February 2001: Recent Publications Relating to the History of Astronomy

R. S. Freitag
Library of Congress

February 2001

Articles, Including Essays in Books and Papers in Proceedings

A–E | F–J | K–O | P–S | T-Z

Books and Pamphlets

Agar, Jon. Science and spectacle: the work of Jodrell Bank in post-war British culture. Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998. xx, 260 p. illus. (Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine, v. 5)

Ancient astronomy and celestial divination. Edited by N. M. Swerdlow. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1999. 378 p. illus. (Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology)

Contents: Swerdlow, N. M. Introduction.--1. Reiner, E. Babylonian celestial divination.--2. Rochberg, F. Babylonian horoscopy: the texts and their relations.--3. Walker, C. B. F. Babylonian observations of Saturn during the reign of Kandalanu.--4. Hunger, H. Non-mathematical astronomical texts and their relationships.--5. Grasshoff, G. Normal star observations in late Babylonian astronomical diaries.--6. Brack-Bernsen, L. Goal-year tablets: lunar data and predictions.--7. Aaboe, A. A new mathematical text from the astronomical archive in Babylon: BM 36849.--8. Britton, J. P. Lunar anomaly in Babylonian astronomy.--9. Swerdlow, N. M. The derivation of the parameters of Babylonian planetary theory with time as the principal independent variable.--10. Jones, A. A classification of astronomical tables on papyrus.--11. Goldstein,B. R., and A. C. Bowen. The role of observations in Ptolemy's lunar theories.--12. Tihon, A. Theon of Alexandria and Ptolemy's Handy Tables.

The Art of time. [Greenwich, Conn., Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 1999?] 44 p. illus. (part col.)

Exhibition checklist and errata slip laid in.
Contents: Sturges, H. Acknowledgments.--Smith, M. The art of time.--Snellenburg, J. Measuring time.--Ehlinger, C. Connecticutclocks.--Bartky, I. R. Nineteenth-century American timekeeping.--Adams, G. Time in art.

Astronomical amusements. Papers in honor of Jean Meeus. Edited by Fabrizio Bònoli, Salvo De Meis, Antonio Panaino. Roma, IsIAO; Milano, Mimesis, 2000. 158 p. illus., port.

Contents: Bònoli, F., S. De Meis, and A. Panaino. [Foreword]--Bezza, G. Le tavole del primum mobile nel medioevo.--Casanovas, J. A new approach to spherical astronomy.--Chapront-Touzé, M., and J. Chapront. Analytical ephemerides of the moon in the 20^th century.--De Meis, S., and A. Vitagliano. Some unusual Meeus portraits.--Denoyelle, J. My joint venture with Jean Meeus.--Goffin, E. Orbit determination without Gauss.--Huber, P. J. Modeling the length of day and extrapolating the rotation of the earth.--Magni, T. L'integrazione numerica di alta precisione per i non professionisti.--Marsden, B. G. Astronomical collisions.--Mucke, H. Zu der Entwicklung der Planetariums-Hauptprojektoren neueste Modelle von Zeiss nützen Daten von J. Meeus.--Panaino, A. An "Avestan" planetary order?--Romano, G. Matematica maya: ipotesi sulle operazioni aritmetiche.--Sinnott, R. W. A line of planets.

Bartky, Ian R. Selling the true time: nineteenth-century timekeeping in America. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi, 310 p. illus., facsims., group port., maps.

