Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage

ISSN 1440-2807 

EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED PAPERS

ASIAN ASTRONOMY, ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND APPLIED HISTORICAL ASTRONOMY

Fujiwara, T., and Tamaoka, H., 2005. Magnitude systems in old star catalogues. 8(1), 39-47.
Keenan, D.J., 2007. Defence of planetary conjunctions for early Chinese chronology is unmerited. 10(2), 142-147.
Liu, C., 2002. Astronomy in the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project. 5(1), 1-8.
Liu, C., 2002. Analysis of dates and lunar phase records in Wucheng. 5(2), 115-121.
Liu, C., Liu, X., and Ma, L., 2003. Examination of early Chinese records of solar eclipses. 6(1), 53-63.
Liu, C., Liu, X., and Ma, L., 2005. A Chinese observatory site of 4,000 years ago. 8(2), 129-130.
Pankenier, D.W., 2006. Notes on translations of the East Asian records relating to the supernova of AD 1054. 9(1), 77-82.
Pankenier, D.W., 2007. Caveat lector: comments on Douglas J. Keenan, ‘Astro-historiographic chronologies of early China are unfounded’. 10(2), 137-141.
Pantazis, G., Sinachopoulos, D., Lambrou, E., and Korakitis, R., 2004. Astrogeodetic study of the orientation of ancient and Byzantine monuments: methodology and first results. 7(2), 74-80.
Stephenson, F.R., 2006. Babylonian timings of eclipse contacts and the study of Earth’s past rotation. 9(2), 145-150.
Stephenson, F.R., and Green, D.A., 2003. Was the supernova of AD1054 reported in European history? 6(1), 46-52.

BIOGRAPHIES

Brück, H.A., with an Introduction by M.T. Brück, 2000. Recollections of life as a student and young astronomer in Germany in the 1920s. 3(2), 115-129.
Brück, M.T., 1998. Mary Ackworth Evershed née Orr (1867-1949), solar physicist and Dante scholar. 1(1), 45-59.
Brück, M.T., 2003. An astronomer calls: extracts from the diaries of Charles Piazzi Smyth. 6(1), 37-45.
Brunini, A., and Miloni, O.I., 2002. The contribution of José Luis Sérsic to celestial mechanics. 5(1), 35-40.
Duerbeck, H.W., and Beer, P., 2006. Arthur Beer and his relations with Einstein and the Warburg Institute. 9(1), 93-98.
MacKeown, P.K., 2007. William Doberck – double star astronomer. 10(1), 49-64.
Orchiston, W., 1998. Mission impossible: William Scott and the first Sydney Observatory directorship. 1(1), 21-43.
Orchiston, W., 2005. Obituary: John Louis Perdrix (1926-2005). 8(2), 131-132.
Perkins, A., 2001. ‘Extraneous government business’: the Astronomer Royal as government scientist: George Airy and his work on the commissions of state and other bodies, 1838-1880. 4(2), 143-154.
Sheehan, W., and O’Dell, C.R., 2007. Obituary: Donald Edward Osterbrock (1924-2007). 10(2), 151-156.
Theodossiou, E.T., Manimanis, V.N., and Mantarakis, P., 2007. Demetrios Eginitis: restorer of the Athens Observatory. 10(2), 123-132.
Troche-Boggino, A.E., 2000. Buenventura Suárez SJ: the pioneer astronomer of Paraguay. 3(2), 159-164.

CLASSICAL ASTRONOMY

Hetherington, N.S., 1999. Plato’s place in the history of Greek astronomy: restoring both history and science to the history of science. 2(2), 87-110.
Pinotsis, A.D., 2006. The significance and errors of Eratosthenes’ method for the measurement of the size and shape of the Earth’s surface. 9(1), 57-63.
Theodossiou, E., Danezis, E., Manimanis, V.N., and Kalyva, E.-M., 2002. From Pythagoreans to Kepler: the dispute between the geocentric and the heliocentric systems. 5(1), 89-98.

