| JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY 2007 CONTENTS |
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| Volume 38 Part 1, February 2007, No. 130 | ||
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Celestial Charts and Spherical Triangles: The Unifying Power of Symmetry
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BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN and GIORA HON
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1–14 |
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Truth and Propaganda in Images of the Trial of Galileo
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JOHN LEWIS
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15–29 |
| Frank Ross, his Ross Lens Design, and the Lick Observatory 20-inch Astrograph |
DONALD E. OSTERBROCK
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31–73 |
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Huo Rong’s Observation Programme of A.D. 102 and the Han Li Solar Table
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CHRISTOPHER CULLEN
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75–98 |
| Michael Maestlin and the New Star of 1572 | MIGUEL A. GRANADA | 99–124 |
| Essay Review Die astronomische Forschungen in Kassel unter Wilhelm IV, by Jürgen Hamel, and Christoph Rothmann’s Handbuch der Astronomie von 1589, ed. by Miguel A. Granada, Jürgen Hamel and Ludolf von Mackensen (Richard L. Kremer) |
125–129 |
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| Book Reviews The Day Without Yesterday, by John Farrell (Helge Kragh); Pierre Simon Laplace 1749–1827, by Roger Hahn (Stephen M. Stigler); Exploring Ancient Skies, by David H. Kelley and Eugene F. Milone (Clive Ruggles); Revolutionaries of the Cosmos, by I. S. Glass (David DeVorkin) |
129–136 |
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| Notices of Books | 136–138 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 138–139 | |
| Volume 38 Part 2, May 2007, No. 131 | ||
| On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples: (3) Key Points in Lower Egypt and Siwa Oasis, Part I | MOSALAM SHALTOUT, JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE, and MAGDI FEKRI | 141–160 |
| The Discovery of the Companion of Sirius and its Aftermath | J. B. HOLBERG and F. WESEMAEL | 161–174 |
| A Catalogue of Greco-Roman Comets from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400 | JOHN T. RAMSEY | 175–197 |
| The Star Alignment Hypothesis for the Great Pyramid Shafts | JOHN J. WALL | 199–206 |
| Kepler v. the Epicureans: Causality, Coincidence and the Origins of the New Star of 1604 | PATRICK J. BONER | 207–221 |
| Notes Visualization of the Almagest Star Catalogue (Ernie Wright); Six Observations of the Heliacal Rise of Sirius (Rumen Kolev) |
222–228 | |
| Essay Review Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy, ed. by John W. Fountain and Rolf M. Sinclair, and Viewing the Sky Through Past and Present Cultures, ed. by Todd W. Bostwick and Bryan Bates (Stephen McCluskey) |
229–236 | |
| Book Reviews | 236–258 | |
| Notices of Books | 258–260 |
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| Asger Hartvig Aaboe (1922–2007) |
BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN | 261–263 |
| Notes on Contributors | 264–266 | |
| Volume 38 Part 3, August 2007, No. 132 | ||
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SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CIRCULATION OF ASTRONOMICAL
PRACTICES IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE |
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| Introduction | JOSÉ CHABÁS and RICHARD L. KREMER | 267–268 |
| From Toledo to Venice: The Alfonsine Tables of Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi of Padua (1424) | JOSÉ CHABÁS | 269–281 |
| “Abbreviating” the Alfonsine Tables in Cracow: The Tabulae Aureae of Petrus Gaszowiec (1448) | RICHARD L. KREMER | 283–304 |
| Astronomy in Paulerinus’s Fifteenth-century Encyclopaedia Liber Viginti Arcium | ALENA HADRAVOVÁ and PETR HADRAVA | 305–324 |
| Regiomontanus as a Physical Astronomer: Samplings from The Defence of Theon Against George of Trebizond | MICHAEL H. SHANK | 325–349 |
| Solar Eclipse Observations in the Time of Copernicus: Tradition or Novelty? | JAROSLAW WLODARCZYK | 351–364 |
| Novae and Variables Before the Spectroscope | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 365–379 |
| Book Reviews Miscellanea Kepleriana, ed. by Friederike Boockmann et al. (Adam Mosley); Galileo’s Instruments of Credit, by Mario Biagioli (Michael Sharratt); Horoscopes and Public Spheres, ed. by Günther Oestmann et al. (John North); Sirius, by Jay B. Holberg (Bradley E. Schaefer); Die Große Kosmologische Kontroversie, by Harald Siebert (Ingrid D. Rowland); The Cosmic Century, by Malcolm S. Longair (David Kaiser) |
380–390 |
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| Notes on Contributors | 391–392 |
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| Volume 38 Part 4, November 2007, No. 133 | ||
| Cosmic Radioactivity and the Age of the Universe, 1900–1930 | HELGE KRAGH | 393–412 |
| On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples: (3) Key Points at Lower Egypt and Siwa Oasis, Part II | MOSALAM SHALTOUT, JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE, and MAGDI FEKRI | 413–442 |
| A Study of Babylonian Observations Involving the Zodiac | J. M. STEELE and J. M. K. GRAY | 443–458 |
| The Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of 1900 | FRANÇOISE LAUNAY | 459–475 |
| The New Star of 1572 and Hungary | GÁBOR F. FARKAS and ENDRE ZSOLDOS | 477–486 |
| Orientations of Neolithic Monuments of Brittany: (2) The Early Dolmens; and (3) The Allées Couvertes | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 487–501 |
| Book Reviews | 503–525 |
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| Henry C. King (1915–2005) | DAVID KING | 526–527 |
| Notes on Contributors | 528–530 |
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| Index to Volume 38 | 531–534 |
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