JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 8 No. 1		June 2005
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Contents		1
Editorial	Wayne Orchiston	2
The Slee Celebration #1: Radio Astronomy Papers
Sixty Years in Radio Astronomy: A Tribute to Bruce Slee	Wayne Orchiston	3
The Beginnings of Australian Radio Astronomy	Woodruff T. Sullivan, III	11
The Impact of F.F. Gardner on Our Early Research with the Parkes Radio Telescope	D.K. Milne, & J.B. Whiteoak	33
Other Papers
Magnitude Systems in Old Star Catalogues	Tomoko Fujiwara & Hitoshi Yamaoka	39
‘Popular’ Journals and Community in American Astronomy, 1882 – 1951	Jordan D. Marché	49
IAU Reports
The IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group. 2: Progress Report	Wayne Orchiston, Ron Bracewell, Rod Davies, Jean-François Denisse, Miller Goss, Alastair Gunn, Ken Kellermann, Dick McGee, Masaki Morimoto, Bruce Slee, Slava Slysh, Richard Strom, Woody Sullivan, Govind Swarup, Hugo Van Woerden, Jasper Wall, & Richard Wielebinski	65
The IAU Transits of Venus Working Group. 4: Progress Report	Wayne Orchiston, Steven J. Dick, Hilmar Duerbeck, Robert van Gent, David Hughes, Willie Koorts, & Luisa Pigatto	93
Book Reviews
Astronomical Instruments and Archives from the Asia-Pacific Region, ed. by Wayne Orchiston, F. Richard Stephenson, Suzanne Débarbat, and Nha Il-Seong	John Perdrix	72
The European Scientist: Symposium on the Era and Work of Franz Xaver Von Zach (1754-1832), ed. by Lajos G.Balázs, Peter Brosche, Hilmar W. Duerbeck, & Endre Zsoldos	Wayne Orchiston	72
Empire and the Sun. Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions, by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang	Wayne Orchiston	72
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Volume 8 No. 2		December 2005
The Slee Celebration #2: Radio Astronomy Papers
Radio Astronomy at Stanford	R.N. Bracewell	75
A History of the Potts Hill Radio Astronomy Field Station	R.D. Davies	87
Early Australian Measurements of Angular Structure in Discrete Radio Sources	Bruce Slee	97
Other Papers
The Concept and Evaluation of Temperature in the History of Astronomy	Kevin Johnson	107
Astronomy in Service of Shipping: Documenting the Founding of Bergen Observatory in 1855	Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen	123
A Chinese Observatory Site of 4,000 Years Ago	Ciyuan Liu, Xueshun Liu & Liping Ma	129
Obituary
John Louis Perdrix (1926-2005)	Wayne Orchiston	131
New Society
Society for the History of Astronomy	Wayne Orchiston	133
Book Reviews (all)
The Emergence of the Telescope: Janssen, Lipperhey and the Unknown Man, by M. Barlow Pepin	Fred Watson	135
The Early Years of Radio Astronomy. Reflections Fifty Years after Jansky’s Discovery (reprint edition), by Woodruff T. Sullivan, III	Wayne Orchiston	135
England’s Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution, by Allan Chapman	Alan H. Batten	135
The Astronomer of Rousdon. Charles Grover 1842-1921, by Barbara Slater	Wayne Orchiston	136
Stromlo: An Australian Observatory, by Tom Frame & Don Faulkner	Colin Montgomery	137
Transit of Venus: the Scientific Event that Led Captain Cook to Australia, by Nick Lomb	Graeme L. White	138
Science Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire. Western Influence, Local Institutions, and the Transfer of Knowledge, by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu	Ihsan Hafez	138
John Herschel’s Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire, by Steven Ruskin	Wayne Orchiston	139
Index to Volume 8		140
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