JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Vol. 20 No. 1

Mar/Apr 2017

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Is the Universe expanding? Fritz Zwicky and the early tired-light hypothesis

Helge Kragh

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Apianus’ latitude volvelles – how were they made?

Lars Gilsén

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Scientists of the Gwansang-gam. 1: Observers of Comet 1P/Halley in 1759

Nha Il-Seong, Oh Wan-Tak, Oh Yong-Hae, and Nha Sarah

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Cook, Green, Maskelyne and the 1769 transit of Venus: the legacy of the Tahitian observations

Wayne Orchiston

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The principal time balls of New Zealand

Roger Kinns

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The history of low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 7: Philip Hamilton, Raymond Haynes and the University of Tasmania’s Penna Field Station near Hobart

Martin George, Wayne Orchiston, and Richard Wielebinski

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Highlighting the history of Japanese radio astronomy. 5: The 1950 Osaka solar grating array proposal

Harry Wendt, Wayne Orchiston, Masato Ishiguro, and Tsuko Nakamura

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On the history of the Argument from Design in astronomy

Reception and dissemination of American amateur telescope making in Sweden

Book Reviews (all)

Alan H. Batten

Johan Kärnfelt

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Sternbilder des Mittelalters und der Renaissance: Der gemalte Himmel zwischen Wissenschaft und Phantasie, Volume 2 by Dieter Blume, Mechthild Haffner, and Wolfgang Metzger

Marion Dolan

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The Complex Itinerary of Leibniz’s Planetary Theory by Paulo Bussotti

Nicholas Rescher

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Science: Antiquity & Its Legacy by Philippa Lang

Clifford J. Cunningham

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The Invention of the Achromatic and Aplanatic Lens With Special Regard to the Role Played by Samuel Klingenstierna by N.V.E. Nordenmark and Johan Nordström

Wayne Orchiston

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Vol. 20 No. 2

Jul/Aug 2017

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Editorial

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Studying the history of Indonesian astronomy: future prospects and possibilities

Wayne Orchiston

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The syzygy volvelle in Astronomicum Caesareum

Lars Gilsén

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Revisiting J.M. Gilliss’ astronomical expedition to Chile in 1849‒1852

Germán Hidalgo Hermosilla

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Wanderings of the ‘Simply Perfect’ Burnham Telescope

James Lattis

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The history of early low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 8: Grote Reber and the ‘Square Kilometre Array’ near Bothwell, Tasmania, in the 1960s and 1970s

Martin George, Wayne Orchiston, and Richard Wielebinski

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The time light signals of New Zealand: yet another way of communicating time in the pre-wireless era

Roger Kinns

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A tale of two telescopes: North Queensland and the 1882 transit of Venus

Wayne Orchiston and Vicki Darlington

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Book Reviews (all)

The Unforgotten Sisters: Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel by Gabriella Bernardi 

Jana Ruth Ford

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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel

Clifford J. Cunningham

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Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres by Clifford J. Cunningham

Donald R. Davis

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Roman Portable Sundials. The Empire in Your Hand by Richard J.A. Talbert

On Astronomia. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of EPISTLE 3, edited and translated by F. Jamil Ragep and Taro Mimura

Clifford J. Cunningham

Jörg Matthias Determann

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Vol. 20 No. 3

Nov/Dec 2017

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Analysis of French Jesuit observations of Io made in China in AD 1689‒1690 

Lars Gislén

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Francesco Fontana and the birth of the astronomical telescope 

Paolo Molaro

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The origin and development of extragalactic radio astronomy: the role of CSIRO’s Division of  Radiophysics Dover Heights Field Station in Sydney 

Wayne Orchiston and Peter Robertson

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The contribution of the Georges Heights Experimental Radar Antenna to Australian radio astronomy 

Wayne Orchiston and Harry Wendt 

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Peripheries of epicycles in the Grahalāghava 

S. Balachandra Rao, V. Vanaja and M. Shailaja 

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Did Aboriginal Australians record a simultaneous eclipse and aurora in their oral traditions? 

Robert S. Fuller and Duane W. Hamacher 

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Book Reviews (all)

Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times: Ground-Based Optical and Radio Astronomy Facilities since 1945, by David Leverington 

Clifford J. Cunningham

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Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe, by Peter Robertson 

Wayne Orchiston

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Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy, by Barbara J. Becker 

Wayne Orchiston

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Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science, by Richard Taibi 

Index 2017

Wayne Orchiston

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