| JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY 2001 CONTENTS |
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| Volume 32 Part 1, February 2001, No. 106 | |||
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The Latitude of the Observer of the Almagest Star Catalogue
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BRADLEY E. SCHAEFER
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1-42 | download |
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Visionary Memories: William Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics
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BARBARA J. BECKER
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43-62 | |
| John of Murs's Tabulae Permanentes for Finding True Syzygies |
BEATRIZ PORRES and JOSÉ CHABÁS
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63-72 | |
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Before the Sun in the Church
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BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
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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
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| 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 | download |
| Galileo and the Discovery of the Phases of Venus | PAOLO PALMIERI | 109-129 | download |
| Kepler and Hebrew Astronomical Tables | BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN | 130-136 | download |
| Abu Sahl al-Kuhi on the Distance to the Shooting Stars | GLEN VAN BRUMMELEN and J. L. BERGGREN | 137-151 | download |
| 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 | download | |
| 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 | download | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | download |
| Notes on Copernicus’s Early Heliocentrism | JERZY DOBRZYCKI | 223-225 |
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| Kepler’s Early Physical-Astrological Problematic | ROBERT S. WESTMAN | 227-236 |
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| 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 |
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| Making a Science of Observational Cosmology: The Cautious Optimism of Beatrice Tinsley | JOANN EISBERG | 263-278 |
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| Notes on Contributors | 279-280 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| Roger Louis Billard (1922–2000) | 369-70 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 371 | ||
| Index to Volume 32 | 372-374 | ||