JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 13 No. 1March 2010
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The Radiophysics Field Station at Penrith, New South Wales, and the World’s First
Solar Radiospectrograph
Ronald Steward, Harry Wendt, Wayne Orchiston, & Bruce Slee2
The Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, TexasA. Richard Thompson17
Letter to the Editor. Re: Montgomery et al.’s paper on “Michell, Laplace and the Origin of the Black
Hole Concept”
P. Brosche28
Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 5: The Nançay Large Radio TelescopeJames Lequeux, Jean-Louis Steinberg, & Wayne Orchiston29
Wilhelm Tempel and his 10.8-cm Steinheil TelescopeSimone Bianchi, Antonella Gasperini, Daniele Galli, Francesco
Palla, Paolo Brenni, & Anna Giatti
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James Dunlop’s Historical Catalogue of Southern Nebulae and ClustersGlen Cozens, Andrew Walsh, & Wayne Orchiston59
The Astronomical Significance of Megalithic Stone Alignments at Vibhuthihalli in Northern
Karnataka
N. Kameswara Rao & Priya Thakur74
Book Reviews (all)
The Collected Correspondence of Baron Franz Xaver von Zach, by Clifford J. CunninghamHilmar W. Duerbeck83
British University Observatories 1772-1939, by Roger HutchinsDavid W. Hughes83
Astronomical Spectrographs and their History, by John Hearnshaw David DeVorkin84
Under the Radar. The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott, ed. by W.M. Goss &
Richard X. McGee
Wayne Orchiston85
Geschichte der Geodäsie in Deutschland, by Wolfgang TorgeHilmar W. Duerbeck86
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The First Century of Astronomical Spectroscopy
IntroductionJoseph S. Tenn88
Auguste Comte’s Blunder: An Account of the First Century of Stellar Spectroscopy and
How it Took One Hundred Years to Prove that Comte was Wrong!
John Hearnshaw90
Spectroscopy—So What?Matthew Stanley105
From Dilettante to Serious Amateur: William Huggins’ Move into the Inner CircleBarbara J. Becker112
The Origin and Diffusion of the H and K NotationJay M. Pasachoff & Terry-Ann Suer120
The 1910 Solar Conference and Cooperation in Stellar SpectroscopyRichard A. Jarrell127
Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: C.H. Payne H.N. Russell and
Standards of Evidence in Early Quantitative Spectroscopy
David H. Devorkin139
Charlotte Moore SitterlyVera C. Rubin145
Other Papers
St. Helena, Edmond Halley, the Discovery of Stellar Proper Motion, and the Mystery
of Aldebaran
John C. Brandt149
The First Astronomical Hypothesis Based on Cinematographical Observations: Costa
Lobo’s 1912 Evidence for Polar Flattening of the Moon
Vitor Bonifácio, Isabel Malaquias, & João Fernandes,159
Book Reviews (all)
Blick zurück ins Universum. Die Geschichte der österreichichen Astronomie in
Biographien,
by Daniela Angetter, & Nora Pärr
Hilmar W. Duerbeck169
Jérôme Lalande (1732-1807). Une Trajectoire Scientifique, ed. by Guy Boistel, Jérôme Lamy,
& Colette Le Lay
James Lequeux169
Corrigendum
Correction to The Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, TexasA. Richard Thompson170
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Volume 13 No. 3November 2010
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Ronald N. Bracewell: An AppreciationA. Richard Thompson, & Robert H. Frater172
James Ferguson: A CommemorationClive Davenhall179
Elisabeth von Matt (1762 – 1814), An Enlightened Practitioner of Astronomy
in Vienna
Peter Brosche & Klaralinda Ma-Kircher187
Time Balls, Time Guns and Glasgow’s Quest for a Reliable Local Time ServiceRoger Kinns194
Charles Nordmann and Multicolour Stellar PhotometryJames Lequeux207
An Aboriginal Australian Record of the Great Eruption of Eta CarinaeDuane W. Hamacher, & David J. Frew220
The Changing Role of the ‘Catts Telescope’: The Life and Times of a Nineteenth
Century 20-inch Grubb Reflector
Wayne Orchiston235
Book Reviews (all)
Die Geschichte der Universitätssternwarte Wien. Dargestellt anhand ihrer
historischen Instrumente und eines Typoskripts von Johann Steinmayr,

by Jürgen Hamel, Isolde Müller, & Thomas Posch
Hilmar W. Duerbeck255
Sterne über Hamburg. Die Geschichte der Astronomie in Hamburg,
by J. Schramm
Hilmar W. Duerbeck255
Cultural Heritage of Astronomical Observatories, by G. WolfschmidtHilmar W. Duerbeck240
Cosmic Noise. A History of Early Radio Astronomy, by Woodruff T. Sullivan, IIIWayne Orchiston256
Index to Volume 13258
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