COMETS, METEORS & METEORITES

Beech, M., and Hughes, D.W., 2000. Seeing the impossible: meteors in the Moon. 3(1), 13-22.
Dick, S.J., 1998. Observation and interpretation of the Leonid meteors over the last millennium, 1(1), 1-20.
Hughes, D.W., 1998. The historical investigation of cometary brightness. 1(2), 123-133.
Theodossiou, E.Th., Niarchos, P.G., Manimanis, V.N., and Orchiston, W., 2002. The fall of a meteorite at Aegos Potami in 467/6 BC. 5(2), 135-140.

HISTORY OF ASTROPHYSICS

Liebl, D.S., and Fluke, C., 2004. Investigation of the interstellar medium at Washburn Observatory, 1930–58. 7(2), 85-94.
Lindblad, P.O., 2001. Bertil Lindblad’s early work: the two-dimensional classification of stellar spectra at low dispersion. 4(2), 163-170.
Mestel, L., 2004. Arthur Stanley Eddington: pioneer of stellar structure theory. 7(2), 65-73.

HISTORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMY

Bracewell, R., 2002. The discrovery of strong extragalactic polarization using the Parkes Radio Telescope. 5(2), 107-114.
Bracewell, R., 2005. Radio astronomy at Stanford. 8(2), 75-86.
Davies, R.D., 2005. A history of the Potts Hill radio astronomy field station. 8(2), 87-96.
Débarbat, S., Lequeux, J., and Orchiston, W., 2007. Highlighting the history of French radio astronomy. 1: Nordmann’s attempt to observe solar radio emission in 1901. 10(1), 3-10.
Milne,D.K., and Whiteoak, J.B., 2005. The impact of F.F. Gardner on our early research with the Parkes Radio Telescope. 8(1), 33-38.
Orchiston, W., 2004. The 1948 solar eclipse and the genesis of radio astronomy in Victoria. 7(2), 118-121.
Orchiston, W., 2005. Sixty years in radio astronomy: a tribute to Bruce Slee. 8(1), 3-10.
Orchiston, W., and Slee, B., 2002. Ingenuity and initiative in Australian radio astronomy: the Dover Heights ‘hole-in-the-ground’ antenna. 5(1): 21-34.
Orchiston, W., and Steinberg, J-L., 2007. Highlighting the history of French radio astronomy. 2: the solar eclipse observations of 1949-1954. 10(1), 11-19.
Orchiston, W., Slee, B., and Burman, R., 2006. The genesis of solar radio astronomy in Australia. 9(1), 35-56.
Radhakrishnan, V., 2006. Olof Rydbeck and early Swedish radio astronomy: a personal perspective. 9(2), 139-144.
Slee, B., 2005. Early Australian measurements of angular structure in discrete radio sources. 8(2), 97-106.
Sullivan, W.T., 2005. The beginnings of Australian radio astronomy. 8(1), 11-32.
Swarup, G., 2006. From Potts Hill (Australia) to Pune (India): the journey of a radio astronomer. 9(1), 21-33.
Waluska, E., 2007. Quasars and the Caltech-Carnegie connection. 10(2), 79-91.
Woerden, H. van, and Strom, R., 2006. The beginnings of radio astronomy in the Netherlands. 9(1), 3-20.

