JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 15 No. 1		March/April 2012
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Contents		1
Editorial	Wayne Orchiston	2
Papers
Lomonosov, the Discovery of Venus’s Atmosphere, and the Eighteenth-century Transits of Venus	Jay M. Pasachoff and William Sheehan	3
Romanian Astronomy and the 1874 Transit of Venus	Magda Stavinschi	15
The M51 Mystery: Lord Rosse, Robinson, South and the Discovery of Spiral Structure in 1845	Wolfgang Steinicke	19
The Development of Astronomy in Naples: The Tale of Two Large Telescopes made by William Herschel	Mauro Gargano	30
‘Astronomy’ or ‘Astrology’: A Brief History of an Apparent Confusion	Alexandre Losev	42
Long-publishing Astronomers, or the Problem of Classification	Joseph S. Tenn	47
James Ferguson Remembered	Clive Davenhall	57
Some New Insights into the History of the Glasgow Time Ball and Time Guns	David Clarke and Roger Kinns	59
Orbituary
Hilmar Willi Duerbeck, 1948-2012	Christiaan Sterken, Joseph S. Tenn and Wayne Orchiston	68
Book Reviews (all)
Advancing Variable Star Astronomy. The Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, by Thomas R. Williams and Michael Saladyga	Wayne Orchiston	70
Celebrating the AAO: Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Coonabarabran June 21-25, 2010, to Commemorate 35 Years of the AAO and its Transition to the Australian Astronomical Observatory, edited by Russell Cannon and David Malin	Stephen Marsden	71
Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers, Parts 1 and 2, edited by Christiaan Sterken	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	71

Volume 15 No. 2		July/August 2012
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		75
Papers
A history of radio astronomy polarisation measurements	Richard Wielebinski	76
The Parkes 18-m Antenna: a brief historical evaluation	Wayne Orchiston	96
Discovery of the Magellanic Stream	Don Mathewson	100
In memory of Eugene (Jenő) von Gothard: a pioneering nineteenth century Hungarian astrophysicist	Ildikó J. Vincze and István Jankovics	105
Advancing astronomy on the American frontier: the career of Frank Herbert Loud	Steve Ruskin	115
Possible astronomical meanings of some El Molle relics near the ESO Observatory at La Silla	Gabriella Bernardi, Alberto Vecchiato and Beatrice Bucciarelli	137
Book Review
The Great Melbourne Telescope, by Richard Gillespie	Wayne Orchiston	146
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Radio Astronomy and the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage		136

Volume 15 No. 3		November/December 2012
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents
Papers
Is Space Flat? Nineteenth Century Astronomy and Non-Euclidean Geometry	Helge Kragh	149
The Wells Creek Meteorite Impact Site and Changing Views on Impact Cratering	J.R.H. Ford, Wayne Orchiston and Ron Clendening	159
On the Origin of the Name of the Minor Planet (1441) Bolyai	Ákos Csizmadia and Szilárd Csizmadia	179
The 1882 Transit of Venus and the Popularization of Astronomy in the USA as Reflected in The New York Times	Stella Cottam, Wayne Orchiston and F. Richard Stephenson	183
On the Reliability of Han Dynasty Solar Eclipse Records	David W. Pankenier	200
Highlighting the History of Japanese Radio Astronomy: 1. An Introduction	Masato Ishiguro, Wayne Orchiston, Kenji Akabane, Norio Kaifu, Masa Hayashi, Tsuko Nakamura, Ronald Stewart and Hiromitsu Yokoo	213
The University of Texas Millimeter Wave Observatory	Paul A. Vanden Bout, John H. Davis and Robert B. Loren	232
Sigurd Enebo and Variable Star Research: Nova Geminorum 1912 and the RV Tauri Stars	Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen	246
IAU Working Group Reports
IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group: Triennial Report (2009-2011)	Ken Kellermann	255
Book Reviews (all)
Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy, by Barbara J. Becker	Steven J. Dick	258
The Day the World Discovered the Sun. An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus, by Mark Anderson	Wayne Orchiston	259
Index to Volume 15		260

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