JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

 

Volume 24 (2021)

Vol. 24, No. 1

 

 

 

March

 

 

 

 

 

Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the JAHH and the cover

 

 

Inside Cover

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

Editorial

 

Wayne Orchiston

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Govind Swarup’s contribution to Indian science: the recollections of a non-radio astronomer

 

Arnab Rai Choudhuri

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

William Dawes: practical astronomy on the ‘First Fleet’ from England to Australia

 

Richard de Grijs and Andrew P. Jacob

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

Sydney’s scientific beginnings: William Dawes’ observatories in context

 

Richard de Grijs and Andrew P. Jacob

 

41

 

 

 

 

 

An analysis of the golden numbers on the calendar disk on the astronomical clock in Lund

 

Lars Gislen

 

77

 

 

 

 

 

The rise of ultraviolet astronomy in France

 

James Lequeux

 

83

 

 

 

 

 

Comet tales from India: Donati’s Comet of 1858 (C/1858 L1 Donati)

 

R.C. Kapoor

 

98

 

 

 

 

 

Observations of the total solar eclipse of 18 August 1868 carried out by Jules Janssen at Guntoor, India

 

Francoise Launay

 

114

 

 

 

 

 

Two proto-science-fiction novels written in French by eighteenth century women

 

Yael Naze

 

125

 

 

 

 

 

On the alleged use of Keplerian telescopes in Naples in the 1610s

 

Paolo Del Santo

 

137

 

 

 

 

 

The history of early low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 10: Shain, Gardner, and Jovian observations made at Fleurs and Potts Hill field stations in Sydney during 1955–1956

 

Wayne Orchiston, Martin George, Harry Wendt and Richard Wielebinski

 

141

 

 

 

 

 

Diameters (bimbas) of the Sun, Moon and Earth’s shadow-cone in Indian astronomical texts, with special reference to the Makarandasāriṇī and the Ganakānanda

 

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

 

159

 

 

 

 

 

From the Archives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A complicated relationship: an introduction to the correspondence between Percival Lowell and Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli

 

Jennifer Putnam and William Sheehan

 

170

 

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews (all)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion & Culture in the Galileo Affair, by Maurice Finocchiaro

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

228

 

 

 

 

 

On the Life of Galileo: Viviani’s Historical Account and other Early Biographies, edited by Stefano Gattei

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

228

 

 

 

 

 

Where Have all the Heavens Gone?: Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, edited by John P. McCarthy and Edmondo F. Lupieri

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

228

 

 

 

 

 

What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, by Donovan Moore

 

David Whelan

 

230

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait of a Binary, by Sylvia L. Boyd

 

David Whelan

 

230

 

 

 

 

 

Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky, by Steven R. Gullberg

 

Bruce Love

 

233

 

 

 

 

 

Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context, edited by Johannes Haubold, John Steele and Kathryn Stevens

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

234

 

 

 

 

 

Festschrift – Proceedings of the Christoph J. Scriba Memorial Meeting – History of Mathematics (Nuncius Hamburgensis; Bd. 36), edited by Gudrun Wolfschmidt

 

Katharina Habermann

 

236

 

 

 

 

 

Early Greek Philosophies of Nature, by Andrew Gregory

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

237

 

 

 

 

 

The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600–1625, by Timon Screech

 

Christopher M. Graney

 

239

 

 

 

 

 

Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a way of life, by Jacqueline Feke

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

241

 

 

 

 

 

Letter to the Editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Re: The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600–1625, by Timon Screech

 

Tsuko Nakamura

 

243

 

 

 

 

 

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Vol. 24, No. 2

 

 

 

June

 

 

 

 

 

Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the JAHH and the cover

 

 

Inside Cover

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

245

 

 

 

 

 

Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interferometry and monochromatic imaging at Marseille Observatory

 

Yvon Georgelin and James Lequeux

 

247

 

 

 

 

 

Time signals for mariners in South Africa

 

Roger Kinns

 

285

 

 

 

 

 

Time signals for mariners in the Atlantic Islands and West Africa

 

Roger Kinns

 

315

 

 

 

 

 

Where was mean solar time first adopted?

