JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 22 No. 1		March/April 2019
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About JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents and Editorial	Wayne Orchiston	1
Papers
A tribute to Professor Govind Swarup, FRS: The Father of Indian Radio Astronomy	Wayne Orchiston and Sudhir Phakatkar	3
Della Porta, Colonna, and Fontana: the role of Neapolitan scientist at the beginning of the telescope era	Mauro Gargano	45
Petrus Apianus’ volvelle for finding the equinoxes	Lars Gislén	60
Merz telescopes at the University Observatory in Christiania, Norway	Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen	65
Four centuries of observations of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter: increasing the astrometric accuracy	J.E. Arlot	78
A history of Western astronomical almanacs	P. Kenneth Seidelmann	93
Power, politics and personalities in Australian astronomy: William Ernest Cooke and the triangulation of the Pacific by wireless time signals	Ian Tasker	113
An account of the comet, which appeared in the months of September, October and November 1807	Captain John Warren	132
On observations of the Great Comet of 1807 (C/1807 R1) from India	R.C. Kapoor	137
John Warren’s unpublished observations of the Great Comet of 1811 from India	R.C. Kapoor	147
Australites. Part 2: early Aboriginal perception and use	Philip A. Clarke	155
Astronomy of the Pardhi Tribe of Central India	Ganesh Halkare, Purushottam Dahedar, Wayne Orchiston and M.N. Vahia	179
Book Reviews (all)
Mercury, by William Sheehan	Clifford J. Cunningham	195
The Cuneiform Uranology Texts: Drawing the Constellations, by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Eckart Frahm, Wayne Horowitz, and John Steele	Gil Breger	196

Volume 22 No. 2		August/September 2019
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About JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
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The importance of historical measures for dynamical models of the evolution of Trapezium-type multiple systems	Christine Allen, Leonardo J. Sánchez, Alex Ruelas-Mayorga and Rafael Costero	201
A further application of Google Earth in studying the orientation of ancient Greek monument	Dimitris Sinachopoulos	211
Baiami and the emu chase: an astronomical interpretation of a Wiradjuri Dreaming associated With the Burbung	Trevor M. Leaman and Duane W. Hamacher	225
Minnaert’s folly: a forgotten teaching observatory from the 1960s	David Baneke	238
A tale of three telescopes: the John A. Brashear Company and its 46-cm objective	Richard Taibi	247
The short-lived CSIRO Division of Radiophysics field station at Bankstown Aerodrome in Sydney	Harry Wendt and Wayne Orchiston	266
On two seventeenth century Persian paintings depicting comets or fireballs	R.C. Kapoor	273
Identification of the stars of the Saptarsi Maṇḍala and its vicinity	B.S. Shylaja and R. Venketeswara Pai	294
A history of Drake Municipal Observatory, Des Moines, USA: from riches, to rags, to restoration	Kaley Wresch, Deborah Kent, Janis Winter and Wayne Orchiston	301
Highlighting the history of Japanese radio astronomy. 6: Early solar monitoring at the Radio Research Laboratories of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Hiraiso	Wayne Orchiston and Masato Ishiguro	328
A hypothetical Romakasiddhānta Calendar	Lars Gislén	339
Book Reviews (all)
Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art, by Benjamin Anderson	Marian Dolan	342
Selene’s Two Faces: From 17th Century Drawings to Spacecraft Imaging, by Carmen Pérez González	Wayne Orchiston	343
Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe, by Alan Hirshfeld	Clifford J. Cunningham	346
Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel, by Stephen Case	Clifford J. Cunningham	347
Kew Observatory & The Evolution of Victorian Science 1840‒1910, by Lee T. Macdonald	Clifford J. Cunningham	348
Fred Whipple’s Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973, by David H. DeVorkin	Jordan D. Marché II	350
Jupiter, by William Sheehan and Thomas Hockey	Clifford J. Cunningham	351
American Eclipses: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World, by David Baron	Wayne Orchiston	353
Imagining Other Worlds: Explorations in Astronomy and Culture, edited by Nicholas Campion and Chris Impey	Clifford J. Cunningham	354
The Great Canoes in the Sky: Starlore and Astronomy in the South Pacific, by Stephen Robert Chadwick and Martin Paviour-Smith	Wayne Orchiston	355
Rocks, Radio and Radar: The Extraordinary Scientific, Social and Military Life of Elizabeth Alexander, by Mary Harris	Wayne Orchiston	358
Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe, by Roberta J.M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff	Wayne Orchiston	361

Volume 22 No. 3		November/December 2019
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About JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents	Wayne Orchiston	363
Papers
Treading carefully: V.M. Slipher, C.O. Lampland, E.C. Slipher and their ambivalent relationship with Percival Lowell’s Mars	William Sheehan	365
The concepts of deśāntara and yojana in Indian astronomy	Padmaja Venugopal, K. Rupa, S.K. Uma, and S. Balachandra Rao	401
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 1: Introduction	Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade	407
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 2: Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia	Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade	417
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 3: Vietnam	Lê Thành Lân	431
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 4: Malaysia and Indonesia	Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade	447
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 5: Eclipse calculations, and the longitudes of the Sun, Moon and planets in Burmese and Thai astronomy	Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade	458
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 6: Calendrical records	Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade	479
Notes on the transmission of Ptolemy’s Almagest and some geometrical mechanisms to the era of Copernicus	Kevin Krisciunas and Belén Bistué	492
Radio astronomy at Cornell University: the early years, 1946 to 1962	Donald B. Campbell	503
The Tarawera volcanic eruption in New Zealand and Māori cometary astronomy	Wayne Orchiston and John Drummond	521
The Bhāsvatī astronomical handbook of Śatānanda	Sudhira Panda	536
Rationale for Śrīrguṇamitrādivākyas as described in the Laghuprakāśikā	R.Venkesteswara Pai	545
Book Reviews (all)
Vedic Mathematics and Science in Vedas, by S. Balachandra Rao	Mayank Vahia	553
Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science, by Derek W.G. Sears	William K. Hartmann	553
Conference Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Dr. Nicolaus Thege-Konkoly and 145th Anniversary of the Founding of the Hurbanovo Observatory, edited by Eduard Koči	Stanislav Šišulák	555
The Lost Planets: Peter van de Kamp and the Vanishing Exoplanets Around Barnard’s Star, by John Wenz	Clifford J. Cunningham	556
Time of our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium, by Sara J. Schechner	Mike Cowham	557
The First Latin Treatise of Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagest Minor (c. 1200) [Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, Texts: Volume 1], by Henry Zepeda	Dominque Raynaud	559
Jan Hendrik Oort: Master of the Galactic System, by Pieter C. van der Kruit	Virginia Trimble	561
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology, edited by Helge Kragh and Malcolm Longair	Wayne Orchiston	565
Index		557

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