JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE
Volume 22
Vol. 22 No. 1				Mar/Apr 2019
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Contents and Editorial		Wayne Orchiston		1
Papers
A tribute to Professor Govind Swarup, FRS: The Father of Indian Radio Astronomy		Wayne Orchiston and Sudhir Phakatkar		3
Della Porta, Colonna, and Fontana: the role of Neapolitan scientist at the beginning of the telescope era		Mauro Gargano		45
Petrus Apianus’ volvelle for finding the equinoxes		Lars Gislén		60
Merz telescopes at the University Observatory in Christiania, Norway		Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen		65
Four centuries of observations of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter: increasing the astrometric accuracy		J.E. Arlot		78
A history of Western astronomical almanacs		P. Kenneth Seidelmann		93
Power, politics and personalities in Australian astronomy: William Ernest Cooke and the triangulation of the Pacific by wireless time signals		Ian Tasker		113
An account of the comet, which appeared in the months of September, October and November 1807		Captain John Warren		132
On observations of the Great Comet of 1807 (C/1807 R1) from India		R.C. Kapoor		137
John Warren’s unpublished observations of the Great Comet of 1811 from India		R.C. Kapoor		147
Australites. Part 2: early Aboriginal perception and use		Philip A. Clarke		155
Astronomy of the Pardhi Tribe of Central India		Ganesh Halkare, Purushottam Dahedar, Wayne Orchiston and M.N. Vahia		179
Book Reviews (all)
Mercury, by William Sheehan		Clifford J. Cunningham		195
The Cuneiform Uranology Texts: Drawing the Constellations, by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Eckart Frahm, Wayne Horowitz, and John Steele		Gil Breger		196
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Vol. 22 No. 2				Aug/Sep 2019
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The importance of historical measures for dynamical models of the evolution of Trapezium-type multiple systems		Christine Allen, Leonardo J. Sánchez, Alex Ruelas-Mayorga and Rafael Costero		201
A further application of Google Earth in studying the orientation of ancient Greek monument		Dimitris Sinachopoulos		211
Baiami and the emu chase: an astronomical interpretation of a Wiradjuri Dreaming associated With the Burbung		Trevor M. Leaman and Duane W. Hamacher		225
Minnaert’s folly: a forgotten teaching observatory from the 1960s		David Baneke		238
A tale of three telescopes: the John A. Brashear Company and its 46-cm objective		Richard Taibi		247
The short-lived CSIRO Division of Radiophysics field station at Bankstown Aerodrome in Sydney		Harry Wendt and Wayne Orchiston		266
On two seventeenth century Persian paintings depicting comets or fireballs		R.C. Kapoor		273
Identification of the stars of the Saptarsi Maṇḍala and its vicinity		B.S. Shylaja and R. Venketeswara Pai		294
A history of Drake Municipal Observatory, Des Moines, USA: from riches, to rags, to restoration		Kaley Wresch, Deborah Kent, Janis Winter and Wayne Orchiston		301
Highlighting the history of Japanese radio astronomy. 6: Early solar monitoring at the Radio Research Laboratories of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Hiraiso		Wayne Orchiston and Masato Ishiguro		328
A hypothetical Romakasiddhānta Calendar		Lars Gislén		339
Book Reviews (all)
Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art, by Benjamin Anderson		Marian Dolan		342
Selene’s Two Faces: From 17th Century Drawings to Spacecraft Imaging, by Carmen Pérez González		Wayne Orchiston		343
Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe, by Alan Hirshfeld		Clifford J. Cunningham		346
Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel, by Stephen Case		Clifford J. Cunningham		347
Kew Observatory & The Evolution of Victorian Science 1840‒1910, by Lee T. Macdonald		Clifford J. Cunningham		348
Fred Whipple’s Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973, by David H. DeVorkin		Jordan D. Marché II		350
Jupiter, by William Sheehan and Thomas Hockey		Clifford J. Cunningham		351
American Eclipses: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World, by David Baron		Wayne Orchiston		353
Imagining Other Worlds: Explorations in Astronomy and Culture, edited by Nicholas Campion and Chris Impey		Clifford J. Cunningham		354
The Great Canoes in the Sky: Starlore and Astronomy in the South Pacific, by Stephen Robert Chadwick and Martin Paviour-Smith		Wayne Orchiston		355
Rocks, Radio and Radar: The Extraordinary Scientific, Social and Military Life of Elizabeth Alexander, by Mary Harris		Wayne Orchiston		358
Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe, by Roberta J.M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff		Wayne Orchiston		361
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Vol. 22 No. 3				Nov/Dec 2019
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Contents		Wayne Orchiston		363
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Treading carefully: V.M. Slipher, C.O. Lampland, E.C. Slipher and their ambivalent relationship with Percival Lowell’s Mars		William Sheehan		365
The concepts of deśāntara and yojana in Indian astronomy		Padmaja Venugopal, K. Rupa, S.K. Uma, and S. Balachandra Rao		401
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 1: Introduction		Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade		407
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 2: Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia		Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade		417
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 3: Vietnam		Lê Thành Lân		431
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 4: Malaysia and Indonesia		Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade		447
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 5: Eclipse calculations, and the longitudes of the Sun, Moon and planets in Burmese and Thai astronomy		Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade		458
The calendars of Southeast Asia. 6: Calendrical records		Lars Gislén and C.J. Eade		479
Notes on the transmission of Ptolemy’s Almagest and some geometrical mechanisms to the era of Copernicus		Kevin Krisciunas and Belén Bistué		492
Radio astronomy at Cornell University: the early years, 1946 to 1962		Donald B. Campbell		503
The Tarawera volcanic eruption in New Zealand and Māori cometary astronomy		Wayne Orchiston and John Drummond		521
The Bhāsvatī astronomical handbook of Śatānanda		Sudhira Panda		536
Rationale for Śrīrguṇamitrādivākyas as described in the Laghuprakāśikā		R.Venkesteswara Pai		545
Book Reviews (all)
Vedic Mathematics and Science in Vedas, by S. Balachandra Rao		Mayank Vahia		553
Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science, by Derek W.G. Sears		William K. Hartmann		553
Conference Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Dr. Nicolaus Thege-Konkoly and 145th Anniversary of the Founding of the Hurbanovo Observatory, edited by Eduard Koči		Stanislav Šišulák		555
The Lost Planets: Peter van de Kamp and the Vanishing Exoplanets Around Barnard’s Star, by John Wenz		Clifford J. Cunningham		556
Time of our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium, by Sara J. Schechner		Mike Cowham		557
The First Latin Treatise of Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagest Minor (c. 1200) [Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, Texts: Volume 1], by Henry Zepeda		Dominque Raynaud		559
Jan Hendrik Oort: Master of the Galactic System, by Pieter C. van der Kruit		Virginia Trimble		561
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology, edited by Helge Kragh and Malcolm Longair		Wayne Orchiston		565
Index				557
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