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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James	4
Finding a Point of Observation in the Global South: The C. L. Gerling and J.M. Gilliss Correspondence (1847–1856)	3
Longomontanus’ Model for the Longitudes of Mars	3
Bi-Daily Venus in the Medieval Thought of William of Conches: Explaining an Uncommon Celestial Event by Circumsolarity	2
In Secchi’s Own Words	2
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia	2
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy	2
130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1893–2023)	2
Women in Glass: Women at the Harvard Observatory during the Era of Astronomical Glass Plate Photography, 1875–1975	2
The Greek portable sundial from Memphis rediscovered	2
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging	2
Otto von Guericke’s Cometary Theory in Stanisław Lubieniecki’s Correspondence	2
Gilding Kepler’s cosmology	2
The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument?	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
Drawing Science	1
Astronomy and the Archduke: Unpublished Letters on SN1604 by Brengger, Coignet, and Kepler in the Archives of Albert VII of Austria	1
Building the Standard Cosmological Model	1
Early Modern Comets and Printing	1
José Monteiro da Rocha (1734–1819) and His 1782 Work on the Determination of Comet Orbits	1
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents	1
Photographing Indian observatories	1
An analysis of Ibn al-Shāṭir’s star table	1
The Tychonic Method for Calculating the Ratio between the Eccentricities of Mars	1

Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited)	1
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	1
Astronomical dialogues with learned ladies	1
A Book with Postage Stamps	1
Astrology and the Archduke: Two unpublished letters by Tycho Brahe on the horoscope of Albert VII of Austria	1
Late Byzantine astronomy	1
Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt	1
Astronomy in service of the nation	1
Speaking of Comets	1
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology	1
‘El Capri Kylex’: A Franciscan astronomical mnemonic	1
Abū Ma‛šar’s astrological classic in English	1
Stars and Constellations in Medieval Manuscripts	1
Training early modern navigators	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
A Marvellous Connection: Longomontanus’ Battle With the Latitudes of Mars	1
Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions	1
Interdisciplinarity and Modern Cosmology	1
On the origin of the 12 zodiac constellation system in ancient Mesopotamia	1
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources	1
A handbook of medieval Latin astronomical tables	1
William Herschel’s Astronomical Work	1
The 1970–1984 lunar laser ranging observations in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory	1
The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler	1
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy	1
Astronomical predictions of the Antichrist	1
John Harrison’s clockmaking science	1
Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941–2021	1
Peurbach’s influential textbook	1
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World	1
Proposals to Move the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1836–1944	1
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets	1
Hipparchus in French	1
A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse	1
Amici’s double star observations	1
Paul Kunitzsch (1930–2020)	1
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe	1
The coolest book cover ever	1
Asteroids Around 1800	1
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri	1
A Festschrift on Early Astronomy	1
Thirty years of the HST	1
Constructing the Electric Eye: Situating the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Wisconsin Collection of Photoelectric Detectors in Historical Context	1
Medieval Structures of Astrology	1
A Spanish study of the 1572 nova: Jerónimo Muñoz and his Book on the New Comet	1
Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century	1
Ibn Ezra from Hebrew to Latin	1
The Determination of Stellar Temperatures From Baron B. Harkányi to the Gaia Mission	1
Jan Walery Jędrzejewicz (1835–1887) and his Observations of Comets	1
An Encyclopaedic Biography	1

New Light on the Main Instrument of the Samarqand Observatory	1
Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of the Secant Function	1
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU	1
Determining the right time, or the establishment of a culture of astronomical precision at Neuchâtel Observatory in the mid-19th century	1
Myth and meteorology	1
The Search for Dark Energy	1
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s	1
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles	1
Completing the National Edition of Galileo	1
An astrological practitioner analyzed	1
Hevelius’ Observational Instruments	1
A biography of Gottfried Kirch	1
Machines for representing the cosmos	1
From Mythology to Astronomy: Lists and Catalogues of Variable Stars	1
More ancient Greek sundials	1
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 1304	1
Six hundred calendar makers	1
The “Big Four”	1
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy	1
Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin circa 1800	1
Algol anomaly or careful observations of its brightness? The values recorded for the magnitude of Algol in the medieval astronomical corpus	1
The recurrent nova T CrB had prior eruptions observed near December 1787 and October 1217 AD	1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium	1
Astronomical Instruments in the Ottoman Empire	1
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	1