Besomi, Ottavio, and Michele Camerota. Galileo e il Parnaso Tychonico. Un capitolo inedito del dibattito sulle comete tra finzione letteraria a trattazione scientifica. Firenze, L. S. Olschki, 2000. 274 p. facsims. (Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studi e testi, 41)

Contents: pt. 1. Camerota, M. Galileo e il Parnaso Tychonico. 1. "Gran portento di foco." 2. "Un assemblea fatta in Parnaso avanti Apollo." 3. Parnaso Tychonico. 4. Assemblea celeste. 5. Academico Danico. 6. Esopo in Parnaso.--pt. 2. Testi. Edizione critica e note a cura di Ottavio Besomi. 1. Assemblea celeste. 2. Abbozzi di Mario Guiducci in risposta all'Assemblea celeste (Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms. Conv. Soppr. A.5. 1443).--Appendice. Discorso sopra il gran Cometa che si vede dal principio di Novembre di quest'anno 1618. Glossario dell''Assemblea Celeste.'

Borel, Pierre. Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralité des mondes. Ristampa anastatica dell'edizione Genève 1657 a cura di Antonella Del Prete. Lecce, Conte editore, 1998. xxiii, 80 p. (Aurifodina philosophica)

Brunier, Serge, and Jean P. Luminet. Glorious eclipses: their past, present, and future. Translated by Storm Dunlop. Paris, Bordas; Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 192 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.), maps (part col.)

First published as Éclipses, les rendez-vous célestes in 1999.
Contents: Brunier, S. Journeys of an eclipse chaser.--Luminet, J. P. The story of eclipses, the story of people.--Luminet, J. P. The dance of the Sun and Moon.--Brunier, S. The great cosmic clockwork.--Luminet, J. P. By the light of eclipses.--Bruner, S. 11 August 1999: the last eclipse of the millennium.--Atlas of eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
Includes information on occultations and transits.

Buffo, Alberto. Ouranos theorema. Cambridge, Mass., Bovolo Press, 2000. 338p. illus.

"A Dialogue on the subject of how the distances to the farthest reaches of the Universe have been measured and on the many attempts since Antiquity to understand the architecture of the Cosmos, with a digression or two on a few related matters."

Carvalho, Rómulo de. Colectânea de estudos históricos (1953-1994); cultura e actividades científicas em Portugal. Évora, Universidade de Évora, 1997. xxi, 538 p. illus., facsims., ports.

Partial contents: I. Temas e personalidades de ciência: actividade e pensamento científico em Portugal. Portugal nas "Philosophical Transactions," nos séculos XVII e XVIII (1956). Posição histórica da invenção de nónio de Pedro Nunes (1960). Relações científicas do astrónomo francês Joseph-Nicolas de l'Isle com Portugal (1965). Os nomes portugueses na carta da Lua (1967). A doutrina heliocêntrica de Copérnico e a sua aceitação em Portugal (1973). A aceitação, em Portugal, da filosofia newtoniana (1991).

Casati, Roberto. La scoperta dell'ombra; da Platone a Galileo, la storia di un enigma che ha affascinato le grandi menti dell'umanità. Milano, Mondadori, 2000. 278 p. illus., facsims.

"Eppure le ombre sono state la chiave per risolvere alcuni grandi problemi scientifici: il perché delle eclissi, le distanze tra terra, luna e sole, la forma e la dimensione della terra, la struttura del sistema solare. Contemplando le ombre si è riusciti, tra l'altro, a determinare la latitudine di un luogo, si è visto che la luna è costellata di valli e montagne, si è capito che Saturno è circondato da straordinari anelli e che la luce viaggia a velocità finita."

Chabás, José, and Bernard R. Goldstein. Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the transition from manuscript to print. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 2000. 196 p. facsims. (American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Transactions, v. 90, pt. 2)

Contents: Preface.--Introduction.--1. Abraham Zacut: supplementary notes for a biography.--2. Setting the scenes.--3. The Hibbur.--4. The Almanach Perpetuum.--5. The influence of Zacut's astronomical works.--Appendix 1. Zacut's Judgments of the astrologer.

