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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) |
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| 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 | |