VOLUME 25

JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 25 No. 1		March 2022
Cover
About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		1
Editorial	Wayne Orchiston	2
Papers
A history of astronomical optics in France	James Lequeux and Yvon Georgelin	3
Historical Chinese efforts to determine longitude at sea	Richard de Grijs	54
Analysis of the New Moon times on the calendar disk of the astronomical clock in Gdansk, Poland	Lars Gislén and Wayne Orchiston	75
The unexpected appearance of Dawes’ Observatory on the ‘1808 Sydney Cove Map’	Richard de Grijs	83
Astronomical observatory publications: information exchange before the Internet era	Ole Ellegaard and Bertil F. Dorch	91
Reminiscences
Reminiscences of an eclectic historian–astronomer	Stephen J. Dick	99
IAU and Other Reports
IAU Commission C3 (History of Astronomy): Triennial Report, 2018–2021	Wayne Orchiston, Christiaan Sterken, Sara Schechner, Xiaochun Sun, Ileana Chinnici, Eun-Hee Lee, Jay M. Pasachoff and Pieter C. van der Kruit	138
Book Reviews (all)
The Astronomer’s Chair, by Omar W. Nasim	Clifford Cunningham	161
Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene, by Barry Allen 162 Clifford Cunningham	Clifford Cunningham	162
The Mysterious Spheres on Greek and Roman Ancient Coins, by Raymond V. Sidrys	Clifford Cunningham	163
Plato’s Timaeus. Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium Platonicum Pragense, edited by Chad Jorgenson, Filip Karfik and Štěpán Špinka	Thomas Kjeller Johansen	165
Atomism in the Aeneid: Physics, Politics, and Cosmological Disorder, by Matthew M. Gorey	Clifford Cunningham	166
Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales, by Jason N. Nehercut	Clifford Cunningham	167
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Volume 25 No. 2		June 2022
Cover
About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		169
Editorial	Wayne Orchiston	170
Papers
Life at Meudon Observatory, 1876–1963	James Lequeux	171
Jules Janssen, the birth of solar physics, the foundation of Meudon Observatory, and the Mont Blanc Adventure (1875-1895)	J.-M. Malherbe	187
Astronomy and the Kofun burial mounds of Japan	Tsuko Nakamura	208
Comets and political anxieties in the first half of the ninth century: new light on Comets X/839 B1 and X841 Y1	Piero Sicoli, Marilina Cesario and Roberto Gorelli	213
Systematic errors in Galileo’s astronomical observations and alleged anomalies in the position of Neptune	Enrico Bernieri, Gheorghe Stratan, Sara Bacchini and Liviu Mircea	227
Mabel Cook Cole’s Philippine Folk Tales: an ethnoastronomical analysis	Ruby Ann B. Dela Cruz, Wayne Orchiston, Rose Ann B. Bautista, Princess B. Tucio, Jesus Rodrigo F. Torres and Ryan Manuel D. Guido	237
At the Temple Kūkaniloko, on O’ahu, Hawaiian Islands, Regulus predicted the greatest chief of an era	Martha H. Noyes	272
The 1989 Opotiki Bolide: accumulated evidence for a new carbonaceous chondrite meteorite from Aotearoa / New Zealand	Wayne Orchiston and John Drummond	277
A novel tool to determine absolute chronology: the phenomena of the agricultural marker stars Regulus and Sirius	Maurice Crijns	290
Reminiscences
Reflections on a misspent youth	Alan H. Batten	299
IAU and Other Reports
IAU Working Group for Archeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture: Triennial Report, 2018–2021	Steven Gullberg, Javier Mejuto, Beatriz Garcia, Duane Hamacher, Jarita Holbrook Alejandro Martin Lopez, Rosa M. Ros and Christiaan Sterken	311
IAU Working Group for Ethnoastronomy & Intangible Heritage: Triennial Report, 2018–2021	Duane Hamacher, Beatriz Garcia, Alejandro Gangui, Steven Gullberg, Jarita Holbrook, Alejandro Martin Lopez, Javier Mejuto, Wayne Orchiston and Clive Ruggles	318
Book Reviews (all)
As the World Turns, by Peter Kosso	Clifford Cunningham	322
Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy, edited by Rosa M. Ros, Beatriz Garcia, Steven R. Gullberg, Javier Moldin and Patricio Rojo	Steven J. Dick	323
The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars, by Jo Marchant	Clifford Cunningham	325
Visualising Skyscapes: Material Forms of Cultural Engagement with the Heavens, edited by Liz Henty and Daniel Brown	Nicholas Campion	326
The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, edited by James Ker and Antje Wessels	Clifford Cunningham	328
“Pour la Gloire de M. de la Lande.” Une Histoire Matérielle, Scientifique, Institutionnelle et Humaine de la Connaissance des Temps, de 1679 à 1920, by Guy Boistel.	James Lequeux	330
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders Read the Stars, by Duane Hamacher, Ghillar Michael Anderson, John Barsa, David Bosun, Ron Day, Segar Passi and Alo Tapim	Wayne Orchiston	333
Balatik. An English Translation. Ethnoastronomy: The Sky in Filipino Civilization, by Dante L. Ambrosio; English translation by Jesus Rodrigo F. Torres and Ruby-Ann Dela Cruz	Wayne Orchiston	335
Miscellaneous
Australian Radio Astronomy Papers Published in JAHH		338
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Volume 25 No. 3		September 2022
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		339

