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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James	4
Finding a Point of Observation in the Global South: The C. L. Gerling and J.M. Gilliss Correspondence (1847–1856)	3
Longomontanus’ Model for the Longitudes of Mars	3
Otto von Guericke’s Cometary Theory in Stanisław Lubieniecki’s Correspondence	2
Women in Glass: Women at the Harvard Observatory during the Era of Astronomical Glass Plate Photography, 1875–1975	2
Three Gallo-Roman bronze disks with astral inscriptions	2
The Greek portable sundial from Memphis rediscovered	2
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy	2
Bi-Daily Venus in the Medieval Thought of William of Conches: Explaining an Uncommon Celestial Event by Circumsolarity	2
Gilding Kepler’s cosmology	2
In Secchi’s Own Words	2
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia	2
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging	2
The recurrent nova T CrB had prior eruptions observed near December 1787 and October 1217 AD	2
130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1893–2023)	2
The torquetum (or turketum): Was it an observing instrument?	2
On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence	2
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables	2
Proposals to Move the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1836–1944	1
An astrological practitioner analyzed	1
Trust in Glass: Negotiating the Purchase of the Object Glass for the Airy Transit Circle	1
Hipparchus in French	1
Zodiacs and monuments: An early pictorial “horoscope” from Egypt	1
Paul Kunitzsch (1930–2020)	1
The coolest book cover ever	1

Speaking of Comets	1
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri	1
Thirty years of the HST	1
‘El Capri Kylex’: A Franciscan astronomical mnemonic	1
Stars and Constellations in Medieval Manuscripts	1
Medieval Structures of Astrology	1
Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century	1
Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis	1
Drawing Science	1
The Determination of Stellar Temperatures From Baron B. Harkányi to the Gaia Mission	1
On the origin of the 12 zodiac constellation system in ancient Mesopotamia	1
Building the Standard Cosmological Model	1
An Encyclopaedic Biography	1
Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of the Secant Function	1
José Monteiro da Rocha (1734–1819) and His 1782 Work on the Determination of Comet Orbits	1
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU	1
An analysis of Ibn al-Shāṭir’s star table	1
Myth and meteorology	1
Astrologica athribitana: Four demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and ANAsh.Mus.D.O.633 reedited)	1
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s	1
Astronomical dialogues with learned ladies	1
Completing the National Edition of Galileo	1
Astrology and the Archduke: Two unpublished letters by Tycho Brahe on the horoscope of Albert VII of Austria	1
Amici’s double star observations	1
Hevelius’ Observational Instruments	1
Machines for representing the cosmos	1
More ancient Greek sundials	1
Six hundred calendar makers	1
Completing the Copernicus Gesamtausgabe	1
Asteroids Around 1800	1
Numerical tables in the history of astronomy	1
Algol anomaly or careful observations of its brightness? The values recorded for the magnitude of Algol in the medieval astronomical corpus	1
A Festschrift on Early Astronomy	1
Constructing the Electric Eye: Situating the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Wisconsin Collection of Photoelectric Detectors in Historical Context	1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium	1
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	1
A Spanish study of the 1572 nova: Jerónimo Muñoz and his Book on the New Comet	1
A handbook of medieval Latin astronomical tables	1
Astronomy and the Archduke: Unpublished Letters on SN1604 by Brengger, Coignet, and Kepler in the Archives of Albert VII of Austria	1
From Mythology to Astronomy: Lists and Catalogues of Variable Stars	1
The 1970–1984 lunar laser ranging observations in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory	1
Early Modern Comets and Printing	1
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents	1
Astronomical predictions of the Antichrist	1
Photographing Indian observatories	1
Noel M. Swerdlow, 1941–2021	1
The Tychonic Method for Calculating the Ratio between the Eccentricities of Mars	1
Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World	1
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	1
St. Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste on the nature and causes of comets	1

A possible reference to the solar corona in a contemporary report of the AD1239 eclipse	1
A Book with Postage Stamps	1
A biography of Gottfried Kirch	1
Late Byzantine astronomy	1
Astronomy in service of the nation	1
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology	1
Abū Ma‛šar’s astrological classic in English	1
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 1304	1
The “Big Four”	1
Training early modern navigators	1
A Marvellous Connection: Longomontanus’ Battle With the Latitudes of Mars	1
Astronomy and enlightenment in Berlin circa 1800	1
Ibn Ezra from Hebrew to Latin	1
Interdisciplinarity and Modern Cosmology	1
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources	1
Astronomical Instruments in the Ottoman Empire	1
Jan Walery Jędrzejewicz (1835–1887) and his Observations of Comets	1
William Herschel’s Astronomical Work	1
The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler	1
New Light on the Main Instrument of the Samarqand Observatory	1
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy	1
Determining the right time, or the establishment of a culture of astronomical precision at Neuchâtel Observatory in the mid-19th century	1
John Harrison’s clockmaking science	1
The Search for Dark Energy	1
Peurbach’s influential textbook	1
A festschrift for Clive Ruggles	1