JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Volume 9 No. 1		June 2006
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Papers
The Beginnings of Radio Astronomy in the Netherlands	Hugo van Woerden, & Richard G. Strom	3
From Potts Hill (Australia) to Pune (India): The Journey of a Radio Astronomer	Govind Swarup	21
The Genesis of Solar Radio Astronomy in Australia	Wayne Orchiston, Bruce Slee, & Ron Burman	35
The Significance and Errors of Erathosthenes’ Method for the Measurement of the Size and Shape of the Earth’s Surface	Antonios D. Pinotsis	57
Measuring the World: Excursions in Astronomy and Geodesy	A.H. Batten & J.R. Smith	65
Notes on Translations of the East Asian Records Relating to the Supernova of AD 1054	David W. Pankenier	77
Sir David Brewster’s Changing Ideas on the Plurality of Worlds	Miguel de Asua	83
Arthur Beer and his relations with Einstein and the Warburg Institute	Hilmar W. Duerbeck & Peter Beer	93
A Fair Use of Arcturus: A Syzygy of Scholarians and the Lighting of the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1933-1934	Robert J. Havlik	99
A Brief History of the Astrophysical Research Consortium and the Apache Point Observatory	Jim Peterson & Glen Mackie	109
Book Reviews
The Composition of Kepler’s Astronomia Nova, by James R. Voelkel	William Dorsey	129
Biographischer Index der Astronomie/Biographical Index of Astronomy, by Wilhelm Brüggenthies & Wolfgang R. Dick	Mary Brück	130
Stars and Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds, by Paul Kunitzsch	Ihsan Hafez	130
Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes, by Arthur I. Miller	Alan H. Batten	131
In Search Of Dark Matter, by Ken Freeman & Geoff McNamara	Colin Montgomery	132
Einsteins Kosmos. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Kosmologie, Relativitätstheorie und zu Einsteins Wirken und Nachwirken, ed. by Hilmar W. Duerbeck & Wolfgang R. Dick	Dierck-E. Liebscher	133
The Evolution of Harmonic Analysis: Models of the Real World, by Elena Prestini	Ron Bracewell	133
The Transits of Venus, by William Sheehan & John Westfall	Graeme L. White	134
Hōkūloa. The British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawai’i , by Michael Chauvin	Wayne Orchiston	135
Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astro-physicists, by Ian Glass	David Blank	135
English Mechanic (Facsimile series on DVDs), pub. by Eric Hutton	Wayne Orchiston	136
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Volume 9 No. 2		December 2006
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Contents		1
Editorial		138
The Slee Celebration #4: Radio Astronomy Papers
Olof Rydbeck and Early Swedish Radio Astronomy: A Personal Perspective	V. Radhakrishnan	139
Other Papers
Babylonian Timings of Eclipse Contacts and the Study of the Earth’s Past Rotation	F. Richard Stephenson	145
John Herschel on the Discovery of Neptune	Nicholas Kollerstrom	151
A Glimpse at the Astronomy Heritage of the Science Museum, London	Kevin Johnson	159
The 1874 Transit of Venus Observed in Japan by the French, and Associated Relics	Suzanne Débarbat & Françoise Launay,	167
The Introduction of Absolute Magnitude (1902 – 1922)	David W. Hughes	173
Early Photographs of the Distant Sierra Nevada Mountains Taken from Lick Observatory	Donald E. Osterbrock	181
The Wisconsin Experiment Package (WEP) Aboard the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2)	Jordan D. Marché II & Adam J. Walsh	185
Historical Archives in Italian Astronomical Observatories: The “Specola 2000” Project	I. Chinnici, A. Mandrino, & F. Bònoli	200
IAU Reports
IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group. Triennial Report (2003-2006)	Wayne Orchiston, Rod Davies, Ken Kellermann, Alain Lecacheux, Masaki Morimoto, Slava Slysh, Govind Swarup, Hugo van Woerden, Jasper Wall, & Richard Wielebinski	203
IAU Historical Instruments Working Group. Triennial Report (2003-2006)	Nha Il-Seong	204
IAU Transit of Venus Working Group. Triennial Report (2003-2006)	Steven J. Dick	205
Book Reviews (all)
JENAM 2003. Radio Astronomy from Karl Jansky to Microjansky, ed. by L.I. Gurvits, S. Frey, & S. Rawlings,	Wayne Orchiston	206
in Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization, Volume 1: the Call of the Muezzin. Volume 2: Instruments of Mass Calculation, by David A. King	Ihsan Hafez	206
The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology, by Malcolm Longair	David Blank	207
Journal of the Antique Telescope Society, #27-#28, 2006 [Special Alvan Clark issue]	Wayne Orchiston	207
Index to Volume 9		209
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