Journal for the History of Astronomy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal for the History of Astronomy is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
François Viète and his versions of the Tychonic lunar models22
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).11
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
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor4
Parahitakaraṇam : A medieval formulary manual in the Kerala vernacular for calculating planetary mean longitudes3
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review3
Carolingian eclipse rules and the Liber Nemroth : Some remarks on a recent hypothesis2
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
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging2
Jesuit and scientist Angelo Secchi and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Multidisciplinary Contributions of a Pioneer and Innovator. ChinniciIleanaConsolmagnoGuy (eds) (Springer Nature, Cham, 2021). Pp.2
An unknown astronomical work on planetary theory from the Renaissance: Giulio Cesare Luchini’s Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (ca. 1581)2
Index to Volume 552
The exaltations of Greco-Roman astrology and their relation to Babylonian Normal Star positions1
Occultation records in the Royal Frankish Annals for A.D. 807: Knowledge transfer from Arabia to Frankia?1
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
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 comprehensive institutional history1
On some early Latin European measurements of the eccentricity of the solar orbit (1308–1314)1
José Chabás, 1948–20241
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 much richer idea of modernity1
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
A Muñoz Biography1
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe1
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
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
Myth and meteorology1
Hipparchos and the ancient analemma1
A national history of astronomy The History of Modern Astronomy in Japan. KogureTomokazu (Springer, Cham, 2021). Pp. xvi + 295. 171 €. ISBN 9783030570606.1
A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th century: François Viète and his first lunar model1
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets1
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
Printing the book everybody read1
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
Maya astronomy and the precession of the equinoxes1
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics1
Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction1
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World1
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
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles1
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes1
Index to Volume 561
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation1
Evidence of dark energy prior to its discovery1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium1
Investigating calendrical methods of calculating sunrise and sunset times in the Shixian calendar0
Calculating the periods of Galilean satellites from the Sidereus nuncius data0
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle0
Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin circa 18000
Were the tables of Ibn Isḥāq al-Tūnisī known in Paris c.1300?0
A biography of Gottfried Kirch0
The ancient portable sundial of Choma0
Medieval Structures of Astrology0
Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt0
Aristotle on the celestial spheres0
Astronomical handbooks in 16th-century South Asia: Analysis of mean planetary motions in the 1520 Graha-lāghava of Gaṇeśa Daivajña0
Cosmography and its histories0
Laplace in America0
The bizarre history of the astrological vault “El Cielo de Salamanca”0
The Space Age from the bottom up Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age. Edited by MunnsDavid P. D.NickelsenKärin (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2021). P0
Instrument making in 19th-century Munich Briefe und Dokumente aus der Ära Fraunhofer, Reichenbach und Utzschneider. 3 vols. Edited by RiekherRolfDickWolfgang R.HamelJürgen (Acta Historica Astronomiae,0
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri0
G.B. Riccioli’s geo-heliocentric use of Epicepicycles, ellipses and spirals0
The artful early instruments of Peter Apian: Ein kunstlich Instrument of 1524, its precursors and its successors0
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources0
Two biographies of Vera Rubin0
John L. Heilbron, 1934–20230
Physicists becoming astronomers0
Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology0
Astrologies in Germany, 1871–c. 1950 Sterne, Menschen, Politik: Die astrologische Bewegung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. LechlerVolker (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin, 2025). Pp. ix + 616.0
Piccolomini’s vulgarization of astronomy Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works, I: An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance with Editions and Translations of De la Sfera del Mondo and0
An inside story of the NRAO0
Instrumentation and observations at the astronomical observatory in Hurbanovo in 1871–19180
An astrological practitioner analyzed0
Copernicus and Toruń0
Observational astronomy and the mapping of Brazil at the turn of the 20th century0
Drawing Science0
Australia’s first professional astronomer William Dawes: Scientist, Governor, Abolitionist: Caught Between Science and Religion. de GrijsRichardJacobAndrew (Springer, Cham, 2023). Pp. xi + 280. $80. I0
An astronomical analysis of the data in the pseudo-Hipparchus palimpsest in the Codex Climaci Rescriptus0
Riccioli in English RiccioliGiovanni BattistaNovumAlmagestum, History of Astronomy. English translation and commentary by PaszkiewiczMichal J. A. (Cricetus Cricetus Ltd., Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 2020
The solar eclipse of A.D. 1221 May 23 and the value of ΔT0
Making scientific instruments in France and Switzerland La fabrique des instruments scientifiques, XVIIIe – XXe siècles: Études en hommage à Denis Beaudouin et Paolo Brenni. Edited by SouluFrédéricTur0
The coolest book cover ever0
Ancient Greek observations of T Coronae Borealis? Data and methodologies0
An etymology of sky words Starwords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language. KunthDanielTerlevichElena (Springer, Cham, 2024). Pp. xvi + 165. $28. ISBN 9783031490231 (paper).0
Poetic Structures of the Cosmos0
The discovery and naming of Trojan asteroids0
Thirty years of the HST0
