| JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY 2009 CONTENTS |
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| Volume 40 Part 1, February 2009, No. 138 | ||
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Editorial: Journals Under Threat
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v–viii |
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The Second Moon of the Earth
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HELGE KRAGH
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1–10 |
| Giovanni Borelli and the Comets of 1664–65 | LUCIANO BOSCHIERO | 11–30 |
| A Catalogue of “Guest Stars” Recorded in East Asian History from Earliest Times to A.D. 1600 | F. RICHARD STEPHENSON and DAVID A. GREEN | 31–54 |
| Kepler’s ‘Via Ovalis Composita’: Unity from Diversity | A. E. L. DAVIS | 55–69 |
| Beyond the Galaxy: The Development of Extragalactic Astronomy 1885–1965, Part 2 | ROBERT W. SMITH | 71–107 |
| Essay Reviews Skywatching in the Ancient World, ed. by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton (Gerardo Aldana); Imagination des Himmels, ed. by Franziska Brons (Nick Jardine) |
109–120 | |
| Book Reviews Zvezdnoe nebo drevnei Mesopotamii, by G. E. Kurtik (Arkadiusz Soltysiak); Astronomy and Astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib, by Julio Samsó (George Saliba); Reachable Stars, by George E. Lankford (Anthony F. Aveni); A History of Horoscopic Astrology, by James Herschel Holden (Raymond Mercier); A Book of Astronomy, by Guido Bonatti (Laura A. Smoller); Kepler’s Astrology, ed. by Valerie Vaughan (Patrick J. Boner); One Time Fits All, by Ian R. Bartky (Graeme Gooday); Secrets of the Hoary Deep, by Riccardo Giacconi (Richard Hirsh) |
120–133
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| Notices of Books | 134 |
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| Notes on Contributors | 134–136 |
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| Volume 40 Part 2, May 2009, No. 139 | ||
| The Discovery of the Existence of White Dwarf Stars: 1862 to 1930 |
J. B. HOLBERG | 137–154 |
| The Search for Stellar Parallaxes and the Discovery of the Aberration of Light: The Observational Proofs of the Earth’s Revolution, Eustachio Manfredi, and the ‘Bologna Case’ | ANDREA GUALANDI and FABRIZIO BÒNOLI | 155–172 |
| On the Equivalence of Hypotheses in Part 1 of Johannes Kepler’s New Astronomy | ANASTASIA GUIDI ITOKAZU | 173–190 |
| The Galileo Affair: Two Decisions | ERNAN McMULLIN | 191–212 |
| Notes A Year Length Hidden in Ancient Planetary Mean Motions (Dennis Duke); Orientations of Channel Islands Megalithic Tombs: Addendum (David Le Conte) |
213–218 | |
| Book Reviews Keplero, by Anna Maria Lombardi (Andrea Gualandi); Ancient Greek Cosmogony, by Andrew Gregory (Geoffrey Lloyd); The Astrolabe, by James E. Morrison (James Evans); ‘Let There Be Lights in the Firmament of the Heaven’, by Anne-Laurence Caudano (W. F. Ryan); Caesar’s Calendar, by Denis Feeney (Robert Hannah); Jesse Ramsden (1735–1800), by Anita McConnell (Jim Bennett); A Brief History of Ancient Astrology, by Roger Beck (Liba Taub); Gemma Frisius, by Fernand Hallyn (Rienk Vermij); “... eine ausnehmende Zierde und Vortheil”, by Felix Lühning (Jürgen Hamel); The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain, by Jessica Ratcliff (Steven J. Dick); Un Globe-trotter de la Physique Céleste, by Françoise Launay (Jimena Canales); Einstein for the 21st Century, ed. by Peter J. Galison et al. (Hubert Goenner); NASA: The Complete Illustrated History, by Michael Gorn (Robert W. Smith); Entropic Creation, by Helge S. Kragh (Frederick Gregory); Aspects of the Astrolabe, by Arianna Borrelli (Emmanuel Poulle) |
219–244 | |
| Notices of Books | 245 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 246–248 | |
| Volume 40 Part 3, August 2009, No. 140 | ||
| Lunar Eclipses, Longitude and the New World | MARIA M. PORTUONDO | 249–276 |
| Harkins, Perrin and the Alternative Paths to the Solution of the Stellar-Energy Problem, 1915–1923 | FRANÇOIS WESEMAEL | 277–296 |
| John of Murs’s Tables of 1321 |
JOSÉ CHABÁS and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
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297–320 |
| The Relationship between the Ramsden Circles at Palermo and Dunsink |
ILEANA CHINNICI
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321–333 |
| John David North (1934–2008) | OWEN GINGERICH | 335–337 |
| Essay Review The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker, and Xiang Chen (Robert S. Westman) |
339–345
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| Book Reviews A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East, by John M. Steele (F. Jamil Ragep); Les Alchandreana Primitifs, by David Juste (José Chabás); The Dawn of Astrology, i, by Nicholas Campion (Robert Hannah); Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, ed. by Anthony Aveni (Juan Antonio Belmonte); I Dintorni dell’Infinito, by Dario Tessicini (Isabelle Pantin); Astronomy: Traditional Korean Science, by Changbom Park (Yunli Shi); Der Ptolomäus von Kassel, by Karsten Gaulke (Adam Mosley); Galileo’s Inquisition Trial Revisited, by Jules Speller (Annibale Fantoli); A Natural History of Time, by Pascal Richet (Stephen G. Brush); Decoding the Heavens, by Jo Marchant (James Evans); British University Observatories, 1772–1939, by Roger Hutchins (Trudy E. Bell); Der Komet in der Entladungsröhre, by Michael Hedenus (Klaus Hentschel); Sphaera Mundi, by Henrique Leitão (Tayra Lanuza-Navarro); Johannes Kepler, Schriften zur Optik, 1604–1611, ed. by Rolf Riekher (Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis) |
346–371
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| Notes on Contributors |
372–374
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| Volume 40 Part 4, November 2009, No. 140 | ||
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Kepler’s Cosmos: Bridging the Disciplines
Guest Editors: Patrick J. Boner and Nick Jardine |
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| Kepler as Transgressor and Amalgamator of Disciplines | NICK JARDINE |
375–380
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| A Tenuous Tandem: Patrizi and Kepler on the Origins of Stars | PATRICK J. BONER |
381–391
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| Novelties in the Heavens between 1572 and 1604 and Kepler’s Unified View of Nature | MIGUEL A. GRANADA |
393–402
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| Forms of Persuasion: Kepler, Galileo, and the Dissemination of Copernicanism | AVIVA ROTHMAN |
403–419
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| The Beginnings of Commercial Manufacture of the Reflecting Telescope in London | A. D. C. SIMPSON |
421–466
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| Essay Review New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, editor-in-chief Noretta Koertge (Richard L. Kremer); Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, electronic version (Noah Lowenstein) |
467–472
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| Book Reviews Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, ed. by Massimo Bucciantini et al. (William Donahue); The Universe in a Mirror, by Robert Zimmerman (Joseph Tatarewicz); Granting the Seasons, by Nathan Sivin (David W. Pankenier) |
473–477
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| Notes on Contributors |
477–478
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| Index to Volume 40 |
479–482
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| Cumulative Indices to Volumes 1–40 |
483–516
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