| JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY 2012 CONTENTS |
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| Volume 43 Part 1, February 2012, No. 150 | ||||
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The Production of Books and Images in Early-Modern Astronomy Guest Editors: Isla Fay and Nicholas Jardine |
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| Introduction | ISLA FAY and NICHOLAS JARDINE | 1–2 | ||
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The First Phases of the Theoricæ Planetarum Printed
Tradition (1474–1535): The Evolution of a Genre Observed
Through its Images |
ISABELLE PANTIN | 3–26 | ||
| The Geometrical Diagrams in Regiomontanus’s Edition of his own Disputationes (c. 1475): Background, Production, and Diffusion | MICHAEL H. SHANK |
27–55 |
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| Michael Maestlin’s Mystery: Theory Building with Diagrams | GERD GRASSHOFF |
57–73 |
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Astronomia Instaurata? The Third Edition of
Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus (Amsterdam, 1617) |
DJOEKE VAN NETTEN | 75–91 | ||
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| On the Pin-and-Slot Device of the Antikythera Mechanism, with a New Application to the Superior Planets | CHRISTIÁN C. CARMEN, ALAN THORNDIKE and JAMES EVANS | 93–116 | ||
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Note Theon of Alexandria’s Observation of the Solar Eclipse of A.D. 364 June 16 (Alexander Jones) |
117–118 | |||
| Book Reviews | 119–136 | |||
| Notices of Books | 136–138 | |||
| Notes on Contributors | 138–140 | |||
| Volume 43 Part 2, May 2012, No. 151 | ||||
| A Medieval Planetary Diagram in Graz University Library | MAX E. LIPPITSCH and SONJA DRAXLER |
141–149 |
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| The Bombay Case: Astronomers, Instrument Makers and the East India Company | SIMON SCHAFFER | 151–180 | ||
| The Eccentricity of the Sun: Kepler’s Novel Method of Calculation | YAAKOV ZIK and GIORA HON | 181–189 | ||
| The Crossover of the Sun and the Moon | FABIO SILVA and FERNANDO PIMENTA | 191–208 | ||
| Messier’s Missed Discovery of Pallas in April 1779 | RENÉ BOURTEMBOURG |
209–214 |
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| Science Rather Than God: Riccioli’s Review of the Case For and Against the Copernican Hypothesis | CHRISTOPHER M. GRANEY |
215–225 |
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Note The ‘Genetic’ Analysis of Iberian Dolmens: A Test of the Idea in the Central Pyrenees (Juan Antonio Belmonte and A. César González García) |
227–231 | |||
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Essay Reviews The Copernican Question, by Robert S. Westman (Michel Lerner and Miguel Granada); Galileo’s O, ed. by Horst Bredekamp (J. L. Heilbron) |
233–246 | |||
| Book Reviews | 247–262 | |||
| Notices of Books | 262–263 | |||
| Notes on Contributors | 264–266 | |||
| Volume 43 Part 3, August 2012, No. 152 | ||||
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Astronomical Tables in Late Medieval Europe Guest Editors: Richard L. Kremer and Matthieu Husson |
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| Introduction | RICHARD L. KREMER and MATTHIEU HUSSON | 267 | ||
| Characteristics and Typologies of Medieval Astronomical Tables | JOSÉ CHABÁS | 269–286 | ||
| The Earliest Astronomical Tables in French (c. 1271) | JEAN-PATRICE BOUDET and MATTHIEU HUSSON |
287–298 |
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| Ways to Read a Table: Reading and Interpolation Techniques in Canons of Early Fourteenth-Century Double-Argument Tables | MATHIEU HUSSON |
299–319 |
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| Marcus Schinnagel’s Winged Polyptych of 1489: Astronomical Computation in a Liturgical Format | RICHARD L. KREMER | 321–345 | ||
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Notes Karl Popper on Physical Cosmologies (Helge Kragh); William Herschel’s Residence in Bath, 1799–1801 (Michael Hoskin) |
347–358 |
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Book Reviews The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas, by Axel Mellinger and Ronald Stoyan (Owen Gingerich); Calendars and Years II, ed. by John M. Steele (Jean-Claude Martzloff); Time, by Dennis D. McCarthy and P. Kenneth Seidelmann (F. Richard Stephenson); A More Perfect Heaven, by Dava Sobel (Dennis Danielson); Fictions of the Cosmos, by Frédérique Aït-Touati (Dennis Danielson); Phaenomena, by Aratus (James Evans); Advancing Variable Star Astronomy, by Thomas R. Williams and Michael Saladyga (Horace Smith); Geographies of Mars, by K. Maris D. Lane (Woody Sullivan); The Adaptive Optics Revolution, by Robert W. Duffner (Claire E. Max); Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli e l’Osservatorio di Arcetri, by Simone Bianchi, Daniele Galli and Antonella Gasperini (Elena Canadelli); The Great Melbourne Telescope, by Richard Gillespie (Rebekah Higgitt) |
359–374 |
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| Notes on Contributors | 375–376 | |||