JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

 

 

 

Volume 21

 

 

Vol. 21 No. 1

Mar/Apr 2018

 

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Contents

1

 

Papers

 

On lunisolar calendars and intercalation schemes in Southeast Asia

Lars Gislen

2

 

Yes, Aboriginal Australians can and did discover the variability of Betelgeuse

Bradley E. Schaefer

7

 

The advent of female astronomers at Turin Observatory

Gabriella Bernardi and Alberto Vecchiato

13

 

White supremacism and Islamic astronomy in history of astronomy texts from the eighteenth century to the present day

Joe Lockard

29

 

The history of early low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 9: the University of Tasmania’s Llanherne (Hobart Airport) Field Station during the 1960s-1980s 

Martin George, Wayne Orchiston, and Richard Wielebinski

37

 

Contribution of the AN/TPS-3 Radar Antenna to Australian radio astronomy

Harry Wendt and Wayne Orchiston

65

 

The many transformations of the University of Illinois Observatory Annex

Michael Svec

81

 

Book Reviews (all)

 

The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy by Emily Winterburn

Clifford Cunningham

94

 

The Rise of Radio Astronomy in the Netherlands: The People and the Politics by Astrid Elbers

Richard Strom

95

 

Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy: Mills, Christiansen, Wild, Bracewell by R.H. Frater, W.M. Goss, W.M., and H.W. Wendt

Peter Robertson

96

 

Lewis Swift: Celebrated Comet Hunter and the Peoples’ Astronomer by Gary W. Kronk

Wayne Orchiston

98

 

John Tebbutt: Rebuilding and Strengthening the Foundations of Australian Astronomy by Wayne Orchiston

Peter Robertson

101

 

The History of World Calendars and Calendar- making. Proceedings of the International Con-ference in Commemoration of the 600th Anniversary of the Birth of Kim Dam by Nha Il-Seong, Wayne Orchiston, and F. Richard Stephenson

Mayank Vahia

103

 

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Vol. 21 No. 2-3

Nov/Dec 2018

 

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Contents

105

 

Editorial

106

 

 

Papers

 

Twin Suns in Australian Aboriginal traditions

Duane W. Hamacher and Rubina R. Visuvanathan 

107

 

 

Australites. Part 1: Aboriginal involvement in their discovery

Philip A. Clarke 

115

 

 

On the epoch of the Kollam Era

Lars Gislen

134

 

 

A commentary on the volvelles in Petrus ApianusAstronomicum Caesareum

Lars Gislen

135

 

 

The solar ingress (Sankranti) according to the Makarandasarini and other Indian astronomical texts

S.K. Uma, Padmaja Venugopal, K. Rupa and S. Balachandra Rao 

202

 

 

Cassini’s 1679 map of the Moon and French Jesuit observations of the lunar eclipse of 11 December 1685

Lars Gislen, Francoise Launay, Wayne Orchiston, Darunee Lingling Orchiston, Suzanne Debarbat, Matthieu Husson, Martin George, and Boonrucksar Soonthornthum 

211

 

 

Francis G. Pease and the first galactic rotation curves (1916-1922)

Jordan Marche II and Benjamin Weber 

226

 

Book Reviews (all)

 

Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research, by Clifford J. Cunningham; Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research, by Clifford J. Cunningham; Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research, by Clifford J. Cunningham 

William Sheehan 

237

 

Discovering Pluto: Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System, by Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan 

Clifford Cunningham

240

 

 

The Sun, by Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff 

Clifford Cunningham

241

 

The Emergence of Astrophysics in Asia: Opening a New Window on the Universe, edited by Tsuko Nakamura and Wayne Orchiston 

Yukio Ohashi 

242

 

 

Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition, by Alberto A. Martinez 

Clifford Cunningham

249

 

Giovanni Domenico Cassini: A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century, by Gabriela Bernardi

 

Clifford Cunningham

250

 

The Scientific Legacy of William Herschel, edited by Clifford J. Cunningham

Stephen Case

251

 

Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett, by R. Peter Broughton

Clifford Cunningham

253

 

 

A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World, by Alexander Jones

 

Clifford Cunningham

254

 

Merz Telescopes: A Global Heritage Worth Preserving, edited by Ileana Chinnici

Paul Gabor

255

 

Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science, by Francesca Rochberg

Clifford Cunningham

256

 

Space Science and the Arab World: Astronomers, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East, by Jorg Matthias Determann

Robert W. Smith 

257

 

Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan, by Yulia Frumer

Daniel Belteki 

258

 

 

The Moon, by Bill Leatherbarrow

Clifford Cunningham

259

 

 

Index

262

 

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