OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal for the History of Astronomy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1893–2023)	6
East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James	6
The recurrent nova T CrB had prior eruptions observed near December 1787 and October 1217 AD	5
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging	5
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia	2
On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence	2
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables	2
Women in Glass: Women at the Harvard Observatory during the Era of Astronomical Glass Plate Photography, 1875–1975	2
In Secchi’s Own Words	2
A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse	2
The Greek portable sundial from Memphis rediscovered	2
Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of the Secant Function	2
Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions	2
The 1970–1984 lunar laser ranging observations in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory	2
The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument?	2
The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler	2
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy	2
On the origin of the 12 zodiac constellation system in ancient Mesopotamia	2
Gilding Kepler’s cosmology	2
Determining the right time, or the establishment of a culture of astronomical precision at Neuchâtel Observatory in the mid-19th century	2
Stars and Constellations in Medieval Manuscripts	1
Training early modern navigators	1
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe	1
Peurbach’s influential textbook	1
Astronomical predictions of the Antichrist	1

Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	1
A handbook of medieval Latin astronomical tables	1
Myth and meteorology	1
An analysis of Ibn al-Shāṭir’s star table	1
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	1
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles	1
Twentieth-century milestones in the history of the Russian ephemeris service: Marking 100 years of the Calculation Institute and astronomical yearbook	1
Astrology and the Archduke: Two unpublished letters by Tycho Brahe on the horoscope of Albert VII of Austria	1
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources	1
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy	1
Six hundred calendar makers	1
Present status of UBAI plate archive	1
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 1304	1
Medieval Structures of Astrology	1
A Spanish study of the 1572 nova: Jerónimo Muñoz and his Book on the New Comet	1
Interdisciplinarity and Modern Cosmology	1
Speaking of Comets	1
Late Byzantine astronomy	1
Constructing the Electric Eye: Situating the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Wisconsin Collection of Photoelectric Detectors in Historical Context	1
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents	1
Ibn Ezra from Hebrew to Latin	1
Photographing Indian observatories	1
Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941–2021	1
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy	1
José Monteiro da Rocha (1734–1819) and His 1782 Work on the Determination of Comet Orbits	1
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU	1
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets	1
Astronomy in service of the nation	1
Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited)	1
Machines for representing the cosmos	1
The Search for Dark Energy	1
Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century	1
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri	1
Algol anomaly or careful observations of its brightness? The values recorded for the magnitude of Algol in the medieval astronomical corpus	1
Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin circa 1800	1
Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt	1
Trust in Glass: Negotiating the Purchase of the Object Glass for the Airy Transit Circle	1
A Festschrift on Early Astronomy	1
More ancient Greek sundials	1
Astronomical Instruments in the Ottoman Empire	1
Paul Kunitzsch (1930–2020)	1
Asteroids Around 1800	1
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s	1
Jan Walery Jędrzejewicz (1835–1887) and his Observations of Comets	1
John Harrison’s clockmaking science	1
Drawing Science	1
The Tychonic Method for Calculating the Ratio between the Eccentricities of Mars	1
Building the Standard Cosmological Model	1
A Marvellous Connection: Longomontanus’ Battle With the Latitudes of Mars	1
An astrological practitioner analyzed	1

Thirty years of the HST	1
Astronomical dialogues with learned ladies	1
The coolest book cover ever	1
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World	1
Abū Ma‛šar’s astrological classic in English	1
Amici’s double star observations	1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium	1
A biography of Gottfried Kirch	1
Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis	1
Early Modern Comets and Printing	1
‘El Capri Kylex’: A Franciscan astronomical mnemonic	1
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology	1