JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 23 No. 1		March/April 2020
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		1
Papers
“Foundling of Percival Lowell”: The saga of naming Pluto	Thomas Hockey	2
Australian eclipse expeditions: James Short and the eclipses of 1908, 1910 and 1911	Nick Lomb	26
Astronomical dating of seven Classical Greek eclipses	F.R. Stephenson, L.V. Morrison, and C.Y. Hohenkerk	47
Seeking an inconstant constant: the quest to discover the variability of the Sun from William Herschel to Andrew Ellicott Douglass	William Sheehan and G. Wesley Lockwood	63
Solstice and solar position observations in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions	Duane W. Hamacher, Robert S. Fuller, Trevor M. Leaman, and David Bosun	89
Sustained cartographic innovations in nascent French Canada: the life and times of Jean Deshayes	Richard de Grijs	100
Herschel’s spurious moons of Uranus: their impact on satellite orbital theory, celestial cartography	Clifford Cunningham	119
Understanding śrungonnati: elevation of the Moon’s cusp (with examples)	B.S. Shubha, B.S. Shylaja and P. Vinay	163
Cook’s third voyage to the Pacific and early scientific astronomy on the north-western coast of America: the sojourn at Nootka Sound in April 1778	Wayne Orchiston and William Wells	174
Obituary
Obituary: Dr Yukio Ôhashi (1955-2019)	Wayne Orchiston and Tsuko Nakamura	209
Book Reviews (all)
Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope, and Heritage of Astronomy by Martin Harwit	Samantha Thompson	218
Unifying Heaven and Earth: Essays in the History of Early Modern Cosmology edited by Patrick Boner and Dario Tessicini	Clifford Cunningham	219
Scandalous Error. Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe by C. Philipp E. Nothaft	Cecelia Panti	220
Simon Marius and His Research edited by Hans Gaab and Pierre Leich	Clifford Cunningham	223
The Wayward Comet: A Descriptive History of Cometary Orbits, Kepler’s Problem and the Cometarium by Martin Beech	Pedro M.P. Raposo	224
Franz Xaver von Zach und die Astronomie seiner Zeit edited by Wolfgang R. Dick and Oliver Schwarz	Endre Zsoldos	226
Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist by Ileana Chinnici	Wayne Orchiston	227

Volume 23 No. 2		July/August 2020
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		229
Papers
‘Dark stars’ and a new interpretation of the ancient Greek stellar magnitude system	Clifford J. Cunningham	231
Medieval astronomical clocks in the Baltic region and the mysterious golden numbers in Gdansk	Lars Gislén	257
Alexander Bruce: Scotland’s accidental ‘scientific revolutionary’	Richard de Grijs	267
The time balls of Mauritius	Roger Kinns	281
Geodetic arcs, pendulums and the shape of the Earth	James Lequeux	297
The eclipse of 21 June 1629 in Beijing in the context of the reform of the Chinese calendar	Sperello di Serego Alighieri and Elisabetta Corsi	327
Henrique Morize and the eclipse of 1919 eclipse: the National Observatory of Brazil, the solar corona, and pure science	Antonio A.P. Vidiera	335
Comet tales from India: the Great September Comet of 1882 (C/1882 R1)	Ramesh Kapoor	353
Native American traditions of Meteor Crater, Arizona: fact, fiction or appropriation?	Duane W. Hamacher	375
A cultural comparison of the ‘dark constellations’ in the Milky Way	Stephen R. Gullberg, Duane W. Hamacher, Alejandro Martin-Lopez, Javier Mejuto, Andrew M. Munro and Wayne Orchiston	390
Book Reviews (all)
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, by Daniel Kennefick	Clifford Cunningham	405
Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes, by Ron Cowen	Clifford Cunningham	405
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions That Changed How We Look at The Universe, by S. James Gates Jr. and Cathie Pelletier	Clifford Cunningham	405
Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe, by John Johnson Jr	Clifford Cunningham	407
History of the Observatory at the University of Trnava 1756‒1785, by Alžbeta Hološová and Henrieta Žažová	Paul Gabor	408
Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in its Contexts, edited by Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg	Clifford Cunningham	410
As the World Turns: The History of Proving the Earth Rotates, by Peter Kosso	William Tobin	411
In Memoriiam Hilmar Duerbeck, edited by Wolfgang R. Dick and Christiaan Sterken	Clifford Cunningham	413
Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo, by Christopher M. Graney	Clifford Cunningham	414
News From Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910, by Joshua Nall	Clifford Cunningham	416
Saturn, by William Sheehan	Clifford Cunningham	417
Jean-Charles Houzeau’s Escape from Texas. A Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War, by C. Sterken and A.A. King	Emile Biemont	418
History of the Plurality of Worlds: The Myths of Extraterrestrials Throughout the Ages, by Pierre Connes, edited by James Lequeux	Steven J. Dick	419
The Moon: A Translation of Der Mond by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, translated by Stephen Harvey	Bill Leatherbarrow	421
Corrigendum
The Obituary for Dr Yukio Ôhashi	Wayne Orchiston and Tsuko Nakamura	423

