| Vol. 9 No. 1 |
Jun 2006 |
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| About the JAHH and the cover | Inside Cover |
| Contents | 1 |
| Papers |
| The Beginnings of Radio Astronomy in the Netherlands |
Hugo van Woerden, & Richard G. Strom | 3 |
| From Potts Hill (Australia) to Pune (India): The Journey of a Radio Astronomer | Govind Swarup | 21 |
| The Genesis of Solar Radio Astronomy in Australia | Wayne Orchiston, Bruce Slee, & Ron Burman | 35 |
| The Significance and Errors of Erathosthenes’ Method for the Measurement of the Size and Shape of the Earth’s Surface | Antonios D. Pinotsis | 57 |
| Measuring the World: Excursions in Astronomy and Geodesy | A.H. Batten & J.R. Smith | 65 |
| Notes on Translations of the East Asian Records Relating to the Supernova of AD 1054 | David W. Pankenier | 77 |
| Sir David Brewster’s Changing Ideas on the Plurality of Worlds | Miguel de Asúa | 83 |
| Arthur Beer and his relations with Einstein and the Warburg Institute | Hilmar W. Duerbeck & Peter Beer | 93 |
| A Fair Use of Arcturus: A Syzygy of Scholarians and the Lighting of the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1933-1934 | Robert J. Havlik | 99 |
| A Brief History of the Astrophysical Research Consortium and the Apache Point Observatory | Jim Peterson & Glen Mackie | 109 |
| Book Reviews |
| The Composition of Kepler’s Astronomia Nova, by James R. Voelkel | William Dorsey | 129 |
| Biographischer Index der Astronomie/Biographical Index of Astronomy, by Wilhelm Brüggenthies & Wolfgang R. Dick | Mary Brück | 130 |
| Stars and Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds, by Paul Kunitzsch | Ihsan Hafez | 130 |
| Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes, by Arthur I. Miller | Alan H. Batten | 131 |
| In Search Of Dark Matter, by Ken Freeman & Geoff McNamara | Colin Montgomery | 132 |
| Einsteins Kosmos. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Kosmologie, Relativitätstheorie und zu Einsteins Wirken und Nachwirken, ed. by Hilmar W. Duerbeck & Wolfgang R. Dick | Dierck-E. Liebscher | 133 |
| The Evolution of Harmonic Analysis: Models of the Real World, by Elena Prestini | Ron Bracewell | 133 |
| The Transits of Venus, by William Sheehan & John Westfall | Graeme L. White | 134 |
| Hōkūloa. The British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawai’i , by Michael Chauvin | Wayne Orchiston | 135 |
| Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astro-physicists, by Ian Glass | David Blank | 135 |
| English Mechanic (Facsimile series on DVDs), pub. by Eric Hutton | Wayne Orchiston | 136 |
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| Vol. 9 No. 2 |
Dec 2006 |
| Cover |
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| About the JAHH and the cover | Inside Cover |
| Contents | 1 |
| Editorial | 138 |
| The Slee Celebration #4: Radio Astronomy Papers |
| Olof Rydbeck and Early Swedish Radio Astronomy: A Personal Perspective | V. Radhakrishnan | 139 |
| Other Papers |
| Babylonian Timings of Eclipse Contacts and the Study of the Earth’s Past Rotation | F. Richard Stephenson | 145 |
| John Herschel on the Discovery of Neptune | Nicholas Kollerstrom | 151 |
| A Glimpse at the Astronomy Heritage of the Science Museum, London | Kevin Johnson | 159 |
| The 1874 Transit of Venus Observed in Japan by the French, and Associated Relics | Suzanne Débarbat & Françoise Launay, | 167 |
| The Introduction of Absolute Magnitude (1902 - 1922) | David W. Hughes | 173 |
| Early Photographs of the Distant Sierra Nevada Mountains Taken from Lick Observatory | Donald E. Osterbrock | 181 |
| The Wisconsin Experiment Package (WEP) Aboard the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2) | Jordan D. Marché II & Adam J. Walsh | 185 |
| Historical Archives in Italian Astronomical Observatories: The “Specola 2000” Project | I. Chinnici, A. Mandrino, & F. Bònoli | 200 |
| IAU Reports |
| IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group. Triennial Report (2003-2006) | Wayne Orchiston, Rod Davies, Ken Kellermann, Alain Lecacheux, Masaki Morimoto, Slava Slysh, Govind Swarup, Hugo van Woerden, Jasper Wall, & Richard Wielebinski | 203 |
| IAU Historical Instruments Working Group. Triennial Report (2003-2006) | Nha Il-Seong | 204 |
| IAU Transit of Venus Working Group. Triennial Report (2003-2006) | Steven J. Dick | 205 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| JENAM 2003. Radio Astronomy from Karl Jansky to Microjansky, ed. by L.I. Gurvits, S. Frey, & S. Rawlings, | Wayne Orchiston | 206 |
| in Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization, Volume 1: the Call of the Muezzin. Volume 2: Instruments of Mass Calculation, by David A. King | Ihsan Hafez | 206 |
| The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology, by Malcolm Longair | David Blank | 207 |
| Journal of the Antique Telescope Society, #27-#28, 2006 [Special Alvan Clark issue] | Wayne Orchiston | 207 |
| Index to Volume 9 | 209 |
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