Coles, Peter. Einstein and the total eclipse. Duxford, Cambridge, Icon Books; New York, Totem Books, 1999. 71 p. illus. (Postmodern encounters)

Constructions of time in the late Middle Ages. Edited by Carol Poster and Richard Utz. Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University Press, 1997. 206 p. illus. (Disputatio, an international transdisciplinary journal of the late Middle Ages, v. 2)

Partial contents: Travis, P. W. Chaucer's Chronographiae, the confounded reader, and fourteenth-century measurements of time.--Laird, E. S. Astrolabes and the construction of time in the late Middle Ages.--Cárdenas, A. J. A learned king enthralls himself: escapement and the clock mechanisms in Alfonso X's Libro del saber de astrologia.--Vilhjalmsson, T. Time and travel in Old Norse society.--Akkach, S. Ibn Arabî's cosmogony and the Sufi concept of space and time.

Conti, Giovan Stefano. Lettere a Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich. A cura di Edoardo Proverbio. Roma, Accademia nazionale delle scienze detta dei XL, 1996-98. 2 v. facsims. (Scritti e documenti, 18, 22) (Documenti boscovichiani, 4-5)

Contents: v. 1. 1760-1771.--v. 2. 1771-1784.

Couteau, Paul. Le ciel est mon jardin. Paris, Flammarion, 2000. 225 p.

Des astres et des hommes. Sous la direction de Pierre Erny. Paris, L'Harmattan, 1996. 205 p. illus. (Collection Culture et cosmologie)

Contents: Erny, P. Liminaire.--1. Erny, P. De l'ethnoastronomie.--2. Navet, E. Quelques réflexions sur l'idée d' "ethnoastronomie" et les "ethno ... quelque chose" à partir de la cosmologie des Indiens Ojibwé (Amérique du Nord).--3. Navet, E., and N. Mohia. Le proche et la lointain: éléments d'ethnoastronomie émérillon (Guyane Française).--4. Zahan, D. La lune "sale." Un thème cosmologique en Afrique méridionale et orientale.--5. Köhler, U. Le cycle lunaire et sa signification chez les Indiens mexicains.--6. Molet, L. Durée et temps à Madagascar.--7. Verdier, P. Les calendriers indo-européens.--8. Maillard, C. Dans le procès de l'astrologie, le rationalisme est-il tout à fait rationnel?--9. Viret, J. Musique et astronomie au Moyen Age: le cryptogramme "solaire" des notes de la gamme et la "musique céleste." --10. Triomphe, R. Le communisme et la lune. Contribution à une étude de la relance cosmique de l'idéologie soviétique.
Seven of these papers first appeared in the Série Astronomie et sciences humaines, published by the Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg.

DeVorkin, David H. Henry Norris Russell, dean of American astronomers. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. xix, 499 p., [8] p. of plates.

Dick, Steven J. Extraterrestrial life and our world view at the turn of the millennium. Dibner Library Lecture, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, May 2, 2000. [Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 2000] 47 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., col. port.

Drake, Stillman. Essays on Galileo and the history and philosophy of science. Selected and introduced by N. M. Swerdlow and T. H. Levere. Toronto, Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1999. 3 v. illus., facsims., plates, ports.

Contents: v. 1. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Prologue. Drake's speech on receiving the international Galileo Prize for History of Italian Science. pt. 1. Galileo: biographical and general. pt. 2. Galileo: bibliographical and textual studies. pt. 3. Galileo: scientific method and philosophy of science. pt. 4. Galileo: astronomy.--v. 2. pt. 5. Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. pt. 6. Galileo: motion and mechanics, including the Discourses on Two New Sciences.--v. 3. pt. 7. Galileo: instruments. pt. 8. History of science: ancient, medieval, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century. pt. 9. Philosophy of science and language. A bibliography of the writings of Stillman Drake. Index.

Drevniaia astronomiia: nebo i chelovek. Tezisy dokladov mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-metodicheskoi konferentsii (19-24 noiabria 1997 goda); programma konferentsii. Moskva, Komissiia po paleoastronomii EAAS, 1997. 68 p.

