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The discovery and naming of Trojan asteroids J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Martin Connors
German astronomer Max Wolf (1863–1932) pioneered photographic observation of asteroids and is credited as the discoverer of Trojan asteroids in 1906. His partnership with the Austro-Hungarian Empire astronomer Johann Palisa for visual confirmation led to the suggestion to call these bodies, with apparently common properties, “Trojans.” Wolf’s systematic approach led the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory
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From biblical chronology to criticism of astrology J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Luís Campos Ribeiro
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Ad astra per aspera: From the Sewers of Kansas to Harvard College Observatory J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Owen Gingerich, David DeVorkin, James Evans, Richard L Kremer
Owen Gingerich’s previously unpublished autobiographical sketch of his astronomical education, from his teenage years up through graduate school at Harvard, is presented with an introduction and notes by the editors.
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‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Johan Kärnfelt
The instrument collection at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences houses a historically significant 10-foot achromatic refractor crafted by London instrument maker John Dollond. The telescope came into use at the Academy’s Observatory in Stockholm in 1761 and remained in service into the 1820s. This paper aims to add to the biography of this instrument, encompassing its six decades of active service
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Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical site J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Pedro Augusto
The history of science in islands is not a well worked out discipline. This article offers the first thorough historical account of astronomical activities at Madeira, from the discovery of the uninhabited island in the fifteenth century (600 years ago), through its establishment as an astronomical observatory (300 years ago) and up to the recent past.
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The bizarre history of the astrological vault “El Cielo de Salamanca” J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 José Guillermo Sánchez León, Pablo Recio Sánchez
In the cloister of the Patio de Escuelas Menores of Salamanca, there is a mural known as El Cielo de Salamanca ( The Sky of Salamanca) depicting some Ptolemaic constellations, the Sun and Mercury. It is part of a painting (c. 1483–86) that was hidden for a century and a half. Rediscovered in 1901, it was moved to its current location in 1953. Those who visited it shortly after its completion describe
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Investigation into Grief Experiences of the Bereaved During the Covid-19 Pandemic J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Mohammad Asgari, Mahdi Ghasemzadeh, Asgar Alimohamadi, Shiva Sakhaei, Clare Killikelly, Elham Nikfar
The objective of the current study was to investigate the grief experiences of people affected by COVID-19. The study adopted a qualitative design of descriptive phenomenology. Fifteen adults who h...
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Status of homestay tourism in Indian Himalayan region: Analysis of customer review and policy support for sustainable tourism J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Smriti Thakur, Sagar Sood, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Ranjeet Singh
Homestays, which have emerged as a popular idea in the growing tourism industry, act as the most suitable alternative to encourage sustainable tourism activities in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR...
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The response of geographical processes to landscape restoration: China’s research progress J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Yanxu Liu, Yu Han, Jincheng Wu, Chenxu Wang, Bojie Fu
The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) provides a new momentum for scaling up ecosystem restoration efforts to landscape restoration. China’s recent experience with transformative inves...
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Death Anxiety and Accosiated Factors Among Oncology Nurses and Physicians J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Bushra Alhusamiah, Ruqayya S. Zeilani
Background: Providing care for dying patients is a stress-inducing, complicated, as well as essential responsibility for health care providers. Furthermore, end-of-life care is associated with inte...
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Research on signal separation method of micro-speed difference dual-rotor based on ZFFT and FT algorithm J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Zhang Meng, Lu Jiaqiao, Pan Xin
Aiming at the problem that the traditional analysis methods such as Zoom-FFT (ZFFT) heavily depend on the data length in the frequency separation accuracy when separating the unbalanced signals of ...
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Study on excitation threshold of strong modulation response and vibration suppression performance of bistable nonlinear energy sink J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Yujiang Wang, Haiyan Yang, Weizhi Song, Chihua Lu, Zhien Liu, Hui Zhou
The dynamics and vibration reduction performance of bistable nonlinear energy sink (BNES) are studied in this paper. First, the negative stiffness of BNES is realized by geometric nonlinearity, and...
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Durability of bond between carbon/glass hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer (HFRP) bar and concrete in water J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Gaojie Xu, Yixun Yu, Yunfeng Pan, Biao Li
Glass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars have been widely used as a reinforcement in concrete, and glass fibers are susceptible to reacting with alkali ions in concrete pores. Thus, carbon fibers...
