Journal for the History of Astronomy

Article	Citations
Ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret (Pliny the Elder) The Incas’ Sky: From Myths to History and Astronomy. Émile Biémont (Springer, Cham, 2024). Pp. xi + 237. $45. ISBN 9783031584176 (paper).	24
François Viète and his versions of the Tychonic lunar models	11
A multidisciplinary edition of Grosseteste’s Sphere The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste in Six Volumes, Vol. II, Mapping the Universe: Robert Gros	9
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging	4
Owen Gingerich, 1930–2023	4
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor	3
Carolingian eclipse rules and the Liber Nemroth : Some remarks on a recent hypothesis	2
Parahitakaraṇam : A medieval formulary manual in the Kerala vernacular for calculating planetary mean longitudes	2
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review	2
A Festschrift for Wayne Orchiston Essays on Astronomical History and Heritage: A Tribute to Wayne Orchiston on His 80th Birthday. Edited by GullbertStevenRobertsonPeter (Springer, Cham, 2023). Pp. xli	2
An unknown astronomical work on planetary theory from the Renaissance: Giulio Cesare Luchini’s Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (ca. 1581)	2
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles	2
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes	1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium	1
Evidence of dark energy prior to its discovery	1
A much richer idea of modernity	1
The exaltations of Greco-Roman astrology and their relation to Babylonian Normal Star positions	1
Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus	1
Reorienting astrology in early modern Jesuit culture Jesuit Astrology: Prognostication and Science in Early Modern Culture. RibeiroLuís Campos (Brill, Leiden, 2023). Pp. xix + 682. $210. ISBN 97890045	1
On some early Latin European measurements of the eccentricity of the solar orbit (1308–1314)	1
José Chabás, 1948–2024	1
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets	1
A new edition of Eudoxus Eudoxe de Cnide: Témoignages et fragments. Edited and translated by GysemberghVictor (Belles Lettres: Paris, 2024), Pp. cclxxi + 384. 94 €. ISBN: 9782251006628 (paper).	1
Spherical astronomy in 17th-century Jena Erhard Weigel, Werke VIII, 1-2: Astronomiae Pars Sphaerica Methodo Euclideâ conscripta. Edited by BehmeThomas (frommann-holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 2024	1
From biblical chronology to criticism of astrology	1

Ptolemy’s Table of kings La table des rois: Contribution à l’histoire textuelle des ‘Tables faciles’ de Ptolémée. DefauxOlivier (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023	1
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation	1
Maya astronomy and the precession of the equinoxes	1
Accentuating the continuity of Western thought Knowledge and Cosmos: Development and Decline of the Medieval Perspective. 2nd ed. Edited by DeKoskyRobert K. (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2023). P	1
A comprehensive institutional history	1
A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th century: François Viète and his first lunar model	1
Jesuit and scientist Angelo Secchi and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Multidisciplinary Contributions of a Pioneer and Innovator. ChinniciIleanaConsolmagnoGuy (eds) (Springer Nature, Cham, 2021). Pp.	1
The last polymath The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel. Edited by Stephen Case and Lukas M. Verburgt (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024). Pp. 304. £80. ISBN 9781009237703.	1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction	1
Index to Volume 56	1
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics	1
“Is communication with intelligent beings of other planets possible?”: Iosif Shklovsky’s launch of Soviet SETI	1
Hipparchos and the ancient analemma	1
Early works on the globe The Risala Dhāt al-kursī Attributed to Ptolemy. A Treatise on the Celestial Globe With Stand. VafeaFlora (Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, Texts 3; Brepols, Turnhout, 2024). Pp.	1
A national history of astronomy The History of Modern Astronomy in Japan. KogureTomokazu (Springer, Cham, 2021). Pp. xvi + 295. 171 €. ISBN 9783030570606.	1
Index to Volume 55	1
Occultation records in the Royal Frankish Annals for A.D. 807: Knowledge transfer from Arabia to Frankia?	1
Traversing the ancient Egyptian skies Astronomy of Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Perspective. Edited by BelmonteJuan AntonioLullJosé (Springer, Cham, 2023). Pp. xxxviii + 588. $180. ISBN 9783031118289.	1
The last meridian circles: An epilogue	0
Stellar movements and working hypotheses: A.S. Eddington’s early astronomical career	0
Astrologies in Germany, 1871–c. 1950 Sterne, Menschen, Politik: Die astrologische Bewegung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. LechlerVolker (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin, 2025). Pp. ix + 616.	0
G.B. Riccioli’s geo-heliocentric use of Epicepicycles , ellipses and spirals	0
