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CONTENTS 2 Editorial The Slee Celebration #1: Radio Astronomy Papers 3 Wayne Orchiston: Sixty Years in radio Astronomy: A Tribute to Bruce Slee 11 Wooddruff T. Sullivan, III: The Beginnings of Australian Radio Astronomy 33 D.K. Milne and J.B. Whiteoak: The Impact of F.F. Gardner on Our Early Research with the Parkes Radio Telescope 39 Tomoko Fujiwara and H. Yamaoka: Magnitude Systems in Old Star Catalogues 49 Jordan D. Marche II: 'Popular' Journals and Community in American Astronomy. 1882-1951 IAU Reports 65 W.Orchiston, R. Bracewell, R.Davies, J.F. Denisse, M. Goss, A Gunn, K.Kellermann, D. McGee, M. Moromoto, b. Slee, S Slysh, R. Strom, W. Sullivan, G. Swarup, H. van Woerden, J.Wall, and R. Wielebinski: The IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group.2: Progress Report 70 W.Orchiston, S. Dick, H. Duerbeck, R. van Gent, D Hughes, W. Koorts, and L. Pigatto: The IAU Transits of Venus Working Group. 4: Progress Report Book Reviews 72 W. Orchiston, F.R. Stephenson, S. Debarbat and NhaIl-Seong (editors): Astronomical Instruments and Archives fromthe Asia-Pacific Region: J. Perdrix 72 L.G. Balazs, P. Broshe and Nha Il-Seong (Editors): The European Scientist. Symposium on the Era and Work of Franz Xaver von Zach (1754-1832): W. Orchiston 72 A.S.-K. Pang: Empire and the Sun. Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions: W. Orchiston ooo0ooo
Volume 8 Number 2 2005 December CONTENTS The Slee celebration #2: Radio Astronomy Papers 75 Ron Bracewell: Radio Astronomy at Stanford 87 R.D. Davies: A History of the Potts Hill radio Astronomy Field Station 97 Bruce Slee: Early Australian Measurements of Angular Structure in Discrete Radio Sources Other Papers 107 David W. Hughes: The Concept and Evaluation of Temperature in the History of Astronomy 123 Bjorn Ragnvald Pettersen: Astronomy in Service of Shipping: Documenting the Founding of Bergen Observatory in 1855 129 Liu Ciyuan, Liu Xueshun and Ma Liping: A Chinese Observatory Site of 4,000 years Ago Obituary 131 Wayne Orchiston: John Loius Perdrix (1926-2005) New Society 133 Wayne Orchiston: Society for the History of Astronomy Book Reviews 135 M. Barlow Pepin: The Emergence of the Telescope: Janssen, Lipperhey and the Unknown man: (F. Watson) 135 W.T. Sullivan III (Editor): The early Years of Radio Astronomy (Reprint): (W. Orchiston) 135 Allan Chapman: England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution: (Alan Batten) 136 Barbara Slater: The Astronomer of Rousdon: Charles Grover 1842-1921: (Wayne Orchiston) 137 Tom Frame and Don Faulkner: Stromlo, An Australian Observatory: (Colin Montgomery) 138 Nick Lomb: Transit of Venus. The Scientific Event that Led Captain Cook to Australia: (Graeme White) 138 Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu: Science, Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire. Western Influence, Local Institutions and the Transfer of Knowledge: ( Ihsan Hafez) 139 Steven Ruskin: John Herschel's Cape Voyage. Private Science, Pulic Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire: (Wayne Orchiston) 140 Index |