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Lupus enteritis: A 10-year experience in a single Latin American center J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Marcela Muñoz-Urbano, Julián Sanchez-Bautista, Andrés Ramírez, Yeison Santamaría-Alza, Diana C Quintero-González, Adriana-Lucía Vanegas-García, Gloria Vásquez, Luis A González
ObjectiveThe objective is to compare the clinical and laboratory characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with and without lupus enteritis (LE) and to identify the factors ass...
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An air supply system regulation method for PEMFCs based on disturbance observation and MPC control J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Dafeng Song, Qingtao Wu, Xiaohua Zeng, Xuanming Zhang, Dongpo Yang, Qifeng Qian
The optimal tracking control of air pressure and air flow is an important guarantee to improve the output characteristics of fuel cells. However, under the load disturbances scenario, the optimal c...
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G.B. Riccioli’s geo-heliocentric use of Epicepicycles, ellipses and spirals J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Flavia Marcacci
According to Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671), planets describe orbits in a fluid heaven in a helio-geocentric model of cosmos. In his Almagestum Novum (1651) he stresses the need for a novel...
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The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 1304 J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 David Juste
This note examines an astronomical gloss mentioning the ‘new tables of Alfunsus’ in 1304, that is, some 20 years before the documented history of the Alfonsine Tables.
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Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Andreas Winkler, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
A pictorial horoscope in a late Ptolemaic papyrus (P.Kramer 17) may be assigned more precisely to late 56 or early 55 BC based on the preserved astronomical data, making it the earliest such repres...
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The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 María José Martínez Usó, Francisco J. Marco Castillo
The total solar eclipse on July 29, AD 1478, went unnoticed by most of Europe. Although several scholars accurately predicted it, very few observations made by professional astronomers have survive...
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A critical assessment of questionable solar eclipse memories in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Koji Murata, Hisashi Hayakawa, Mitsuru Sôma
This study analysed four records of questionable authenticity of total solar eclipses between the fourth and sixth centuries CE in Byzantine narrative sources. As it has been difficult to evaluate ...
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St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 William Crozier
Addressing a subject which has received very little attention, this article explores the interpretations of comets offered by St. Albert the Great (c. 1190–1280) and Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253)....
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Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Ole Schou
Tycho Brahe made several thousand observations of the celestial bodies, in general with an unprecedented accuracy and precision. A group of observations of a nebulous object known as Præsepe differ...
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Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Stefan Zieme
Until the late 15th century, knowledge of Ptolemy’s Almagest in the Latin West was constituted by Gerard of Cremona’s translation from Arabic into Latin. The text of Gerard’s translation has been e...
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Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Gail Higginbottom, A. César González-García, Benito Vilas-Estévez, Víctor López-López, Felipe Criado-Boado
This paper investigates the land- and sky-scapes surrounding the dolmens of Costa da Morte (Coast of Death), Galicia. Having uncovered previously that the location of megalithic monuments in this c...
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New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Victor Gysembergh, Peter J. Williams, Emanuel Zingg
New evidence for ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus’ lost Star Catalogue has come to light thanks to multispectral imaging of a palimpsest manuscript and subsequent decipherment and interpretation...
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Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Christopher Cullen, Catherine Jami
In late December 1668 the Kangxi 康熙 emperor (r. 1662–1722) asked the Jesuit astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest (1623–1688) to give publicly verifiable proof that the western astronomical system introduc...
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Stellar movements and working hypotheses: A.S. Eddington’s early astronomical career J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Robert W. Smith
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) was one of the leading astrophysicists of the first half of the 20th century. He is remembered today chiefly for his research into stellar structure and general...
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A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 María José Martínez Usó, Francisco J. Marco Castillo
The codex kept at the Arnamagnean Institute, in Copenhagen, with the number 805 4º (København, Det Arnamagnaeanske Institut, Københavns Universitet, AM 805 4º), contains a combination of texts feat...
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Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Christián C. Carman, Gonzalo L. Recio
The Alfonsine and Prutenic tables of planetary latitudes, with which Tycho Brahe began his work, had several deficiencies, ultimately inherited from Ptolemy’s simplifications when he constructed ta...
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Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Jean-Pierre Rozelot, Jagdev Singh
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Jean Rösch, a great figure in astronomy in the years 1947–1981 who designed, among several innovative devices, a 15-cm spectro-coronagraph. This instrument ...
