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JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2000 CONTENTS
Volume 31 Part 1, February 2000, No. 102 
Astronomical Images and Planetary Theory in Carolingian Studies of Martianus Capella
BRUCE S. EASTWOOD
 1-28
Stellar Populations and the Distance Scale: The Baade–Thackeray Correspondence
MICHAEL FEAST
 29-36
The Astrolabe and Spherical Astronomy in Medieval India
KIM PLOFKER
 37-54
Copernicus in Paris in 1612: A Teaching Text Edition of De Revolutionibus
MICHEL-PIERRE LERNER
 55-67
Book Reviews
Georges Gémiste Pléthon: Manuel d'astronomie, by Anne Tihon and Raymond Mercier (José Chabás); Tides, by D. E. Cartwright (Alan Cook); Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke 20, 2, ed. by Volker Bialas (William H. Donahue); Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science, by Hilary Gatti, and Cause, Principle and Unity, and Essays on Magic, by Giordano Bruno (Paul Richard Blum); De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi, by Nicolaus Copernicus (on CD-ROM) (James Evans); The Name of the Book, by Adrian Johns (Joshua Lipton); The Eddington Enigma, by David S. Evans (Owen Gingerich); To See the Unseen, by Andrew J. Buttrica (Ronald E. Doel); Science and Instruments in Seventeenth-century Italy, by Silvio A. Bedini (Mara Miniati); Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhyncus, by Alexander Jones (Bernard R. Goldstein); Osmanli Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi, ed. by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (Tofigh Heidarzadeh); Philipp Fauth, by Hermann Fauth and Freddy Litten (Klaus Staubermann)
 68-86
Notices of Books  87-90
Notes on Contributors
91-92
Volume 31 Part 2, May 2000, No. 103 
Hale's "Little Elf": The Mental Breakdowns of George Ellery Hale
WILLIAM SHEEHAN and DONALD E. OSTERBROCK
93-114
Dating Ptolemy's Star Catalogue Through Proper Motions: The Hipparchan Epoch
A. K. DAMBIS and YU. N. EFREMOV
115-134
Eclipse Observations Made by Jesuit Astronomers in China: A ­Reconsideration
YUNLI SHI
135-147
The Heliacal Rise of Sirius and Ancient Egyptian Chronology
BRADLEY E. SCHAEFER
149-155
Michaelangelo and Copernicus: A Note on the Sistine Last Judgment
VALERIE SHRIMPLIN
156-160
Book Reviews
The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy
, ed. by Michael Hoskin (David DeVorkin); Method and Order in Renaissance Philosophy of Nature, ed. by Daniel A. Di Liscia et al. (James M. Lattis); Between Demonstration and Imagination, ed. by Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt (Michael Hoskin); Die religiöse Kritik am kopernikanischen Weltbild in Griechenland zwischen 1794 und 1821, by Vasilios Makrides (Ihor Sevcenko); The Sun in the Church, by J. L. Heilbron (Paolo Brenni); Painting the Heavens, by Eileen Reeves (Bruce Stephenson); Edmond Halley, by Alan Cook (Sara Schechner); Of Ships and Stars, by Kevin Littlewood and Beverley Butler (William J. H. Andrewes); The Cambridge Companion to Galileo, ed. by Peter Machamer (Owen Gingerich); Space and the American Imagination, by Howard E. McCurdy (Steven J. Dick); The Alchemy of the Heavens, by Ken Croswell (Charles A. Whitney); A History of Astronomy from 1890 to the Present, by David Leverington (Joseph S. Tenn); KAIROS, by Raymond Mercier (Louay Fatoohi); A Creation of His Own, by Patricia S. Whitesell (Owen Gingerich)
161-181
Notices of Books
182
Notes on Contributors
183-184
Volume 31 Part 3, August 2000, No. 104 
Bailey, Shapley, and Variable Stars in Globular Clusters HORACE A. SMITH 185-201
Fifteen Further Greco-Roman Sundials from the Mediterranean Area and Sudan MARIO CATAMO, NICOLETTA LANCIANO, KURT LOCHER,
MANUEL LOMBARDERO and MANUEL VALDÉS
203-221
Priority, Persuasion, and the Virtue of Perseverance: William Huggins's Efforts to Photograph the Solar Corona Without an Eclipse BARBARA J. BECKER 223-243
Plato and Aristotle on Eclipses ANDREW GREGORY 245-259
Gerald Whitrow (1912–2000) 260
Corrigenda 260
Essay Review
The Astrophysical Journal, American Astronomical Society Centennial Issue, ed. by Helmut A. Abt (Virginia Trimble)
261-264
Book Reviews
Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy, by James R. Voelkel (Nick Jardine); Die Kometen der Jahre 1531 bis 1539 und ihre Bedeutung für die spätere Entwicklung der Kometenforschung, by Wolfgang Kokott (Daniel W. E. Green); Estudios sobre Pedro Alfonso de Hiesca, ed. by María Jesús Lacarra (J. D. North); The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations, by Michael E. Bakich (Jerzy Dobrzycki); La Mutation du Visible, vol. i, by Philippe Hamou (Christoph Lüthy); John Flamsteed, by John L. Birks (Adam Perkins); Giovan Stefano Conti: Lettere a Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, vol. ii, ed. by Edoardo Proverbio (Pasquale Tucci)
265-277
Notes on Contributors 277-278
Volume 31 Part 4, November 2000, No. 105 
An Unblemished Success: Galileo's Sunspot Argument in the Dialogue PAUL R. MUELLER, S.J. 279-300
Quantum Physics and the Stars (V): Physicists at Mount Wilson Prior to 1922 DAVID H. DeVORKIN 301-321
The Trouble with the Instrument: Zöllner's Photometer KLAUS STAUBERMANN 323-338
Notes
Kepler's Iterative Solution to Kepler's Equation (N. M. Swerdlow); A Lunar Occultation of Mars Observed by Aristotle (F. R. Stephenson)
339-344
Essay Review
Reading the Principia, by Niccolò Guicciardini (Dana Densmore)
345-348
Book Reviews
The Egyptian Calendar, by Anne-Sophie von Bomhard (Kurt Locher); Der Sternkatalog des Almagest: Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition. III Gesamtkordanz der Sternkoordinaten, ed. by Paul Kunitzsch (Owen Gingerich); The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos, 1500-1760, by W. G. L. Randles (Edward Grant); On Tycho's Island, by John Robert Christianson (Curtis Wilson); The Message of the Angles, ed. by P. Brosche et al. (Steven J. Dick); Galileo's Planet, by Thomas Hockey (Michael J. Crowe); Galileo, by Albert DiCanzio (Owen Gingerich); Astronomical Instruments and Their Users, and The Victorian Amateur Astronomer, by Allan Chapman (David W. Dewhirst); The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity, by H. Goenner et al. (J. D. North); June 8, 2004, by Eli Maor (Don Yeomans)
349-362
Notices of Books 362-364
Commission 41 at the Manchester General Assembly of the IAU 365-367
Notes on Contributors 367-369
Index to Volume 31 369-372

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