Journal for the History of Astronomy

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal for the History of Astronomy is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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
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