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The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument? J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Jarosław Włodarczyk
The torquetum was a complex astronomical instrument whose construction is known thanks to certain descriptions, iconography and few extant artefacts. It was used in pre-telescopic astronomy from at...
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Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 L.V. Morrison, F.R. Stephenson, C.Y. Hohenkerk
An apology for a missed reference.
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On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Andreas Winkler
In a previous issue of this journal (53/1), M. Escolano-Poveda published four elaborate demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis. Three of the texts are new (O.Athribis 17-36-5/1741), and the four...
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Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 M. Willis Monroe
While the clay used to write cuneiform tablets is well suited to impressing the wedges of cuneiform signs it is not an ideal medium for the curved lines and detailed marks needed to create illustra...
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Early application of kinetic theory of gases to star clusters J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Bruce D. Popp
This is a case of working by analogy to apply successful work from one field, the kinetic theory of gases, to another field, the distribution of stars in globular clusters. The origin of the analogy lies in Henri Poincaré reading a vague suggestion by Lord Kelvin and recognizing the interest and potential value of this suggestion. The result is the application of mechanics to the dynamics of clusters
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Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Miguel Á. Granada
In two early unpublished texts (a Disputation in favor of Copernicus of 1593 and the Apologia pro Tychone against Ursus of 1600), Kepler argued with the Pythagoreans that, contrary to Aristotle (De caelo, ii, 13), the geometrical center of the cosmos coincides with its natural center. Since the Sun is the body that occupies this central position, Kepler conceives it as the heart of the world and the
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An analysis of Ibn al-Shāṭir’s star table J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 S. Mohammad Mozaffari, In memory of Paul Kunitzsch (1930-2020)
Ibn al-Shāṭir’s (1306–1375/1376 AD) star table in his Jadīd zīj, comprising of the equatorial coordinates and magnitudes of 89 stars, is edited and analyzed in this paper on the basis of the extant manuscripts going back to the late 14th and early 15th centuries. It established a new tradition of arranging the celestial coordinates in the star tables in Egypt and Syria after him. The right ascensions
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Observational astronomy and the mapping of Brazil at the turn of the 20th century J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Moema de Rezende Vergara
When, in 1822, Brazil declared its independence from Portugal, its vast territory was little known by the central government in Rio de Janeiro. There was a great need to create reliable maps that would delineate the new country’s boundaries. This paper aims to show how a practical application of astronomy, specifically geodesy, was vital in the efforts to build the nation. We follow the professional
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Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Leslie V. Morrison, F. Richard Stephenson, Catherine Y. Hohenkerk
From a comparison with calculation of the dates and descriptions of the allusions to lunar and solar eclipses recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, we confirm the identifications of the eclipses given by Swanton in his 1996 translation and annotation. The details of the analysis on which this is based are given in the supplementary material published as an appendix in the on-line edition of the Journal
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Annibale Riccò and the catoptric proof of the Earth’s curvature J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Pier Franco Nali
Phenomena as common as the daily rising or setting of the Sun can reveal, upon careful examination, something surprising and unexpected, which has been attracting scientific attention belatedly and had to wait long before being explained. From systematic observation of sunrises over the marine horizon, the Italian astronomer Annibale Riccò (1844–1919) unexpectedly claimed to have recognized a new and
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Erratum to ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’ J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02
In the issue for August, 2021, in the review of Giordano Bruno, ‘De immenso’: Letture critiche, P. R. Blum, ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 52(3), pp. 366–367. DOI: 10.1177/00218286211022072.
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Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’ J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02
In the issue for November, 2021, in the article by Jacques Gapaillard, ‘The heliocentric path of the Moon,’ Journal for the History of Astronomy, 52(4), pp. 462–490. DOI: 10.1177/00218286211049618.
