| Vol. 3 No. 1 |
Jun 2000 |
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| About the JAHH | Inside Cover |
| Title Page | Center insert |
| Papers |
| Technology and the Emergence of X-ray Astronomy | Herbert Gursky | 1 |
| Seeing the Impossible: Meteors in the Moon
| Martin Beech & David W. Hughes | 13 |
| Refining the Astronomical Unit: Queenstown and the 1874 Transit of Venus | Wayne Orchiston, Tom Love, & Steven J. Dick | 23 |
| Under a Tropical Sky: a History of Astronomy in Indonesia
| Bambang Hidayat | 45 |
| Recent Publications Relating to the History of Astronomy | Ruth S. Freitag | 59 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920, by Allan Chapman | Wayne Orchiston | 86 |
| Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature, by Ewen A. Whitaker | Clive Davenhall | 88 |
| Galileo's Planet: Observing Jupiter Before Photography, by Thomas Hockey | Clive Davenhall | 89 |
| Eyes on the Universe. The Story of the Telescope, by Patrick Moore | Wayne Orchiston | 90 |
| Other Books Received (with very brief comments) |
| Seven Wonders of the Cosmos, by Jayant V. Narlikar |
| 91 |
| The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy, ed. by M. Hoskin |
| 91 |
| The American Astronomical Society’s First Century, ed. by David H. DeVorkin |
| 91 |
| Worlds without End: The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life, by Roger A.S. Hennessey |
| 92 |
| Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age, by Tom D. Crouch |
| 92 |
| Guido Horn d'Arturo e lo specchio a tasselli, ed. by Marina Zuccoli & Fabrizio Bònoli |
| 92 |
| From Galaxies to Turbines: Science, Technology and the Parsons Family, by W. Garrett Scaife |
| 92 |
| Science in Translation, Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and Time, by Scott L. Montgomery |
| 92 |
| The Astrophysical Journal: American Astronomical Society Centennial Issue, ed. by Helmut A. Abt |
| 92 |
| Advertisement |
| The Irish Astronomical Journal | Inside Back Cover |
| Contents | Back Cover |
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| Vol. 3 No. 2 |
Dec 2000 |
| Cover |
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| About JAHH | Insert |
| Title page |
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| Papers |
| Chicago’s Dearborn Observatory: a Study in Survival | Ian R. Bartky | 93 |
| Recollections of Life as a Student and a Young Astronomer in Germany in the 1920s | Hermann A. Brück & Mary T. Brück | 115 |
| Nineteenth-century Longitude Determinations in the Great Lakes region: Government-university Collaborations | Patricia S. Whitesell | 131 |
| Buenaventura Suárez SJ: The Pioneer Astronomer of Paraguay | Alexis E. Troche-Boggino | 159 |
| IAU Report |
| History of Astronomy at the 2000 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union | Steven J. Dick & Wayne Orchiston | 165 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| The Star of Bethlehem: An Astronomer’s View, by Mark Kidger | Clive Davenhall | 169 |
| The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi, by Michael R. Molnar | Clive Davenhall | 169 |
| Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and Time, by Scott L. Montgomery | Alexander A. Gurshtein | 172 |
| Archives of the International Astronomical Union. Inventory for the Years 1919 - 1970, by Adriaan Blaauw | Wayne Orchiston | 173 |
| A Far Off Vision: a Cornishman at Greenwich Observatory, ‘Autobiographical Notes‘ by Edwin Dunkin, ed. by P.D. Hingley & T.C. Daniel | Gilbert E. Satterthwaite | 173 |
| 300 Jahre Astronomie in Berlin und Potsdam, ed. by Wolfgang R. Dick & Klaus Fritze | Klaus Hetschel | 175 |
| Aiming for the Stars, by Tom D. Crouch | Jos Heyman | 176 |
| Index to Volume 3 | Center insert |
| Contents and description of cover | Back Cover |
| Download the entire issue as one large (12-MB) pdf file. |