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JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2013 CONTENTS



Volume 44 Part 1, February 2013, No. 154


Astronomical Implications of Maya Hieroglyphic Notations at Xultun
ANTHONY F. AVENI, WILLIAM SATURNO and DAVID STUART
1-16



Trying Ursus: A Reappraisal of the Tycho-Ursus Priority Dispute
JUAN D. SERRANO
17-46



The Thousand Star Magnitudes in the Catalogues of Ptolemy, Al Sufi, and Tycho Are All Corrected for Atmospheric Extinction BRADLEY E. SCHAEFER
47-74



Diplomacy, Patronage, and the Preface to De Revolutionibus GEOFFREY BLUMENTHAL 75-92


Curtis Alan Wilson (1921-2012) OWEN GINGERICH
93-94



Essay Reviews
A Survey of European Astronomical Tables in the Late Middle Ages, by Jose Chabas and Bernard R. Goldstein (Julio Samso); In the Path of the Moon, by Francesca Rochberg (N. M. Swerdlow)
95-100



Book Reviews
101-121

 
Notices of Books
121



Notes on Contributors 122-124


Volume 44 Part 2, May 2013, No. 155


Albert of Brudzewo’s Little Commentary on George Peurbach’s ‘Theoricae Novae Planetarum’ PETER BARKER 125–148


The Herschel Knighthoods: Facts and Fiction ANDREW HANHAM and MICHAEL HOSKIN 149–164


Stars as the Armies of God: Lansbergen’s Incorporation of Tycho Brahe’s Star-size Argument into the Coperncican Theory CHRISTOPHER M. GRANEY 165–172


The Astronomical Events of the Parapegma of the Antikythera Mechanism MAGDALINI ANASTASIOU, JOHN H. SEIRADAKIS, JAMES EVANS, STELLA DROUGOU and KYRIAKOS EFSTATHIOU 173–186


Olbers’s Planetary Explosion Hypothesis: Genesis and Early Nineteenth-century Interpretation CLIFFORD J. CUNNINGHAM and WAYNE ORCHISTON 187–205


Notes
Bīrūnī’s Four-point Method for Determining the Eccentricity and the Direction of the Apsidal Lines of the Superior Planets (S. Mohammad Mozaffari); William Herschel’s Planned 30-ft Reflector (Andreas Maurer)
207–212


Book Reviews 213–229


Notices of Books
230–231


Notes on Contributors
232–234


Volume 44 Part 3, August 2013, No. 156    
The Post-Copernican Reception of Ptolemy: Erasmus Reinhold’s Commented Edition of the Almagest, Book One (Wittenberg, 1549)
PIETRO DANIEL OMODEO and IRINA TUPIKOVA
235–256




Computing Planetary Positions: User-friendliness and the Alfonsine Corpus
JOSÉ CHABÁS and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
257–276



The Córdoba Observatory and the History of the ‘Personal Equation’ (1871–1886)
MARINA RIEZNIK
277–301




Transits in the Seventeenth Century and the Credentialling of Keplerian Astronomy
OWEN GINGERICH
303–312




Limitations of Methods: The Accuracy of the Values Measured for the Earth’s/Sun’s Orbital Elements in the Middle East, A.D. 800–1500, Part 1
S. MOHAMMAD MOZAFFARI
313–336



The Search for Antediluvian Astronomy: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Astronomers’ Conceptions of the Origins of the Science
DANIEL ŠPELDA
337–362




Book Reviews

363–374



Notes on Contributors

375–376


Volume 44 Part 4, November 2013, No. 157



Was Uranus Observed by Hipparchus?
RENÉ BOURTEMBOURG
377–387



Limitations of Methods: The Accuracy of the Values Measured for the Earth’s/Sun’s Orbital Elements in the Middle East, A.D. 800–1500, Part 2
S. MOHAMMAD MOZAFFARI
389–411




The Greek Text of Ptolemy, Almagest XIII, as Source of Book VI of Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus
ALAIN-PHILIPPE SEGONDS and CONCETTA LUNA
413–427




On the Orientation of Megalithic Monuments of the Transjordan Plateau: New Clues for an Astronomical Interpretation
JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE, A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA and ANDREA POLCARO
429–455



An Ancient Egyptian Diagonal Star Table in Mallawi, Egypt
SARAH SYMONS and ROBERT COCKCROFT
457–463



Planetary Velocities and the Astrological Month
BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN and JOSÉ CHABÁS 465–478



Corrigenda

479–480



Note
Historic Photographs by William and Margaret Lindsay Huggins
(Barbara J. Becker)
481–484




Essay Review
Living the Lunar Calendar, ed. by Jonathan Ben-Dov et al. (Stephen McCluskey)
485–487




Book Reviews

487–496



Notices of Books

496



Notes on Contributors

497–498



Index to Volume 44

499–502



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