Papers
Pieter Johannes van Rhijn, Kapteyn’s Astronomical Laboratory and the Plan of Selected Areas	Pieter C. van der Kruit	341
The origins and legacy of ‘Kepler’s Gap’	Clifford J. Cunningham	439
In search of the Promontorium Somni	William Tobin and James Lequeux	457
Papers on the History of French Astronomy Published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage		468
The 1922 solar eclipse at Christmas Island: “Our disappointment it is impossible to describe”	Jonathan Spencer Jones	469
John Beebe and the development of astronomy in Queensland, Australia	Peter E. Anderson and Wayne Orchiston	481
Notes for a chronology of the telescope-making activities of the Neapolitan optician Francesco Fontana	Paolo Del Santo	503
On the origin of the Keplerian Telescope	Paolo Molaro	511
Tales from India. 1: Meteor showers in Classical and Colonial sources	R.C. Kapoor	518
Henri Deslandres: from molecular to solar physics	James Lequeux (with an Appendix by Jean-Marie Malherbe)	553

Obituary
Obituary: William Tobin (1953–2022)	James Lequeux	576

IAU and Other Reports
IAU Project Group on Asian Astronomy: Report 2019–2021	Wayne Orchiston and B.S. Shylaja	577
Book Reviews (all)
Astrobiology: Science, Ethnics, and Public Policy, edited by Octavio Chon Torres, Ted Peters, Joseph Seckbach, and Richard Gordon	Steven J. Dick	584
Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Academic and Societal Implications, edited by Jensine Andresen and Octavio A. Chon Torres	Steven J. Dick	584
The Sky is for Everyone, edited by Virginia Trimble and David A. Weintraub	Kenneth S. Rumstay	587
Michael Maestlin’s Manuscript Treatise on the Comet of 1618: An Edition and Translation of Manuscript WLB Stuttgart, Cod. Math. 4^o 15b, Nr 8, edited by Miguel Granada and Patrick Boner	Clifford Cunningham	589
Investigating Art, History and Literature with Astronomy: Determining Time, Place, and Other Hidden Details Linked to the Stars, by Donald W. Olsen	Marion Dolan	591
Gaṇitagannaḍ: Mirror of Mathematics, An Astronomy Text of 1604 CE in Kannada by Śankaranārāyana Joisaru of Śṛngeri, translated and with a mathematical analysis by B.S. Shylaja and Seetharama Javagal	S. Balachandra Rao	592
A Treatise on Moon Maps: Visual Studies on Paper, 1610-1910 , by Francis J. Manasek	Wayne Orchiston	593
Golden Years of Australian Radio Astronomy: An Illustrated History, by Wayne Orchiston, Peter Robertson and Woodruff T. Sullivan III	Harry Wendt	596
Miscellaneous
Papers on the History of East Asian Astronomy Published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage		598
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Volume 25 No. 4		December 2022
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About the JAHH and the cover		Inside Cover
Contents		599

Papers
Visual time signals for mariners between their introduction and 1947: a new perspective	Roger Kinns	601
Importance of Bhāskara’s Karaṇakutūhala as an algorithmic handbook	K. Rupa, Padmaja Venugopal, Anita Udagatti, S.K. Uma and S. Balachandra Rao	714
The stellar photometers of Harold L. Johnson, and the first years of the Mexican National Astronomical Observatory at San Pedro Mártir	William J. Schuster, Antolin Cordova, Marco Arturo Moreno Corral and Cristina Eugenia Siqueiros Valencia	721
Gravitational conundrum: confusing clock-rate measurements on the ‘First Fleet’ from England to Australia	Richard de Grijs	737
Ancient and Renaissance astronomers in Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet	Enrico Massaro and Peter D. Usher	745
The role of astronomy in determining the locations of geographical features during the eleventh to seventeenth centuries: a case study from the Thai–Malay Peninsula	Peeravit Koad and Thatdao Rakmak	760
Govind Swarup, Potts Hill and the Kalyan Array: India’s first radio telescope	Wayne Orchiston	773
A hidden volvelle in Petrus Apianus’ Astronomicum Caesareum	Lars Gislén	802

Book Review (all)


Beyond Paradigms in Cultural Astronomy: Proceedings of the 27th SEAC Conference Held Together with the EAA, edited by A. César González-Garcia, Roslyn M. Frank, Lionel D. Sims, Michael A. Rappenglück, Georg Zotti, Juan A. Belmonte, and Ivan Šprajc	Marion Dolan and Clifford Cunningham	811
Cosmic Odyssey: How Intrepid Astronomers at Palomar Observatory Changed our View of the Universe, by Linda Schweizer	Samantha M. Thompson	815
Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, by Peter D. Usher	Clifford Cunningham	816
Publishing Sacrobosco’s De Sphaera in Early Modern Europe: Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange, edited by Matteo Valleriani and Andrea Ottone	Miguel Á. Granada	817
Venus, by William Sheehan and Sanjay Shridhar Limaye	Clifford Cunningham	822
Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus, by John C. Barentine	Clifford Cunningham	824
Isaac Newton and the Study of Chronology: Prophecy, History, and Method, by Cornelius J. Schilt	Steven J. Dick	824
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern	Cormac O’Raifeartaig	827

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