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JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Volume 12 No. 1<\/th><\/th>March 2009<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Cover<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
About the JAHH and the cover<\/a><\/td><\/td>Inside Cover<\/td><\/tr>
Contents<\/a><\/td><\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
Editorial:<\/strong> Journals under Threat<\/a><\/td>Wayne Orchiston & Hilmar Duerbeck<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>
Papers<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Recollections of Two and a Half Years with \u2018Chris\u2019 Christiansen<\/a><\/td>Rodney D. Davies<\/td>4<\/td><\/tr>
Chris Christiansen and the Chris Cross<\/a><\/td>Wayne Orchiston & Don Mathewson<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
Personal Recollections of W.N. Christiansen and the Early Days of Chinese Radio
Astronomy<\/a><\/td>		Shouguan Wang<\/td>33<\/td><\/tr>
The Dunhuang Chinese Sky: A Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas<\/a><\/td>Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Fran\u00e7oise Praderie,
& Susan Whitfield<\/td>		39<\/td><\/tr>
Advertisement: James Cook University<\/a><\/td><\/td>60<\/td><\/tr>
Some Early Astronomical Sites in the Kashmir Region<\/a><\/td>Naseer Iqbal, M.N. Vahia, Tabasum Masood, & Aijaz Ahmad<\/td>61<\/td><\/tr>
The Naming of Neptune<\/a><\/td>Nicholas Kollerstrom<\/td>66<\/td><\/tr>
V.M. Slipher\u2019s Discovery of the Rotation of Spiral Nebulae and the Controversy with
Bertil Lindblad<\/a><\/td>		Alain G. Br\u00e9mond<\/td>72<\/td><\/tr>
Orbituary<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Dr. Mary Br\u00fcck (1925-2008)<\/a><\/td>Clive Davenhall<\/td>81<\/td><\/tr>
Book Reviews<\/strong> (all<\/a>)<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Astronomy, Weather and Calendars in the Ancient World. Parapegmata and Related
Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies,<\/a> by Daryn Lehoux<\/td>		Jefferson Sauter<\/td>84<\/td><\/tr>
The Astrolabe,<\/a> by James E. Morrison<\/td>Yukio \u00d4hashi<\/td>85<\/td><\/tr>
Shrouds of the Night. Masks of the Milky Way and Our Awesome New View of Galaxies,<\/a>
by David L. Block & Kenneth Freeman<\/td>		Colin Montgomery<\/td>85<\/td><\/tr>
The Greatest Comets in History. Broom Stars and Celestial Scimitars,<\/a> by David Seargent<\/td>Wayne Orchiston<\/td>87<\/td><\/tr>
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Contents<\/a><\/td><\/td>Back Cover<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Volume 12 No. 2<\/th><\/th>July 2009<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Cover<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
About the JAHH and the cover<\/a><\/td><\/td>Inside Cover<\/td><\/tr>
Contents<\/a><\/td><\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
Papers<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Michell, Laplace and the Origin of the Black Hole Concept<\/a><\/td>Colin Montgomery, Wayne Orchiston,& Ian Whittingham<\/td>90<\/td><\/tr>
Time-keeping in the Antipodes: a Critical Comparison of the Sydney and Littelton
Time Balls<\/a><\/td>		Roger Kinns<\/td>97<\/td><\/tr>
From Fragments to a Museum Display: Restoration of a Gautier Meridian Circle<\/a><\/td>Marcus Granato<\/td>108<\/td><\/tr>
The Role of the Conferences and the Bulletin in the Modification of the Practices
of the Carte du Ciel Project at the End of the Nineteenth Century<\/a><\/td>		J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lamy<\/td>119<\/td><\/tr>
Early Infrared Astronomy<\/a><\/td>James Lequeux<\/td>125<\/td><\/tr>
Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish<\/a><\/td>Marshall H. Cohen<\/td>141<\/td><\/tr>
