| JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY 2008 CONTENTS |
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| Volume 39 Part 1, February 2008, No. 134 | ||
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A Miniature Ivory Sundial with Equinox Indicator from Ptolemaic Tanis, Egypt
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JAMES EVANS and MARCEL MARÉE
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1–17 |
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The Babylonian Month and the New Moon: Sighting and Prediction
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SACHA STERN
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19–42 |
| O Male Factum: Rectilinearity and Kepler’s Discovery of the Ellipse |
DAVID MARSHALL MILLER
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43–63 |
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Orientations of Megalithic Tombs in Algeria (1): Djebel Mazela and Rocknia Necropolises, and the Kabylian Allées Couvertes
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JEAN-FRANÇOIS SANTUCCI and EL HADI KHOUMERI
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65–76 |
| Carolingian Planetary Observations: The Case of the Leiden Planetary Configuration | ELLY DEKKER | 77–90 |
| Beyond the Galaxy: The Development of Extragalactic Astronomy 1885–1965, Part 1 | ROBERT W. SMITH | 91–119 |
| Note George III’s Purchase of Herschel Reflectors (Michael Hoskin) |
121–124 |
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| Book Reviews Die antiken Sonnenuhren Griechenlands, by Karlheinz Schaldach (James Evans); Johannes von Gmunden (ca. 1384–1442), ed. by Rudolf Simek and Kathrin Chlench (Michael H. Shank); Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein, by Michael J. Crowe (Richard L. Kremer); Behind the Scenes at Galileo’s Trial, by Richard J. Blackwell (Kenneth J. Howell); Cape Landscapes, by Brian Warner (Michael Hoskin); Mary Somerville and the World of Science, by Allan Chapman (Kathryn A. Neeley); La Grande Lunette de Meudon, by Audoin Dollfus (James Caplan and Françoise Le Guet Tully); Into the Black, by Peter J. Westwick (Ronald E. Doel); Theaters of Time and Space, by Jordan D. Marché II (Ed C. Krupp) |
125–136
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| Notices of Books | 137 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 138–140 |
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| Volume 39 Part 2, May 2008, No. 135 | ||
| Hippocrates of Chios’s Theory of Comets | MALCOLM WILSON | 141–160 |
| Why Was the Companion of Sirius Not Seen Prior to 1862? | FRANÇOIS WESEMAEL and RENÉ RACINE | 161–179 |
| On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples: (4) Epilogue in Serabit el Khadim and Overview | JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE, MOSALAM SHALTOUT and MAGDI FEKRI | 181–211 |
| A ‘Watermark’ of Eudoxan Astronomy | ELLY DEKKER | 213–228 |
| How Reliable Are Archaic Records of Large Solar Eclipses? | F. RICHARD STEPHENSON | 229–250 |
| Gravity and Light in the Newtonian Universe of Stars | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 251–264 |
| Essay Review De Revolutionibus:Die erste deutsche Übersetzung in der Grazer Handschrift, ed. by Andreas Kühne et al. (Miguel A. Granada) |
265–271 | |
| Book Reviews Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (Michael Hoskin); Els Dòlmens Catalans en el Context de l’Europa Occidental, by Josep Oriol Font Cot (Michael Hoskin); Ordering the Heavens, by Bruce S. Eastwood (Anne-Laurence Caudano); Inventar der historischen Sonnenuhren in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, by Jürgen Hamel (Catherine Eagleton) |
272–278 | |
| Notices of Books | 279–280 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 281–282 | |
| Volume 39 Part 3, August 2008, No. 136 | ||
| Four Lost Episodes in Ancient Solar Theory | DENNIS DUKE | 283–296 |
| Edmund C. Stoner and the Discovery of the Maximum Mass of White Dwarfs | MICHAEL NAUENBERG | 297–312 |
| The Making of a Tychonic Cosmology: Cristoforo Borri and the Development of Tycho Brahe’s Astronomical System | LUÍS MIGUEL CAROLINO | 313–344 |
| Transmission of Computational Methods Within the Alfonsine Corpus: The Case of the Tables of Nicholaus de Heybech | BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN and JOSÉ CHABÁS | 345–355 |
| Inca Shadow Casting Observations in Cuzco | RITA FINK | 357–361 |
| Nebulae, Star Clusters and the Milky Way: From Galileo to William Herschel | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 363–396 |
| Note William Herschel’s “Eccho Catch” (Bruce N. Whitson) |
397–404 |
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| Derek Thomas Whiteside (1932–2008) | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 402–404 |
| Book Reviews The Herschels of Hanover, by Michael Hoskin (Michael J. Crowe); The Apotheosis of Janaab’ Pakal, by Gerardo Aldana (Clemency Coggins); The Star of the Magi, by Courtney Roberts (John North); Der Meister und die Fernrohre, ed. by Jürgen Hamel and Inge Keil (Sven Dupré); Inventar der historischen Sonnenuhren in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, by Jürgen Hamel (Catherine Eagleton); Astronomiya drevnei Rusi, by Daniil Svyatskiy (Robert A. McCutcheon); The Geometry of Power / The Power of Geometry, by Michael Korey (Deborah Jean Warner); Mikołaj Kopernik Dzieła Wszystkie, iii, ed. by Andrzej Wyczański (Owen Gingerich); Practical Mystic, by Matthew Stanley (Edward B. Davis); Thomas Hardy’s Novel Universe, by Pamela Gossin (Holly Henry) |
405–421 |
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| Notices of Books | 421–422 |
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| Notes on Contributors | 422–424 |
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| Volume 39 Part 4, November 2008, No. 137 | ||
| Galileus Deceptus, Non Minime Decepit: A Re-appraisal of a Counter-argument in Dialogo to the Extrusion Effect of a Rotating Earth | PAOLO PALMIERI | 425–452 |
| The Nub of the Lunar Problem: From Euler to G. W. Hill | CURTIS WILSON | 453–468 |
| Kepler and Bruno on the Infinity of the Universe and of Solar Systems | MIGUEL A. GRANADA | 469–495 |
| Orientations of Channel Islands Megalithic Tombs | DAVID LE CONTE | 497–506 |
| Orientations of Dolmens of Western Europe: Summary and Conclusions | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 507–514 |
| Note A Test of the “Simultaneous Transit Method” (Geoffrey Kolbe) |
515–517 |
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| Essay Review Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655): Introduction à la Vie Savant, by Sylvia Taussig, and Lettres Latines, transl. by Sylvia Taussig (Robert Alan Hatch) |
518–528 | |
| Book Reviews Bearing the Heavens, by Adam Mosley (Gérald Péoux); Galileo’s Glassworks, by Eileen Reeves (J. L. Heilbron); Astronomy as a Model for the Sciences in Early Modern Times, ed. by Menso Folkerts and Andreas Kühne (John D. North); Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, intr. by Robert H. van Gent (Volker R. Remmert); Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics, by José Luis Mancha (Robert Morrison); Conceptions of Cosmos, by Helge S. Kragh (George Ellis); Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, by George Saliba (Emilie Savage-Smith); Calendars and Years, ed. by John M. Steele (Francesca Rochberg) |
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| Notices of Books | 544 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 545–546 |
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| Index to Volume 39 | 547–550 |
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