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JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Volume 4 No. 1<\/th><\/th>June 2001<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Cover<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
About the JAHH<\/a><\/td><\/td>Inside Cover<\/td><\/tr>
Title Page<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Papers<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Visibility of the Thin Lunar Crescent: the Sociology of an Astronomical Problem (a Case Study)<\/a><\/td>Nidhal Guessoum & Kiram Meziane<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
Six Stages in the History of the Astronomical Unit<\/a><\/td>David W. Hughes<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
The English Equatorial Mounting and the History of the Fletcher Telescope<\/a><\/td>Wayne Orchiston<\/td>29<\/td><\/tr>
Spectroscopic Observations of the 1874 Transit of Venus: the Italian Party at Muddapur, Eastern India<\/a><\/td>Luisa Pigatto & Valeria Zanini<\/td>43<\/td><\/tr>
Little Known Aspects of the History of Georgian Astronomy<\/a><\/td>Irakli Simonia<\/td>59<\/td><\/tr>
Recent Publications Relating to the History of Astronomy<\/a><\/td>Ruth S. Freitag<\/td>75<\/td><\/tr>
Book Reviews (all<\/a>)<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Worlds Without End: The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life,<\/a> by R.A.S. Hennessy<\/td>Duncan Steel<\/td>96<\/td><\/tr>
Treasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives, ed.<\/a> by P. Kroll, C. la Dous, & H.J. Br\u00e4uer<\/td>Clive Davenhall<\/td>96<\/td><\/tr>
East Asian Archaeoastronomy: Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan, and Korea,<\/a>
by Zentao Xu, David W. Pankenier, & Yaotiao Jiang<\/td>		Kwan-Yu Chen<\/td>98<\/td><\/tr>
Announcement: Two Special Issues Forthcoming<\/a><\/td><\/td>Inside Back Cover<\/td><\/tr>
Contents<\/a><\/td><\/td>Back Cover<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Volume 4 No.2<\/th><\/th>December 2001<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Cover<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
About JAHH<\/a><\/td><\/td>Inside Cover<\/td><\/tr>
Papers<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
The Life and Times of Sir George Biddell Airy: A Symposium<\/a><\/td>Gilbert E. Satterthwaite<\/td>99<\/td><\/tr>
Airy and Positional Astronomy<\/a><\/td>Gilbert E. Satterthwaite<\/td>101<\/td><\/tr>
Airy\u2019s Transit Circle<\/a><\/td>Gilbert E. Satterthwaite<\/td>115<\/td><\/tr>
\u201cExtraneous Government Business\u201d: the Astronomer Royal as Government Scientist: George Airy and His Work on the Commissions of State and Other Bodies, 1838-1880<\/a><\/td>Adam Perkins<\/td>143<\/td><\/tr>
The Airys at Greenwich<\/a><\/td>Frances Ward<\/td>155<\/td><\/tr>
Bertil Lindblad\u2019s Early Work: The Two-dimensional Classification of Stellar Spectra at Low Dispersion<\/a><\/td>Per Olof Lindblad<\/td>163<\/td><\/tr>
Book Reviews <\/strong>(all)<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Great Comets,<\/a> by Robert Burnham<\/td>Wayne Orchiston<\/td>171<\/td><\/tr>
Sur les traces des Cassini, Astronomes et observatoires du sud de la France, ed.<\/a> by Paul Brouzeng & Suzanne D\u00e9barbat<\/td>Isobel Nikoloff<\/td>173<\/td><\/tr>
Index to Volume 4<\/a><\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Astronomical Instruments and Archives from the Asia-Pacific Region: Call for Papers<\/a><\/td>Il-Seong Nha, Richard Stephenso, & Wayne Orchiston<\/td>Inside Back Cover<\/td><\/tr>
Contents and description of cover<\/a><\/td><\/td>Back Cover<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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