Drössler, Rudolf. 2000 Jahre Weltuntergang; Himmelserscheinungen und Weltbilder in apokalyptischer Deutung. Würzburg, Echter, 1999. 184 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.)

Contents: Das Jahr 2000 und der Weltuntergang.--Der lichte Tag wird zur Nacht.--Der Mond schwimmt in seinem Blut.--Kometen verkünden Unheil.--Planeten machen Geschichte.

Ducrocq, Albert. L'éclipse. Monaco, Éditions du Rocher, 1999. 259 p., [8] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.), port. + 1 éclipsographe.

Contents: 1. Quand une vague d'obscurité déferle.--2. Chaldéens et chinois observent longuement.--3. Une architecture conforme de l'univers: l'astronomie.--4. Le mouvement de la Lune fait le désespoir des astronomes.--5. Pourquoi une éclipse totale de Soleil est un phénomène critique.--6. Les ressources de l'informatique et de la règle à éclipse.--7. L'Éclipse la plus courte: beaucoup de grains de Baily.--8. La fantastique couronne du Soleil.--9. Planètes et étoiles d'un ciel étrange.--10. Les éclipses d'Einstein.--11. Quand finira le temps des éclipses.--12. Si la Lune n'avait pas existé.

Elst, Koenraad. Update on the Aryan invasion debate. New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 1999. 342 p.

Partial contents: 2. Astronomical data and the Aryan question. 2.1. Dating the Rg-Veda. 2.2. Ancient Hindu astronomy. 2.2.1. Astronomical tables. 2.2.2. Ancient observation, modern confirmation. 2.2.3. The start of Kali-Yuga. 2.3. The precession of the equinox. 2.3.1. The slowest hand on the clock. 2.3.2. Some difficulties. 2.3.3. Regulus at summer solstice. 2.3.4. One Veda can hide another. 2.4. Additional astronomical indications. 2.4.1. The Saptarshi cycle. 2.4.2. A remarkable eclipse. 2.4.3. Cosmic data in Vedic ritual. 2.4.4. The Zodiac. 2.4.5. India as the metropolis. 2.5. Conclusion.

Encyclopedia of the scientific revolution: from Copernicus to Newton. Editor, Wilbur Applebaum. New York, Garland Pub., 2000. xxxv, 758 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 1800)

al-Fargahni. Astronomicheskie traktaty. Perevod s arabskogo, vvodnaia stat´ia i kommentarii B. A. Rozenfel´da, I. G. Dobrovol´skogo, N. D. Sergeevoi; pri uchastii P. G. Bulgakova; pod nauchnoi redaktsiei B. A. Rosenfel´da. Otv. redaktor A. Akhmedov. Tashkent, Glav. red. Izdatel´sko-poligraficheskogo kontserna "Shark," 1998. 232 p. illus.

1543 and all that; image and word, change and continuity in the proto-scientific revolution. Edited by Guy Freeland, Anthony Corones. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. xv, 404 p. illus., facsims., plan, ports. (Australasian studies in history and philosophy of science, v. 13)

Partial contents: Kemp, M. Vision and visualisation in the illustration of anatomy and astronomy from Leonardo to Galileo.--Freeland, G. The lamp in the temple: Copernicus and the demise of a medieval ecclesiastical cosmology.--Corones, A. Copernicus, printing and the politics of knowledge.--Thomason, N. 1543--the year that Copernicus didn't predict the phases of Venus.--Brundell, B. Bellarmine to Foscarini on Copernicanism: a theologian's response.

Gaspani, Adriano. La cultura di Golasecca; cielo luna e stelle dei primi Celti d'Italia. Aosta, Keltia editrice, 1999. 239 p. illus., maps, plans. (Le Antiche querce, v. 13)

Contents: Introduzione.--1. L'astronomia dei Celti.--2. Gli eventi astronomici straordinari.--3. L'astronomia e i luoghi sacri.--4. I tumuli del X secolo a.C.--5. I recinti tombali.--6. Le necropoli.--7. Gli insediamenti.--Conclusione.

