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JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2003 CONTENTS
Volume 34 Part 1, February 2003, No. 114 
Herschel’s 40ft Reflector: Funding and Functions
MICHAEL HOSKIN
1–32
K’uk’ulkan at Mayapán: Venus and Postclassic Maya Statecraft
GERARDO ALDANA

33–51

The Spokes of Venus: An Illusion Explained

WILLIAM SHEEHAN and THOMAS DOBBINS
53–63

Ancient and Medieval Values for the Mean Synodic Month
BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
65–74

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
75–78
Archaeoastronomical Analysis of Assyrian and Babylonian Monuments: Methodological Issues
STANISLAW IWANISZEWSKI

79–93

Notes
Discovery of Thomas Wright’s A New Theory of the Earth (Michael Hoskin); Alexander Herschel as Telescope Maker (John Tracy Spaight)
94–96

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)
97–114

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)
115–121
Notices of Books 121–123
Notes on Contributors
123–124
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
125–144

Seeking the Sidereal: Observable Planetary Stations and the Ancient Maya Record
ANTHONY F. AVENI, HARVEY M. BRICKER and VICTORIA R. BRICKER
145–161

John Vimond and the Alfonsine Trepidation Model
JOSÉ CHABÁS and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
163–170

Bengt Strömgren: Growing Up With Astronomy, 1908–1932
SIMON OLLING REBSDORF
171–199

Changing Contexts and Criteria for the Justification of Computistical Knowledge and Practice
STEPHEN C. McCLUSKEY
201–217

Orientations of the Dutch Hunebedden
A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ-GARCÍA and LOURDES COSTA-FERRER
219–226

The Depth of Association Between the Ancient Star Catalogues
DENNIS W. DUKE
227–230

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)
231–234

Essay Review
Ptolemy’s Geography, by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones (David Pingree)
235–237
Book Reviews
238–248
Notices of Books
248
Notes on Contributors
249–250
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
251–267
Planetary Latitudes in Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy J. M. STEELE
269–289
Seasonal Implications of Maya Eclipse and Rain Iconography in the Dresden Codex
TIMOTHY KNOWLTON
291–303

The Dolmens and Hawanat of Africa Proconsularis Revisited

JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE, Ma ANTONIA PERERA ­BETANCORT, RITA MARRERO and ANTONIO TEJERA GASPAR
305–320

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)
321–327

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)
328–333

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)
334–340

Notices of Books
341–342
Notes on Contributors
343–344

Volume 34 Part 4, November 2003, No. 117
Patronage and the Production of De Revolutionibus
PETER BARKER and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN 345–368
Galileo’s Telescope and Celestial Light SVEN DUPRÉ 369–399
Orientations of Neolithic Monuments of Brittany: (1) Context MICHAEL HOSKIN 401–420

Epistolary Culture, Editorial Practices, and the Propriety of Tycho’s Astronomical Letters
ADAM MOSLEY, NICHOLAS JARDINE and KARIN TYBJERG 421–451

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)
453–465
Notes on Contributors 465–466
Index to Volume 34 467–470

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