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Volume 34 Part 1, February 2003, No. 114 | ||
Herschel’s 40ft Reflector: Funding and Functions
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MICHAEL HOSKIN
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K’uk’ulkan at Mayapán: Venus and Postclassic Maya Statecraft
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GERARDO ALDANA
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The Spokes of Venus: An Illusion Explained |
WILLIAM SHEEHAN and THOMAS DOBBINS
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Ancient and Medieval Values for the Mean Synodic Month
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BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
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Colluding with Galileo: On Mueller’s Critique of My Analysis of Galileo’s Sunspots Argument |
DAVID TOPPER, with a Comment on “The Galileo Sunspot Controversy: Proof and Persuasion” by OWEN GINGERICH |
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Archaeoastronomical Analysis of Assyrian and Babylonian Monuments: Methodological Issues |
STANISLAW IWANISZEWSKI |
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Notes Discovery of Thomas Wright’s A New Theory of the Earth (Michael Hoskin); Alexander Herschel as Telescope Maker (John Tracy Spaight) |
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Essay Reviews An Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566), by Owen Gingerich (Adam Mosley); East Asian Archaeoastronomy, by Zhentao Xu, David W. Pankenier and Yaotiao Jiang (Yunli Shi) |
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Book Reviews New Observations of Heavenly and Earthly Objects, by Francesco Fontana of Naples, transl. by Peter Fay and Sally Beaumont (Owen Gingerich); God’s Two Books, by Kenneth J. Howell (Rhonda Martens); Hartmann’s Practika, transl. and ed. by John Lamprey (Owen Gingerich); The Age of Two-Faced Janus, by Tabitta van Nouhuys (Sara Schechner); Historical Supernovae and Their Remnants, by F. Richard Stephenson and David A. Green (Virginia Trimble) |
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Notices of Books | 121123 |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Volume 34 Part 2, May 2003, No. 115 | ||
The Forgotten Star Atlas: John Bevis’s Uranographia Britannica |
KEVIN J. KILBURN, JAY M. PASACHOFF and OWEN GINGERICH |
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Seeking the Sidereal: Observable Planetary Stations and the Ancient Maya Record |
ANTHONY F. AVENI, HARVEY M. BRICKER and VICTORIA R. BRICKER |
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John Vimond and the Alfonsine Trepidation Model |
JOSÉ CHABÁS and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN |
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Bengt Strömgren: Growing Up With Astronomy, 19081932 |
SIMON OLLING REBSDORF |
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Changing Contexts and Criteria for the Justification of Computistical Knowledge and Practice |
STEPHEN C. McCLUSKEY |
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Orientations of the Dutch Hunebedden |
A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ-GARCÍA and LOURDES COSTA-FERRER |
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The Depth of Association Between the Ancient Star Catalogues |
DENNIS W. DUKE |
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Notes Ptolemy and the Arc Between the Tropics (Hugh Thurston, with a comment by Noel Swerdlow); The Murder of Jacob Herschel (Arndt Latusseck and Michael Hoskin) |
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Essay Review Ptolemy’s Geography, by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones (David Pingree) |
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Book Reviews |
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Notices of Books |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Volume 34 Part 3, August 2003, No. 116 | ||
From Occhiale to Printed Page: The Making of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius |
OWEN GINGERICH and ALBERT VAN HELDEN |
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Planetary Latitudes in Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy | J. M. STEELE |
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Seasonal Implications of Maya Eclipse and Rain Iconography in the Dresden Codex |
TIMOTHY KNOWLTON |
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The Dolmens and Hawanat of Africa Proconsularis Revisited |
JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE, Ma ANTONIA PERERA BETANCORT, RITA MARRERO and ANTONIO TEJERA GASPAR |
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Notes Faujas-de-Saint-Fond Visits the Herschels at Datchet (William B. Ashworth, Jr); The Evidence for Aries the Ram as the Astrological Sign of Judea (Michael R. Molnar) |
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Essay Reviews The Herschel Partnership, by Michael Hoskin, and Caroline Herschel’s Autobiographies, ed. by Michael Hoskin (Brenda Corbin); Walter Baade, by Donald E. Osterbrock (Theodor Schmidt-Kaler) |
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Book Reviews Nel Segno di Galileo, by Stefano Caroti (Owen Gingerich and Alessandro Massarotti); Astrology: A History, by Peter Whitfield (H. Darrel Rutkin); Fra Kaos til Kosmos, by Olaf Pedersen and Helge Kragh (Gustav Holmberg); Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, i, ii and iv, ed. by Wolfgang R. Dick and Jürgen Hamel (James R. Voelkel); Globes at Greenwich, by Elly Decker (Owen Gingerich) |
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Notices of Books |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Volume 34 Part 4, November 2003, No. 117 | ||
Patronage and the Production of De Revolutionibus |
PETER BARKER and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN | 345368 |
Galileo’s Telescope and Celestial Light | SVEN DUPRÉ | 369399 |
Orientations of Neolithic Monuments of Brittany: (1) Context | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 401420 |
Epistolary Culture, Editorial Practices, and the Propriety of Tycho’s Astronomical Letters |
ADAM MOSLEY, NICHOLAS JARDINE and KARIN TYBJERG | 421451 |
Book Reviews The Calvinist Copernicans, by Rienk Vermij (Fernand Hallyn); Tractatus Astrarii, by Giovanni dall’Orologio, ed. by Emmanuel Poulle (A. J. Turner); Galileo in Context, ed. by Jürgen Renn (Ernan McMullin); The Enigma of Sunspots, by Judit Brody (Jay M. Pasachoff); Jean Le Rond D’Alembert, Oeuvres Complètes, I/vi, ed. by Michelle Chapront-Touzé (Curtis Wilson); The Century of Space Science, ed. by Johan A. M. Bleeker et al. (Leon Golub); Science in the American Southwest, by George E. Webb (Marc Rothenberg); The Measure of All Things, by Ken Alder (Owen Gingerich) |
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Notes on Contributors | 465466 |
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Index to Volume 34 | 467470 |