| Vol. 4 No. 1 |
Jun 2001 |
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| About JAHH | Inside Cover |
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| Papers |
| Visibility of the Thin Lunar Crescent: the Sociology of an Astronomical Problem (a Case Study) | Nidhal Guessoum & Kiram Meziane | 1 |
| Six Stages in the History of the Astronomical Unit | David W. Hughes | 15 |
| The English Equatorial Mounting and the History of the Fletcher Telescope
| Wayne Orchiston | 29 |
| Spectroscopic Observations of the 1874 Transit of Venus: the Italian Party at Muddapur, Eastern India | Luisa Pigatto & Valeria Zanini | 43 |
| Little Known Aspects of the History of Georgian Astronomy | Irakli Simonia | 59 |
| Recent Publications Relating to the History of Astronomy | Ruth S. Freitag | 75 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| Worlds Without End: The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life, by R.A.S. Hennessy | Duncan Steel | 96 |
| Treasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives, ed. by P. Kroll, C. la Dous, & H.J. Bräuer | Clive Davenhall | 96 |
| East Asian Archaeoastronomy: Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan, and Korea, by Zentao Xu, David W. Pankenier, & Yaotiao Jiang | Kwan-Yu Chen | 98 |
| Announcement: Two Special Issues Forthcoming | Inside Back Cover |
| Contents | Back Cover |
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| Vol. 4 No. 2 |
Dec 2001 |
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| Cover |
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| About JAHH | Inside Cover |
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| Papers |
| The Life and Times of Sir George Biddell Airy: A Symposium | Gilbert E. Satterthwaite | 99 |
| Airy and Positional Astronomy | Gilbert E. Satterthwaite | 101 |
| Airy’s Transit Circle | Gilbert E. Satterthwaite | 115 |
| “Extraneous Government Business”: the Astronomer Royal as Government Scientist: George Airy and His Work on the Commissions of State and Other Bodies, 1838-1880 | Adam Perkins | 143 |
| The Airys at Greenwich | Frances Ward | 155 |
| Bertil Lindblad’s Early Work: The Two-dimensional Classification of Stellar Spectra at Low Dispersion | Per Olof Lindblad | 163 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| Great Comets, by Robert Burnham | Wayne Orchiston | 171 |
| Sur les traces des Cassini, Astronomes et observatoires du sud de la France, ed. by Paul Brouzeng & Suzanne Débarbat | Isobel Nikoloff | 173 |
| Index to Volume 4 | 177 |
| Astronomical Instruments and Archives from the Asia-Pacific Region: Call for Papers | Il-Seong Nha, Richard Stephenso, & Wayne Orchiston | Inside Back Cover |
| Contents and description of cover | Back Cover |
| Download the entire issue as one large (10-MB) pdf file. |