An institutional history of the Board of Longitude The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire. BakerAlexiDunnRichardHiggittRebekahSchafferSimonWaringSophie (Cambridge University Press, Cam	0
Solstices, equinoxes, and directions in Hopi astronomy	0
Documenting the Copernican Revolution The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton. RothmanAviva (Penguin Random House, London, 2023). Pp. xliv + 616. £17. ISBN 9780241360637 (paper).	0
Copernicus and Toruń	0
Representing China in the IAU China and the International Astronomical Union: Divorce, Separation and Reconciliation (1958–1982). MontmerleThierryZhouYi (Springer, Cham, 2022). Pp. xvii + 213. $160. I	0
Ancient Greek observations of T Coronae Borealis? Data and methodologies	0
The adoption and evolution of eclipse diagrams in official eclipse forecast reports in late Ming and early Qing China	0
An astronomical analysis of the data in the pseudo-Hipparchus palimpsest in the Codex Climaci Rescriptus	0
Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology	0
Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941–2021	0
A love story with consequences For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet. Matthew Shindell (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2022). Pp. xvi + 226. $27.50. ISBN 9780226821894.	0
Astronomy in service of the nation	0
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri	0
Galileo’s Almagest : New evidence from the Magliabechiana collection in Florence	0
Printing the book everybody read	0
Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin circa 1800	0
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy	0
Toward a standardization of Hayʾa works	0
The “logic” of diagrams in the Spherics of Theodosios	0
Aristotle on the celestial spheres	0
An inside story of the NRAO	0
Reducing meridian circle observations in positional astronomy	0
Index To Volume 54	0
A new translation of Aristarchus Aristarchus of Samos: On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, Greek Text, Translation, Analysis, and Relevant Scholia. CarmanChristián C.BuzónRodolfo P. (Scien	0
Dating Easter in the 12–13th centuries Opera de computo a tempore post Gerlandum usque ad Iohannem de Sacrobosco. Edited by LohrAlfred (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis, 272A; Brepols, Tu	0
Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis	0
Thirty years of the HST	0
The Space Age from the bottom up Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age. Edited by MunnsDavid P. D.NickelsenKärin (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2021). P	0

Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables	0
Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical site	0
A handbook of medieval Latin astronomical tables	0
A catalog of old globes in Spanish public collections	0
A survey of Arabic astrolabe makers	0
“Setting fire to the last forest”: Project West Ford and the mobilization of the astronomical community 1958–1965	0
The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument?	0
New observations on Francesco Fontana, Fabio Colonna, and Jusepe de Ribera’s man with a telescope	0
A biography of Gottfried Kirch	0
Reflections on Islamic observational astronomy Reflections on Observational Astronomy in the Medieval Islamic Period. MozaffariS. Mohammad (Variorum Collected Studies; Routledge, New York, 2025). pp.	0
The discovery and naming of Trojan asteroids	0
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s	0
John L. Heilbron, 1934–2023	0
Drawing Science	0
Research on the Expansion-Contraction Difference and Limit Degree in ancient Chinese planetary theory: The case of outer planets	0
Making scientific instruments in France and Switzerland La fabrique des instruments scientifiques, XVIIIe – XXe siècles: Études en hommage à Denis Beaudouin et Paolo Brenni. Edited by SouluFrédéricTur	0
130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1893–2023)	0
A Copernican classic in English Nicolaus Copernicus, Part One, Studies on Copernicus’s Works and Biographical Materials. Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer [1900], translated with notes and commentary by André	0
INDEX TO VOLUME 53	0
Bridging the gap between archaeology and archaeoastronomy	0
The recurrent nova T CrB had prior eruptions observed near December 1787 and October 1217 AD	0
The Venus transit of 1882 in Argentine Patagonia: Science, politics, and territorial expansion	0
Australia’s first professional astronomer William Dawes: Scientist, Governor, Abolitionist: Caught Between Science and Religion. de GrijsRichardJacobAndrew (Springer, Cham, 2023). Pp. xi + 280. $80. I	0
Astronomers in the chair	0
The bizarre history of the astrological vault “El Cielo de Salamanca”	0
On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis	0
The coolest book cover ever	0
Dia tōn grammōn : Hipparchus on simultaneous risings and settings	0
A critical assessment of questionable solar eclipse memories in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE	0
Investigating calendrical methods of calculating sunrise and sunset times in the Shixian calendar	0
New stars, old cosmologies in early modern Europe	0
Time-keeping devices and astronomy	0
