OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Astronomy in service of the nation	9
The astronomy of Tawantinsuyu	8
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes	6
Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century	5
John of Lignères as a table compiler	3
Thirty years of the HST	2
Machines for representing the cosmos	2
A new edition and translation of Pico’s Disputationes	2
Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis	2
A definitive survey of Iberian and Maghribī astronomy	2
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources	2
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables	2
Indicating hours in ancient cultures	2
Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’	2
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	2
The coolest book cover ever	2
Gauging the Herschels’ star gauging programme	1
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor	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
Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of the Secant Function	1
Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology	1
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	1
John Harrison’s clockmaking science	1
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics	1
G.B. Riccioli’s geo-heliocentric use of Epicepicycles, ellipses and spirals	1

On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence	1
Aristotle on the celestial spheres	1
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology	1
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging	1
An Introduction to English Calendars	1
The Tychonic Method for Calculating the Ratio between the Eccentricities of Mars	1
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents	1
The Greek portable sundial from Memphis rediscovered	1
Twentieth-century milestones in the history of the Russian ephemeris service: Marking 100 years of the Calculation Institute and astronomical yearbook	1
Laplace in America	1
Investigating calendrical methods of calculating sunrise and sunset times in the Shixian calendar	1
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy	1
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
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation	1
Six hundred calendar makers	1
East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James	1
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy	1
More ancient Greek sundials	1
Medieval Structures of Astrology	1
Photographing Indian observatories	1
INDEX TO VOLUME 52	1
Peurbach’s influential textbook	1
Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical site	1
Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology	1
Owen Gingerich, 1930–2023	1
Erratum to ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’	1
Time in Pre-Columbian America	1
A much richer idea of modernity	1
Tycho Brahe’s Quadrans Muralis – A detailed review	1
A survey of Arabic astrolabe makers	1
Elias von Löwen (Crätschmair): An unrecognized pioneer of the research on optical libration of the Moon	1
Ad astra per aspera: From the Sewers of Kansas to Harvard College Observatory	1
Abū Ma‛šar’s astrological classic in English	1
BM 47886+47914, a Babylonian astral compendium with possible implications for the origin of the “year of the Sun”	1
Myth and meteorology	1
Annibale Riccò and the catoptric proof of the Earth’s curvature	1
On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis	1
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU	1
Late Byzantine astronomy	1
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s	1
The bizarre history of the astrological vault “El Cielo de Salamanca”	1
Training early modern navigators	1
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy	1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction	1