Cover | | |
About the JAHH and the cover | | Inside Cover |
Contents | | 105 |
Editorial | | 106 |
Papers | | |
Twin Suns in Australian Aboriginal traditions | Duane W. Hamacher and Rubina R. Visuvanathan | 107 |
Australites. Part 1: Aboriginal involvement in their discovery | Philip A. Clarke | 115 |
On the epoch of the Kollam Era | Lars Gislen | 134 |
A commentary on the volvelles in Petrus Apianus’ Astronomicum Caesareum | Lars Gislen | 135 |
The solar ingress (Sankranti) according to the Makarandasarini and other Indian astronomical texts | S.K. Uma, Padmaja Venugopal, K. Rupa and S. Balachandra Rao | 202 |
Cassini’s 1679 map of the Moon and French Jesuit observations of the lunar eclipse of 11 December 1685 | Lars Gislen, Francoise Launay, Wayne Orchiston, Darunee Lingling Orchiston, Suzanne Debarbat, Matthieu Husson, Martin George, and Boonrucksar Soonthornthum | 211 |
Francis G. Pease and the first galactic rotation curves (1916-1922) | Jordan Marche II and Benjamin Weber | 226 |
Book Reviews (all) | | |
Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research, by Clifford J. Cunningham; Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research, by Clifford J. Cunningham; Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research, by Clifford J. Cunningham | William Sheehan | 237 |
Discovering Pluto: Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System, by Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan | Clifford Cunningham | 240 |
The Sun, by Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff | Clifford Cunningham | 241 |
The Emergence of Astrophysics in Asia: Opening a New Window on the Universe, edited by Tsuko Nakamura and Wayne Orchiston | Yukio Ohashi | 242 |
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition, by Alberto A. Martinez | Clifford Cunningham | 249 |
Giovanni Domenico Cassini: A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century, by Gabriela Bernardi | Clifford Cunningham | 250 |
The Scientific Legacy of William Herschel, edited by Clifford J. Cunningham | Stephen Case | 251 |
Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett, by R. Peter Broughton | Clifford Cunningham | 253 |
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World, by Alexander Jones | Clifford Cunningham | 254 |
Merz Telescopes: A Global Heritage Worth Preserving, edited by Ileana Chinnici | Paul Gabor | 255 |
Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science, by Francesca Rochberg | Clifford Cunningham | 256 |
Space Science and the Arab World: Astronomers, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East, by Jorg Matthias Determann | Robert W. Smith | 257 |
Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan, by Yulia Frumer | Daniel Belteki | 258 |
The Moon, by Bill Leatherbarrow | Clifford Cunningham | 259 |
Index | | 262 |