 

Simone Bianchi

 

337

 

 

 

 

 

The Seven Sisters: a Pleiades cantata

 

Clifford J. Cunningham and Barbara Bacik Case

 

345

 

 

 

 

 

Ragoonatha Charry and the observations of the total solar eclipse of 1868 from Vanpurthy (Wanparthy), India

 

T.V. Venkateswaran

 

363

 

 

 

 

 

King Rama IV, Sir Harry Ord and the total solar eclipse of 18 August 1868: power, politics and astronomy

 

Wayne Orchiston and Darunee Lingling Orchiston

 

389

 

 

 

 

 

European longitude prizes. 2: Astronomy, religion and engineering solutions in the Dutch Republic

 

Richard de Grijs

 

405

 

 

 

 

 

Unified analysis of observation dates for ancient star maps and catalogues in Asia

 

Tsuko Nakamura

 

440

 

 

 

 

 

Australian eclipses: the Western Australian eclipse of 1974 and the East Coast eclipse of 1976

 

Nick Lomb

 

475

 

 

 

 

 

Showcasing seventeenth-century Jesuit astronomy in Asia: the lead-up to the first scientific observations of a solar eclipse carried out in Siam

 

Wayne Orchiston, Darunee Lingling Orchiston, Lars Gislén, Martin George,

Boonrucksar Soonthornthum, Françoise Launay, Suzanne Débarbat and

Matthieu Husson

 

498

 

 

 

 

 

Karl Schwarzschild, Annie J. Cannon and Cornelis Easton: the honorary PhDs of Jacobus C. Kapteyn

 

Pieter C. van der Kruit

 

521

 

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews (all)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese Astrology and Astronomy: An Outside History, by Jiang Xiaoyuan

 

David Pankenier

 

544

 

 

 

 

 

Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler and Galileo Discovered the Modern World, by L.S. Fauber

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

545

 

 

 

 

 

Internationality in the Astronomical Research of the 18th to 20th Centuries, edited by G. Wolfschmidt

 

Andreas Schrimpf

 

546

 

 

 

 

 

Leopolis Scientifica. Science in Lviv till the Middle of the XX Century, edited by Oleh Petruk

 

Volodymyr Pelykh and Roman Plyatsko

 

548

 

 

 

 

 

The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science, by Seb Falk

 

Marion Dolan

 

549

 

 

 

 

 

Mars, by Stephen O’Meara

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

552

 

 

 

 

 

The Sky Atlas, by Edward Brooke-Hitching

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

554

 

 

 

 

 

Star Maps, History, Artistry, and Cartography (Third Edition), by Nick Kanas

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

554

 

 

 

 

 

Celestial Atlas: A Journey in the Sky Through Maps, by Elena Percivaldi

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

554

 

 

 

 

 

Storočia Astronómie v Prešove, edited by Renáta Kolivošková

 

Martin Vaňko

 

556

 

 

 

 

 

The Mythology of the Night Sky: Greek, Roman and Other Celestial Lore, by David Falkner

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

558

 

 

 

 

 

Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarion’s “History of the Heavens”, by John F. Blake

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

558

 

 

 

 

 

The Birth of Modern Astronomy, by Harm J. Habing

 

Robert W. Smith

 

559

 

 

 

 

 

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Vol. 24, No. 3

 

 

 

September

 

 

 

 

 

Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the JAHH and the cover

 

 

Inside Cover

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

561

 

 

 

 

 

Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The early years of the solar variations project at Lowell Observatory: birth pangs of a decades-long research endeavor

 

G. Wesley Lockwood and William Sheehan

 

563

 

 

 

 

 

Five decades of solar research at the Mic du Midi Turret-Dome (1960–2010). Part 1: Overview of instrumentation and observations

 

Th. Roudier, J.-M. Malherbe, J.-P. Rozelot, P. Mein and R. Muller

 

585

 

