JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 20 No.1		March/April 2017
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		1
Papers
Is the Universe expanding? Fritz Zwicky and the early tired-light hypothesis	Helge Kragh	2
Apianus’ latitude volvelles – how were they made?	Lars Gilsén	13
Scientists of the Gwansang-gam. 1: Observers of Comet 1P/Halley in 1759	Nha Il-Seong, Oh Wan-Tak, Oh Yong-Hae, and Nha Sarah	21
Cook, Green, Maskelyne and the 1769 transit of Venus: the legacy of the Tahitian observations	Wayne Orchiston	35
The principal time balls of New Zealand	Roger Kinns	69
The history of low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 7: Philip Hamilton, Raymond Haynes and the University of Tasmania’s Penna Field Station near Hobart	Martin George, Wayne Orchiston, and Richard Wielebinski	95
Highlighting the history of Japanese radio astronomy. 5: The 1950 Osaka solar grating array proposal	Harry Wendt, Wayne Orchiston, Masato Ishiguro, and Tsuko Nakamura	112
On the history of the Argument from Design in astronomy	Alan H. Batten	119
Reception and dissemination of American amateur telescope making in Sweden	Johan Kärnfelt	126
Book Reviews (all)
Sternbilder des Mittelalters und der Renaissance: Der gemalte Himmel zwischen Wissenschaft und Phantasie, Volume 2 by Dieter Blume, Mechthild Haffner, and Wolfgang Metzger	Marion Dolan	138
Science: Antiquity & Its Legacy by Philippa Lang	Clifford J. Cunningham	140
The Invention of the Achromatic and Aplanatic Lens With Special Regard to the Role Played by Samuel Klingenstierna by N.V.E. Nordenmark and Johan Nordström	Wayne Orchiston	142

Volume 20 No. 2		July/August 2017
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		143
Editorial		144
Papers
Studying the history of Indonesian astronomy: future prospects and possibilities	Wayne Orchiston	145
The syzygy volvelle in Astronomicum Caesareum	Lars Gilsén	155
Revisiting J.M. Gilliss’ astronomical expedition to Chile in 1849‒1852	Germán Hidalgo Hermosilla	161
Wanderings of the ‘Simply Perfect’ Burnham Telescope	James Lattis	177
The history of early low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 8: Grote Reber and the ‘Square Kilometre Array’ near Bothwell, Tasmania, in the 1960s and 1970s	Martin George, Wayne Orchiston, and Richard Wielebinski	195
The time light signals of New Zealand: yet another way of communicating time in the pre-wireless era	Roger Kinns	211
A tale of two telescopes: North Queensland and the 1882 transit of Venus	Wayne Orchiston and Vicki Darlington	223
Book Reviews (all)
The Unforgotten Sisters: Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel by Gabriella Bernardi	Jana Ruth Ford	254
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel	Clifford J. Cunningham	255
Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres by Clifford J. Cunningham	Donald R. Davis	256
Roman Portable Sundials. The Empire in Your Hand by Richard J.A. Talbert	Clifford J. Cunningham	258
On Astronomia. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of EPISTLE 3, edited and translated by F. Jamil Ragep and Taro Mimura	Jörg Matthias Determann	260

Volume 20 No.3		November/December 2017
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		263
Papers
Analysis of French Jesuit observations of Io made in China in AD 1689‒1690	Lars Gislén	264
Francesco Fontana and the birth of the astronomical telescope	Paolo Molaro	271
The origin and development of extragalactic radio astronomy: the role of CSIRO’s Division of Radiophysics Dover Heights Field Station in Sydney	Wayne Orchiston and Peter Robertson	289
The contribution of the Georges Heights Experimental Radar Antenna to Australian radio astronomy	Wayne Orchiston and Harry Wendt	313
Peripheries of epicycles in the Grahalāghava	S. Balachandra Rao, V. Vanaja and M. Shailaja	341
Did Aboriginal Australians record a simultaneous eclipse and aurora in their oral traditions?	Robert S. Fuller and Duane W. Hamacher	349
Book Reviews (all)
Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times: Ground-Based Optical and Radio Astronomy Facilities since 1945, by David Leverington	Clifford J. Cunningham	360
Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe, by Peter Robertson	Wayne Orchiston	361
Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy, by Barbara J. Becker	Wayne Orchiston	362
Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science, by Richard Taibi	Wayne Orchiston	363
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