JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 5 No. 1		June 2002
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About the JAHH		Inside Cover
Title Page
Papers
Astronomy in the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project	Ci-Yuan Liu	1
Acceptance and Adaptation of Octants and Sextants in Japan during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	Tsuko Nakamura	9
Ingenuity and Initiative in Australian Radio Astronomy: the Dover Heights “Hole-in-the-ground” Antenna	Wayne Orchiston & Bruce Slee	21
The Contribution of José Luis Sérsic to Celestial Mechanics	Adrián Brunini, & Octavio Ismael Miloni	35
Early Astronomy in America: The Role of the College of William and Mary	Jeffery R. Shy	41
Eise Eisinga and his Planetarium	Jolanda Mulder de Ridder	65
From Pythagoreans to Kepler: the Dispute between the Geocentric and the Heliocentric Systems	E. Theodossiou, E. Danezis, V.N. Manimanis, & E.-M. Kalyva	89
Foucault – the Man Who Swung the Pendulum	Débarbat, Suzanne	99
Book Reviews (all)
Science in Theistic contexts: Cognitive Dimensions, ed. by J.H. Brooke, M.J. Osler, & J.M. van der Meer	Clive Davenhall	100
New Observations of Heavenly and Earthly Objects Made with the Aid of Optical Instruments Devised by Him and Brought to Perfection, by Francesco Fontana, translated and annotated by Peter Fay & Sally Beaumont	Allan Chapman	101
Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics, by Mary Brück	Alan H. Batten	102
The Transit of Venus. The Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun, by David Sellers	Wayne Orchiston	104
New Commissions
The Inter-Union Commission for History of Astronomy	F. Richard Stephenson, Alexander Gurshtein, Wayne Orchiston & Stephen J. Dick	105
International Commission for History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy	S.M.R. Ansari & Anne Tihon,	105
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Volume 5 No. 2		Dec 2002
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About the JAHH		Inside Cover
Papers
The Discovery of Strong Extragalactic Polarization using the Parkes Radio Telescope	Ronald N. Bracewell	107
Analysis of Dates and Lunar Phase Records in Wucheng	Ciyuan Liu	115
Christopher Hansteen and the First Observatory at the University of Oslo, 1815-28	Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen	123
The Fall of a Meteorite at Aegos Potami in 467/6 BC	E.Th. Theodossiou, P.G. Niarchos, V.N. Manimanis, & W. Orchiston	135
The 1900-1 Opposition of 433 Eros, the Solar Parallax, and the Contribution of Padova Observatory	Luisa Pigatto & Valeria Zanini	141
The Mechanics and Origin of Cometaria	Martin Beech	155
Nineteenth Century Astronomy at the U.S. Naval Academy	Paul D. Shankland & Wayne Orchiston	165
IAU Reports and Other Announcements
The IAU, Astronomical Archives and Commissions 41 and the ICHA	Suzanne Débarbat	181
Society for the History of Astronomy Founded in the UK	Stuart Williams	184
The C41/ICHA Transits of Venus Working Group. I: An introduction	Wayne Orchiston, Steven J. Dick, Alexander Gurshtein, Rajesh Kochhar & Luisa Pigatto	185
Book Reviews (all)
Gods in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Culture from the Ancients to the Renaissance, by Allan Chapman	Mary Brück	189
Karl Friedrich Zöllner and the Historical Dimension of Astronomical Photometry: A Collection of Papers on the History of Astronomy, ed. by Christiaan Sterken & Klauss Staubermann	Wayne Orchiston	191
Queen of Science, Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville, ed. and introduced by Dorothy McMillan	Mary Brück	192
The Roman cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries, by Manfred Clauss	Clive Davenhall	193
Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics, by Donald E. Osterbrock	Wayne Orchiston	195
La Carte du Ciel, Correspondance Inédite Conservée dans les Archives de L’observatoire de Paris, compiled by Ileana Chinnici	Ivan Nikolof	197
Index to Volume 5		199
Guide for Authors		201
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