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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 models11
A multidisciplinary edition of Grosseteste’s Sphere The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste in Six Volumes, Vol. II, Mapping the Universe: Robert Gros9
Owen Gingerich, 1930–20234
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging4
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor3
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 Ruggles2
Carolingian eclipse rules and the Liber Nemroth : Some remarks on a recent hypothesis2
Parahitakaraṇam : A medieval formulary manual in the Kerala vernacular for calculating planetary mean longitudes2
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review2
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. xli2
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction1
Index to Volume 561
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics1
“Is communication with intelligent beings of other planets possible?”: Iosif Shklovsky’s launch of Soviet SETI1
Hipparchos and the ancient analemma1
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 551
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
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium1
Evidence of dark energy prior to its discovery1
A much richer idea of modernity1
The exaltations of Greco-Roman astrology and their relation to Babylonian Normal Star positions1
Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus1
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
On some early Latin European measurements of the eccentricity of the solar orbit (1308–1314)1
José Chabás, 1948–20241
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets1
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, 20241
From biblical chronology to criticism of astrology1
Ptolemy’s Table of kings La table des rois: Contribution à l’histoire textuelle des ‘Tables faciles’ de Ptolémée. DefauxOlivier (De Gruyter, Berlin, 20231
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation1
Maya astronomy and the precession of the equinoxes1
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
A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th century: François Viète and his first lunar model1
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
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