JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 12 No. 1		March 2009
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Editorial: Journals under Threat	Wayne Orchiston & Hilmar Duerbeck	2
Papers
Recollections of Two and a Half Years with ‘Chris’ Christiansen	Rodney D. Davies	4
Chris Christiansen and the Chris Cross	Wayne Orchiston & Don Mathewson	11
Personal Recollections of W.N. Christiansen and the Early Days of Chinese Radio Astronomy	Shouguan Wang	33
The Dunhuang Chinese Sky: A Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas	Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Françoise Praderie, & Susan Whitfield	39
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Some Early Astronomical Sites in the Kashmir Region	Naseer Iqbal, M.N. Vahia, Tabasum Masood, & Aijaz Ahmad	61
The Naming of Neptune	Nicholas Kollerstrom	66
V.M. Slipher’s Discovery of the Rotation of Spiral Nebulae and the Controversy with Bertil Lindblad	Alain G. Brémond	72
Orbituary
Dr. Mary Brück (1925-2008)	Clive Davenhall	81
Book Reviews (all)
Astronomy, Weather and Calendars in the Ancient World. Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies, by Daryn Lehoux	Jefferson Sauter	84
The Astrolabe, by James E. Morrison	Yukio Ôhashi	85
Shrouds of the Night. Masks of the Milky Way and Our Awesome New View of Galaxies, by David L. Block & Kenneth Freeman	Colin Montgomery	85
The Greatest Comets in History. Broom Stars and Celestial Scimitars, by David Seargent	Wayne Orchiston	87
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Volume 12 No. 2		July 2009
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Michell, Laplace and the Origin of the Black Hole Concept	Colin Montgomery, Wayne Orchiston,& Ian Whittingham	90
Time-keeping in the Antipodes: a Critical Comparison of the Sydney and Littelton Time Balls	Roger Kinns	97
From Fragments to a Museum Display: Restoration of a Gautier Meridian Circle	Marcus Granato	108
The Role of the Conferences and the Bulletin in the Modification of the Practices of the Carte du Ciel Project at the End of the Nineteenth Century	Jérôme Lamy	119
Early Infrared Astronomy	James Lequeux	125
Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish	Marshall H. Cohen	141
Study and orientation of the Mt. Oche ‘Dragon House’ in Euboea, Greece	E. Theodossiou, V.N. Manimanis, M. Katsiotis, & D. Papanikolao	153
Investigating the Orientation of Eleven Mosques in Greece	George Pantazis & Evangelia Lambrou	159
Comet Halley in 1910, as Viewed from a Maltese Perspective	Adrian Galea	167
Film and Book Reviews (all)
Spiral Galaxy: De Melkweg Ontrafeld.A film by Marteen Roos & Pieter-Rim de Kroon	Richard Strom	171
Inventar der historischen Sonnenuhren in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, by Jürgen Hamel	Woodruff T. Sullivan, III	171
Cometography. A Catalogue of Comets. Volume 4: 1933-1959, by Gary W. Kronk	Wayne Orchiston	171
Erratum
Correction to “The Origin and Meaning of Colourful Descriptions in Chinese Astronomical Records”	Richard G. Strom	172
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Volume 12 No. 3		November 2009
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Contents		173
Papers
Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 4: Early Solar Research at the École Normale Supérieure, Marcoussis and Nançay	Wayne Orchiston, Jean-Louis Steinberg, Mukul Kundu, Jacques Arsac, Émile-Jacques Blum, & André Boischot	175
General-purpose and Dedicated Regimes in the Use of Telescopes	Jérôme Lamy & Emmanuel Davoust	189
C. Ragoonatha Charry and Variable Star Astronomy	N. Kameswara Rao, A. Vagiswari, Priya Thakur, & Christina Birdie	201
Peter Millman and the Study of Meteor Spectra at Harvard University	Steven Tors & Wayne Orchiston	211
Canadian Meteor Science: The First Phase, 1933–1990	Richard A. Jarrell	224
An Astronomical Investigation of the Seventeen Hundred Year Old Nekresi Fire Temple in Eastern Georgia	Irakli Simonia, Clive Ruggles, & Nodar Bakhtadze	235
How the First Dwarf Planet Became the Asteroid Ceres	Clifford J. Cunningham, Brian G. Marsden, & Wayne Orchiston	240
IAU Reports
The IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group. 3: Progress Report (2006-2009)	Ken Kellermann, Wayne Orchiston, Rod Davies, James Lequeux, Norio Kaifu, Yuri Ilyasov, Govind Swarup, Hugo van Woerden, Jasper Wall, & Richard Wielebinski	249
IAU Transits of Venus Working Group: Triennial Report (2006-2009)	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	254
Book Reviews (all)
Nebel und Sternhaufen – Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung Beobachtung und Katalogisierung, by Wolfgang Steinicke	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	255
Eastern Astrolabes, Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum II, by David Pingree	Yukio Ôhashi	255
Via Nubila – am Grunde des Himmels. Johann Georg Hagen und die Kosmischen Wolken, by Arndt Latußeck	Hilmar W. Duerbeck	256
Index to Volume 12		257
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