| Vol. 5 No. 1 |
Jun 2002 |
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| About the JAHH | Inside Cover |
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| Papers |
| Astronomy in the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project | Ci-Yuan Liu | 1 |
| Acceptance and Adaptation of Octants and Sextants in Japan during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | Tsuko Nakamura | 9 |
| Ingenuity and Initiative in Australian Radio Astronomy: the Dover Heights “Hole-in-the-ground” Antenna | Wayne Orchiston & Bruce Slee | 21 |
| The Contribution of José Luis Sérsic to Celestial Mechanics | Adrián Brunini, & Octavio Ismael Miloni | 35 |
| Early Astronomy in America: The Role of the College of William and Mary | Jeffery R. Shy | 41 |
| Eise Eisinga and his Planetarium | Jolanda Mulder de Ridder | 65 |
| From Pythagoreans to Kepler: the Dispute between the Geocentric and the Heliocentric Systems | E. Theodossiou, E. Danezis, V.N. Manimanis, & E.-M. Kalyva | 89 |
| Foucault – the Man Who Swung the Pendulum | Débarbat, Suzanne | 99 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| Science in Theistic contexts: Cognitive Dimensions, ed. by J.H. Brooke, M.J. Osler, & J.M. van der Meer | Clive Davenhall | 100 |
| New Observations of Heavenly and Earthly Objects Made with the Aid of Optical Instruments Devised by Him and Brought to Perfection, by Francesco Fontana, translated and annotated by Peter Fay & Sally Beaumont | Allan Chapman | 101 |
| Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics, by Mary Brück | Alan H. Batten | 102 |
| The Transit of Venus. The Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun, by David Sellers | Wayne Orchiston | 104 |
| New Commissions |
| The Inter-Union Commission for History of Astronomy | F. Richard Stephenson, Alexander Gurshtein, Wayne Orchiston, & Stephen J. Dick, | 105 |
| International Commission for History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy | S.M.R. Ansari & Anne Tihon, | 105 |
| Contents | Back Cover |
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| Vol. 5 No. 2 |
Dec 2002 |
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| Cover |
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| About the JAHH | Inside Cover |
| Papers |
| The Discovery of Strong Extragalactic Polarization using the Parkes Radio Telescope | Ronald N. Bracewell | 107 |
| Analysis of Dates and Lunar Phase Records in Wucheng | Ciyuan Liu | 115 |
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Christopher Hansteen and the First Observatory at the University of Oslo, 1815-28 | Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen | 123 |
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The Fall of a Meteorite at Aegos Potami in 467/6 BC | E.Th. Theodossiou, P.G. Niarchos, V.N. Manimanis, & W. Orchiston | 135 |
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The 1900-1 Opposition of 433 Eros, the Solar Parallax, and the Contribution of Padova Observatory | Luisa Pigatto & Valeria Zanini | 141 |
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The Mechanics and Origin of Cometaria | Martin Beech | 155 |
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Nineteenth Century Astronomy at the U.S. Naval Academy | Paul D. Shankland & Wayne Orchiston | 165 |
| IAU Reports and Other Announcements |
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The IAU, Astronomical Archives and Commissions 41 and the ICHA | Suzanne Débarbat | 181 |
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Society for the History of Astronomy Founded in the UK | Stuart Williams | 184 |
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The C41/ICHA Transits of Venus Working Group. I: An introduction | Wayne Orchiston, Steven J. Dick, Alexander Gurshtein, Rajesh Kochhar & Luisa Pigatto | 185 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| Gods in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Culture from the Ancients to the Renaissance, by Allan Chapman | Mary Brück | 189 |
| Karl Friedrich Zöllner and the Historical Dimension of Astronomical Photometry: A Collection of Papers on the History of Astronomy, ed. by Christiaan Sterken & Klauss Staubermann | Wayne Orchiston | 191 |
| Queen of Science, Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville, ed. and introduced by Dorothy McMillan | Mary Brück | 192 |
| The Roman cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries, by Manfred Clauss | Clive Davenhall | 193 |
| Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics, by Donald E. Osterbrock | Wayne Orchiston | 195 |
| La Carte du Ciel, Correspondance Inédite Conservée dans les Archives de L’observatoire de Paris, compiled by Ileana Chinnici | Ivan Nikoloff | 197 |
| Index to Volume 5 | 199 |
| Guide for Authors | 201 |
| Contents | Back Cover |
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