Journal for the History of Astronomy

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Indicating hours in ancient cultures15
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).9
François Viète and his versions of the Tychonic lunar models8
A multidisciplinary edition of Grosseteste’s Sphere The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste in Six Volumes, Vol. II, Mapping the Universe: Robert Grosseteste’s De Sph4
Time in Pre-Columbian America3
Owen Gingerich, 1930–20233
On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence3
Parahitakaraṇam : A medieval formulary manual in the Kerala vernacular for calculating planetary mean longitudes2
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor2
An unknown astronomical work on planetary theory from the Renaissance: Giulio Cesare Luchini’s Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (ca. 1581)2
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review2
José Chabás, 1948–20241
Erratum to ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’1
Carolingian eclipse rules and the Liber Nemroth : Some remarks on a recent hypothesis1
Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus1
A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse1
Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions1
A much richer idea of modernity1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction1
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). P1
A comprehensive institutional history1
Occultation records in the Royal Frankish Annals for A.D. 807: Knowledge transfer from Arabia to Frankia?1
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World1
Index to Volume 551
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets1
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging1
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
Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’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, 20241
From biblical chronology to criticism of astrology1
Myth and meteorology1
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
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles1
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
A national history of astronomy The History of Modern Astronomy in Japan. KogureTomokazu (Springer, Cham, 2021). Pp. xvi + 295. 171 €. ISBN 9783030570606.1
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe1
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 978900451
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology1
Annibale Riccò and the catoptric proof of the Earth’s curvature1
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. xli1
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
Maya astronomy and the precession of the equinoxes1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium1
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
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation1
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes1
On some early Latin European measurements of the eccentricity of the solar orbit (1308–1314)1
Hipparchos and the ancient analemma1
Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited)1
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics1
A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th century: François Viète and his first lunar model1
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