Gassendi, Pierre. Institution astronomique. Suivi du Discours inaugural tenu dans le Collège royal de Paris. Traduit pour la première fois du latin en français, avec un avertissement et des notes par Jean Peyroux. Bordeaux, J. Peyroux; Paris, Diff. A. Blanchard, 1997. 163 p. illus.

Translation of t. 4. of Gassendi's ‘uvres complètes (1658).

Gee, Emma. Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: astronomy in Ovid's Fasti. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 226 p. illus.

Die Geschichte der Astronomie in Berlin. Hrsg.: Dieter B. Herrmann, Karl-Friedrich Hoffmann. Berlin, Archenhold-Sternwarte und Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte Berlin [1998?] 159 p. illus., facsims., ports.

Contents: Johann Carion und der Beginn der Astronomie in Berlin.--Kalendermacher und der Beginn der akademischen Astronomie.--Johann Elert Bode.--Die Akademiesternwarte unter dem Direktorat von Encke.--Wilhelm Julius Foerster--Forschungsorganisation und Wissenschaftspopularisierung.--Arthur von Auwers und "Die Geschichte des Fixsternhimmels."--Astrophysik--ein neues Forschungsgebiet an der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Berliner Sternwarte.--Die astronomische Forschung nach dem II. Weltkrieg unter dem Dach der Akademie der Wissenschaften.--Universitäre Astronomie im geteilten Berlin.--Hundert Jahre populärwissenschaftliche Arbeit in der Astronomie.

Gingras, Yves, Peter Keating, and Camille Limoges. Du scribe au savant; les porteurs du savoir de l'Antiquité à la révolution industrielle. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2000. 361 p. illus., facsims., maps. (Science, histoire et société)

The first three chapters, on the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome, include brief sections relating to the history of astronomy. See particularly chapters 7 and 8, "La révolution astronomique: de l'humaniste au savant" (p. 211-244) and "De la philosophie mécaniste à l'univers mathématique" (p. 245-287).

Giorgetti, Renzo. Gli orologi da torre nella provincia di Lucca. Lucca, Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2000. 205 p. illus.

Giovanni Schiaparelli: storico della astronomia e uomo di cultura. Atti del Seminario di studi organizzato dall'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente e dall'Istituto di fisica generale applicata dell'Università degli studi di Milano. Milano, 12-13 maggio 1997, Osservatorio astronomico di Brera. A cura di Antonio Panaino e Guido Pellegrini. Milano, Mimesis--IsIAO, 1999. 193 p. illus., facsims. (Collana Mimesis)

Contents: Panaino, A., and G. Pellegrini. Prefazione.--Simili, R. Giovanni Schiaparelli astronomo e uomo di scienza.--Casaburi, M. Giovanni V. Schiaparelli e l'astronomia antico-testamentaria.--De Meis, S. Il Planetarium Babylonicum di G. V. Schiaparelli: problematiche astronomiche.--Hunger, H. Schiaparelli's notebook of Babylonian star names.--Mandrino, A. Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli archivista e l'archivio della Specola di Brera.--Panaino, A. Giovanni V. Schiaparelli e la storia dei più antichi calendari iranici. Con tre inediti di G. V. Schiaparelli ed una Nota di S. De Meis.--Pellegrini, G. Il Thema Mundi nell'Oriente e nell'Occidente. Presentazione.--Pellegrini, G. Le configurazioni planetarie e la nascita di Rma: una comunicazione di G. V. Schiaparelli ad A. Weber.--Bezza, G. Sulla tradizione del Thema Mundi.--Raffaelli, E. G. Il tema del mondo e il tema del Gayomard nel Bundahin.
The papers by Casaburi, De Meis, and Panaino, and the first paper by Pellegrini, are accompanied by short summaries in English.

