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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Astronomy in service of the nation9
The astronomy of Tawantinsuyu8
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes6
Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century5
John of Lignères as a table compiler3
Thirty years of the HST2
Machines for representing the cosmos2
A new edition and translation of Pico’s Disputationes2
Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis2
A definitive survey of Iberian and Maghribī astronomy2
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources2
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables2
Indicating hours in ancient cultures2
Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’2
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle2
The coolest book cover ever2
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor1
Gauging the Herschels’ star gauging programme1
Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of the Secant Function1
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
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)1
Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology1
John Harrison’s clockmaking science1
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics1
G.B. Riccioli’s geo-heliocentric use of Epicepicycles, ellipses and spirals1
Aristotle on the celestial spheres1
On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence1
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging1
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology1
The Tychonic Method for Calculating the Ratio between the Eccentricities of Mars1
An Introduction to English Calendars1
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents1
The Greek portable sundial from Memphis rediscovered1
Twentieth-century milestones in the history of the Russian ephemeris service: Marking 100 years of the Calculation Institute and astronomical yearbook1
Laplace in America1
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy1
Investigating calendrical methods of calculating sunrise and sunset times in the Shixian calendar1
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation1
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
Six hundred calendar makers1
East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James1
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy1
More ancient Greek sundials1
Photographing Indian observatories1
Medieval Structures of Astrology1
Peurbach’s influential textbook1
INDEX TO VOLUME 521
Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical site1
Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology1
Owen Gingerich, 1930–20231
Erratum to ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’1
Time in Pre-Columbian America1
A much richer idea of modernity1
A survey of Arabic astrolabe makers1
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review1
Ad astra per aspera: From the Sewers of Kansas to Harvard College Observatory1
Elias von Löwen (Crätschmair): An unrecognized pioneer of the research on optical libration of the Moon1
Abū Ma‛šar’s astrological classic in English1
BM 47886+47914, a Babylonian astral compendium with possible implications for the origin of the “year of the Sun”1
Myth and meteorology1
Annibale Riccò and the catoptric proof of the Earth’s curvature1
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU1
On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis1
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s1
Late Byzantine astronomy1
The bizarre history of the astrological vault “El Cielo de Salamanca”1
Training early modern navigators1
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction1
From biblical chronology to criticism of astrology0
Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin circa 18000
The solar eclipse of A.D. 1221 May 23 and the value of ΔT0
Instrumentation and observations at the astronomical observatory in Hurbanovo in 1871–19180
A handbook of medieval Latin astronomical tables0
Ibn Ezra from Hebrew to Latin0
An important Islamicate Z īj0
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia0
A Spanish study of the 1572 nova: Jerónimo Muñoz and his Book on the New Comet0
Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus0
Were the tables of Ibn Isḥāq al-Tūnisī known in Paris c.1300?0
INDEX TO VOLUME 530
Index To Volume 540
A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th century: François Viète and his first lunar model0
Copernicus and Toruń0
An analysis of Ibn al-Shāṭir’s star table0
A comprehensive institutional history0
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
Astronomers in the chair0
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
Jan Walery Jędrzejewicz (1835–1887) and his Observations of Comets0
Present status of UBAI plate archive0
The artful early instruments of Peter Apian: Ein kunstlich Instrument of 1524, its precursors and its successors0
Toward a standardization of Hayʾa works0
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles0
Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt0
The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler0
Total solar eclipse of AD 1133 and ΔT0
Astronomical handbooks in 16th-century South Asia: Analysis of mean planetary motions in the 1520 Graha-lāghava of Gaṇeśa Daivajña0
Reducing meridian circle observations in positional astronomy0
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri0
Observational astronomy and the mapping of Brazil at the turn of the 20th century0
Dia tōn grammōn: Hipparchus on simultaneous risings and settings0
The “logic” of diagrams in the Spherics of Theodosios0
Paul Kunitzsch (1930–2020)0
Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis0
Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions0
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World0
A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse0
The heliocentric path of the Moon0
Accuracy of medieval Chinese and Middle-Eastern timings of eclipses0
Early application of kinetic theory of gases to star clusters0
Index to Volume 550
Determining the right time, or the establishment of a culture of astronomical precision at Neuchâtel Observatory in the mid-19th century0
On some early Latin European measurements of the eccentricity of the solar orbit (1308–1314)0
The book everybody read0
Bridging the gap between archaeology and archaeoastronomy0
Astronomical dialogues with learned ladies0
Traversing the ancient Egyptian skies Astronomy of Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Perspective. Edited by BelmonteJuan AntonioLullJosé (Springer, Cham, 2023). Pp. xxxviii + 588. $180. ISBN 9783031118289.0
The recurrent nova T CrB had prior eruptions observed near December 1787 and October 1217 AD0
Drawing Science0
An astronomical analysis of the data in the pseudo-Hipparchus palimpsest in the Codex Climaci Rescriptus0
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 13040
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets0
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe0
The discovery and naming of Trojan asteroids0
Poetic Structures of the Cosmos0
Time-keeping devices and astronomy0
A biography of Gottfried Kirch0
John L. Heilbron, 1934–20230
A critical assessment of questionable solar eclipse memories in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE0
Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941–20210
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium0
A Festschrift on Early Astronomy0
A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite0
Astrology and the Archduke: Two unpublished letters by Tycho Brahe on the horoscope of Albert VII of Austria0
Stella Insolita: The comet of 1114, a lost chronicle and the Empress Matilda0
‘El Capri Kylex’: A Franciscan astronomical mnemonic0
Printing the book everybody read0
José Chabás, 1948–20240
The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument?0
New stars, old cosmologies in early modern Europe0
Physicists becoming astronomers0
An astrological practitioner analyzed0
Stellar movements and working hypotheses: A.S. Eddington’s early astronomical career0
Astronomical or political: Interpretation of comets in times of crisis in Qing China0
Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited)0
Women in Glass: Women at the Harvard Observatory during the Era of Astronomical Glass Plate Photography, 1875–19750
Jesuit and scientist Angelo Secchi and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Multidisciplinary Contributions of a Pioneer and Innovator. ChinniciIleanaConsolmagnoGuy (eds) (Springer Nature, Cham, 2021). Pp.0
130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1893–2023)0
Occultation records in the Royal Frankish Annals for A.D. 807: Knowledge transfer from Arabia to Frankia?0
Research on the Expansion-Contraction Difference and Limit Degree in ancient Chinese planetary theory: The case of outer planets0
Amici’s double star observations0
A Muñoz Biography0
Managing innovation in telescope making0
François Viète and his analysis of the Copernican lunar model0
Hipparchos and the ancient analemma0
Two biographies of Vera Rubin0
Astronomical observations in Bologna, Montpellier, and Genoa in the early 14th century: Iohannes de Luna Theutonicus revisited0
An inside story of the NRAO0
Cosmography and its histories0
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