INSTRUMENTATION & OBSERVATORIES

Bartky, I.R., 2000. Chicago’s Dearborn Observatory: a study in survival. 3(2), 93-114.
Bartky, I.R., Rice, N.S., and Bain, C.A., 1999. ‘An event of no ordinary interest’ – the inauguration of Albany’s Dudley Observatory. 2(1), 1-20.
Beech, M., 2002. The mechanics of cometaria. 5(2), 155-163.
Briggs, J.W., and Osterbrock, D.M., 1998. The challenges and frustrations of a veteran astronomical optician: Robert Lundin, 1880-1962. 1(2), 93-103.
Eelsalu, H., 1999. The rise and fall of small astronomical observatories: a case study Dorpat/Tartu Observatory. 2(2), 111-123.
Gursky, H., 2000. Technology and the emergence of X-ray astronomy. 3(1), 1-12.
Johnson, K., 2006. A glimpse at the astronomy heritage of the Science Museum, London. 9(2), 159-165.
Marché, J.D. II, and Walsh, A.J., 2006. The Wisconsin Experiment Package (WEP) aboard the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2). 9(2), 185-199.
Mulder de Ridder, J., 2002. Eise Eisinga and his planetarium. 5(1), 65-87.
Nakamura, T., 2002. Acceptance and adaptation of octants and sextants in Japan during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 5(1), 9-20.
Orchiston, W., 2001. The English equatorial mounting and the history of the Fletcher Telescope. 4(1), 29-42.
Osterbrock, D.E., 2003. Don Hendrix, master Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories optician. 6(1), 1-12.
Pasachoff, J.M., 1998. Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory: the oldest extant observatory in the United States. 1(1), 61-78.
Peterson, J., and Mackie, G., 2006. A brief history of the Astrophysical Research Consortium and the Apache Point Observatory. 9(1), 109-128.
Pettersen, B.R., 2002. Christopher Hansteen and the first observatory at the University of Oslo, 1815-28. 5(2), 123-134.
Pettersen, B.R., 2004. A leading nineteenth century instrument-maker in Norway and his astronomical and geodetic instruments. 7(2), 95-102.
Pettersen, B.R., 2005. Astronomy in service of shipping: documenting the founding of Bergen Observatory in 1855. 8(2), 123-128.
Pettersen, B.R., 2007. The Norwegian naval observatories. 10(2), 115-121.
Satterthwaite, G.E., 2001. Airy’s transit circle. 4(2), 115-141.
Satterthwaite, G.E., 2003. Airy’s zenith telescopes and “the birth-star of modern astronomy”. 6(1), 13-26.
Shankland, P., and Orchiston, W., 2002. Nineteenth century astronomy at the U.S. Naval Academy. 5(2), 165-179.
Tenn, J.S., 2007. Lowell Observatory enters the twentieth century—in the 1950s. 10(1), 65-71.
Whitesell, P.S., 2003. Detroit Observatory: nineteenth-century training ground for astronomers. 6(2), 69-106.

NATIONAL OVEREVIEWS

Hidayat, B., 2000. Under a tropical sky: a history of astronomy in Indonesia. 3(1), 45-58.
Simonia, I., 2001. Little known aspects of the history of Georgian astronomy. 4(1), 59-73.

TRANSITS OF VENUS & THE ASTRONOMICAL UNIT

Clark, B.A.J., and Orchiston, W., 2004. The Melbourne Observatory photoheliograph and the 1874 transit of Venus. 7(1), 44-49.
Débarbat, S., and Launay, F., 2006. The 1874 transit of Venus observed in Japan by the French, and associated relics. 9(2), 167-171.
Duerbeck, H.W., 2004. The German transit of Venus expeditions of 1874 and 1882: organization, methods, stations, results. 7(1), 8-17.
Edwards, P.G., 2004. Charles Todd’s observations of the transits of Venus. 7(1), 1-7.
Hughes, D.W., 2001. Six stages in the history of the astronomical unit. 4(1), 15-28.
Orchiston, W., and Buchanan, A., 2004. ‘The Grange’, Tasmania: survival of a unique suite of 1874 transit of Venus relics. 7(1), 34-43.
Orchiston, W., Love, T., and Dick, S.J., 2000. Refining the astronomical unit: Queenstown and the 1874 transit of Venus. 3(1), 23-44.
Pigatto, L., and Zanini, V., 2001. Spectroscopic observations of the 1874 transit of Venus: the Italian party at Muddapur, eastern India. 4(1), 43-58.
Pigatto, L., and Zanini, V., 2002. The 1900-1 opposition of 433 Eros, the solar parallax, and the contribution of Padova Observatory. 5(2), 141-153.
Pigatto, L., and Zanini, V., 2004. The 1882 transit of Venus observed in Italian observatories. 7(1), 18-24.
Sterken, C., and Duerbeck, H.W., 2004. The 1882 Belgian transit of Venus expeditions to Texas and Chile – a reappraisal. 7(1), 25-33.