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Determining the right time, or the establishment of a culture of astronomical precision at Neuchâtel Observatory in the mid-19th century J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Julien Gressot, Romain Jeanneret
In the mid-19th century, the need for an accurate time becomes ever more important for many economic and industrial sectors, as well as for maritime and railway transport. States took a keen interest in these developments, which resulted in the founding of an increasing number of state observatories. While this well-known phenomenon has attracted the attention of numerous historical researches, the
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Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited) J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Marina Escolano-Poveda
This paper presents the edition of three new horoscopes from Athribis in Upper Egypt (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741), and the reedition of ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633, identified as part of the same group of horoscopes originating from Athribis. The first three horoscopes date to the reign of Augustus (27, 21, and 6 BCE), and the Ashmolean text to year 8 of Cleopatra, 44 BCE. The Athribis group constitutes the earliest
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Astronomical or political: Interpretation of comets in times of crisis in Qing China J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Ting Chen, Lingfeng Lü
By the late Qing dynasty, Western scientific learning had been disseminated among the Chinese literati. However, astronomical knowledge was still interpreted in the traditional Chinese astrological manner and served as an instrument in political affairs, especially in times of crisis. This paper examines controversies over astronomical observations between the proponents of traditional astrology and
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A Spanish study of the 1572 nova: Jerónimo Muñoz and his Book on the New Comet J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Gonzalo Luis Recio
The nova of 1572 was one of the most important astronomical events of the 16th century, mentioned by more than 40 authors. One of them was Jerónimo Muñoz, a Valentian Professor of Mathematics, who not only observed it, but also wrote a Book on the New Comet in Castilian, at the request of the Spanish King, Phillip II. There he addresses, among other things, the nature and location of the phenomenon
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Indicating hours in ancient cultures J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Annette Imhausen
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Accuracy of medieval Chinese and Middle-Eastern timings of eclipses J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Leslie V. Morrison, F. Richard Stephenson, Catherine Y. Hohenkerk
Analysis of 111 Chinese timings of solar and lunar eclipses in the period AD 434–1280 and of 56 Middle-Eastern timings in AD 829–1020 reveals that their accuracy approached the limiting resolution of their clock systems. The Chinese accuracy improved progressively over the period of observation, with the standard deviation reducing from approximately 18 minutes round about AD 600 to 7 minutes circa
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The heliocentric path of the Moon J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jacques Gapaillard
In his Astronomie populaire, Camille Flammarion points out that the heliocentric path of the Moon, which, according to him, has generally been represented as a sinuous curve, is actually concave everywhere towards the Sun. Flammarion’s observation is the starting point of this study which goes backwards in time, via often misinformed authors, to the mathematician who first established this counterintuitive
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On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Raúl Caballero-Sánchez
In this paper, a proposal is made that the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos (Anon. in Ptol.) was composed not before 467 and not after 575 AD. In establishing the terminus post quem and the terminus ante quem, the Author relies on astronomical data provided by the Anonymous himself in his commentary to Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos (=Ptol. Tetr.) II.10 (p. 76, ll. 16-29 Wolf). In this passage,
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Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Eric Chassefière
It is known that, in the first half of the 18th century, the conditions for astronomy at the Imperial Observatory of St-Petersburg, directed by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, were comparable to those enjoyed by astronomers at the royal observatories of Paris and Greenwich created in the previous century. But what about the public observatories created in the first half of the 18th century in Berlin, Uppsala
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Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Alexander Jones
This article concerns three archaeologically recovered circular bronze objects found at Gallo-Roman (first century BC–fourth century AD) sites in France. Through comparisons with other more or less contemporary objects of known function, it is argued that one of these disks definitely, and another likely, belonged to gearwork devices for keeping track of simple chronological cycles, while the third
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A definitive survey of Iberian and Maghribī astronomy J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Robert G. Morrison
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Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 M. Willis Monroe
An advantage to this approach of reproducing the notebooks is that it lets a reader peer over the observer’s shoulder as Amici records his measurements, sketches double star orientations, calculates average values, and sometimes doodles on the margins (see for instance p. 137). It also makes apparent information that may have disappeared had Amici ever published his catalog. For example, though he
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East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio, A. César González-García, Juan Antonio Belmonte
The pilgrimage along the Way of Saint James constituted the principal mechanism for the introduction of new currents of thought into the Iberian Peninsula, such as Romanesque architecture. Taking this into account, we examined whether the standard tradition on the orientation of Christian churches was followed. We measured the orientation of 108 churches built between the end of the 10th and 13th centuries
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‘El Capri Kylex’: A Franciscan astronomical mnemonic J. Hist. Astron. (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Seb Falk
This article examines the role of memory techniques in medieval astronomy. Using a mnemonic written by a Franciscan friar c. 1330 as a case study, it shows how astronomers and astrologers simplified the sky for practical purposes, using verses and codes to make their science memorable. The article decodes the mnemonic and its underlying astronomical data, assessing its usefulness, memorability and