JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 16 No. 1		March/April 2013
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		1
Papers
The Australian National University’s 2.3m New Generation Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory	Don S. Mathewson, John Hart, Hermann P. Wehner, Gary R. Hovey and Jan van Harmelen	2
Aspects of Gond astronomy	M.N. Vahia and Ganesh Halkare	29
Chinese records of the 1874 transit of Venus	Lingfeng Lu and Huifang Li	45
The life and times of the Parkes-Tidbinbilla Interferometer	Ray P. Norris and M.J. Kesteven	55
Albrecht Unsöld: his role in the interpretation of the origin of cosmic radio emission and in the beginning of radio astronomy in Germany	Richard Wielebinski	67
Keepers of the double stars	Joseph S. Tenn	81
Book Reviews (all)
In Search of William Gascoigne: Seventeenth Century Astronomer, by David Sellers	Alan Batten	94
Nicolas-Louis de la Caille Astronomer and Geodesist, by I.S. Glass	Wayne Orchiston	94

Volume 16 No. 2		July/August 2013
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Highlighting the history of Japanese radio astronomy. 2: Koichi Shimoda and the 1948 solar eclipse	Koichi Shimoda, Wayne Orchiston, Kenji Akabane and Masato Ishiguro	98
A little-known 3-lens catadioptric camera by Bernard Schmidt	Wolfgang Busch, Roger C. Ceragioli and Walter Stephani	107
The Flynn Creek meteorite impact site and changing views on impact cratering	J.R.H. Ford, Wayne Orchiston and Ron Clendening	127
Delphi and cosmovision: Apollo’s absence at the land of the Hyperboreans and the time for consulting the oracle	Ioannis Liritzis and Belen Castro	184
Aurorae in Australian Aboriginal traditions	Duane W. Hamacher	207
Book Reviews (all)
Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers Part 2, by Christiaan Sterken, ed.	Michael Geffert	220
Meeting Venus. A Collection of Papers Presented at the Venus Transit Conference in Tromsø 2012, by Christiaan Sterken and Per Pippin Aspaas, eds.	Wayne Orchiston	221

Volume 16 No. 3		November/December 2013
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		223
Papers
Transits of Venus and Mercury as muses	William Tobin	224
A comparison of astronomical terminology, methods and concepts in China and Mesopotamia, with some comments on the claims for the transmission of Mesopotamian astronomy to China	J.M. Steele	250
A possible Harappan astronomical observatory at Dholavira	Mayank Vahia and Srikumar M. Menon	261
Indian astronomy and the transits of Venus. 1: The early observations	R.C. Kapoor	269
From the death of the solarians to the birth of astrophysics	Alan H. Batten	287
Aboriginal oral traditions of Australian impact craters	Duane W. Hamacher and John Goldsmith	295
Eclipses in the Middle East from the Late Medieval Islamic Period to the Early Modern Period. Part 1: The observation of six lunar eclipses from the Late Medieval Islamic Period	S. Mohammad Mozaffari	312
A review of Māori astronomy in Aotearoa-New Zealand	Pauline Harris, Rangi Matamua, Takirirangi Smith , Hoturoa Kerr and Toa Waaka	325
Book Reviews (all)
The Astronomer Jules Janssen: A Globetrotter of Celestial Physics, by Françoise Launay	Wayne Orchiston	337
Our Enigmatic Universe: One Astronomer’s Reflections on the Human Condition, by Alan H. Batten	Richard Strom	339
The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics, by Biman B. Nath	Wayne Orchiston	340
Index to volume 16		342

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