OTHER TOPICS

Asúa, M. de, 2004. The publication of the astronomical observations of Buenaventura Suárez SJ (1679–1750) in European scientific journals. 7(2), 81-84.
Asúa, M. de, 2006. Sir David Brewster’s changing ideas on the plurality of worlds. 9(1), 83-92.
Batten, A.H., and Smith, J.R., 2006. Measuring the world: excursions in geodesy and astronomy. 9(1), 65-75.
Bonifácio, V., Malaquias, I., and Fernandes, J., 2007. Solar photography in the nineteenth century: the case of the Infante D. Luis Observatory. 10(2), 101-113.
Brosche, P., 2007. F.X. von Zach and the fifth continent. 10(2), 133-136.
Bryan, J., 2007. E.E. Barnard and the eclipse of Iapetus in 1889. 10(1), 31-48.
Bryan, J., 2007. Stephen J. O’Meara and spoke rings before Voyager 1. 10(2), 148-150.
Chapman, A., 2003. Porters, watchmen, and the crime of William Sayers: the non-scientific staff of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in Victorian times. 6(1), 27-36.
Chinnici, I., Mandrino, A., and Bònoli, F., 2006. Historical archives in Italian astronomical observatories: the “Specola 2000” Project. 9(2), 200-202.
Cunningham, C.J., 2004. The discovery of Juno and its effect on Olbers’ asteroid explosion hypothesis. 7(2), 116-117.
Haubold, H.J., 1998. UN/ESA workshops on basic space science: an initiative in the world-wide development of astronomy. 1(2), 105-121.
Havlik, R.J., 2006. A fair use of Arcturus: a syzygy of scholarians and the lighting of the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1933-1934. 9(1), 99-108.
Hughes, D.W., 2004. Bright stars and the history of stellar astronomy. 7(2), 103-114.
Hughes, D.W., 2005. The concept and evaluation of temperature in the history of astronomy. 8(2), 107-121.
Hughes, D.W., 2006. The introduction of absolute magnitude (1902-1922). 9(2), 173-179.
Hughes, D.W., and Cartright, S., 2007. John Michell, the Pleiades, and odds of 496,000 to 1. 10(2), 93-99.
Hughes, D.W., and Marsden, B.G., 2007. Planet, asteroid, minor planet: a case study in astronomical nomenclature. 10(1), 21-30.
Kollerstrom, N., 2006. John Herschel and the discovery of Neptune. 9(2), 151-158.
Lindner, R.P., 2003. Rebuilding astronomy at Michigan: from Hussey to Goldberg. 6(2), 107-119.
Marché, J., 2005. ‘Popular’ journals and community in American astronomy, 1882-1951. 8(1), 49-64.
Osterbrock, D.E., 2003. The California-Michigan axis in American astronomy. 6(2), 120-136.
Osterbrock, D.E., 2006. Early photographs of the distant Sierra Nevada Mountains taken from Lick Observatory. 9(2), 181-184.
Pasachoff, J.M., 1999. Halley as an eclipse pioneer: his maps and observations of the total eclipses of 1715 and 1724. 2(1), 39-54.
Satterthwaite, G.E., 2001. Airy and positional astronomy. 4(2), 101-113.
Shy, J.R., 2001. Early astronomy in America: the role of The College of William and Mary. 5(1), 41-64.
Whitesell, P.S., 2000. Nineteenth-century longitude determinations in the Great Lakes region: government-university collaborations. 3(2), 131-157.