JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 11 No. 1		March 2008
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Papers from the Osterbrock Memorial Symposium
W.W. Morgan and the Discovery of the Spiral Arm Structure of our Galaxy	William Sheehan	3
The Pleasures of the Vault	Anthony Misch	22
The 40-foot Solar Eclipse Camera of the Lick Observatory	John C. Pearson & Wayne Orchiston	25
Other Papers
Ancient Greek Heliocentric Views Hidden from Prevailing Beliefs?	Ioannis Liritzis, & Alexandra Coucouzeli	39
Milutin Milanković and the Reform of the Julian Calendar in 1923	M.S. Dimitrijević, E. Th. Theodossiou, & P.Z. Mantarakis	50
The (Almost) Unseen Total Eclipse of 1831	Ian R. Bartky	55
Molonglo Observatory: Building the Cross and MOST	Bruce McAdam	63
The Australian Solar Eclipse Expeditions of 1947 and 1949	Harry Wendt, Wayne Orchiston, & Bruce Slee	71
Book Reviews (all)
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London’s Leading Scientific Instrument Maker, by Anita McConnell	David Blank	79
Mission to Jupiter: A History of the Galileo Project, by Michael Meltzer	James Bryan	79
“…eine ausnehmende Zierde und Vortheil” – Geschichte der Kieler Universitätssternwarte und ihrer Vorgängerinnen 1770 – 1950, by Felix Lühning	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	80
Un Astronome des Lumières: Jérôme de Lalande, by Simone Dumont	Anita McConnell	80
Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe an the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century, by Adam Mosley	Günther Oestmann	81
One Time Fits All: The Campaign for Global Uniformity, by Ian R. Bartky	G.A. Wilkins	82
Cometography. A Catalogue of Comets. Volume 3: 1900-1932, by Gary W. Kronk	Wayne Orchiston	83
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Volume 11 No. 2		July 2008
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Papers
The Origin and Meaning of Colourful Descriptions in Chinese Astronomical Records	Richard G. Strom	87
Cassini, Rømer, and the Velocity of Light	Laurence Bobis & James Lequeux	97
A Newly-discovered Accurate Early Drawing of M51, the Whirlpool Nebula	William Tobin, & J.B. Holberg	107
Ernesto Vasconcellos’ Astronomia Photographica: The Earliest Popular Book on Astronomical Photography?	Vitor Bonifácio, Isabel Malaquias, & João Fernandes	116
Rado Köveslighety’s Spectroscopic Work	Lajos G. Balázs, Magda Vargha, & Endre Zsoldos	124
The Hydrogen Abundance in Stars: A First Major Step for Quantitative Astrophysics	Davide Cenadelli	134
From Research Institution to Astronomical Museum: A History of the Stockholm Observatory	Steven Haywood Yaskell	146
A short History of Two Nineteenth Century German Instruments at the Bologna Observatory: The 16-cm Steinheil Refractor and the Ertel & Sohn Meridian Circle	Francesco Poppi, Fabrizio Bònoli, & Andrea Gualandi	157
Book Reviews (all)
Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography by Nick Kanas	Robert A. Garfinkle	167
Proxima: The Nearest Star (Other Than the Sun!), by I.S. Glass	Wayne Orchiston	167
James Van Allen: The First Billion Miles, by Abigail Foerstner	Robert A. Garfinkle
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Volume 11 No. 3		November 2008
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Christiansen Papers
W.N. Christiansen and the Development of the Solar Grating Array	Harry Wendt, Wayne Orchiston, & Bruce Slee	173
W.N. Christiansen and the Initial Australian Investigation of the 21cm Hydrogen Line	Harry Wendt, Wayne Orchiston, & Bruce Slee	185
Reminiscences Regarding Professor R.N. Christiansen	Govind Swarup	194
Other Papers
The Earliest Telescope Preserved in Japan	Tsuko Nakamura	203
Ethnographic and Literary Reflections on Ancient Georgian Astronomical Heritage	I. Simonia, C. Ruggles, & R. Chagunava	213
Letters from Augustin Hallerstein, an Eighteenth Century Jesuit Astronomer in Beijing	Stanislav Juznic	219
The Phantom Moon of Venus, 1645-1768	Kurt Møller Pedersen, & Helge Kragh	227
William Herschel’s Fifty-two Fields of Extensive Diffused Nebulosity – a Revision	Arndt Latusseck	235
Book Reviews (all)
Astronom in zwei Welten, by Dieter B. Herrmann	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	247
Der Wissenschaftsmacher: Reimar Lüst im Gespräch mit Paul Nolte, by David Pingree	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	247
Sternwarten: 95 astronomische Observatorien in aller Welt, by Stefan Binnewies, Wolfgang Steinicke, & Jens Moser	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	248
Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It, by Robert Zimmerman	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	249
Index to Volume 11		250
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