JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2004 CONTENTS
| Volume 35 Part 1, February 2004, No. 118 | ||
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The Astrologer’s Apparatus: A Picture of Professional Practice in Greco-Roman Egypt
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JAMES EVANS
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1–44 |
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“For the Good of Astronomy”: The Manufacture, Sale, and Distant Use of William Herschel’s Telescopes
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JOHN TRACY SPAIGHT
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45–69 |
| Hipparchus and the Ancient Metrical Methods on the Sphere |
NATHAN SIDOLI
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71–84 |
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On the Orientations of Sardinian Nuraghes: Some Clues to Their Interpretation
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MAURO ZEDDA and JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE
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85–107 |
| Essay Review The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe, by Bruce S. Eastwood (Stephen McCluskey) |
109–111 | |
| Book Reviews The American Astronomical Society’s First Century, ed. by David DeVorkin (Peter D. Hingley); A Catalogue Raisonné of Scientific Instruments from the Louvain School, 1530 to 1600, by Koenraad Van Cleempoel (Owen Gingerich); Tycho and Kepler, by Kitty Ferguson (Volker Bialas) |
112–116
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| I. Bernard Cohen (1914–2003) |
117–119 | |
| Piotr Gregor’evich Kulikovsky (1910–2003) |
120–121 |
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| Notes on Contributors |
121–122 |
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| Vol. 35 Part 2, May 2004, No. 119 |
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| Ménage à Trois: David Peck Todd, Mabel Loomis Todd, Austin Dickinson, and the 1882 Transit of Venus |
WILLIAM SHEEHAN and ANTHONY MISCH |
123–134 |
| Galileo’s Horoscopes |
N. M. SWERDLOW |
135–141 |
| Heavenly Bodies: Newtonianism, Natural Theology and the Plurality of Worlds Debate in the Eighteenth Century |
PATRICIA FARA |
143–160 |
| The Latitude and Epoch for the Origin of the Astronomical Lore of Eudoxus |
BRADLEY E. SCHAEFER |
161–223 |
| Note Computer Animations of Ancient Greek and Arabic Planetary Models (Dennis Duke) |
225–228 |
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| Essay Review Astronomy Across Cultures, ed. by Helaine Selin (Clive Ruggles) |
229–236 |
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| Erratum |
236 |
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| Book Reviews Sky and Ocean Joined, by Steven J. Dick (Donald E. Osterbrock); Cometography, ii: 1800–1899, by Gary W. Kronk (Daniel W. E. Green); Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science, by Holly Henry (Ronald P. Olowin); Giants of Delft, by Robert D. Huerta (Allan Mills); Lost Stars, by Morton Wagman (Owen Gingerich); La Voie Lactée, by Frédéric Chaberlot (Michael Hoskin) |
237–246 |
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| Notices of Books |
246 |
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| Notes on Contributors |
247–248 |
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| Vol. 35 Part 3, August 2004, No. 120 |
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| The Empirical Foundations of Ptolemy’s Planetary Theory |
N. M. SWERDLOW |
249–271 |
| Symmetry in Copernicus and Galileo |
GIORA HON and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN |
273–292 |
| The Education of an Astronomical Maverick: T. J. J. See and the University of Missouri |
CHARLES J. PETERSON |
293–304 |
| Michael Maestlin and the Fate of the Narratio Prima |
KATHERINE A. TREDWELL |
305–325 |
| Historical Values of the Earth’s Clock Error Delta T and the Calculation of Eclipses |
L. V. MORRISON and F. R. STEPHENSON |
327–336 |
| Applied Historical Astronomy: An Historical Perspective |
J. M. STEELE |
337–355 |
| Note Was William Herschel a Deserter? (Michael Hoskin) |
356–358 |
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| Book Reviews The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction, by Michael Hoskin (Curtis Wilson); The Book Nobody Read, by Owen Gingerich (Dennis Danielson); The Man Who Flattened the Earth, by Mary Terrall (Craig B. Waff); Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church, and “Galileo and the Catholic Church”, by Annibale Fantoli (Michael Hoskin); The Foundations of Newtonian Scholarship, ed. by Richard H. Dalitz and Michael Nauenberg (Robert Alan Hatch); John Herschel’s Cape Voyage, by Steven Ruskin (Michael Hoskin) |
359–369 |
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| Notices of Books |
370 |
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| Jerzy Dobrzycki (1927–2004) |
371–372 |
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| Notes on Contributors |
373–374 |
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| Erratum |
374 |
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| Vol. 35 Part 4, November 2004, No. 121 |
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| A Route to the Ancient Discovery of Non-uniform Planetary Motion |
ALEXANDER JONES |
375–386 |
| Alexander Herschel: The Forgotten Partner |
MICHAEL HOSKIN, with Appendix by JONATHAN BETTS |
387–420 |
| Megalithic Astronomy of Easter Island: A Reassessment |
EDMUNDO R. EDWARDS and JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE |
421–433 |
| The Arachne of the Amphiareion and the Origin of Gnomonics in Greece |
KARLHEINZ SCHALDACH |
435–445 |
| The Oldest Collection of Astronomical Plates: Recreating Photographic Practice of the 1880s |
KLAUS STAUBERMANN |
447–456 |
| Achilles Gasser and the Birth of Copernicanism |
DENNIS DANIELSON |
457–474 |
| The Spring Full Moon |
C. MARCIANO DA SILVA |
475–478 |
| Essay Review The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo, by José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein (N. M. Swerdlow) |
479–484 |
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| Book Reviews Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers, by Gerard L’E. Turner (John North); Heavenly Intrigue, by Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder (Marcelo Gleiser); Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes, by Elly Decker (Owen Gingerich); The Dictionary of Nineteenth-century British Scientists, ed. by Bernard Lightman (Michael Hoskin); Malta Before History, ed. by Daniel Cilia (Michael Hoskin) |
485–493 |
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| Notices of Books |
494–495 |
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| Notes on Contributors |
496–497 |
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| Index to Volume 35 |
498–500 |
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