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The HAD Bibliography, New Series. Bibliography of English Language Publications on the History of Astronomy, 2003-2004 The HAD Bibliography, New Series. Bibliography of English Language Publications on the History of Astronomy, 2003-2004. Compiled by Peter Abrahams, [email protected] Omitted are: obituaries, juvenilia, popular accounts, internet publications, book reviews, and space exploration. Foreign language entries will be included in future bibliographies; these require a fluent collaborator. Book listings are incomplete, and a method is sought for systematically locating titles. Publishers, librarians, and interested persons are welcome to participate. ============== Adams, Sue Kelly. (About Walter Sydney Adam's Role in) Making Mount Wilson and Palomar. Victoria: Trafford, 2004. 160pp. Addis, Cameron. The Goddess of Love & the Hand of God: American Observations of the 1769 Transit of Venus. Mercury Magazine 33:3 (May-June 2004) 26ff. Adkins, Larry. Bishop Observatory, Santa Ana College. Journal of the Antique Telescope Society #25 (2003) 9-16. Aldana, Gerardo. K’uk’ulkan at Mayapán: Venus and Postclassic Maya Statecraft. Journal for the History of Astronomy 34:1 (February 2003) 33-51. Altena, William F. van & E. Dorrit Hoffleit. Schlesinger's Telescope. Astronomy & Geophysics 44:5 (Oct. 2003) 9-13. (Hastings / McDowell Yale-Columbia 26 inch refractor) Anderson, Stuart & Dieter Engels. A short history of Hamburg Observatory. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 114 (2004) 78-87. Andriesse, C.D. Titan: Biography of Christiaan Huygens. Translated by Sally Miedema. Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht, 2003. Ashworth, Jr., William B. Faujas-de-Saint-Fond Visits the Herschels at Datchet. Journal for the History of Astronomy 34:3 (August 2003) 321-324. Aubin, David. The Fading Star of the Paris Observatory in the Nineteenth Century: Astronomers' Urban Culture of Circulation and Observation. Osiris 18:1 (2003) 79-100. Aughton, Peter. The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. 210pp. Aveni, Anthony, Harvey M. Bricker, and Victoria R. Bricker. Seeking the Sidereal: Observable Planetary Stations and the Ancient Maya Record. Journal for the History of Astronomy 34:2 (May 2003) 145-161. Barclay, C. Victorian Phoenix: A telescope at Marlborough College has a remarkable history. Astronomy Now 17:2 (Nov. 2003) 75-80. Barker, Peter and Bernard R. Goldstein. Patronage and the Production of De Revolutionibus. Journal for the History of Astronomy 34:4 (November 2003) 345-368. Barrow, John D. & Leon Mestel. Eddington: leading the field. Astronomy & Geophysics 45:3 (June 2004) 3.10-3.13. (R.A.S. Commemoration Meeting.) Becker, Barbara J. Celestial Spectroscopy: Making Reality Fit the Myth. Science 301 (#5638) (5 Sept. 2003) 1332-1333. (William Huggins) Bedini, Silvio A. Falconi, Renaissance Astrologer and Astronomical Clock and Instrument Maker. Nuncius 19:1 (2004) 31-76. Beech, Martin. Cometaria and the Demonstration of Kepler’s 1st and 2nd Laws. Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 82 (September 2004) 29-33. Beecher, Dale. The Pioneering Instruments of Orson Pratt. Rittenhouse 17:2 (2003) 107-117. Belkora, Leila. Minding the Heavens: the story of our discovery of the Milky Way. Bristol: Institute of Physics, 2003. Bell, Trudy E. Quest for the Astronomical Unit. The Bent of Tau Beta Pi 95:3 (Summer 2004) 20-26. Bell, Trudy E. The Victorian Space Program. The Bent of Tau Beta Pi (Spring 2003) 11-18. (Eclipse expeditions) Belmonte, Juan Antonio, M. Antonia Perera Betancort, Rita Marrero, and Antonio Tejera Gaspar. The Dolmens and Hawanat of Africa Proconsularis Revisited. Journal for the History of Astronomy 34:3 (August 2003) 305-320. Ben-Zaken, Avner. The heavens of the sky and the heavens of the heart: the Ottoman cultural context for the introduction of post-Copernican astronomy. The British Journal for the History of Science 37:1 (March 2004) 1-28. Betts, Jonathan. Alexander Herschel's 'Zone-Clocks'. Journal for the History of Astronomy 35:4 (Nov. 2004) 408-416. Bond, Peter. Four decades of discovery and disaster. Astronomy & Geophysics 44:4 (Aug. 2003) 4.23-4.26. (Mars exploration space missions.) Bowen, Alan C. Cleomedes and the Measurement of the Earth: A Question of Procedures. Centaurus 45:1-4 (2003) 59-68. Britton, John P. On Corrections for Solar Anomaly in Babylonian Lunar Theories. Centaurus 45:1-4 (2003) 46-58. Brown, John N. Notes on the site-testing of a French observatory, 1901-1902. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 113:1 (Feb. 2003) 32. (Pic du Midi) Brück, Mary T. An astronomer calls: extracts from the diaries of Charles Piazzi Smyth. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 6:1 (June 2003) 37- 45. Brück, Mary T. Lord Lindsay's Transit of Venus expedition to Mauritius 1874. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 6:1 (June 2003) 64. Bryan, James. Henry S. Moore: An Early Astronomer in Texas. