| Cover | | |
| About JAHH and the cover | | Inside Cover |
| Contents | | |
| Papers | | |
| Quasars and the Caltech-Carnegie Connection | Edward R. Waluska | 79 |
| John Michell, the Pleiades, and Odds of 496,000 to 1 | David W. Hughes & Susan Cartwright | 93 |
Solar Photography in the Nineteenth Century: the Case of the Infante D. Luiz Observatory in Lisbon (1871-1880) | Vitor Bonifácio, Isabel Malaquias, & João Fernandes | 101 |
| The Norwegian Naval Observatories | Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen | 115 |
| Demetrios Eginitis: Restorer of the Athens Observatory | E. Th. Theodossiou, V.N. Manimanis, & P. Mantarakis | 123 |
| F.X. von Zach and the Fifth Continent | Peter Brosche | 133 |
Caveat Lector: Comments on Douglas J. Keenan, ‘Astro-Historiographic Chronologies of Early China are Unfounded’ | David W. Pankenier | 137 |
| Defence of Planetary Conjunctions for Early Chinese Chronology is Unmerited | Douglas J. Keenan | 142 |
| Stephen J. O’Meara and Ring Spokes Before Voyager 1 | James Bryan | 148 |
| Corrigendum | | |
| Correction to E.E. Barnard and the Eclipse of Iapetus in 1889 | James Bryan | 150 |
| Obituary | | |
| Donald Edward Osterbrock (1924 – 2007) | William Sheehan & C. Robert O’Dell | 151 |
| Book Reviews (all) | | |
| Caroline Herschel’s Autobiographies ed. by Michael Hoskin | Mary Brück | 157 |
| Two Paths to Heaven’s Gate, by Nan Dieter Conklin | Wayne Orchiston | 157 |
| The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, by Basil Mahon | Clive Davenhall | 158 |
| Harrison in the Abbey, by Arnold Wolfendale | Wayne Orchiston | 158 |
| Observatoires et Patrimonie Astronomique Français, ed. by Guy Boistel | Monique Gros | 159 |
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