 

 

 

 

Record of a solar eclipse in an eighteenth-century painting from Kangra, India

 

B.S. Shylaja

 

607

 

 

 

 

 

Australian eclipses: three “Men of Science” and the Sydney eclipse of 1857

 

Nick Lomb

 

619

 

 

 

 

 

Norman Robert Pogson and observations of the total solar eclipse of 1868 from Masuliptam, India

 

Biman B. Nath and Wayne Orchiston

 

629

 

 

 

 

 

It’s all Greek: Three of Kepler’s book titles

 

Paul Gabor and Katarina Petrovićová

 

652

 

 

 

 

 

Fixing the chronology in Tai-Ahom chronicles by using astronomical references

 

R.C. Kapoor

 

665

 

 

 

 

 

A new and improved orbit for a Comet C/400 F1

 

Gary W. Kronk

 

688

 

 

 

 

 

A new and improved orbit for Comet C/1558 P1

 

Maik Meyer

 

697

 

 

 

 

 

Tales from India: the Great March Comet of 1843 (C/1843 D1)

 

R.C. Kapoor

 

703

 

 

 

 

 

European longitude prizes. 3: The unsolved mystery of an alleged Venetian longitude prize

 

Richard de Grijs

 

728

 

 

 

 

 

European longitude prizes. 4: Thomas Axe’s impossible terms

 

Richard de Grijs

 

739

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring the Portsmouth time balls

 

Roger Kinns, Paul Fuller and Douglas Bateman

 

751

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seventeenth century French Jesuit longitude determinations in Asia: on the art of rectifying the clocks

 

Lars Gislén

 

770

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intangible heritage: connecting astronomical telescopes and their users

 

Klaus Staubermann, Johan Kärnfelt and Gustav Holmberg

 

776

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ronald A. McIntosh: pioneer Southern Hemisphere meteor observer

 

Wayne Orchiston, John Drummond and Michael Luciuk

 

789

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Burmese Uḍhaya procedure: a simplified calculation of the oblique ascension of the Sun

 

Lars Gislén

 

818

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Archives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two photograph albums from the German transit of Venus expedition to the Auckland Islands in 1874

 

William Tobin

 

823

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reminiscences

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reminiscences of a radio astronomer

 

James Lequeux

 

862

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews (all)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium, edited by Christiaan Sterken, John Hearnshaw, and David Valls-Gabaud

 

Robert W. Smith

 

876

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advancing Cultural Astronomy: Studies in Honour of Clive Ruggles, edited by Efrosyni Boutsikas, Stephen C. McCluskey, and John Steele

 

Steven J. Dick

 

877

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives, edited by Ian Crawford

 

Steven J. Dick

 

879

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World, by Jörg Matthias Determann

 

Steven J. Dick

 

882

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude, by Jonathan Betts

 

Jane Desborough

 

884

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock, edited by Rory McEvoy and Jonathan Betts

 

Jane Desborough

 

885

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Orreries, Clocks and London Society, by Tony Buick

 

Jane Desborough

 

887

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neptune: From Grand Discovery to a World Revealed. Essays on the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of John Couch Adams, edited by William Sheehan, Trudy E. Bell, Carolyn Kennett and Robert W. Smith

 

Steven J. Dick

 

889

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Einstein was Right: The Science and History of Gravitational Waves, edited by Jed Z. Buchwald

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

892

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lightspeed: The Ghostly Aether and the Race to Measure the Speed of Light, by John C. Spence

 

Jana Ruth Ford

 

894

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy and Authority in Early Imperial China, by Christopher Cullen

 

Rebecca Robinson

 

896

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wordsworth, Coleridge, and ‘The Language of the Heavens’, by Thomas Owen

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

898

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stargazer: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel, by Anne Hillerman

 

Von Del Chamberlain

 

899

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient Khmer Sites in North-eastern Thailand: Khorat, Buriram and the Angkor-Phimai Route, by Asger Mollerup

 

Wayne Orchiston

 

901

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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