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 17:2 (Oct. 2003) 163-199. Burnell, Jocelyn Bell. Pliers, pulsars and extreme physics. Astronomy & Geophysics 45:1 (Feb. 2004) 1.07-1.11. (Discovery of pulsars.) Camerota, Filippo. Galileo's Eye: Linear Perspective and Visual Astronomy. Galileiana, The Journal of Galileian Studies 1 (2004) 143-170. Chabás, José, and Bernard R. Goldstein. John Vimond and the Alfonsine Trepidation Model. Journal for the History of Astronomy 34:2 (May 2003) 163- 170 Chapman, Allan. Horrocks, Crabtree and the 1639 transit of Venus. Astronomy & Geophysics 45:5 (2004) 5.26-5.31. Chapman, Allan. Mary Somerville and the world of science. Bristol: Canopus Publishing, 2004. 157pp. Chapman, Allan. Porters, watchmen, and the crime of William Sayers: the non-scientific staff of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in Victorian times. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 6:1 (June 2003) 27-36. Christianson, John R., Alena Hadravova, Petr Hadrava, Martin Solc, editors. Tycho Brahe and Prague: Crossroads of European Science. Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 16. Frankfurt: Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2002. 392 pages Clark, B.A.J. and Wayne Orchiston. The Melbourne Observatory Dallmeyer photoheliograph and the 1874 transit of Venus. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 7:1 (June 2004) 44-49. Clark, David H. & Matthew D.H. Clark. Measuring the Cosmos: How Scientists Discovered the Dimensions of the Universe. New Brunswick: Rutgers U. Press, 2004. 202pp. Clark, Pamela, ed. Mariner 10: A Retrospective. Mercury Messenger #10 (Dec. 2003). http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/mercmessenger/ 10pp. Cowen, Ron. A Stab in the Dark, how the Hubble Deep Field made astronomical history. Sky and Telescope 108:1 (July 2004) 42-49. Croarken, Mary. Mary Edwards: Computing for a Living in 18th-century England. Annals of the History of Computing 25:4 (Oct.-Dec. 2003) 9-15. Croarken, Mary. Tabulating the Heavens: Computing the Nautical Almanac in 18th-century England. Annals of the History of Computing 25:3 (July-Sept. 2003) 48-61. Cunningham, Clifford J. The discovery of Juno and its effect on Olbers' asteroid explosion hypothesis. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 7:2 (Dec. 2004) 116-117. Cunningham, Clifford. Discovery of the Missing Correspondence between Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne (1802-5). Annals of Science 61:4 (October 2004) 469-481. Danielson, Dennis. Achilles Gasser and the Birth of Copernicanism. Journal for the History of Astronomy 35:4 (November 2004) 457-474. Da Silva, C. Marciano. The Spring Full Moon. Journal for the History of Astronomy 35:4 (November 2004) 475-478. de Asúa, Miguel. The publication of astronomical observations of Buenaventura Suárez SJ (1679-1750) in European Scientific Journals. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 7:2 (Dec. 2004) 81-84. Dekker E. Catalogue of Orbs, Spheres and Globes. Florence: Institute and Museum of the History of Science, 2004. 188pp. Dekker, Elly. Precession Globes. pp219-235. M. Beretta, P. Galluzzi, & C. Triarico, ed. Musa Musaei, Studies on Scientific Instruments and Collections in Honour of Mara Miniati. Biblioteca di Nuncius Studi e Testi XLIX. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. DeVorkin, David. A Spirit of Place, Where the modern universe was born. Sky & Telescope 106:5 (Nov. 2003) 38-48. Dick, Steven. Sky and Ocean Joined, the U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Dobbins, Thomas & William Sheehan. The Canals of Mars Revisited. Sky and Telescope 107:3 (March 2004) 114-117. Duerbeck, Hilmar W. The German transit of Venus expeditions of 1874 and 1882: organization, methods, stations, results. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 7:1 (June 2004) 8-17. Duke, Dennis W. The Depth of Association Between the Ancient Star Catalogues. Journal for the History of Astronomy 34:2 (May 2003) 227-230. Dupré, Sven. Galileo's Telescope and Celestial Light. Journal for the History of Astronomy 34:4 (Nov. 2003) 369-399. Eastwood, Bruce & Gerd Grasshoff. Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, ca. 800-1500. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004. 158pp. Edwards, Edmundo R. and Juan Antonio Belmonte. Megalithic Astronomy of Easter Island: A Reassessment. Journal for the History of Astronomy 35:4 (November 2004) 421-433. Edwards, P.G. Charles Todd's observations of the transits of Venus. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 7:1 (June 2004) 1-7. Evans, James. The Astrologer’s Apparatus: A Picture of Professional Practice in Greco-Roman Egypt. Journal for the History of Astronomy 35:1 (February 2004) 1-44. Fara, Patricia. Heavenly Bodies: Newtonianism, Natural Theology and the Plurality of Worlds Debate in the Eighteenth Century. Journal for the History of Astronomy 35:2 (May 2004) 143-160 Fernie, J. Donald. The Harrison-Maskelyne Affair. American Scientist 91:5 (Sept.-Oct. 2003) 403ff. Fletcher, Karen & Andre Bouwman, ed. Christiaan Huygens: Facets of a Genius. ESA BR-211. Noordwijk: ESA, 2004. 31pp. (Frans Blom, The Childhood of Christiaan Huygens, pp6-11. Joella Yoder, Christiaan Huygens and his written legacy, pp12-17. Albert van Helden, Christiaan Huygens and Saturn, pp18-23. Niek de Kort, Saturn and its moons rediscovered through space exploration, pp24-31.
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