Adapting and accepting the European astronomical system: A study of the mistakes in the calculation of eclipses using the Western methods in late Ming and early Qing China0
Peurbach’s influential textbook0
A new edition and translation of Pico’s Disputationes0
Astronomy in service of the nation0
Toward a standardization of Hayʾa works0
Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology0
BM 47886+47914, a Babylonian astral compendium with possible implications for the origin of the “year of the Sun”0
How Kepler’s three laws became Kepler’s three laws0
New stars, old cosmologies in early modern Europe0
A survey of Arabic astrolabe makers0
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU0
The third Astronomer Royal The Life & Work of James Bradley: The New Foundations of 18th Century Astronomy. Edited by FisherJohn (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023). Pp. xxvii + 531. £83. ISBN0
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables0
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia0
A new translation of Aristarchus Aristarchus of Samos: On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, Greek Text, Translation, Analysis, and Relevant Scholia. CarmanChristián C.BuzónRodolfo P. (Scien0
Bridging the gap between archaeology and archaeoastronomy0
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents0
On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis0
A note on the new evidence for Hipparchus’ star catalogue0
“Setting fire to the last forest”: Project West Ford and the mobilization of the astronomical community 1958–19650
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy0
New observations on Francesco Fontana, Fabio Colonna, and Jusepe de Ribera’s man with a telescope0
Reflections on Islamic observational astronomy Reflections on Observational Astronomy in the Medieval Islamic Period. MozaffariS. Mohammad (Variorum Collected Studies; Routledge, New York, 2025). pp. 0
The last meridian circles: An epilogue0
Stellar movements and working hypotheses: A.S. Eddington’s early astronomical career0
Early application of kinetic theory of gases to star clusters0
Index To Volume 540
Astronomers in the chair0
Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941–20210
Total solar eclipse of AD 1133 and ΔT0
130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1893–2023)0
A love story with consequences For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet. Matthew Shindell (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2022). Pp. xvi + 226. $27.50. ISBN 9780226821894.0
The earliest recorded eruption of luminous blue variables in Messier 330
The adoption and evolution of eclipse diagrams in official eclipse forecast reports in late Ming and early Qing China0
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy0
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 13040
Representing China in the IAU China and the International Astronomical Union: Divorce, Separation and Reconciliation (1958–1982). MontmerleThierryZhouYi (Springer, Cham, 2022). Pp. xvii + 213. $160. I0
Gauging the Herschels’ star gauging programme0
A proper edition of the Arabic Planetary Hypotheses Ptolemy’s Cosmology in Greek and Arabic: The Background and Legacy of the Planetary Hypotheses. HullmeinePaul (Ptolem0
John of Lignères as a table compiler0
The “logic” of diagrams in the Spherics of Theodosios0
The Venus transit of 1882 in Argentine Patagonia: Science, politics, and territorial expansion0
A Copernican classic in English Nicolaus Copernicus, Part One, Studies on Copernicus’s Works and Biographical Materials. Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer [1900], translated with notes and commentary by André0
A critical assessment of questionable solar eclipse memories in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE0
Present status of UBAI plate archive0
Reducing meridian circle observations in positional astronomy0
Ad astra per aspera: From the Sewers of Kansas to Harvard College Observatory0
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy0
Dating Easter in the 12–13th centuries Opera de computo a tempore post Gerlandum usque ad Iohannem de Sacrobosco. Edited by LohrAlfred (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis, 272A; Brepols, Tu0
Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis0
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s0
A cultural buffet of astral activity Imagining the Heavens Across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by BrentjesRanaBrentjesSonjaMastorakouStamatina (Milan: Mimesis International, Sesto0
A handbook of medieval Latin astronomical tables0
Elias von Löwen (Crätschmair): An unrecognized pioneer of the research on optical libration of the Moon0
Stella Insolita: The comet of 1114, a lost chronicle and the Empress Matilda0
Time-keeping devices and astronomy0
An analysis of Ibn al-Shāṭir’s star table0
A catalog of old globes in Spanish public collections0
Solstices, equinoxes, and directions in Hopi astronomy0
Captain Halley Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal. LoveDavid K. (Prometheus Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2023). Pp. 200. $27. ISBN 9781633888913.0
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr: An eighteenth-century Nuremberg astronomer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677–1750): Sein Leben, seine Schriften, seine Karten, seine Globen. Edited by GaabHans (Akademische Ve0
Lunar month intervals at Monte Alban, 496 to 221 BCE, and later Mesoamerican lunar day counts0
Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical site0
An important Islamicate Z īj0
Managing innovation in telescope making0
The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument?0
INDEX TO VOLUME 530
Representing the moon Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps, and Matter. Edited by ShindellMatthew (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2024). Pp. 256, 500 color plates. $65. ISBN 978022680
Research on the Expansion-Contraction Difference and Limit Degree in ancient Chinese planetary theory: The case of outer planets0
Documenting the Copernican Revolution The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton. RothmanAviva (Penguin Random House, London, 2023). Pp. xliv + 616. £17. ISBN 9780241360637 (paper).0
The recurrent nova T CrB had prior eruptions observed near December 1787 and October 1217 AD0
Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis0
Astronomical observations in Bologna, Montpellier, and Genoa in the early 14th century: Iohannes de Luna Theutonicus revisited0
Theodosios’s Spherics in English The Spherics of Theodosios. SidoliNathanThomasR.S.D. (Routledge, London, 2023). Pp. xxi + 523. £130. ISBN 9780367557300.0
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