JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 19 No. 1		March/April 2016
Cover
About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		1
Editorial		2
Papers
Pictographs at Paint Rock, Texas: exploring the horizon astronomy and cultural intent	Gordon L. Houston and Irakli Simonia	3
[Paper retracted]		18
Exploring the first scientific observations of lunar eclipses made in Siam	Wayne Orchiston, Darunee Lingling Orchiston, Martin George, and Boonrucksar Soonthornthum	25
Philippe de la Hire’s eighteenth century eclipse predictor	Lars Gislén and Chris Eade	46
Comte, Mach, Planck, and Eddington: a study of influence across generations	Alan H. Batten	51
Aboriginal Astronomical traditions from Ooldea, South Australia, Part 2: Animals in the Ooldean Sky	Trevor M. Leaman, Duane W. Hamacher, and Mark T. Carter	61
Australian solar eclipse expeditions: the voyage to Cape York in 1871	Nick Lomb	79
Book Reviews (all)
Masters of the Universe: Conversations with Cosmologists of the Past by Helge Kragh	Joseph S. Tenn	96
Indian Astronomy: Concepts and Procedures by S. Balachandran Rao	Mayank Vahia	99
Lost in the Stars. A.W. Roberts at the Crossroads of Mission, Science, and Race in South Africa 1883–1938 by Keith Snedegar	Ian Glass	100
Da Serra da Mantiqueira as Montanhas do Havai – A Historia do Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica by Christina Helena da Motta Barboza	Antonio A.P. Videira	102

Volume 19 No.2		July/August 2016
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		105
Papers
Evolution of the Foucault-Secretan reflecting telescope	William Tobin	106
The early history of low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 6: Michael Bessell and the University of Tasmania’s Richmond field station near Hobart	Martin George, Wayne Orchiston, Brice Slee, and Richard Wielebinski	185
Are space studies a scientific discipline in its own right?	Jérôme Lamay and Emmanuel Davoust	195
How supernovae became the basis of observational cosmology	Maria Victorovna Pruzhinskaya and Sergey Mikhailovich Lisakov	203
Astronomy of the Korku Tribe of India	M.N. Vahia, Ganesh Halkare, and Purushottam Dahedar	216
Book Reviews (all)
The Dawning Moon of the Mind by Susan Brind Morrow	Clifford J. Cunningham	233
Exploring the History of New Zealand Astronomy: Trials, Tribulations, Telescopes and Transits by Wayne Orchiston	William Tobin	234
Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story, by Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota and Franco Giudice, translated by Catherine Bolton AND Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo & the Politics of Knowledge by Nick Wilding	Clifford J. Cunningham	237
Editorial Note	Wayne Orchiston	238

Volume 19 No.3		November/December 2016
Cover
About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		239
Papers
Highlighting the history of Japanese radio astronomy, 4: early solar research in Osaka	Wayne Orchiston, Tsuko Nakamura, and Masato Ishiguro	240
A lunar eclipse volvelle in Petrus Apianus’ Astronomicum Caesareum	Lars Gislén	247
On the lost portrait of Galileo by the Tuscan painter Santi di Tito	Paolo Molaro	255
Nūr Ud-Dīn Jah Ngīr and Father Kirwitzer: the independent discovery of the Great Comets of November 1618 and the first astronomical use of the telescope in India	R.C. Kapoor	264
Introducing AstroGen: the Astronomy Genealogy Project	Joseph S. Tenn	298
William Herschel’s ‘Hole in the Sky’ and the discovery of dark nebulae	Wolfgang Steinicke	305
Reconstructing the star knowledge of Aboriginal Tasmanians	Michelle Gantevoort, Duane W. Hamacher, and Savannah Lischick	327
Book Reviews (all)
Astronomy in India 1784–1876 by Joydeep Sen	Mayank Vahia	348
Wolf Telescopes: A Collection of Historical Telescopes by Wolf, Edward D. Wolf	William Tobin	349
Chintamani Ragoonatha Charry and Contemporary Indian Astronomy by B.S. Shylaja	Ramesh Kapoor and Wayne Orchiston	351
History of the Sky – On Stones by B.S. Shylaja, and Geetha Kydala Ganesha	Wayne Orchiston	353
History of Indian Astronomy: A Handboook edited by K. Ramasubramanian, Aniket Sule, and Mayank Vahia	Wayne Orchiston	356
Corrigendum
Errata and Addenda	Wayne Orchiston	361
Index for Volume 19		363

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