Journal for the History of Astronomy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal for the History of Astronomy is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Indicating hours in ancient cultures10
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging9
Owen Gingerich, 1930–20236
Time in Pre-Columbian America5
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor3
On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence2
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology2
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets2
More ancient Greek sundials2
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review2
Annibale Riccò and the catoptric proof of the Earth’s curvature2
Jesuit and scientist Angelo Secchi and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Multidisciplinary Contributions of a Pioneer and Innovator. ChinniciIleanaConsolmagnoGuy (eds) (Springer Nature, Cham, 2021). Pp.2
An Introduction to English Calendars2
Erratum to ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’2
José Chabás, 1948–20242
Index to Volume 552
A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite1
Dia tōn grammōn: Hipparchus on simultaneous risings and settings1
A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th century: François Viète and his first lunar model1
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources1
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles1
Occultation records in the Royal Frankish Annals for A.D. 807: Knowledge transfer from Arabia to Frankia?1
A Muñoz Biography1
Instrumentation and observations at the astronomical observatory in Hurbanovo in 1871–19181
Late Byzantine astronomy1
Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’1
John Harrison’s clockmaking science1
A much richer idea of modernity1
Ptolemy’s Table of kings La table des rois: Contribution à l’histoire textuelle des ‘Tables faciles’ de Ptolémée. DefauxOlivier (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023). Pp. 376. 50 €1
Abū Ma‛šar’s astrological classic in English1
From biblical chronology to criticism of astrology1
Six hundred calendar makers1
Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions1
Reducing meridian circle observations in positional astronomy1
Jan Walery Jędrzejewicz (1835–1887) and his Observations of Comets1
Cosmography and its histories1
A comprehensive institutional history1
‘El Capri Kylex’: A Franciscan astronomical mnemonic1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium1
A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse1
Stellar movements and working hypotheses: A.S. Eddington’s early astronomical career1
François Viète and his analysis of the Copernican lunar model1
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
Paul Kunitzsch (1930–2020)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
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents1
Myth and meteorology1
Hipparchos and the ancient analemma1
The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument?1
On some early Latin European measurements of the eccentricity of the solar orbit (1308–1314)1
Printing the book everybody read1
Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus1
New stars, old cosmologies in early modern Europe1
Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited)1
Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis1
Astronomical dialogues with learned ladies1
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World1
Twentieth-century milestones in the history of the Russian ephemeris service: Marking 100 years of the Calculation Institute and astronomical yearbook1
The discovery and naming of Trojan asteroids1
Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology1
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes1
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)1
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics1
Elias von Löwen (Crätschmair): An unrecognized pioneer of the research on optical libration of the Moon1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction1
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation1
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables1
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe1
Toward a standardization of Hayʾa works1
The coolest book cover ever0
Two biographies of Vera Rubin0
130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1893–2023)0
The Tychonic Method for Calculating the Ratio between the Eccentricities of Mars0
An astrological practitioner analyzed0
Present status of UBAI plate archive0
A critical assessment of questionable solar eclipse memories in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE0
Investigating calendrical methods of calculating sunrise and sunset times in the Shixian calendar0
On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis0
Index To Volume 540
Total solar eclipse of AD 1133 and ΔT0
The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler0
Ibn Ezra from Hebrew to Latin0
Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology0
Observational astronomy and the mapping of Brazil at the turn of the 20th century0
A biography of Gottfried Kirch0
Medieval Structures of Astrology0
A Festschrift on Early Astronomy0
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle0
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 André0
Astronomy in service of the nation0
A definitive survey of Iberian and Maghribī astronomy0
Laplace in America0
The astronomy of Tawantinsuyu0
G.B. Riccioli’s geo-heliocentric use of Epicepicycles, ellipses and spirals0
A new edition and translation of Pico’s Disputationes0
John L. Heilbron, 1934–20230
A handbook of medieval Latin astronomical tables0
Copernicus and Toruń0
Astronomers in the chair0
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia0
Astronomical or political: Interpretation of comets in times of crisis in Qing China0
East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James0
Stella Insolita: The comet of 1114, a lost chronicle and the Empress Matilda0
The “logic” of diagrams in the Spherics of Theodosios0
Photographing Indian observatories0
Early application of kinetic theory of gases to star clusters0
Poetic Structures of the Cosmos0
Physicists becoming astronomers0
Astronomical handbooks in 16th-century South Asia: Analysis of mean planetary motions in the 1520 Graha-lāghava of Gaṇeśa Daivajña0
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s0
The bizarre history of the astrological vault “El Cielo de Salamanca”0
Managing innovation in telescope making0
Research on the Expansion-Contraction Difference and Limit Degree in ancient Chinese planetary theory: The case of outer planets0
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU0
A Spanish study of the 1572 nova: Jerónimo Muñoz and his Book on the New Comet0
An inside story of the NRAO0
The artful early instruments of Peter Apian: Ein kunstlich Instrument of 1524, its precursors and its successors0
Astrology and the Archduke: Two unpublished letters by Tycho Brahe on the horoscope of Albert VII of Austria0
Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt0
Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century0
Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of the Secant Function0
Thirty years of the HST0
BM 47886+47914, a Babylonian astral compendium with possible implications for the origin of the “year of the Sun”0
Gauging the Herschels’ star gauging programme0
INDEX TO VOLUME 520
A survey of Arabic astrolabe makers0
Time-keeping devices and astronomy0
Accuracy of medieval Chinese and Middle-Eastern timings of eclipses0
Aristotle on the celestial spheres0
Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis0
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri0
The recurrent nova T CrB had prior eruptions observed near December 1787 and October 1217 AD0
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy0
INDEX TO VOLUME 530
Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin circa 18000
Women in Glass: Women at the Harvard Observatory during the Era of Astronomical Glass Plate Photography, 1875–19750
Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941–20210
Ad astra per aspera: From the Sewers of Kansas to Harvard College Observatory0
An analysis of Ibn al-Shāṭir’s star table0
The Greek portable sundial from Memphis rediscovered0
The solar eclipse of A.D. 1221 May 23 and the value of ΔT0
An astronomical analysis of the data in the pseudo-Hipparchus palimpsest in the Codex Climaci Rescriptus0
The heliocentric path of the Moon0
Amici’s double star observations0
The book everybody read0
Astronomical observations in Bologna, Montpellier, and Genoa in the early 14th century: Iohannes de Luna Theutonicus revisited0
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
Were the tables of Ibn Isḥāq al-Tūnisī known in Paris c.1300?0
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 13040
John of Lignères as a table compiler0
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy0
Machines for representing the cosmos0
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy0
Peurbach’s influential textbook0
Training early modern navigators0
Bridging the gap between archaeology and archaeoastronomy0
An important Islamicate Z īj0
Drawing Science0
Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical site0
Determining the right time, or the establishment of a culture of astronomical precision at Neuchâtel Observatory in the mid-19th century0
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