A cultural buffet of astral activity Imagining the Heavens Across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by BrentjesRanaBrentjesSonjaMastorakouStamatina (Milan: Mimesis International, Sesto	0
Astronomical handbooks in 16th-century South Asia: Analysis of mean planetary motions in the 1520 Graha-lāghava of Gaṇeśa Daivajña	0
The Franco-Hispanic astrolabe of 1216 kept at the Liceo Classico Alighieri in Ravenna	0
The earliest recorded eruption of luminous blue variables in Messier 33	0
Piccolomini’s vulgarization of astronomy Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works, I: An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance with Editions and Translations of De la Sfera del Mondo and	0
Medieval Structures of Astrology	0
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources	0
A new edition and translation of Pico’s Disputationes	0
Riccioli in English RiccioliGiovanni BattistaNovumAlmagestum, History of Astronomy. English translation and commentary by PaszkiewiczMichal J. A. (Cricetus Cricetus Ltd., Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 202	0
Instrument making in 19th-century Munich Briefe und Dokumente aus der Ära Fraunhofer, Reichenbach und Utzschneider. 3 vols. Edited by RiekherRolfDickWolfgang R.HamelJürgen (Acta Historica Astronomiae,	0
Ad astra per aspera : From the Sewers of Kansas to Harvard College Observatory	0
Physicists becoming astronomers	0
Lunar month intervals at Monte Alban, 496 to 221 BCE, and later Mesoamerican lunar day counts	0
Laplace in America	0
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr: An eighteenth-century Nuremberg astronomer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677–1750): Sein Leben, seine Schriften, seine Karten, seine Globen. Edited by GaabHans (Akademische Ve	0
Instrumentation and observations at the astronomical observatory in Hurbanovo in 1871–1918	0
Calculating the periods of Galilean satellites from the Sidereus nuncius data	0
Astronomical observations in Bologna, Montpellier, and Genoa in the early 14th century: Iohannes de Luna Theutonicus revisited	0
Representing the moon Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps, and Matter. Edited by ShindellMatthew (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2024). Pp. 256, 500 color plates. $65. ISBN 97802268	0
Two biographies of Vera Rubin	0
Total solar eclipse of AD 1133 and ΔT	0
An important Islamicate Z īj	0
Elias von Löwen (Crätschmair): An unrecognized pioneer of the research on optical libration of the Moon	0
The solar eclipse of A.D. 1221 May 23 and the value of Δ T	0
Theodosios’s Spherics in English The Spherics of Theodosios. SidoliNathanThomasR.S.D. (Routledge, London, 2023). Pp. xxi + 523. £130. ISBN 9780367557300.	0
Managing innovation in telescope making	0
A proper edition of the Arabic Planetary Hypotheses Ptolemy’s Cosmology in Greek and Arabic: The Background and Legacy of the Planetary Hypotheses. Hullm	0
An astrological practitioner analyzed	0
An etymology of sky words Starwords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language. KunthDanielTerlevichElena (Springer, Cham, 2024). Pp. xvi + 165. $28. ISBN 9783031490231 (paper).	0
Captain Halley Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal. LoveDavid K. (Prometheus Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2023). Pp. 200. $27. ISBN 9781633888913.	0
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia	0
Adapting and accepting the European astronomical system: A study of the mistakes in the calculation of eclipses using the Western methods in late Ming and early Qing China	0
A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse	0
Poetic Structures of the Cosmos	0
BM 47886+47914, a Babylonian astral compendium with possible implications for the origin of the “year of the Sun”	0
The heart of the observatory: The operating chain of Stockholm observatory’s 3.5-foot Bird transit instrument	0
François Viète and his analysis of the Copernican lunar model	0
Present status of UBAI plate archive	0
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy	0
Cosmography and its histories	0
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 1304	0
A note on the new evidence for Hipparchus’ star catalogue	0
How Kepler’s three laws became Kepler’s three laws	0
Pursuing Mars at the turn of the 20th century Parallel Lives of Astronomers – Percival Lowell and Edward Emerson Barnard.SheehanWilliam (Springer Nature, Cham, 2024). Pp. xiv + 687. $55. ISBN 97830316	0
Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt	0
The ancient portable sundial of Choma	0
Were the tables of Ibn Isḥāq al-Tūnisī known in Paris c. 1300?	0
Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis	0

John of Lignères as a table compiler	0
The third Astronomer Royal The Life & Work of James Bradley: The New Foundations of 18th Century Astronomy. Edited by FisherJohn (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023). Pp. xxvii + 531. £83. ISBN	0
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents	0
Peurbach’s influential textbook	0
The artful early instruments of Peter Apian: Ein kunstlich Instrument of 1524, its precursors and its successors	0
Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology	0
Stella Insolita: The comet of 1114, a lost chronicle and the Empress Matilda	0