Giuseppe Toaldo e il suo tempo, nel bicentenario della morte. Scienze e lumi tra Veneto e Europa. Atti del convegno, Padova, 10-13 novembre 1997. A cura di Luisa Pigatto; presentazione di Paolo Casini. Cittadella, Bertoncello Artigrafiche, 2000. xix, 1033 p. illus., facsims., maps, plans, ports. (Contributi alla storia dell'Università di Padova, 33)

Partial contents: Sessione 1. Maestri, amici, corrispondenti di Giuseppe Toaldo. Baldini, U. La formazione scientifica di Toaldo. Ferrighi, A. Toaldo, Cerato e la fabbrica della Specola astronomica di Padova: un sodalizio esemplare tra astronomo e architetto.--Sessione 3. L'astronomia e i suoi strumenti, le discipline correlate (geodesia, geografia ecc.) e gli osservatori pubblici nel Settecento. Bònoli, F. L'evoluzione degli strumenti d'osservazione astronomici nel Settecento. Tucci, P. Brera astronomers' contributions to Celestial Mechanics from 1776 to 1821. Triarico, C. La Specola di Leonardo Ximenes a Firenze e la catalogazione dei suoi strumenti. Casanovas, J. L'insegnamento dell'astronomia nei Collegi dei Gesuiti nel Settecento. Calisi, M. Le Specole romane nel Settecento. Contardi, S. Concezioni museali e collezionismo scientifico nella Toscana settecentesca: l'Imperiale e Regio Museo di fisica e storia naturale di Firenze. Pagliari, M. La longitudine: una conquista del XVIII secolo attesa a lungo.--Sessione 6. La meteorologia e le sue relazioni con le scienze della natura (agricoltura, botanica, medicina, fenomeni della natura). Casati, S. La meteorologia lunare di Toaldo.

Gotteland, Andrée, and Georges Camus. Cadrans solaires de Paris. Nouv. éd. rev. et corr. Paris, CNRS Éditions, 1997. 223 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., maps.

Hail, Raven. The Cherokee sacred calendar; a handbook of the ancient Native American tradition. Rochester, Vt., Destiny Books, 1999. 141 p. illus.

Hamou, Philippe. La mutation du visible; essai sur la portée épistémologique des instruments d'optique au XVII^e siècle. v. 1. Du Sidereus Nuncius de Galilée à la Dioptrique cartésienne. Villeneuve d'Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. 317 p., [8] p. of plates. illus., facsims. (Histoire des sciences)

Contents: Introduction. 1. ptie. La révélation galiléenne. ch. 1. Un message des étoiles. ch. 2. Vision télescopique et certitude sensible. ch. 3. L'optique de fortune. ch. 4. Le manifeste empiriste. ch. 5. L'expérience télescopique après Galilée--Gassendi, Hevelius, Huygens.--2. ptie. La lunette dans l'ordre des raisons: Kepler et Descartes. Avant-propos: "À la honte de nos sciences." ch. 6. "Fait et cause": la discussion képlerienne du message télescopique. ch. 7. Le "panégyrique géométrique" de l'instrument: Kepler, la Dioptrice de 1611. ch. 8. L'invention méthodique de la lunette: Descartes, la Dioptrique de 1637.

A History of science in the Netherlands: survey, themes and reference. Edited by Klaas van Berkel, Albert Van Helden, Lodewijk Palm. Leiden, Boston, Brill, 1999. xxvii, 659 p. illus., facsims., ports.

The history of astronomy is not separately treated, and there is no subject index. However, the section of biographies includes sketches of Isaac Beeckman, Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Johannes Hudde, Christiaan Huygens, Frederik Kaiser, Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert, Jan Hendrik Oort, Antonie Pannekoek, Willem de Sitter, Willibrord Snel, Jan Hendrick van Swinden, and Pieter Zeeman.