Volume 23 No. 3		November/December 2020
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		425
Papers
A case study of the Picture Rocks sun dagger, plus a review of the intentionality of sun daggers	Bradley E. Schaefer and James Stamm	427
Cosmic symbolism of Zuni fetish carvings	Von Del Chamberlain and Milford Nahohai	452
European longitude prizes. I: longitude determination in the Spanish empire	Richard de Grijs	465
A (not so) brief history of lunar distances: lunar longitude determination at sea before the chronometer	Richard de Grijs	495
Time signals for mariners in India, Burma, and Ceylon	Roger Kinns	523
The founding of Arcetri Observatory in Florence	Simone Bianchi	553
Raymond Michard and his solar physics group at Paris-Meudon Observatory	Pierre Mein and Nicole Mein	582
The Mexican astrographic catalogue and Carte du Ciel Project	Marco Arturo Moreno Corral and William J. Schuster	601
Where exactly did A.S. Eddington observe the total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919? (Onde, exactamente, A.S. Eddington observou o eclipse solar de 29 de Maio de 1919?)	Joana Latas, Duarte Pape, and Ana Simões	614
Observations of the Great September Comet of 1882 (C/1882 R1) from New Zealand	Wayne Orchiston, John Drummond, Gary Kronk	628
Communication issues in war-time astronomy: independent Australian, Indian, New Zealand and South African discoveries of Comet C/1941 B2 (de Kock-Paraskevopoulos)	Wayne Orchiston, John Drummond, and B.S. Shylaja	659
On two Seventeenth century Persian paintings depicting comets or fireballs: a correction	R.C. Kapoor	675
Book Reviews (all)
Space, Time and Aliens: Collected Works on Cosmos and Culture, by Steven J. Dick.	David H. DeVorkin	681
A Babylonian Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC, by Frances Reynolds	John Steele	682
Open Skies. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and its Impact on US Radio Astronomy, by Kenneth I. Kellermann, Ellen N. Bouton and Sierra S. Brandt	Marshall Cohen	684
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens, by John Robert Christianson	Clifford Cunningham	685
Archaeoastronomy in the Roman World, edited by Giulio Magli, Antonio César González-García, Juan Belmonte Aviles, and Elio Antonello	E.C. Krupp	686
The Number of the Heavens: A History of the Multiverse and the Quest to Understand the Cosmos, by Tom Siegfreid	Clifford Cunningham and Conlan Salgado	688
A Saving Science: Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts, by Eric M. Ramirez-Weaver	Marion Dolan	689
The History of Celestial Navigation: Rise of the Royal Observatory and Nautical Almanacs, edited by P. Kenneth Seidelmann and Catherine Y. Hohenkerk	Patricia Fara	691
Celestial Mirror: The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II, by Barry Perlus	Clifford Cunningham	693
Maps of the Moon. Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age, by Thomás A.S. Haddad	Francis J. Manasek	694
The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community, by Aviva Rothman	Paul Gabor	695
Response to the Review of The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community, by Dr Paul Gabor	Aviva Rothman	698
The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth Century England, by Erin Webster	Cliff Cunningham	699
Evolving Theories on the Origin of the Moon, by Walter D. Cummings	Erik Asphaug	701
Time and Time Again: Determination of Longitude at Sea in the 17th Century, by Richard de Grijs	Wayne Orchiston	702
Back Matter
2020 Index		705

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