1998 CONTENTS
Astronomical Evidence for the Accuracy of Clocks in Pre-Jesuit China
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| JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY 1998 CONTENTS |
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| Vol. 29 Part 1, February 1998, No. 94 | ||||||||||
| Tycho Brahe's Copernican Campaign | OWEN GINGERICH and JAMES R. VOELKEL | 1–34 | ||||||||
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Astronomical Evidence for the Accuracy of Clocks in Pre-Jesuit China |
J. M. STEELE and F. R. STEPHENSON | 35–48 | ||||||||
| The Places of Astronomy in Early-Modern Culture | NICHOLAS JARDINE | 49–62 | ||||||||
| Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (4) The Orientations of Megalithic Tombs of Eastern Catalunya | MICHAEL HOSKIN and TONI PALOMO I PÉREZ | 63–79 | ||||||||
| Essay Review - Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950, by Donald E. Osterbrock | ADRIAAN BLAAUW | 80–82 | ||||||||
| Book Reviews - The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy, ed. by Michael Hoskin (Albert Van Helden); The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard, by William Sheehan (Gale E. Christianson); Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe, by Helge Kragh (Robert W. Smith); The Biological Universe, by Steven J. Dick (Christopher J. Corbally); Renaissance and Revolution, ed. by J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James (William Donahue) | 83–91 | |||||||||
| Notes on Contributors | 91–92 | |||||||||
| Vol. 29 Part 2, May 1998, No. 95 SPECIAL ISSUE ASTRONOMY AT THE DAWN OF THE RENAISSANCE, LIÈGE, JULY 1997 Edited by Raymond Mercier |
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| An Outline of the History of Maghribi Zijes from the End of the Thirteenth Century | JULIO SAMSÓ | 93–102 |
| Some Fourteenth-century Byzantine Astronomical Texts | DAVID PINGREE | 103–108 |
| The Astronomy of George Gemistus Plethon | ANNE TIHON | 109–116 |
| The Astronomical Tables of George Gemistus Plethon | RAYMOND MERCIER | 117–127 |
| Syzygies as Pivots: An Unusual Mid-fifteenth-century Working Ephemeris | WOLFGANG KOKOTT | 129–135 |
| Peurbach in the Hebrew Tradition | Y. TZVI LANGERMANN | 137–150 |
| The Place of the Sun in Medieval Arabo-Latin Astronomy: The Lucidator dubitabilium astronomiae (1303–10) of Peter de Padua | GRAZIELLA FEDERICI VESCOVINI | 151–155 |
| Regiomontanus and Homocentric Astronomy | MICHAEL H. SHANK | 157–166 |
| Astronomy in Salamanca in the Mid-fifteenth Century: The Tabulae resolutae | JOSÉ CHABÁS | 167–175 |
| Abraham Zacut and the Medieval Hebrew Astronomical Tradition | BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN | 177–186 |
| Alfonsine Meridians: Tradition versus Experience in Astronomical Practice c. 1500 | RICHARD KREMER and JERZY DOBRZYCKI | 187–199 |
| La Survie de l’Astronomie Alphonsine | EMMANUEL POULLE et DENIS SAVOIE | 201–207 |
| Notes on Contributors | 209–210 | |
| Obituary: Olaf Pedersen (1920–1997) | JOHN NORTH | 211–214 |
| Vol. 29 Part 3, August 1998, No. 96 | ||
| On a Pretended Observation of Saturn by Galileo | BRUNO M. DEISS and VOLKER NEBEL | 215–220 |
| Simon Newcomb, William Harkness and the Nineteenth-century American Transit of Venus Expeditions | STEVEN J. DICK, WAYNE ORCHISTON and TOM LOVE | 221–255 |
| An Analysis of Ptolemy’s Treatment of Retrograde Motion | DONN MacMINN | 257–270 |
| Computer Animations of Ptolemy’s Models of the Motions of the Sun, Moon and Planets | GLEN VAN BRUMMELEN | 271–274 |
| Predictions of Eclipse Times Recorded in Chinese History | JOHN M. STEELE | 275–285 |
| Essay Review The Key to Newton’s Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia, by J. Bruce Brackenridge, and Newton’s Principia: The Central Argument, by Dana Densmore (Michael Nauenberg) |
286–300 | |
| Book Reviews Speculatie, Wetenschap en Vernuft, by Huib J. Zuidervaart (Albert Van Helden); Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi suanjing, by Christopher Cullen (Nathan Sivin); Victorian Telescope Makers: The Lives and Letters of Thomas and Howard Grubb, by I. S. Glass (Deborah Jean Warner); The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, translated and edited by E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan and J. V. Field (Bruce Stephenson) |
301–307 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 307–308 | |
| Vol. 29 Part 4, November 1998, No. 97 | ||
| The Ford Foundation and the European Southern Observatory | FRANK K. EDMONDSON | 309–326 |
| The Julian and Modified Julian Dates | DENNIS D. McCARTHY | 327–330 |
| Eclipse Observations Made by Regiomontanus and Walther | JOHN M. STEELE and F. RICHARD STEPHENSON | 331–344 |
| Walter Baade, Observational Astrophysicist, (3): Palomar and Göttingen 1948–1960 (Part B) | DONALD E. OSTERBROCK | 345–377 |
| Notes A Computer Program for the Conversion of Babylonian into Julian Dates (Louay J. Fatoohi); A General Calendar Conversion Program (Raymond Mercier) |
378–380 | |
| Essay Reviews The Babylonian Theory of the Planets, by N. M. Swerdlow (John P. Britton); Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe, vi/1 and vi/2, ed. by Andreas Kühne et al. (N. M. Swerdlow); American Astronomy, by John Lankford (David DeVorkin) |
381–393 | |
| Book Reviews The Rise of Early Modern Science, by Toby E. Huff (Owen Gingerich); AURA and its US National Observatories, by Frank K. Edmondson (Adriaan Blaauw) |
393–396 | |
| Notices of Books | 396–397 | |
| Addendum to "Tycho Brahe's Copernican Campaign" by Owen Gingerich and James R. Voelkel |
397 | |
| Derek Howse (1919–1998) | 398 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 398–399 | |
| Index to Volume 29 | 399–402 | |