JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

 

Volume 23 (2020)

Vol. 23, No. 1

 

 

 

Mar/Apr

 

 

 

 

 

Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the JAHH and the cover

 

 

Inside Cover

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Foundling of Percival Lowell”: The saga of naming Pluto

 

Thomas Hockey

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

Australian eclipse expeditions: James Short and the eclipses of 1908, 1910 and 1911

 

Nick Lomb

 

26

 

 

 

 

 

Astronomical dating of seven Classical Greek eclipses

 

F.R. Stephenson, L.V. Morrison, and C.Y. Hohenkerk

 

47

 

 

 

 

 

Seeking an inconstant constant: the quest to discover the variability of the Sun from William Herschel to Andrew Ellicott Douglass

 

William Sheehan and G. Wesley Lockwood

 

63

 

 

 

 

 

Solstice and solar position observations in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions

 

Duane W. Hamacher, Robert S. Fuller, Trevor M. Leaman, and David Bosun

 

89

 

 

 

 

 

Sustained cartographic innovations in nascent French Canada: the life and times of Jean Deshayes

 

Richard de Grijs

 

100

 

 

 

 

 

Herschel’s spurious moons of Uranus: their impact on satellite orbital theory, celestial cartography

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

119

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding śrungonnati: elevation of the Moon's cusp (with examples)

 

B.S. Shubha, B.S. Shylaja and P. Vinay

 

163

 

 

 

 

 

Cook’s third voyage to the Pacific and early scientific astronomy on the north-western coast of America: the sojourn at Nootka Sound in April 1778

 

Wayne Orchiston and William Wells

 

174

 

 

 

 

 

Obituary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obituary: Dr Yukio Ôhashi (1955-2019)

 

Wayne Orchiston and Tsuko Nakamura

 

209

 

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews (all)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope, and Heritage of Astronomy by Martin Harwit

 

Samantha Thompson

 

218

 

 

 

 

 

Unifying Heaven and Earth: Essays in the History of Early Modern Cosmology edited by Patrick Boner and Dario Tessicini

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

219

 

 

 

 

 

Scandalous Error. Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe by C. Philipp E. Nothaft

 

Cecelia Panti

 

220

 

 

 

 

 

Simon Marius and His Research edited by Hans Gaab and Pierre Leich

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

223

 

 

 

 

 

The Wayward Comet: A Descriptive History of Cometary Orbits, Kepler’s Problem and the Cometarium by Martin Beech

 

Pedro M.P. Raposo

 

224

 

 

 

 

 

Franz Xaver von Zach und die Astronomie seiner Zeit edited by Wolfgang R. Dick and Oliver Schwarz

 

Endre Zsoldos

 

226

 

 

 

 

 

Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist by Ileana Chinnici

 

Wayne Orchiston

 

227

 

 

 

 

 

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Vol. 23, No. 2

 

 

 

Jul/Aug

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the JAHH and the cover

 

 

Inside Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

229

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Dark stars’ and a new interpretation of the ancient Greek stellar magnitude system

 

Clifford J. Cunningham

 

231

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medieval astronomical clocks in the Baltic region and the mysterious golden numbers in Gdansk

 

Lars Gislén

 

257

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexander Bruce: Scotland’s accidental ‘scientific revolutionary’

 

Richard de Grijs

 

267

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The time balls of Mauritius

 

Roger Kinns

 

281

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geodetic arcs, pendulums and the shape of the Earth

 

James Lequeux

 

297

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The eclipse of 21 June 1629 in Beijing in the context of the reform of the Chinese calendar

 

Sperello di Serego Alighieri and Elisabetta Corsi

 

327

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henrique Morize and the eclipse of 1919 eclipse: the National Observatory of Brazil, the solar corona, and pure science

 

Antonio A.P. Vidiera

 

335

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comet tales from India: the Great September Comet of 1882 (C/1882 R1)

 

Ramesh Kapoor

 

353

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Native American traditions of Meteor Crater, Arizona: fact, fiction or appropriation?

