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Volume 37 Part 1, February 2006, No. 126 | ||||||||||
Teratology and the Publication of Tycho Brahe’s New World System (1588)
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STEVEN VANDEN BROECKE
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Exercising Patience: On the Reconstruction of F. W. Bessel’s Early Star Chart Observations
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KLAUS STAUBERMANN
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Reflections on the Origin of Copernicus’s Cosmology |
ANDRÉ GODDU
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Astronomical Dating of Babylonian Texts Describing the Total Solar Eclipse of S.E. 175
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F. R. STEPHENSON and J. M. STEELE
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I. O. Yarkovsky and the Discovery of ‘his’ Effect | GEORGE BEEKMAN | 7186 |
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Analysis of the Farnese Globe | DENNIS W. DUKE | 87100 | ||||||||
Albertus Leoninus (15431614) and Copernicus’s “Third Motion” of the Earth | RIENK VERMIJ | 101109 | ||||||||
Note Caroline Herschel’s Revenge (Michael Hoskin) |
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Essay Review Conflict in the Cosmos, by Simon Mitton, and Fred Hoyle’s Universe, by Jane Gregory (Malcolm Longair) |
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Book Reviews Songs from the Sky, ed. by Von Del Chamberlain, John B. Carlson and M. Jane Young (Michael Hoskin); The Toledan Tables, by Fritz S. Pedersen (Owen Gingerich); Studies on the Transmission of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy, by Raymond Mercier (John North); La Ciència en la Història des Països Catalans, i, ed. by Joan Vernet and Ramon Parés (Michael Hoskin); Cahokia, by Sally A. Kitt (William F. Romain); The Papers of Joseph Henry, x, ed. by Marc Rothenberg (George Wise) |
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Notes on Contributors | 123124 |
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Volume 37 Part 2, May 2006, No. 127 | ||||||||||
Did Tycho Eliminate the Celestial Spheres Before 1586? | MIGUEL A. GRANADA | 125145 | ||||||||
Isaac Ibn al-Hadib and Flavius Mithridates: The Diffusion of an Iberian Astronomical Tradition in the Late Middle Ages | BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN and JOSÉ CHABÁS | 147172 |
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On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples: (2) New Experiments at the Oases of the Western Desert | JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE and MOSALAM SHALTOUT | 173192 |
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Geminus and the Length of the Month: The Authenticity of Intro. ast. 8.4345 | ALAN C. BOWEN | 193202 | ||||||||
Stellar Structure and Evolution, 19241939 | KARL HUFBAUER | 203227 |
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David Pingree (19332005) | ALEXANDER JONES | 229231 |
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Notes Copernicus in Ljubljana (Stanislaw Jusnic); Supplement to the Copernicus Census (Owen Gingerich) |
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Essay Review In Synchrony with the Heavens, by David A. King (George Saliba) |
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Book Reviews Himmelsgloben und Sternkarten, by Ernst Künzl (James Evans); The Hubble Space Telescope, by David DeVorkin and Robert W. Smith (Karl Hufbauer); The Rahmani of M. P. Kunhikunhi Malmi of Kavaratti, ed. by Lotika Varadarajan (Raymond Mercier); The Mount Wilson Observatory, by Allan Sandage (Stephen J. Dick); Giant Telescopes, by W. Patrick McCray (C. R. O’Dell) |
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Notices of Books | 248249 |
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Notes on Contributors | 249250 | |||||||||
Volume 37 Part 3, August 2006, No. 128 | ||||||||||
Caroline Herschel’s Catalogue of Nebulae | MICHAEL HOSKIN | 251255 |
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Kepler as Castigator and Historian: His Preparatory Notes for Contra Ursum | NICHOLAS JARDINE | 257297 |
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Orientations of Corsican Dolmens | GHJASIPPINA THURY-BOUVET, JEAN-FRANÇOIS SANTUCCI, EL HADI KHOUMERI and ANTOINE OTTAVI | 299306 | ||||||||
Beyond the Big Galaxy: The Structure of the Stellar System 19001952 |
ROBERT W. SMITH | 307342 |
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British Library Microfilms of Herschel Materials | EMILY WINTERBURN | 343348 | ||||||||
Note The Alignment of the Egyptian Pyramids (Merle F. Walker) |
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Essay Reviews The Heavenly Writing, by Francesca Rochberg (Alexander Jones); La Astronomía del Antiguo Egipto, by José Lull (Juan Antonio Belmonte) |
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Book Reviews The Limits of Influence, by Steven Vanden Broecke (Monica Azzolini); Babylonian Planetary Omens, by Erica Reiner, in collaboration with David Pingree (John M. Steele); Stars and Numbers, by Paul Kunitzsch (Owen Gingerich); Transits of Venus, ed. by Don W. Kurtz (Alexander A. Gurshtein); The Living Universe, by Steven J. Dick and James E. Strick (Peter J. Ramberg); Astrolabes at Greenwich, by Koenraad Van Cleempoel (Bruce Stephenson) |
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Notices of Books | 369 | |||||||||
Notes on Contributors | 370372 | |||||||||
Volume 37 Part 4, November 2006, No. 129 | ||||||||||
A Firmament Above Thebes: Uncovering the Constellations of Ancient Egyptians | JOSÉ LULL and JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE | 373392 | ||||||||
William Herschel and the Prehistory of Stellar Spectroscopy | MICHAEL HOSKIN and DAVID W. DEWHIRST | 393403 |
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A Letter from William Gascoigne to Sir Kenelm Digby | DAVID SELLERS | 405416 | ||||||||
Orientations of TRB-West Megalithic Monuments | A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ-GARCÍA and LOURDES COSTA-FERRER | 417427 | ||||||||
The Changing Place of Red Giant Stars in the Evolutionary Process | DAVID H. DeVORKIN | 429469 | ||||||||
Essay Review Transmitting Knowledge, ed. by S. Kusukawa and I. Maclean, and other works (Nicholas Jardine) |
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Book Reviews Die Korrespondenz des Astronomen und Kalendermachers Gottfried Kirch, ed. by Klaus-Dieter Herbst (Owen Gingerich); Science and Religion, 400 B.C.A.D. 1550, by Edward Grant (Margaret J. Osler); Ergo Perit Coelum, by Michael Weichenhan (Juergen Hamel); Religious Values & the Rise of Science in Europe, by John Brooke and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (Edward B. Davis); “Les Astronomes Parisiens au XIVe Siècle et ‘Astronomie Alphonsine’”, by Emmanuel Poulle (Michel-Pierre Lerner) |
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Notes on Contributors | 494495 | |||||||||
Index to Volume 37 | 495498 |