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JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2001 CONTENTS
Volume 32 Part 1, February 2001, No. 106 
The Latitude of the Observer of the Almagest Star Catalogue
BRADLEY E. SCHAEFER
 1-42
Visionary Memories: William Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics
BARBARA J. BECKER
 43-62
John of Murs's Tabulae Permanentes for Finding True Syzygies
BEATRIZ PORRES and JOSÉ CHABÁS
 63-72
Before the Sun in the Church
BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
 73-77
Essay Review
Le "Grand Commentaire" de Théon d'Alexandrie aux Tables Faciles de Ptolémée: Livres II et III, and Livre IV, by Anne Tihon; Études d'Astronomie Byzantine, by Anne Tihon; and Théodore Méliténiote. Tribiblos Astronomique: Livre II, by Régine Leurquin (James Evans)
 68-80
Book Reviews
Anno Domini, by Georges Declercq (Owen Gingerich); The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy, by James Evans (James R. Voelkel); The Kalendarium of John Somer, ed. by Linne R. Mooney (Owen Gingerich); The Mapping of the Heavens, by Peter Whitfield, Landmarks in Western Science, by Peter Whitfield, and The Universe Unveiled, by Bruce Stephenson, Marvin Bolt and Anna Felicity Friedman (Owen Gingerich); The Tucson Meteorites, by Richard R. Willey, and The Port Orford, Oregon, Meteorite Mystery, ed. by Roy S. Clarke, Jr (Owen Gingerich); Medusa, by Stephen R. Wilk (Philip Morrison)
 81-90
Notices of Books
90-91
Notes on Contributors
92
Volume 32 Part 2, May 2001, No. 107 
Herman Zanstra, Donald H. Menzel, and the Zanstra Method of Nebular Astrophysics DONALD E. OSTERBROCK 93-108
Galileo and the Discovery of the Phases of Venus PAOLO PALMIERI 109-129
Kepler and Hebrew Astronomical Tables BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN 130-136
Abu Sahl al-Kuhi on the Distance to the Shooting Stars GLEN VAN BRUMMELEN and J. L. BERGGREN 137-151
Notes
Witnessing the Heliacal Rise of Sirius and Procyon (Rumen Kolev); Babylonian Horoscope MLC 1870 (Rumen Kolev); Early Greek Solstices and Equinoxes (Hugh Thurston)
152-156
Essay Reviews
The Jefferson Stone, by Silvio A. Bedini (Craig B. Waff); Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers, by John M. Steele, and Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation, by F. R. Stephenson (Leslie Morrison); Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory, by Nicholas Kollerstrom (Michael Nauenberg)
157-168
Book Reviews
Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia, by Herman Hunger and David Pingree (John P. Britton); World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca, by David A. King (F. Jamil Ragep); The Melon-shaped Astrolabe in Arabic Astronomy, ed. by E. S. Kennedy, P. Kunitzsch and R. P. Lorch (Owen Gingerich); La Alquibla en al-Andalus y al-Magrib al-Aqsà, by Mònica Rius (Michael Hoskin); Science in Translation, by Scott L. Montgomery (Edward Grant); Ovid, Aratus and Augustus, by Emma Gee (John M. McMahon); Augustanus Opticus, by Inge Keil (Peter de Clercq); La Poésie du Ciel en France dans la Seconde Moitié du Seizième Siècle, by Isabelle Pantin (Ann Blair); The Magic Furnace, by Marcus Chown (Owen Gingerich); Proceedings: Nautical Almanac Office Sesquicentennial Symposium, ed. by Alan D. Fiala and Steven J. Dick (Marc Rothenberg); The Legacy of J. C. Kapteyn, ed. by P. C. van der Kruit and K. van Berkel (Richard Berendzen)
169-184
Notes on Contributors 185-186
Volume 32 Part 3 August 2001 Number 108
“ASTRONOMY AND ITS HISTORIES”: PAPERS OF A CONFERENCE
TO MARK THE RETIREMENT OF OWEN GINGERICH
The Vancouver Conference on “Astronomy and Its Histories” RICHARD L. KREMER 187
The Material Culture of Astronomy in Daily Life: Sundials, Science, and Social Change SARA SCHECHNER 189-222
Notes on Copernicus’s Early Heliocentrism JERZY DOBRZYCKI 223-225
Kepler’s Early Physical-Astrological Problematic ROBERT S. WESTMAN 227-236
Giovanni Antonio Magini’s “Keplerian” Tables of 1614 and Their Implications for the Reception of Keplerian Astronomy in the Seventeenth Century JAMES R. VOELKEL and OWEN GINGERICH 237-262

Making a Science of Observational Cosmology: The Cautious Optimism of Beatrice Tinsley JOANN EISBERG 263-278
Notes on Contributors 279-280
Volume 32 Part 4 November 2001 Number 109
Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Sun-centred Planets, and Carolingian Astronomy BRUCE STANSFIELD EASTWOOD 281-324
The Transit of Venus and the Notorious Black Drop Effect BRADLEY E. SCHAEFER 325-336
An Analysis of Close Conjunctions Recorded in Ancient China
TOM J. YORK 337-344
The Maximum Solar Equation in the Alfonsine Tables BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN and JOSÉ CHABÁS 345-348
Essay Reviews
The Principia, by Isaac Newton, transl. by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman (N. M. Swerdlow); Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology, by David Brown (John M. Steele); Arabic Mathematical Sciences, by Richard Lorch, and Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World, by Edward S. Kennedy (Ahmad Dallal)
349-365

Book Reviews
Die Mathematischen Prinzipien der Physik, by Isaac Newton, transl. by Volkmar Schüller (Curtis Wilson); Henry Norris Russell, by David H. DeVorkin (Ronald E. Doel); The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science, by Peter Harrison (Owen Gingerich)
365-369

Roger Louis Billard (1922–2000) 369-70
Notes on Contributors 371
Index to Volume 32 372-374

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