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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Indicating hours in ancient cultures13
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).9
François Viète and his versions of the Tychonic lunar models7
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 Sph6
Owen Gingerich, 1930–20234
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging3
Time in Pre-Columbian America3
On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence3
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor2
An unknown astronomical work on planetary theory from the Renaissance: Giulio Cesare Luchini’s Delle revolutioni delle sfere celesti libri IX (ca. 1581)2
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review2
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
From biblical chronology to criticism of astrology1
A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite1
Myth and meteorology1
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
Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’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
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
José Chabás, 1948–20241
An Introduction to English Calendars1
Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions1
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
A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium1
Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus1
François Viète and his analysis of the Copernican lunar model1
A national history of astronomy The History of Modern Astronomy in Japan. KogureTomokazu (Springer, Cham, 2021). Pp. xvi + 295. 171 €. ISBN 9783030570606.1
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation1
Parahitakaraṇam : A medieval formulary manual in the Kerala vernacular for calculating planetary mean longitudes1
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes1
A comprehensive institutional history1
Index to Volume 551
Hipparchos and the ancient analemma1
More ancient Greek sundials1
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology1
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World1
Occultation records in the Royal Frankish Annals for A.D. 807: Knowledge transfer from Arabia to Frankia?1
A Muñoz Biography1
Evidence of dark energy prior to its discovery1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction1
On some early Latin European measurements of the eccentricity of the solar orbit (1308–1314)1
A much richer idea of modernity1
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
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics1
Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited)1
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles1
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
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
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
Annibale Riccò and the catoptric proof of the Earth’s curvature1
Erratum to ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’1
Maya astronomy and the precession of the equinoxes1
Dia tōn grammōn: Hipparchus on simultaneous risings and settings1
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe1
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
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 new edition and translation of Pico’s Disputationes0
Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology0
A Festschrift on Early Astronomy0
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
Toward a standardization of Hayʾa works0
The astronomy of Tawantinsuyu0
The Greek portable sundial from Memphis rediscovered0
‘El Capri Kylex’: A Franciscan astronomical mnemonic0
Aristotle on the celestial spheres0
Medieval Structures of Astrology0
Peurbach’s influential textbook0
Twentieth-century milestones in the history of the Russian ephemeris service: Marking 100 years of the Calculation Institute and astronomical yearbook0
A cultural buffet of astral activity Imagining the Heavens Across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by BrentjesRanaBrentjesSonjaMastorakouStamatina (Milan: Mimesis International, Sesto0
Were the tables of Ibn Isḥāq al-Tūnisī known in Paris c.1300?0
Laplace in America0
Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis0
John L. Heilbron, 1934–20230
Bridging the gap between archaeology and archaeoastronomy0
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia0
John Harrison’s clockmaking science0
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 13040
Physicists becoming astronomers0
On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis0
Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology0
An astronomical analysis of the data in the pseudo-Hipparchus palimpsest in the Codex Climaci Rescriptus0
Total solar eclipse of AD 1133 and ΔT0
Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941–20210
The discovery and naming of Trojan asteroids0
130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1893–2023)0
Research on the Expansion-Contraction Difference and Limit Degree in ancient Chinese planetary theory: The case of outer planets0
Drawing Science0
The “logic” of diagrams in the Spherics of Theodosios0
Observational astronomy and the mapping of Brazil at the turn of the 20th century0
Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis0
Poetic Structures of the Cosmos0
A biography of Gottfried Kirch0
Astrologies in Germany, 1871–c. 1950 Sterne, Menschen, Politik: Die astrologische Bewegung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts by LechlerVolker (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin, 2025). Pp. ix + 610
Late Byzantine astronomy0
Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt0
Book Review: Representing China in the IAU China and the International Astronomical Union: Divorce, Separation and Reconciliation (1958–1982). MontmerleThierryZhouYi (Sp0
John of Lignères as a table compiler0
A critical assessment of questionable solar eclipse memories in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries CE0
Photographing Indian observatories0
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU0
A definitive survey of Iberian and Maghribī astronomy0
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy0
Reducing meridian circle observations in positional astronomy0
An inside story of the NRAO0
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
Cosmography and its histories0
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
A survey of Arabic astrolabe makers0
Elias von Löwen (Crätschmair): An unrecognized pioneer of the research on optical libration of the Moon0
G.B. Riccioli’s geo-heliocentric use of Epicepicycles, ellipses and spirals0
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
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s0
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
Time-keeping devices and astronomy0
The artful early instruments of Peter Apian: Ein kunstlich Instrument of 1524, its precursors and its successors0
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri0
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy0
A note on the new evidence for Hipparchus’ star catalogue0
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
Two biographies of Vera Rubin0
The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument?0
Index To Volume 540
Managing innovation in telescope making0
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
Stellar movements and working hypotheses: A.S. Eddington’s early astronomical career0
The recurrent nova T CrB had prior eruptions observed near December 1787 and October 1217 AD0
INDEX TO VOLUME 530
Astronomers in the chair0
Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin circa 18000
A Spanish study of the 1572 nova: Jerónimo Muñoz and his Book on the New Comet0
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
Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century0
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
Stella Insolita: The comet of 1114, a lost chronicle and the Empress Matilda0
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle0
An analysis of Ibn al-Shāṭir’s star table0
Astronomy in service of the nation0
Astronomical observations in Bologna, Montpellier, and Genoa in the early 14th century: Iohannes de Luna Theutonicus revisited0
East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James0
Thirty years of the HST0
Astronomical handbooks in 16th-century South Asia: Analysis of mean planetary motions in the 1520 Graha-lāghava of Gaṇeśa Daivajña0
New stars, old cosmologies in early modern Europe0
The bizarre history of the astrological vault “El Cielo de Salamanca”0
The book everybody read0
Gauging the Herschels’ star gauging programme0
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources0
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy0
Astrology and the Archduke: Two unpublished letters by Tycho Brahe on the horoscope of Albert VII of Austria0
Ad astra per aspera: From the Sewers of Kansas to Harvard College Observatory0
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables0
INDEX TO VOLUME 520
A handbook of medieval Latin astronomical tables0
Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical site0
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents0
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
Investigating calendrical methods of calculating sunrise and sunset times in the Shixian calendar0
Machines for representing the cosmos0
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)0
Copernicus and Toruń0
“Setting fire to the last forest”: Project West Ford and the mobilization of the astronomical community 1958–19650
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
Astronomical or political: Interpretation of comets in times of crisis in Qing China0
The heliocentric path of the Moon0
Early application of kinetic theory of gases to star clusters0
Accuracy of medieval Chinese and Middle-Eastern timings of eclipses0
Determining the right time, or the establishment of a culture of astronomical precision at Neuchâtel Observatory in the mid-19th century0
New observations on Francesco Fontana, Fabio Colonna, and Jusepe de Ribera’s man with a telescope0
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
Present status of UBAI plate archive0
Amici’s double star observations0
The coolest book cover ever0
An important Islamicate Z īj0
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
An astrological practitioner analyzed0
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