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JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2006 CONTENTS
Volume 37 Part 1, February 2006, No. 126
Teratology and the Publication of Tycho Brahe’s New World System (1588)
STEVEN VANDEN BROECKE
1–17
Exercising Patience: On the Reconstruction of F. W. Bessel’s Early Star Chart Observations
KLAUS STAUBERMANN

19–36
Reflections on the Origin of Copernicus’s Cosmology
ANDRÉ GODDU
37–53
Astronomical Dating of Babylonian Texts Describing the Total Solar Eclipse of S.E. 175
F. R. STEPHENSON and J. M. STEELE
55–69
I. O. Yarkovsky and the Discovery of ‘his’ Effect GEORGE BEEKMAN 71–86
Analysis of the Farnese Globe DENNIS W. DUKE 87–100
Albertus Leoninus (1543–1614) and Copernicus’s “Third Motion” of the Earth RIENK VERMIJ 101–109
Note
Caroline Herschel’s Revenge (Michael Hoskin)
109–110

Essay Review
Conflict in the Cosmos, by Simon Mitton, and Fred Hoyle’s Universe, by Jane Gregory (Malcolm Longair)
111–114

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)
115–122

Notes on Contributors 123–124
Volume 37 Part 2, May 2006, No. 127
Did Tycho Eliminate the Celestial Spheres Before 1586? MIGUEL A. GRANADA 125–145
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 147–172

On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples: (2) New Experiments at the Oases of the Western Desert JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE and MOSALAM SHALTOUT 173–192

Geminus and the Length of the Month: The Authenticity of Intro. ast. 8.43–45 ALAN C. BOWEN 193–202
Stellar Structure and Evolution, 1924–1939 KARL HUFBAUER 203–227
David Pingree (1933–2005) ALEXANDER JONES 229–231
Notes
Copernicus in Ljubljana (Stanislaw Jusnic); Supplement to the Copernicus Census (Owen Gingerich)
231–232

Essay Review
In Synchrony with the Heavens, by David A. King (George Saliba)
233–238

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)
239–247

Notices of Books 248–249
Notes on Contributors 249–250
Volume 37 Part 3, August 2006, No. 128
Caroline Herschel’s Catalogue of Nebulae MICHAEL HOSKIN 251–255
Kepler as Castigator and Historian: His Preparatory Notes for Contra Ursum NICHOLAS JARDINE 257–297
Orientations of Corsican Dolmens GHJASIPPINA THURY-BOUVET, JEAN-FRANÇOIS SANTUCCI, EL HADI KHOUMERI and ANTOINE OTTAVI 299–306
Beyond the Big Galaxy: The Structure of the Stellar System 1900–1952
ROBERT W. SMITH 307–342
British Library Microfilms of Herschel Materials EMILY WINTERBURN 343–348
Note
The Alignment of the Egyptian Pyramids (Merle F. Walker)
349–352

Essay Reviews
The Heavenly Writing, by Francesca Rochberg (Alexander Jones); La Astronomía del Antiguo Egipto, by José Lull (Juan Antonio Belmonte)
353–359
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)
360–368
Notices of Books 369
Notes on Contributors 370–372
Volume 37 Part 4, November 2006, No. 129
A Firmament Above Thebes: Uncovering the Constellations of Ancient Egyptians JOSÉ LULL and JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE 373–392
William Herschel and the Prehistory of Stellar Spectroscopy MICHAEL HOSKIN and DAVID W. DEWHIRST 393–403
A Letter from William Gascoigne to Sir Kenelm Digby DAVID SELLERS 405–416
Orientations of TRB-West Megalithic Monuments A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ-GARCÍA and LOURDES COSTA-FERRER 417–427
The Changing Place of Red Giant Stars in the Evolutionary Process DAVID H. DeVORKIN 429–469
Essay Review
Transmitting Knowledge, ed. by S. Kusukawa and I. Maclean, and other works (Nicholas Jardine)
471–484
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)
485–493

Notes on Contributors 494–495
Index to Volume 37 495–498

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