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JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2010 CONTENTS
Volume 41 Part 1, February 2010, No. 142
Solar Anomaly and Planetary Displays in the Antikythera Mechanism
JAMES EVANS, CHRISTIÁN C. CARMAN and ALAN S. THORNDIKE
1–39
Sirius B and the Measurement of the Gravitational Redshift
J. B. HOLBERG
41–64
On the Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples: (5) Testing the Theory in Middle Egypt and Sudan
JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE, MAGDI FEKRI, YASSER A. ABDEL-HADI, MOSALAM SHALTOUT and A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA
65–93
Investigation of Medieval European Records of Solar Eclipses
F. RICHARD STEPHENSON
95–104
Starting the Classification: New and Old Stars, and Sometimes Comets, Too ENDRE ZSOLDOS 105–116
Edward Stewart Kennedy (1912–2009) DAVID A. KING 117–119
Essay Review
The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope, by Rolf Willach (Marvin Bolt)
120–122
Book Reviews
123–147
Notices of Books 148–152
Notes on Contributors 153–156
Volume 41 Part 2, May 2010, No. 143    
The First Copernican Astrologer: Andreas Aurifaber’s Practica for 1541 JONATHAN GREEN 157–165
Teach and Travel: Leiden Observatory and the Renaissance of Dutch Astronomy in the Interwar Years DAVID BANEKE 167–198
Astronomical Activity in Portugal in the Fourteenth Century JOSÉ CHABÁS and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN 199–212
Mary Herschel’s Fortune: Origins and Impact
MICHAEL HOSKIN
213–223
Statistical Analysis of Megalithic Tomb Orientations in the Iberian ­Peninsula and Neighbouring Regions A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA and JUAN ANTONIO ­BELMONTE 225–238
Isaac Roberts, E. E. Barnard and the Nebulae LEE MACDONALD 239–259
A New Scheme from Babylon for the Synodic Arc of Saturn J. M. STEELE 261–268
Book Reviews
Shrouds of the Night, by David L. Block and Kenneth Freeman (Charles J. Lada); Die Sterne Lügen Nicht, by Christian Heitzmann (Karsten Gaulke); Rationales in Mathematical Astronomy of Jyesthadeva, by K. V. Sarma et al. (Agathe Keller); Nebo v Zemnom Otrazhenii, by Konstantin V. Ivanov (Simon Werrett); Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, ii, by David Pingree (Silke Ackermann); Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion, ed. by Ronald L. Numbers (Peter J. Bowler)
269–279
 
Notices of Books   279–280
Notes on Contributors   281–282
Volume 41 Part 3, August 2010, No. 144    
Forms and Functions of Early Modern Celestial Imagery, Part 1
Guest Editors: Renée Raphael and Nicholas Jardine
   
Introduction NICHOLAS JARDINE and RENÉE RAPHAEL 283–286
The Astronomical Diagrams in Oronce Finé’s Protomathesis (1532): Founding a French Tradition? ISABELLE PANTIN 287–310
Centre, Circle, Circumference: Giordano Bruno’s Astronomical Woodcuts CHRISTOPH LÜTHY 311–327
A “Practique Discipline”? Mathematical Arts in John Blagrave’s The Mathematical Jewel (1585) KATIE TAYLOR 329–353
How to Craft Telescopic Observation in a Book: Hevelius’s Selenographia (1647) and its Images KATHRIN MÜLLER 355–379
Wren, Hooke and Graphical Practice STEPHEN JOHNSTON 381–392
Critical Editing of Early-Modern Astronomical Diagrams BORIS JARDINE and NICHOLAS JARDINE 393–414
     
Book Reviews
A History of Physical Theories of Comets, by Tofigh Heidarzadeh (Elizabeth Burns); Mathematics in India, by Kim Plofker (Alexander Jones); Giordano Bruno, by Ingrid D. Rowland (Dario Tessicini); Atlas of the Messier Objects, by Ronald Stoyan, Stefan Binnewies and Suzanne Friedrich (Owen Gingerich); Manilius and His Intellectual Background, by Katharina Volk (Raymond Mercier)
415–422
 
Notes on Contributors 423–424  
Volume 41 Part 4, November 2010, No. 145  
Isaac Newton’s Historia Cometarum and the Quest for Elliptical Orbits J. A. RUFFNER 425–451  
The Telescope Against Copernicus: Star Observations by Riccioli ­Supporting a Geocentric Universe CHRISTOPHER M. GRANEY 453–467  
Antiochos’s Hierothesion at Nemrud Dag Revisited: Adjusting the Date in the Light of Astronomical Evidence JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE and A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA 469–481
 
Calculating with Andreas Aurifaber: A New Source for Copernican Astronomy in 1540 RICHARD L. KREMER 483–502  
Notes
William Herschel and the Southern Skies (Michael Hoskin); The ­Objective Lens of the Dunsink Ramsden Circle (E. J. A. Meurs)
503–506  
Book Reviews
Secret Science, by María M. Portuondo (Adam Mosley); Science and Controversy, by A. J. Meadows (C. Bigg); Visuelle Weltaneignung, by Kathrin Müller (Bruce S. Eastwood); The Moon That Wasn’t, by Helge Kragh (Jarosław Włodarczyk); Apollo Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, ed. by Robert Jacobs et al. (Elizabeth A. Kessler); The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini, by José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein (Glen Van Brummelen); Johannes Kepler, from Tübingen to Żagań, ed. by Richard L. Kremer and Jarosław Włodarczyk (Raz Chen-Morris); The Greatest Comets in History, by David Seargent (David W. Hughes); Nouveau Ciel, Nouvelle Terre, ed. by Miguel Ángel Granada and Eduoard Mehl (Sachiko Kusukawa); Le Calendrier Chinois, by Jean-Claude Martzloff (Nathan Sivin); Teorie sulle Comete da Galileo a Newton, by Andrea Gualandi (Giorgio Strano); Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, transl. by William R. Shea (Maurice A. Finocchiaro)
507–526  
Notices of Books   527  
Notes on Contributors   528–530  
Index to Volume 41   530–534  

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