer, Cham, 2021). Pp. xviii
+ 268. \$55. ISBN 978-3-319-91841-9.
Open access: {\tt
rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-91843-3}} 483--484
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk Book Review: Reducing meridian circle
observations in positional astronomy:
\booktitleOle Ròmer's Triduum. Fabricius
Claus, Jòrgensen Niels Therkel, and
Tortzen Chr. Gorm. 3 vols (Society for
Danish Language and Literature,
Copenhagen, 2023). Pp. 819. 799 DKK.
ISBN 978-87-7533-060-7 . . . . . . . . . 485--486
Anonymous Index To Volume 54 . . . . . . . . . . . 487--490
Owen Gingerich and
David DeVorkin and
James Evans and
Richard L. Kremer Ad astra per aspera: From the Sewers of
Kansas to Harvard College Observatory ??
José Guillermo Sánchez León and
Pablo Recio Sánchez The bizarre history of the astrological
vault ``El Cielo de Salamanca'' . . . . ??
Pedro Augusto Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical
site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Martin Connors The discovery and naming of Trojan
asteroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Johan Kärnfelt `Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana': The
Stockholm Observatory's 10-foot Dollond
achromatic refractor . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Dunn Cosmography and its histories . . . . . ??
Glen Van Brummelen An important Islamicate Zij . . . . . . ??
André Goddu Copernicus and Toru\'n . . . . . . . . . ??
Luís Campos Ribeiro From biblical chronology to criticism of
astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
C. Philipp E. Nothaft On some early Latin European
measurements of the eccentricity of the
solar orbit (1308--1314) . . . . . . . . 143--155
Anonymous Editor's Note: Hipparchus's Methods of
Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Enrico Landi and
Francesca Schironi Dia t\=on gramm\=on: Hipparchus on
simultaneous risings and settings . . . 157--178
Nathan Sidoli Hipparchos and the ancient analemma . . 179--206
Lars Gislén and
James Evans The artful early instruments of Peter
Apian: Ein kunstlich Instrument of 1524,
its precursors and its successors . . . 207--278
Stefano Gattei John L. Heilbron, 1934--2023 . . . . . . 279--284