Journal Astronomical History Heritage (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 66 pages (pag. 65-130), fine. - - Contents: Papers: Leon Mestel: Arthur Stanley Eddington: Pioneer of Stellar Structure Theory. - - Pantazis/Sinachopoulos/Lambrou/Korakitis: Astrogeodetic Study of the Orientation of Ancient and Byzantine Monuments: Methodology and First Results. - - Miguel de Asúa: The Publication of the Astronomical Observations of Buenaventura Suárez SJ (1679-1750) in European Scientific Journals. - - Liebl/Fluke: Investigations of the Interstellar Medium at Washburn Observatory, 1930-58. - - Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen: A Leading Nineteenth Century Instrument-maker in Norway and his Astronomical and Geodetic Instruments. - - David W. Hughes: Bright Stars and the History of Stellar Astronomy. - - Clifford J. Cunningham: The Discovery of Juno and Its Effect on Olbers Asteroid Explosion Hypothesis. - - Wayne Orchiston: The 1948 Solar Eclipse and the Genesis of Radio Astronomy. - - Book Reviews: Misfortunes As Blessings in Disguise, the Story of My Life. - - Shining in the Ancient Sea. - - Mary Somerville and the World of Science. - - Mapping Mars: Science Imagination and the Birth of a World. - - Observing the Craters of Mars, Part I. - - The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection. - - Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope. - - A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. - - Stonehenge: Earth and Sky.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 86 pages (pag. 81-166), fine. - - Contents: Editorial. - Papers: Encrenaz/Gómez-González/Lequeux/Orchiston: Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 7: The Genesis of the Institute of Astronomy at Millimeter Wavelengths (IRAM). - - R.C. Kapoor: Madras Observatory and the Discovery of C/1831 A1 (The Great Comet of 1831). - - Hamacher/Norris: Eclipses in Australian Aboriginal Astronomy. - - Stephan D. Price: The AFCRL Lunar amd Planetary Research Branch. - - Cunningham/Marsden/Orchiston: The Attribution of Classical Deities in the Iconography of Guiseppe Piazzi. - - N Kameswara Rao & Priya Thakur: Aspects of Observational Astronomy in India: The Vidyasankara Temple at Sringeri. - - Roger Kinns: The Hobart Time Ball and Time Gun: a Critical Review. - - Book Reviews (by Hilmar W. Duerbeck): Galileo and 400 Years of Telescopic Astronomy. - - An Observer of Observatories. Thomas Bugge's Tour of Germany, Holland and England.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 84 pages (pag. 89-172), fine. - - Contents: Montgomery/Orchiston/Whittingham: Michell, Laplace and the Origin of the Black Hole Concept. - - Roger Kinns: Time-keeping in the Antipodes: a Critical Comparison of the Sydney and Littelton Time Balls. - - Marcus Granato: From Fragments to a Museum Display: Restoration of a Gautier Meridian Circle. - - Jérôme Lamy: The Role of the Conferences and the Bulletin in the Modification of the Practices of the Carte du Ciel Project at the End of the Nineteenth Century. - - James Lequeux: Early Infrared Astronomy. - - Marshall H. Cohen: Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish. - - Theodossiou/Manimanis/Katsiotis/Papanikolao: Study and orientation of the Mt. Oche Dragon House in Euboea, Greece. - - Pantazis/Lambrou: Investigating the Orientation of Eleven Mosques in Greece. - - Adrian Galea: Comet Halley in 1910, as Viewed from a Maltese Perspective. - - Film and Book Reviews. - - Erratum: Richard G. Strom: Correction to "The Origin and Meaning of Colourful Descriptions in Chinese Astronomical Records".

