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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Indicating hours in ancient cultures20
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 Sph9
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).8
François Viète and his versions of the Tychonic lunar models4
Time in Pre-Columbian America3
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. xli3
Owen Gingerich, 1930–20233
‘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
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review2
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
An unknown astronomical work on planetary theory from the Renaissance: Giulio Cesare Luchini’s Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (ca. 1581)2
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging2
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
Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions1
A national history of astronomy The History of Modern Astronomy in Japan. KogureTomokazu (Springer, Cham, 2021). Pp. xvi + 295. 171 €. ISBN 9783030570606.1
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
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
José Chabás, 1948–20241
Annibale Riccò and the catoptric proof of the Earth’s curvature1
Hipparchos and the ancient analemma1
A much richer idea of modernity1
Dia tōn grammōn: Hipparchus on simultaneous risings and settings1
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
The exaltations of Greco-Roman astrology and their relation to Babylonian Normal Star positions1
Maya astronomy and the precession of the equinoxes1
Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited)1
Myth and meteorology1
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
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes1
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World1
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
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology1
A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th century: François Viète and his first lunar model1
Occultation records in the Royal Frankish Annals for A.D. 807: Knowledge transfer from Arabia to Frankia?1
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
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium1
Index to Volume 561
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe1
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics1
Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus1
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
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation1
A comprehensive institutional history1
Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’1
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles1
Index to Volume 551
Erratum to ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’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
François Viète and his analysis of the Copernican lunar model1
A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction1
Evidence of dark energy prior to its discovery1
On some early Latin European measurements of the eccentricity of the solar orbit (1308–1314)1
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