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About the JAHH | | Inside Cover |
Title Page | | Center Insert |
Papers | | |
Technology and the Emergence of X-ray Astronomy | Herbert Gursky | 1 |
Seeing the Impossible: Meteors in the Moon | Martin Beech & David W. Hughes | 13 |
Refining the Astronomical Unit: Queenstown and the 1874 Transit of Venus | Wayne Orchiston, Tom Love, & Steven J. Dick | 23 |
Under a Tropical Sky: a History of Astronomy in Indonesia | Bambang Hidayat | 45 |
Recent Publications Relating to the History of Astronomy | Ruth S. Freitag | 59 |
Book Reviews (all) | | |
The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920, by Allan Chapman | Wayne Orchiston | 86 |
Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature, by Ewen A. Whitaker | Clive Davenhall | 88 |
Galileo’s Planet: Observing Jupiter Before Photography, by Thomas Hockey | Clive Davenhall | 89 |
Eyes on the Universe. The Story of the Telescope, by Patrick Moore | Wayne Orchiston | 90 |
Other Books Received (with very brief comments) | | |
Seven Wonders of the Cosmos, by Jayant V. Narlikar | | 91 |
The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy, ed. by M. Hoskin | | 91 |
The American Astronomical Society’s First Century, ed. by David H. DeVorkin | | 91 |
Worlds without End: The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life, by Roger A.S. Hennessey | | 92 |
Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age, by Tom D. Crouch | | 92 |
Guido Horn d’Arturo e lo specchio a tasselli, ed. by Marina Zuccoli & Fabrizio Bònoli | | 92 |
From Galaxies to Turbines: Science, Technology and the Parsons Family, by W. Garrett Scaife | | 92 |
Science in Translation, Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and Time, by Scott L. Montgomery | | 92 |
The Astrophysical Journal: American Astronomical Society Centennial Issue, ed. by Helmut A. Abt | | 92 |
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