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 86 pages (pag. 173-258), fine. - - Contents: Orchiston/Steinberg/Kundu/Arsac/Blum/Boischot: Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 4: Early Solar Research at the École Normale Supérieure, Marcoussis and Nancay. - - Lamy/Davoust: General-purpose and Dedicated Regimes in the Use of Telescopes. - - Rao/Vagiswari/Thakur/Birdie: C. Ragoonatha Charry and Variable Star Astronomy. - - Tors/Orchiston: Peter Millman and the Study of Meteor Spectra at Harvard University. - - Richard A. Jarrell: Canadian Meteor Science: The First Phase, 1933 1990. - - Simonia/Ruggles/Bakhtadze: An Astronomical Investigation of the Seventeen Hundred Year Old Nekresi Fire Temple in Eastern Georgia. - - Cunningham/Marsden/Orchiston: How the First Dwarf Planet Became the Asteroid Ceres. - - IAU Reports. - - Book Reviews: Nebel und Sternhaufen - Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung Beobachtung und Katalogisierung. - - Eastern Astrolabes, Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum II. - - Via Nubila - am Grunde des Himmels. Johann Georg Hagen und die Kosmischen Wolken.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 86 pages, cover slightly rubbed, else fine. - - Contents: Papers: Steward/Wendt/Orchiston/Slee: The Radiophysics Field Station at Penrith, New South Wales, and the World's First Solar Radiospectrograph. - - A. Richard Thompson: The Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, Texas. - - P. Brosche: Letter to the Editor, regarding Montgomery et al. s paper on Michell, Laplace and the Origin of the Black Hole Concept . - - Lequeux/Steinberg/Orchiston: Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 5: The Nançay Large Radio Telescope. - - Bianchi/Gasperini/Galli/Palla/Brenni/Giatti: Wilhelm Tempel and his 10.8-cm Steinheil Telescope. - - Cozens/Walsh/Orchiston: James Dunlop s Historical Catalogue of Southern Nebulae and Clusters. - - Rao/Thakur: The Astronomical Significance of Megalithic Stone Alignments at Vibhuthihalli in Northern Karnataka. - - Book reviews.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 84 pages (pag. 87-170), fine. - - Contents: The First Century of Astronomical Spectroscopy: Joseph S. Tenn: Introduction. - - John Hearnshaw: Auguste Comte s Blunder: An Account of the First Century of Stellar Spectroscopy and How it Took One Hundred Years to Prove that Comte was Wrong! - - Matthew Stanley: Spectroscopy So What? - - Barbara J. Becker: From Dilettante to Serious Amateur: William Huggins Move into the Inner Circle. - - Pasachoff/Suer: The Origin and Diffusion of the H and K Notation. - - Richard A. Jarrell: The 1910 Solar Conference and Cooperation in Stellar Spectroscopy. - - David H. Devorkin: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: C.H. Payne H.N. Russell and Standards of Evidence in Early Quantitative Spectroscopy. - - Vera C. Rubin: Charlotte Moore Sitterly. - - Other Papers: John C. Brandt: St. Helena, Edmond Halley, the Discovery of Stellar Proper Motion, and the Mystery of Aldebaran. - - Bonifácio/Malaquias/Fernandes: The First Astronomical Hypothesis Based on Cinematographical Observations: Costa Lobo s 1912 Evidence for Polar Flattening of the Moon. - - Book Reviews.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 88 pages (pag. 161-248), fine. - - Contents: Papers from the Lindsay Symposium: Mark E. Bailey: A Selection of Photographs from the Lindsay Centennial Symposium. - - Mary Brück: Eric Melvyn Lindsay and Astronomy in Ireland. - - C. John Butler: The Armagh-Dunsink-Harvard Telescope: From Dream to Oblivion. - - Patrick Corvan: Under Irish Skies. - - Robin, Jack & Mary Lindsay: Family Memoirs of a Very Special Uncle. - - John C. McConnell: Dr Eric Mervyn Lindsay (1907-1974): A Personal View. - - Derek McNally: Dr Eric Lindsay: Personal Recollections. - - Terry Moseley: Dr Eric Lindsay: A, B, C, D, to Z. A Personal Recollection. - - Donald S. Nicholson: Remembering Eric and Sylvia Lindsay during the War Years. - - Allan Chapman: Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913): Royal Astronomer in Ireland and Astronomy s Public Voice. - - Other Papers: F. Richard Stephenson: Variations in the Earth s Clock Error deltaT between AD 300 and 800 as Deduced from Observations of Solar and Lunar Eclipses. - - Orchiston/Lequeux/Steinberg/Delannoy: Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 3: The Würzburg Antennas at Marcoussis, Meudon and Nançay. - - Book Reviews: A Descriptive Catalogue of Greco-Roman Comets from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. - - The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began. - - The Telescope. Its History, Technology, and Future. - - Living Among the Stars at the Johannesburg Observatory.