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JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
2011 CONTENTS
Volume 42 Part 1, February 2011, No. 146
Forms and Functions of Early Modern Celestial Imagery, Part 2
Guest Editors: Renée Raphael and Nicholas Jardine
   
Refining the Astrologer’s Art: Astrological Diagrams in Bodleian MS Canon. Misc. 24 and Cardano’s Libelli Quinque (1547)
MONICA AZZOLINI
1–25
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli’s Atlante Veneto and the Diagrammatic Tradition of Cosmography
ADAM MOSLEY
27–53
Petrus Apianus Draws up a Calendar
ANTHONY GRAFTON
55–72
A Non-Astronomical Image in an Astronomical Text: Visualizing Motion in Riccioli’s Almagestum Novum
RENÉE RAPHAEL
73–90
Andreas Nolthius’s Almanach for 1575 SACHIKO KUSUKAWA 91–110
Book Reviews
The End of Time, by Anthony Aveni (Gerardo V. Aldana); Archeoastronomia, ed. by Mario Cordeb?(Juan Antonio Belmonte); Galileo’s Telescope, ed. by Giorgio Strano, The Telescope, by Richard Dunn, and Telescopes, by Marvin Bolt (Huib J. Zuidervaart); Astrum 2009: Astronomy and Instruments, ed. by Eleana Chinnici (Owen Gingerich); One Book, The Whole Universe, ed. by Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler (Geoffrey Lloyd); Cracking the Einstein Code, by Fulvio Melia (Bernard F. Schutz); Abraham Ibn Ezra, The Book of Reasons and The Book of the World, by Shlomo Sela (Bernard R. Goldstein); Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters, by Wolfgang Steinicke (Michael Hoskin)
111–122
Notes on Contributors 123–124
Vol. 42 Part 2, May 2011,  No. 147    
From J. Winthrop, Jr, to E. E. Barnard: The Arduous Path to the First Sighting of Amalthea FRANÇOIS WESEMAEL, KARL DEL DUCHETTO and REN?RACINE 125–139
An Ancient Rule for Making Portable Altitude Sundials from an ‘Unedited’ Medieval Text of the Tenth Century MARIO ARNALDI 141–160
Tracing Ramsden’s ‘Plumbline Level’ ILEANA CHINNICI and DONATELLA RANDAZZO 161–176
William Herschel and the Nebulae, Part 1: 1774–1784 MICHAEL HOSKIN 177–192
The Selenographia of William Gilbert: His Pre-telescopic Map of the Moon and his Discovery of Lunar Libration STEPHEN PUMFREY 193–203
The Mean Distances of the Sun and Commentaries on the Theorica Planetarum JAMES STEVEN BYRNE 205–221
Experimenting with Paper Instruments in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Astronomy: Computing Syzygies with Isotemporal Lines and Salt Dishes RICHARD L. KREMER 223–258
How Galileo Constructed the Moons of Jupiter OWEN GINGERICH and ALBERT VAN HELDEN 259–264
Book Reviews   265–279
Notices of Books   280
Notes on Contributors   280–282
Vol. 42 Part 3, August 2011,  No. 148    
Giuseppe Piazzi: The Controversial Discovery and Loss of Ceres in 1801 CLIFFORD J. CUNNINGHAM, BRIAN G. MARSDEN and WAYNE ORCHISTON 283–306
An Initial Assessment of the Accuracy of the Gear Trains in the Antikythera Mechanism M. G. EDMUNDS 307–320
William Herschel and the Nebulae, Part 2: 1785–1818 MICHAEL HOSKIN 321–338
The Orientation of Danish Passage Graves on the Islands of Sams? and Zealand CLAUS CLAUSEN, PER KJÆRGAARD and OLE EINICKE 339–351
Roeslin and Kepler’s Discussion on the Significance of the Celestial Novelties (1607–1613) MIGUEL A. GRANADA 353–390
Essay Review
Astrolabes and Angels, Epigrams and Enigmas, by David King (Michael H. Shank)
391–403

Book Reviews
Archaeoastronomy in East Asia, by David W. Pankenier, Zhengtao Xu and Yaotiao Jiang (Yunli Shi); Ptolemy in Perspective, ed. by Alexander Jones (Raymond Mercier); The Worlds of Oronce Fine, ed. by Alexander Marr (Renée J. Raphael); New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De caelo, ed. by Alan C. Bowen and Christian Wildberg (Liba Taub); Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660, by Avner Ben-Zaken (Sonja Brentjes); Astronomie in Nürnberg, ed. by Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Jürgen Hamel); A Survey of the Almagest with Annotation and New Commentary by Alexander Jones, by Olaf Pedersen (Dennis Duke); The Zodiac of Paris, by Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josejowicz (Owen Gingerich); Fiery Shapes, by Mark Williams (Nicolas Campion); The Power of Stars, by Bryan E. Penprase (Anthony F. Aveni)
404–422  
Notes on Contributors   422–424
Vol. 42 Part 4, November 2011,  No. 149    
The Nakovana Zodiac: Fragments of an Astrologer’s Board from an Illyrian-Hellenistic Cave Sanctuary STAŠO FORENBAHER and ALEXANDER JONES 425–438
David Origanus’s Planetary System (1599 and 1609) PIETRO DANIEL OMODEO 439–454
An Early Astronomical Manuscript of Jeremiah Horrocks TERRY STANCLIFFE 455–460
Thinking Hattusha: Astronomy and Landscape in the Hittite Lands A. CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA and JUAN ANTONIO ­BELMONTE 461–494
Libration of the Moon, Hevelius’s Theory, and its Early Reception in England JAROSŁAW WŁODARCZYK 495–519
A Website of Deep-sky Objects WOLFGANG STEINICKE 520
Essay Review
Between Theory and Observations, by Steven A. Wepster (Curtis Wilson)
521–526  
Book Reviews
Niccol?Copernico e la Fondazione del Cosmo Eliocentrico, by Anna De Pace (Pietro Omodeo); Time in Antiquity, by Robert Hannah (James Evans); The Heavens on Earth, ed. by David Aubin et al. (Pedro Ruis-Castell); Rheticus, Wegbereiter der Neuzeit, ed. by Gerhard Wanner et al. (Dennis Danielson); Libertas Philosophandi, by Alfredo Damanti (Thomas F. Mayer); Between Raphael and Galileo, by Alexander Marr (Volker R. Remmert); Ferdinand Verbiest and Jesuit Science in 17th-Century China, by Noël Golvers et al. (Keizo Hashimoto); Discoverers of the Universe, by Michael Hoskin (Helge Kragh)
527–540
 
Notices of Books   540–541
Alain-Philippe Segonds (1942–2011)
MICHEL-PIERRE LERNER
542–543
 
Notes on Contributors 544–545  
Index to Volume 42 546–549
 

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