JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2002 CONTENTS
| Volume 33 Part 1, February 2002, No. 110 | |||
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On the Babylonian Discovery of the Periods of Lunar Motion
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BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
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1–13 | |
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Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, and the Obliquity of the Ecliptic
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ALEXANDER JONES
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15–19 | |
| The First Complete Chinese Theory of the Moon: The Innovations of Liu Hong c. A.D. 200 |
CHRISTOPHER CULLEN
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21–39 |
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A Medieval Observational Instrument in Tashkent
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O. S. TURSUNOV and S. H. AZIZOV
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41–44 | |
| Dating the Almagest Star Catalogue Using Proper Motions: A Reconsideration | DENNIS W. DUKE | 45–55 | |
| The Leviathan of Parsonstown: Ambitions and Achievements | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 57–70 | |
| Note A Newly-discovered Letter of J. W. F. Herschel Concerning the “Great Moon Hoax” (Steven. W. Ruskin) |
71–74 | ||
| Book Reviews Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination, ed. by N. M. Swerdlow (James Evans); Celestial Treasury, by Marc Lachièze-Rey and Jena-Pierre Luminet (Michael Hoskin); Against the Donning of the Gown; Enigma, by Giovanni F. Bignami, and Dialogo sopra i Due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo, by Galileo Galilei (Owen Gingerich); Cometography, i, by Gary W. Kronk (Daniel W. E. Green); Elizabethan Instrument Makers, by Gerard L’E. Turner (Owen Gingerich); The Moon and the Western Imagination, by Scott L. Montgomery (Ewan A. Whitaker); Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, 4th edn, by Lutz D. Schmadel (Gareth Williams); Van ‘Konstgenoten’ en Hemelse Fenomenen, by Huib Zuidervaart (Robert van Gent); Shoemake by Levy, by David H. Levy (Don Yeomans) |
75–87 | ||
| Notices of Books | 88–91 | ||
| Notes on Contributors |
91–92
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| Volume 33 Part 2, May 2002, No. 111 | |||
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DONALD H. MENZEL CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM
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| Donald H. Menzel |
OWEN GINGERICH |
93–94 |
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| Young Don Menzel’s Amazing Adventures at Lick Observatory |
DONALD E. OSTERBROCK |
95–118 |
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| Menzel at Princeton |
DAVID DeVORKIN |
119–131 |
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| Atoms, Stars, and Nebulae: Remembering Donald H. Menzel |
DAVID LAYZER |
133–138 |
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| Menzel and Eclipses |
JAY M. PASACHOFF |
139–156 |
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| Donald Menzel and the Beginnings of the High Altitude Observatory |
THOMAS J. BOGDAN |
157–192 |
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| Donald Menzel and the Creation of the Sacramento Peak Observatory |
RUTH PRELOWSKI LIEBOWITZ |
193–211 |
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| Book Review Newton’s Forgotten Lunar Theory, by Nicholas Kollerstrom (I. B. Cohen and G. E. Smith) |
212 |
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| Notices of Books |
213 |
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| Frans Bruin (1922–2001) |
214–216 |
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| The Inter-Union Commission for History of Astronomy |
216–217 |
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| Notes on Contributors |
218 |
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| Volume 33 Part 3 August 2002 No. 112 |
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| Copernicus and the Origin of His Heliocentric System |
BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN |
219–235 |
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| A Vetustissimus Arabic Treatise on the Quadrans Vetus |
DAVID A. KING | 237–255 |
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| Two Fragments of Diagonal Star Clocks in the British Museum |
SARAH SYMONS |
257–260 |
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| BM 36948: A Saturn Ephemeris Calculated Using System A from Babylon |
JOHN M. STEELE |
261–264 |
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| The Dating of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue |
HERMANN R. DOBLER |
265–277 |
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| Notes Haynald Observatory Photosphere Observations 1880–1919 (Lásló Tóth, György Mezõ and Ottó Gerlei); A Computer Generated Babylonian System A Lunar Ephemeris (A. J. M. Clarke and J. M. Steele) |
278–279 |
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| Essay Reviews La Condamnation des Livres Coperniciens et sa Révocation, by Pierre-Noël Mayaud (Rivka Feldhay); Mapping and Naming the Moon, by Ewen A. Whitaker (Albert van Helden) |
280–289 |
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| Book Reviews Reader’s Guide to the History of Science, ed. by Arne Hessenbruch (Wilbur Applebaum); Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula, by José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein (Richard L. Kremer); Krist'an z Prachatic, by Alena Hadravová and Petra Hadrava (John North); The Ambassadors’ Secret, by John North (Nick Campion); Kepler’s Philosophy and the New Astronomy, by Rhonda Martens (William H. Donahue); The Composition of Kepler’s Astronomia nova, by James R. Voelkel (Bruce Stephenson); Optics, by Johannes Kepler, transl. by William H. Donahue (Alan E. Shapiro); Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy, by Asger Aaboe (Owen Gingerich); Glorious Eclipses, by Serge Brunier and Jean-Pierre Luminet (Tom English); Treasure-hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives, ed. by Peter Kroll et al. (Martha L. Hazen); From Galaxies to Turbines, by W. Garrett Scaife (Robert W. Smith); Mapping the Spectrum, by Klaus Hentschel (Jack Meadows); Percival Lowell, by David Strauss (David DeVorkin) |
289–308 |
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| Notices of Books |
309–310 |
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| Notes on Contributors |
310–312 |
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| Volume 33 Part 4 November 2002 No. 113 |
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| The Latitude and Epoch for the Formation of the Southern Greek Constellations | BRADLEY E. SCHAEFER |
313–350
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| The Rise and Fall of the First Solar Cycle Model | PAUL CHARBONNEAU |
351–372
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| The Observatory and the Quadrant in Eighteenth-century Europe |
A. J. TURNER |
373–385
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| Review Symposium The Star of Bethlehem, by Michael R. Molnar (Michael Hoskin, David W. Hughes and J. Neville Birdsall) |
386–394
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| Book Reviews Science in Theistic Contexts, ed. by John Hedley Brooke et al. (Kenneth J. Howell); Die Vorstellung von der Kugelgestalt der Erde, by Jürgen Hamel (James R. Voelkel); Selling the True Time, by Ian R. Bartky (Craig B. Waff); Science and Spectacle, by Jon Agar (W. T. Sullivan, III) |
394–401
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| Notices of Books |
401–402
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| Notes on Contributors |
402–403
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| Index to Volume 33 |
404–406
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