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1999 CONTENTS
Volume 30 part 1, February 1999, No. 98 
Regiomontanus's Concentric-sphere Models for the Sun and Moon N. M. SWERDLOW  1-23
A Career of Controversy: The Anomaly of T. J. J. See THOMAS J. SHERRILL  25-50
The Babylonian First Visibility of the Lunar Crescent: Data and Criterion LOUAY J. FATOOHI, F. RICHARD STEPHENSON and SHETHA S. AL-DARGAZELLI  51-72
Book Reviews
Galileo on the World Systems, transl. and ed. by Maurice A. Finocchiaro (William E. Carroll); From Baghdad to Barcelona, ed. by Josep Casulleras and Julio Samsó (Owen Gingerich); Astronomische Konzepte und Jenseitsvorstellungen in den Pyramidentexten, by Rolf Krauss (Kurt Locher); The Quest for Longitude, ed. by William J. H. Andrewes (Simon Schaffer); Of Time and Measurement, by A. J. Turner (Jim Bennett); The History of Radio Astronomy and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, by Benjamin K. Malphrus (Woodruff T. Sullivan, III); The Measurement of Starlight, by J. B. Hearnshaw (William Liller); Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749?1827, by Charles Coulston Gillispie (J. L. Heilbron); Humanismus zwischen Hof und Universität, by Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer (Michael H. Shank); In Search of Planet Vulcan, by Richard Baum and William Sheehan (Steven J. Dick); The Einstein Tower, by Klaus Hentschel (Helge Kragh)
 73-88
Notices of Books  89-91
Notes on Contributors  91-92
Volume 30 part 2, May 1999, No. 99
Photographic Mapping of the Solar Spectrum 1864-1900, Part I KLAUS HENTSCHEL  93-119
Saturn, Aristotelian Astronomy, and Cracow Astronomers: An Episode from the Early Years of Telescopic Astronomy JERZY DOBRZYCKI  121-129
A Survey of Muslim Material on Comets and Meteors DAVID COOK  131-160
Accuracy of Solar Eclipse Calculations, 1644-1785, with the Chinese Shoushi Calendar Y. LI and C. Z. ZHANG  161-167
Essay Review
Zur Entstehung der babylonischen Mondtheorie, Beobachtung und theoretischen Berechnung von Mondphasen, by Lis Brack-Bernsen (Noel Swerdlow)
 169-172
Book Reviews
Mathematik und Astronomie an der Universität Ingolstadt im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, by Christoph Schöner (Richard L. Kremer); The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope, by Ronald Florence (Ido Yavetz); Bibliographia Kepleriana, ed. by Jürgen Hamel (Owen Gingerich); Flamsteed's Stars, ed. by Frances Willmoth (Adam Jared Apt); Astronomy Through the Ages, by Robert Wilson (Stephen McCluskey); La Diffusione del Copernicanesimo in Italia 1543-1610, ed. by Massimo Bucciantini and Maurizio Torrini (Maurice A. Finocchiaro); A Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, ed. by Michael J. Crowe, David R. Dyck, and James R. Kevin (Owen Gingerich)
 173-183
Notices of Books   184-185
Notes on Contributors   185-186
Volume 30 part 3, August 1999, No. 100
An Occultation of Venus Observed by Abraham Zacut in 1476 BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN and JOSÉ CHABÁS  187-200
Photographic Mapping of the Solar Spectrum 1864-1900, Part II KLAUS HENTSCHEL 201-224
"Novae" over Kiskartal E. ZSOLDOS and ZS. LÉVAI 225-230
A Chinese Observing Site from Remote Antiquity HU ZHONGWEI, REN JINYI, GUO JIULI, HU XIANLIANG and XU DENGLI 231-235
The Material Culture of Greek Astronomy JAMES EVANS 237-307
Essay Review
El Debate Cosmológico en 1588: Bruno, Brahe, Rothmann, Ursus, Röslin, by Miguel A. Granada (Michael H. Shank)
309-311
Book Reviews
Babylonian Planetary Omens, Part 3, by Erica Reiner and David Pingree (John Steele); Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook, by Theony Condos (Roger C. Ceragioli); Prolegomena Mathematica, by Jaap Mansfield (Alexander Jones); Western Astrolabes: Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, i, by Roderick and Marjorie Webster (Robert H. van Gent); Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe, by Stephen McCluskey (Faith Wallis); The Liber Aristotilis of Hugo of Santalla, ed. by Charles Burnett and David Pingree (J. D. North); Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, by Sara Schechner Genuth (Daniel W. E. Green); Kepler's Tübingen, by Charlotte Methuen (Rhonda Martens); The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, First Astronomer Royal, ii: 1682-1703, ed. by Eric G. Forbes, Lesley Murdin, and Frances Willmoth (I. Bernard Cohen); Fire in the Sky, by Roberta J. M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff (Don Yeomans); The Heavens on Fire: The Great Leonid Meteor Storms, by Mark Littmann (Richard Sanderson); Die Entwicklung des Meridiankreises 1700-1850, by Klaus-Dieter Herbst (Klaus Staubermann); Geschichte der Astronomie, by Jürgen Hamel (Jerzy Dobrzycki); Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1831, by Brian Warner (John Hearnshaw); Whatever Shines Should Be Observed, by Susan M. P. McKenna-Lawlor (Barbara J. Becker); The Letters and Papers of Jan Hendrik Oort, by J. K. Katgert-Merkelijn (Owen Gingerich); Remembering Edith Alice Müller, ed. by I. Appenzeller et al. (Donat G. Wentzel); Science, Tools and Magic: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, xii, by Francis Maddison and Emilie Savage-Smith (Owen Gingerich); A New Force at a New Frontier, by Kevin Madders (Joseph N. Tatarewicz)
312-338
Notices of Books 339
Notes on Contributors 340-342
Volume 30 part 4, November 1999, No. 101
Copernicus and the Critics of Ptolemy PETER BARKER
343-358
J. S. Plaskett and the Modern Large Reflecting Telescope RICHARD A. JARRELL 359-390
The Accuracy of Hevelius?s Astrometric Measurements J. WÜNSCH
391-406
Book Reviews
Calendrical Calculations, by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, and Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History, by E. G. Richards (David H. Kelley); Life on Other Worlds: The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate, by Steven J. Dick (David Strauss)
407-410
Notes on Contributors 410-411
Index to Volume 30 411-414
Cumulative Indices to Volumes 21-30 415-436

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