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JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2009 CONTENTS
Volume 40 Part 1, February 2009, No. 138
Editorial: Journals Under Threat
v–viii
The Second Moon of the Earth
HELGE KRAGH
1–10
Giovanni Borelli and the Comets of 1664–65 LUCIANO BOSCHIERO 11–30
A Catalogue of “Guest Stars” Recorded in East Asian History from Earliest Times to A.D. 1600 F. RICHARD STEPHENSON and DAVID A. GREEN 31–54

Kepler’s ‘Via Ovalis Composita’: Unity from Diversity A. E. L. DAVIS 55–69
Beyond the Galaxy: The Development of Extragalactic Astronomy 1885–1965, Part 2 ROBERT W. SMITH 71–107
Essay Reviews
Skywatching in the Ancient World, ed. by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton (Gerardo Aldana); Imagination des Himmels, ed. by Franziska Brons (Nick Jardine)
109–120

Book Reviews
Zvezdnoe nebo drevnei Mesopotamii, by G. E. Kurtik (Arkadiusz Soltysiak); Astronomy and Astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib, by Julio Samsó (George Saliba); Reachable Stars, by George E. Lankford (Anthony F. Aveni); A History of Horoscopic Astrology, by James Herschel Holden (Raymond Mercier); A Book of Astronomy, by Guido Bonatti (Laura A. Smoller); Kepler’s Astrology, ed. by Valerie Vaughan (Patrick J. Boner); One Time Fits All, by Ian R. Bartky (Graeme Gooday); Secrets of the Hoary Deep, by Riccardo Giacconi (Richard Hirsh)
120–133



Notices of Books 134
Notes on Contributors 134–136
Volume 40 Part 2, May 2009, No. 139
The Discovery of the Existence of White Dwarf Stars: 1862 to 1930
J. B. HOLBERG 137–154
The Search for Stellar Parallaxes and the Discovery of the Aberration of Light: The Observational Proofs of the Earth’s Revolution, Eustachio Manfredi, and the ‘Bologna Case’ ANDREA GUALANDI and FABRIZIO BÒNOLI 155–172

On the Equivalence of Hypotheses in Part 1 of Johannes Kepler’s New Astronomy ANASTASIA GUIDI ITOKAZU 173–190

The Galileo Affair: Two Decisions ERNAN McMULLIN 191–212
Notes
A Year Length Hidden in Ancient Planetary Mean Motions (Dennis Duke); Orientations of Channel Islands Megalithic Tombs: Addendum (David Le Conte)
213–218
Book Reviews
Keplero, by Anna Maria Lombardi (Andrea Gualandi); Ancient Greek Cosmogony, by Andrew Gregory (Geoffrey Lloyd); The Astrolabe, by James E. Morrison (James Evans); ‘Let There Be Lights in the Firmament of the Heaven’, by Anne-Laurence Caudano (W. F. Ryan); Caesar’s Calendar, by Denis Feeney (Robert Hannah); Jesse Ramsden (1735–1800), by Anita McConnell (Jim Bennett); A Brief History of Ancient Astrology, by Roger Beck (Liba Taub); Gemma Frisius, by Fernand Hallyn (Rienk Vermij); “... eine ausnehmende Zierde und Vortheil”, by Felix Lühning (Jürgen Hamel); The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain, by Jessica Ratcliff (Steven J. Dick); Un Globe-trotter de la Physique Céleste, by Françoise Launay (Jimena Canales); Einstein for the 21st Century, ed. by Peter J. Galison et al. (Hubert Goenner); NASA: The Complete Illustrated History, by Michael Gorn (Robert W. Smith); Entropic Creation, by Helge S. Kragh (Frederick Gregory); Aspects of the Astrolabe, by Arianna Borrelli (Emmanuel Poulle)
219–244
Notices of Books 245
Notes on Contributors 246–248
Volume 40 Part 3, August 2009, No. 140
Lunar Eclipses, Longitude and the New World MARIA M. PORTUONDO 249–276
Harkins, Perrin and the Alternative Paths to the Solution of the Stellar-Energy Problem, 1915–1923 FRANÇOIS WESEMAEL 277–296
John of Murs’s Tables of 1321
JOSÉ CHABÁS and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
297–320
The Relationship between the Ramsden Circles at Palermo and Dunsink
ILEANA CHINNICI
321–333
John David North (1934–2008) OWEN GINGERICH 335–337
Essay Review
The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker, and Xiang Chen (Robert S. Westman)
339–345

Book Reviews
A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East, by John M. Steele (F. Jamil Ragep); Les Alchandreana Primitifs, by David Juste (José Chabás); The Dawn of Astrology, i, by Nicholas Campion (Robert Hannah); Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, ed. by Anthony Aveni (Juan Antonio Belmonte); I Dintorni dell’Infinito, by Dario Tessicini (Isabelle Pantin); Astronomy: Traditional Korean Science, by Changbom Park (Yunli Shi); Der Ptolomäus von Kassel, by Karsten Gaulke (Adam Mosley); Galileo’s Inquisition Trial Revisited, by Jules Speller (Annibale Fantoli); A Natural History of Time, by Pascal Richet (Stephen G. Brush); Decoding the Heavens, by Jo Marchant (James Evans); British University Observatories, 1772–1939, by Roger Hutchins (Trudy E. Bell); Der Komet in der Entladungsröhre, by Michael Hedenus (Klaus Hentschel); Sphaera Mundi, by Henrique Leitão (Tayra Lanuza-Navarro); Johannes Kepler, Schriften zur Optik, 1604–1611, ed. by Rolf Riekher (Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis)
346–371
Notes on Contributors
372–374
Volume 40 Part 4, November 2009, No. 140
Kepler’s Cosmos: Bridging the Disciplines
Guest Editors: Patrick J. Boner and Nick Jardine
Kepler as Transgressor and Amalgamator of Disciplines NICK JARDINE
375–380

A Tenuous Tandem: Patrizi and Kepler on the Origins of Stars PATRICK J. BONER
381–391

Novelties in the Heavens between 1572 and 1604 and Kepler’s Unified View of Nature MIGUEL A. GRANADA
393–402
Forms of Persuasion: Kepler, Galileo, and the Dissemination of Copernicanism AVIVA ROTHMAN
403–419
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The Beginnings of Commercial Manufacture of the Reflecting ­Telescope in London A. D. C. SIMPSON
421–466
Essay Review
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, editor-in-chief Noretta Koertge (Richard L. Kremer); Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, electronic version (Noah Lowenstein)
467–472

Book Reviews
Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, ed. by Massimo Bucciantini et al. (William Donahue); The Universe in a Mirror, by Robert Zimmerman (Joseph Tatarewicz); Granting the Seasons, by Nathan Sivin (David W. Pankenier)
473–477

Notes on Contributors
477–478
Index to Volume 40
479–482
Cumulative Indices to Volumes 1–40
483–516

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