JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE


Volume 19

Vol. 19 No. 1



Mar/Apr 2016

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Editorial



2

Papers




Pictographs at Paint Rock, Texas: exploring the horizon astronomy and cultural intent 


Gordon L. Houston and Irakli Simonia


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Exploring the first scientific observations of lunar eclipses made in Siam


Wayne Orchiston, Darunee Lingling Orchiston, Martin George, and Boonrucksar Soonthornthum


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Philippe de la Hire’s eighteenth century eclipse predictor


Lars Gislén and Chris Eade

46

Comte, Mach, Planck, and Eddington: a study of influence across generations


Alan H. Batten


51


Aboriginal Astronomical traditions from Ooldea, South Australia, Part 2: Animals in the Ooldean Sky


Trevor M. Leaman, Duane W. Hamacher, and Mark T. Carter 


61


Australian solar eclipse expeditions: the voyage to Cape York in 1871


Nick Lomb


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Book Reviews (all)




Masters of the Universe: Conversations with Cosmologists of the Past by Helge Kragh


Joseph S. Tenn


96


Indian Astronomy: Concepts and Procedures by S. Balachandran Rao


Mayank Vahia


99


Lost in the Stars. A.W. Roberts at the Crossroads of Mission, Science, and Race in South Africa 1883–1938 by Keith Snedegar


Ian Glass


100


Da Serra da Mantiqueira as Montanhas do Havai - A Historia do Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica by Christina Helena da Motta Barboza

Antonio A.P. Videira

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Vol. 19 No. 2


Jul/Aug 2016


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Evolution of the Foucault-Secretan reflecting telescope


William Tobin

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The early history of low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 6: Michael Bessell and the University of Tasmania’s Richmond field station near Hobart


Martin George, Wayne Orchiston, Brice Slee, and Richard Wielebinski 

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Are space studies a scientific discipline in its own right?


Jérôme Lamay and Emmanuel Davoust

195

How supernovae became the basis of observational cosmology



Maria Victorovna Pruzhinskaya and Sergey Mikhailovich Lisakov

203

Astronomy of the Korku Tribe of India


M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare, and Purushottam Dahedar

216

Book Reviews (all)




The Dawning Moon of the Mind by Susan Brind Morrow


Clifford J. Cunningham

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Exploring the History of New Zealand Astronomy: Trials, Tribulations, Telescopes and Transits by Wayne Orchiston


William Tobin

234

Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story, by Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota and Franco Giudice, translated by Catherine Bolton AND Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo & the Politics of Knowledge by Nick Wilding


Clifford J. Cunningham

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Editorial Note

Wayne Orchiston

238


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Vol. 19 No. 3



Nov/Dec 2016

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Highlighting the history of Japanese radio astronomy, 4: early solar research in Osaka



Wayne Orchiston, Tsuko Nakamura, and Masato Ishiguro

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A lunar eclipse volvelle in Petrus Apianus’ Astronomicum Caesareum


Lars Gislén

247

On the lost portrait of Galileo by the Tuscan painter Santi di Tito


Paolo Molaro

255

Nūr Ud-Dīn Jah Ngīr and Father Kirwitzer: the independent discovery of the Great Comets of November 1618 and the first astronomical use of the telescope in India


R.C. Kapoor

264

Introducing AstroGen: the Astronomy Genealogy Project


Joseph S. Tenn

298

William Herschel’s ‘Hole in the Sky’ and the discovery of dark nebulae


Wolfgang Steinicke

305

Reconstructing the star knowledge of Aboriginal Tasmanians

Michelle Gantevoort, Duane W. Hamacher, and Savannah Lischick

327

Book Reviews (all)




Astronomy in India 1784–1876 by Joydeep Sen


Mayank Vahia

348

Wolf Telescopes: A Collection of Historical Telescopes by Wolf, Edward D. Wolf


William Tobin

349

Chintamani Ragoonatha Charry and Contemporary Indian Astronomy by B.S. Shylaja


Ramesh Kapoor and Wayne Orchiston

351

History of the Sky – On Stones by B.S. Shylaja, and Geetha Kydala Ganesha


Wayne Orchiston

353

History of Indian Astronomy: A Handboook edited by K. Ramasubramanian, Aniket Sule, and Mayank Vahia


Wayne Orchiston

356

Corrigendum




Errata and Addenda


Wayne Orchiston

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Index for Volume 19


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