Study and orientation of the Mt. Oche \u2018Dragon House\u2019 in Euboea, Greece<\/a><\/td>E. Theodossiou, V.N. Manimanis, M. Katsiotis, & D. Papanikolao<\/td>153<\/td><\/tr>
Investigating the Orientation of Eleven Mosques in Greece<\/a><\/td>George Pantazis & Evangelia Lambrou<\/td>159<\/td><\/tr>
Comet Halley in 1910, as Viewed from a Maltese Perspective<\/a><\/td>Adrian Galea<\/td>167<\/td><\/tr>
Film and Book Reviews <\/strong>(all)<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Spiral Galaxy: De Melkweg Ontrafeld.A film<\/a> by Marteen Roos & Pieter-Rim de Kroon<\/td>Richard Strom<\/td>171<\/td><\/tr>
Inventar der historischen Sonnenuhren in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, <\/a>by J\u00fcrgen Hamel<\/td>Woodruff T. Sullivan, III<\/td>171<\/td><\/tr>
Cometography. A Catalogue of Comets. Volume 4: 1933-1959,<\/a> by Gary W. Kronk<\/td>Wayne Orchiston<\/td>171<\/td><\/tr>
Erratum<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Correction<\/a> to \u201cThe Origin and Meaning of Colourful Descriptions in Chinese Astronomical
Records\u201d<\/a><\/td>		Richard G. Strom<\/td>172<\/td><\/tr>
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Contents<\/a><\/td><\/td>Back Cover<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Volume 12 No. 3<\/th><\/th>November 2009<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Cover<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
About the JAHH and the cover<\/a><\/td><\/td>Inside Cover<\/td><\/tr>
Contents<\/a><\/td><\/td>173<\/td><\/tr>
Papers<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 4: Early Solar Research at the
\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Marcoussis and Nan\u00e7ay<\/a><\/td>		Wayne Orchiston, Jean-Louis Steinberg, Mukul Kundu,
Jacques Arsac, \u00c9mile-Jacques Blum, & Andr\u00e9 Boischot<\/td>		175<\/td><\/tr>
General-purpose and Dedicated Regimes in the Use of Telescopes<\/a><\/td>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lamy & Emmanuel Davoust<\/td>189<\/td><\/tr>
C. Ragoonatha Charry and Variable Star Astronomy<\/a><\/td>N. Kameswara Rao, A. Vagiswari, Priya Thakur, & Christina Birdie<\/td>201<\/td><\/tr>
Peter Millman and the Study of Meteor Spectra at Harvard University<\/a><\/td>Steven Tors & Wayne Orchiston<\/td>211<\/td><\/tr>
Canadian Meteor Science: The First Phase, 1933\u20131990<\/a><\/td>Richard A. Jarrell<\/td>224<\/td><\/tr>
An Astronomical Investigation of the Seventeen Hundred Year Old Nekresi Fire
Temple in Eastern Georgia<\/a><\/td>		Irakli Simonia, Clive Ruggles, & Nodar Bakhtadze<\/td>235<\/td><\/tr>
How the First Dwarf Planet Became the Asteroid Ceres<\/a><\/td>Clifford J. Cunningham, Brian G. Marsden, & Wayne Orchiston<\/td>240<\/td><\/tr>
IAU Reports<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
The IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group. 3: Progress Report (2006-2009)<\/a><\/td>Ken Kellermann, Wayne Orchiston, Rod Davies, James Lequeux,
Norio Kaifu, Yuri Ilyasov, Govind Swarup, Hugo van Woerden,
Jasper Wall, & Richard Wielebinski<\/td>		249<\/td><\/tr>
IAU Transits of Venus Working Group: Triennial Report (2006-2009)<\/a><\/td>Hilmar W. Duerbeck<\/td>254<\/td><\/tr>
Book Reviews<\/strong>\u00a0(all<\/a>)<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Nebel und Sternhaufen – Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung Beobachtung und Katalogisierung, <\/a>
by Wolfgang Steinicke<\/td>		Hilmar W. Duerbeck<\/em><\/td>255<\/td><\/tr>
Eastern Astrolabes, Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy
Museum II, <\/a>by David Pingree<\/td>		Yukio \u00d4hashi<\/td>255<\/td><\/tr>
Via Nubila – am Grunde des Himmels. Johann Georg Hagen und die Kosmischen Wolken, <\/a>
by Arndt Latu\u00dfeck<\/td>		Hilmar W. Duerbeck<\/td>256<\/td><\/tr>
Index to Volume 12<\/a><\/strong><\/td><\/td>257<\/td><\/tr>
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