 

Duane W. Hamacher

 

375

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A cultural comparison of the ‘dark constellations’ in the Milky Way

 

Stephen R. Gullberg, Duane W. Hamacher, Alejandro Martin-Lopez, Javier Mejuto, Andrew M. Munro and Wayne Orchiston

 

390

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews (all)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, by Daniel Kennefick

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

405

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes, by Ron Cowen

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

405

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions That Changed How We Look at The Universe, by S. James Gates Jr. and Cathie Pelletier

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

405

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe, by John Johnson Jr

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

407

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History of the Observatory at the University of Trnava 1756‒1785, by Alžbeta Hološová and Henrieta Žažová

 

Paul Gabor

 

408

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in its Contexts, edited by Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

410

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the World Turns: The History of Proving the Earth Rotates, by Peter Kosso

 

William Tobin

 

411

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Memoriiam Hilmar Duerbeck, edited by Wolfgang R. Dick and Christiaan Sterken

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

413

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo, by Christopher M. Graney

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

414

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News From Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910, by Joshua Nall

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

416

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturn, by William Sheehan

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

417

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean-Charles Houzeau’s Escape from Texas. A Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War, by C. Sterken and A.A. King

 

Emile Biemont

 

418

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History of the Plurality of Worlds: The Myths of Extraterrestrials Throughout the Ages, by Pierre Connes, edited by James Lequeux

 

Steven J. Dick

 

419

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Moon: A Translation of Der Mond by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, translated by Stephen Harvey

 

Bill Leatherbarrow

 

421

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corrigendum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Obituary for Dr Yukio Ôhashi

 

Wayne Orchiston and Tsuko Nakamura

 

423

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vol. 23, No. 3

 

 

 

Nov/Dec

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the JAHH and the cover

 

 

Inside Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

425

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A case study of the Picture Rocks sun dagger, plus a review of the intentionality of sun daggers

 

Bradley E. Schaefer and James Stamm

 

427

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmic symbolism of Zuni fetish carvings

 

Von Del Chamberlain and Milford Nahohai

 

452

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

European longitude prizes. I: longitude determination in the Spanish empire

 

Richard de Grijs

 

465

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A (not so) brief history of lunar distances: lunar longitude determination at sea before the chronometer

 

Richard de Grijs

 

495

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time signals for mariners in India, Burma, and Ceylon

 

Roger Kinns

 

523

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The founding of Arcetri Observatory in Florence

 

Simone Bianchi

 

553

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raymond Michard and his solar physics group at Paris-Meudon Observatory

 

Pierre Mein and Nicole Mein

 

582

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mexican astrographic catalogue and Carte du Ciel Project

 

Marco Arturo Moreno Corral and William J. Schuster

 

601

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where exactly did A.S. Eddington observe the total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919? (Onde, exactamente, A.S. Eddington observou o eclipse solar de 29 de Maio de 1919?)

 

Joana Latas, Duarte Pape, and Ana Simões

 

614

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Observations of the Great September Comet of 1882 (C/1882 R1) from New Zealand

 

Wayne Orchiston, John Drummond, Gary Kronk

 

628

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communication issues in war-time astronomy: independent Australian, Indian, New Zealand and South African discoveries of Comet C/1941 B2 (de Kock-Paraskevopoulos)

 

Wayne Orchiston, John Drummond, and B.S. Shylaja

 

659

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On two Seventeenth century Persian paintings depicting comets or fireballs: a correction

 

R.C. Kapoor

 

675

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Reviews (all)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Space, Time and Aliens: Collected Works on Cosmos and Culture, by Steven J. Dick.

 

David H. DeVorkin

 

681

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Babylonian Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC, by Frances Reynolds

 

John Steele

 

682

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open Skies. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and its Impact on US Radio Astronomy, by Kenneth I. Kellermann, Ellen N. Bouton and Sierra S. Brandt

 

Marshall Cohen

 

684

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens, by John Robert Christianson

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

685

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Archaeoastronomy in the Roman World, edited by Giulio Magli, Antonio César González-García, Juan Belmonte Aviles, and Elio Antonello

 

E.C. Krupp

 

686

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Number of the Heavens: A History of the Multiverse and the Quest to Understand the Cosmos, by Tom Siegfreid

 

Clifford Cunningham and Conlan Salgado

 

688

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Saving Science: Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts, by Eric M. Ramirez-Weaver

 

Marion Dolan

 

689

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The History of Celestial Navigation: Rise of the Royal Observatory and Nautical Almanacs, edited by P. Kenneth Seidelmann and Catherine Y. Hohenkerk

 

Patricia Fara

 

691

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Celestial Mirror: The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II, by Barry Perlus

 

Clifford Cunningham

 

693

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maps of the Moon. Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age, by Thomás A.S. Haddad

 

Francis J. Manasek

 

694

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community, by Aviva Rothman

 

Paul Gabor

 

695

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Response to the Review of The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community, by Dr Paul Gabor

 

Aviva Rothman

 

698

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth Century England, by Erin Webster

 

Cliff Cunningham

 

699

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evolving Theories on the Origin of the Moon, by Walter D. Cummings

 

Erik Asphaug

 

701

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time and Time Again: Determination of Longitude at Sea in the 17th Century, by Richard de Grijs

 

Wayne Orchiston

 

702

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back Matter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2020 Index

 

 

705

 

 

 

 

 

 

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