| Vol. 15 No. 1 |
Mar/Apr 2012 |
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| Contents | 1 |
| Editorial | Wayne Orchiston | 2 |
| Papers |
| Lomonosov, the Discovery of Venus’s Atmosphere, and the Eighteenth-century Transits of Venus |
Jay M. Pasachoff and William Sheehan | 3 |
| Romanian Astronomy and the 1874 Transit of Venus |
Magda Stavinschi | 15 |
| The M51 Mystery: Lord Rosse, Robinson, South and the Discovery of Spiral Structure in 1845 | Wolfgang Steinicke | 19 |
| The Development of Astronomy in Naples: The Tale of Two Large Telescopes made by
William Herschel | Mauro Gargano | 30 |
| ‘Astronomy’ or ‘Astrology’: A Brief History of an Apparent Confusion | Alexandre Losev | 42 |
| Long-publishing Astronomers, or the Problem of Classification | Joseph S. Tenn | 47 |
| James Ferguson Remembered | Clive Davenhall | 57 |
| Some New Insights into the History of the Glasgow Time Ball and Time Guns | David Clarke and Roger Kinns | 59 |
| Obituary |
| Hilmar Willi Duerbeck, 1948-2012 | Christiaan Sterken, Joseph S. Tenn and Wayne Orchiston | 68 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| Advancing Variable Star Astronomy. The Centennial History of the American Association of
Variable Star Observers, by Thomas R. Williams and Michael Saladyga | Wayne Orchiston | 70 |
| Celebrating the AAO: Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Symposium held in
Coonabarabran June 21-25, 2010, to Commemorate 35 Years of the AAO and its Transition to
the Australian Astronomical Observatory, edited by Russell Cannon and David Malin | Stephen Marsden | 71 |
| Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers, Parts 1 and 2, edited by Christiaan Sterken | Hilmar W. Duerbeck | 71 |
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| Vol. 15 No. 2 |
Jul/Aug 2012 |
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| About the JAHH and the cover | Inside Cover |
| Contents | 75 |
| Papers |
| A history of radio astronomy polarisation measurements | Richard Wielebinski | 76 |
| The Parkes 18-m Antenna: a brief historical evaluation | Wayne Orchiston | 96 |
| Discovery of the Magellanic Stream | Don Mathewson | 100 |
| In memory of Eugene (Jenő) von Gothard: a pioneering nineteenth century Hungarian astrophysicist |
Ildikó J. Vincze and István Jankovics | 105 |
| Advancing astronomy on the American frontier: the career of Frank Herbert Loud | Steve Ruskin | 115 |
| Possible astronomical meanings of some El Molle relics near the ESO Observatory at La Silla | Gabriella Bernardi, Alberto Vecchiato and Beatrice Bucciarelli | 137 |
| Book Review |
| The Great Melbourne Telescope, by Richard Gillespie | Wayne Orchiston | 146 |
| Advertisement |
| Radio Astronomy and the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage |
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| Vol. 15 No. 3 |
Nov/Dec 2012 |
| Cover |
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| About the JAHH and the cover | Inside Cover |
| Contents | 148 |
| Papers |
| Is Space Flat? Nineteenth Century Astronomy and Non-Euclidean Geometry | Helge Kragh | 149 |
| The Wells Creek Meteorite Impact Site and Changing Views on Impact Cratering | J.R.H. Ford, Wayne Orchiston and Ron Clendening | 159 |
| On the Origin of the Name of the Minor Planet (1441) Bolyai | Ákos Csizmadia and Szilárd Csizmadia | 179 |
| The 1882 Transit of Venus and the Popularization of Astronomy in the USA as Reflected in The New York Times | Stella Cottam, Wayne Orchiston and F. Richard Stephenson | 183 |
| On the Reliability of Han Dynasty Solar Eclipse Records | David W. Pankenier | 200 |
| Highlighting the History of Japanese Radio Astronomy: 1. An Introduction | Masato Ishiguro, Wayne Orchiston, Kenji Akabane, Norio Kaifu, Masa Hayashi, Tsuko Nakamura, Ronald Stewart and Hiromitsu Yokoo | 213 |
| The University of Texas Millimeter Wave Observatory | Paul A. Vanden Bout, John H. Davis and Robert B. Loren | 232 |
| Sigurd Enebo and Variable Star Research: Nova Geminorum 1912 and the RV Tauri Stars | Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen | 246 |
| IAU Working Group Reports |
| IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group: Triennial Report (2009-2011) | Ken Kellermann | 255 |
| Book Reviews (all) |
| Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy, by Barbara J. Becker | Steven J. Dick | 258 |
| The Day the World Discovered the Sun. An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the
Race to Track the Transit of Venus, by Mark Anderson | Wayne Orchiston | 259 |
| Index to Volume 15 | 260 |
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