JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 13

Vol. 13 No. 1 Mar 2010
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The Radiophysics Field Station at Penrith, New South Wales, and the World's First Solar Radiospectrograph Ronald Steward, Harry Wendt, Wayne Orchiston, & Bruce Slee 2
The Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, Texas A. Richard Thompson 17
Letter to the Editor. Re: Montgomery et al.’s paper on “Michell, Laplace and the Origin of the Black Hole Concept”P. Brosche28
Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 5: The Nançay Large Radio TelescopeJames Lequeux, Jean-Louis Steinberg, & Wayne Orchiston29
Wilhelm Tempel and his 10.8-cm Steinheil TelescopeSimone Bianchi, Antonella Gasperini, Daniele Galli, Francesco Palla, Paolo Brenni, & Anna Giatti43
James Dunlop’s Historical Catalogue of Southern Nebulae and ClustersGlen Cozens, Andrew Walsh, & Wayne Orchiston59
The Astronomical Significance of Megalithic Stone Alignments at Vibhuthihalli in Northern KarnatakaN. Kameswara Rao & Priya Thakur74
Book Reviews (all)
The Collected Correspondence of Baron Franz Xaver von Zach, by Clifford J. CunninghamHilmar W. Duerbeck83
British University Observatories 1772-1939, by Roger Hutchins David W. Hughes83
Astronomical Spectrographs and their History, by John HearnshawDavid DeVorkin84
Under the Radar. The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott, ed. by W.M. Goss & Richard X. McGeeWayne Orchiston85
Geschichte der Geodäsie in Deutschland, by Wolfgang TorgeHilmar W. Duerbeck86
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Vol. 13 No. 2 Jul 2010
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The First Century of Astronomical Spectroscopy
Introduction Joseph S. Tenn 88
Auguste Comte’s Blunder: An Account of the First Century of Stellar Spectroscopy and How it Took One Hundred Years to Prove that Comte was Wrong! John Hearnshaw90
Spectroscopy—So What?Matthew Stanley105
From Dilettante to Serious Amateur: William Huggins’ Move into the Inner CircleBarbara J. Becker112
The Origin and Diffusion of the H and K NotationJay M. Pasachoff & Terry-Ann Suer120
The 1910 Solar Conference and Cooperation in Stellar Spectroscopy Richard A. Jarrell127
Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: C.H. Payne H.N. Russell and Standards of Evidence in Early Quantitative Spectroscopy David H. Devorkin139
Charlotte Moore Sitterly Vera C. Rubin145
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St. Helena, Edmond Halley, the Discovery of Stellar Proper Motion, and the Mystery of Aldebaran John C. Brandt149
The First Astronomical Hypothesis Based on Cinematographical Observations: Costa Lobo’s 1912 Evidence for Polar Flattening of the Moon Vitor Bonifácio, Isabel Malaquias, & João Fernandes, 159
Book Reviews (all)
Blick zurück ins Universum. Die Geschichte der österreichichen Astronomie in Biographien, by Daniela Angetter, & Nora PärrHilmar W. Duerbeck169
Jérôme Lalande (1732-1807). Une Trajectoire Scientifique, ed. by Guy Boistel, Jérôme Lamy, & Colette Le Lay James Lequeux169
Corrigendum
Correction to The Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, Texas A. Richard Thompson 170
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Vol. 13 No. 3 Nov 2010
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Ronald N. Bracewell: An Appreciation A. Richard Thompson, & Robert H. Frater172
James Ferguson: A Commemoration Clive Davenhall179
Elisabeth von Matt (1762 - 1814), An Enlightened Practitioner of Astronomy in ViennaPeter Brosche & Klaralinda Ma-Kircher187
Time Balls, Time Guns and Glasgow's Quest for a Reliable Local Time ServiceRoger Kinns194
Charles Nordmann and Multicolour Stellar Photometry James Lequeux207
An Aboriginal Australian Record of the Great Eruption of Eta Carinae Duane W. Hamacher, & David J. Frew220
The Changing Role of the ‘Catts Telescope’: The Life and Times of a Nineteenth Century 20-inch Grubb Reflector Wayne Orchiston235
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Die Geschichte der Universitätssternwarte Wien. Dargestellt anhand ihrer historischen Instrumente und eines Typoskripts von Johann Steinmayr, by Jürgen Hamel, Isolde Müller, & Thomas PoschHilmar W. Duerbeck255
Sterne über Hamburg. Die Geschichte der Astronomie in Hamburg, by J. SchrammHilmar W. Duerbeck255
Cultural Heritage of Astronomical Observatories, by G. WolfschmidtHilmar W. Duerbeck240
Cosmic Noise. A History of Early Radio Astronomy, by Woodruff T. Sullivan, IIIWayne Orchiston256
Index to Volume 13258
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