Holmberg, Gustav. Reaching for the stars: studies in the history of Swedish stellar and nebular astronomy, 1860-1940. Lund, Lund University, 1999. 243 p. illus. (Ugglan, Lund studies in the history of science and ideas, 13)

Contents: From classical astronomy to astrophysics: an introduction.--New technologies, new astronomy.--Charlier and stellar statistics.--Lundmark and the Lund Observatory.--From Uppsala and Stockholm to the stars.--The many cultures of astronomy.

Homet, Jean M. Cadrans solaires en Queyras. Photographies de Franck Rozet. Aix-en-Provence, Édisud, 2000. 117 p. col. illus., col. map.

IAU Colloquium, 178th, Cagliari, 1999. Polar motion: historical and scientific problems. Edited by Steven Dick, Dennis McCarthy, and Brian Luzum. Historical sessions. San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, v. 208) p. 1-219. illus., facsims., maps, ports.

Contents: Dick, S. J. Polar motion: a historical overview on the occasion of the centennial of the International Latitude Service.--pt. 1. History of early polar motion research. Abalakin, V. K. On Leonhard Euler's contribution to the theory of precession and nutation. Melchior, P. J. Theories of polar motion from Tisserand to Poincaré (1890-1910). Verdun, A., and G. Beutler. Early observational evidence of polar motion. Débarbat, S. V. Latitude observations at Paris Observatory prior to the ILS. Stavinschi, M. Romanian contribution to the study of polar motion. ...íma, Z. The observations of latitude changes measured in Prague. Brosche, P. Küstner's observations of 1884-85: the turning point in the empirical establishment of polar motion. Carter, M. S., and W. E. Carter. Seth Carlo Chandler Jr.: the discovery of variation of latitude.--pt. 2. History of the International Latitude Service, Bureau international de l'heure, International Earth Rotation Service and polar motion applications. Proverbio, E. The period of organization of the International Latitude Service: 1889-1899. Höpfner, J. On the contribution of the Geodetic Institute Potsdam to the International Latitude Service. Ehgamberdiev, S. A., S. K. Eshonkulov, and E. A. Litvinenko. Kitab as one of the five stations of the ILS: history and present. Uras, S., A. Poma, and P. Calledda. Browsing through the observing books of Carloforte. Guinot, B. History of the Bureau international de l'heure. Korsun, A. O. E. P. Fedorov as president of Commission 19 of the IAU during the period of the reorganization of ILS. Wilkins, G. A. Project MERIT and the formation of the International Earth Rotation Service. Mueller, I. I. The first decade of the IERS. Muller, P. M. Time and polar motion in early NASA spacecraft navigation.

Instrument--Experiment; historische Studien. Im Auftrag des Vorstandes der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik hrsg. von Christoph Meinel. Berlin, Diepholz, Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2000. 423 p. illus., facsims.

Partial contents: Staley, R. Michelson's interferometer: experiment or instrument?--Keil, I. Aus den Augsburger optischen Werkstätten des 17. Jahrhunderts.--Oestmann, G. Uhren- und Instrumentenbau in Norddeutschland: die Dynastie der Hager in Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.--Voskuhl, A. Schein und Strahlung: die Anfänge der Messung von Sonnenstrahlung im 19. Jahrhundert und ihre Replikation.

International Congress on the History of Sciences, 20th, Liège, 1997. Proceedings of the XX^th International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997). v. 5. The spread of the scientific revolution in the European periphery, Latin America and East Asia. Edited by Celine A. Lértora Mendoza, Efthymios Nicolaïdis and Jan Vandersmissen. pt. 3. East Asia. Turnhout, Brepols, 2000. (De diversis artibus, t. 45) p. 145-192. facsims.

Includes lists of the Chinese characters representing romanized terms used in the respective papers.
Contents: Fung, K.-W. Christopher Clavius and Li Zhizao.--Hashimoto, K. The earliest evidence of the introduction of Kepler's laws into China as is observed in the Lifa wenda.--Lu, D. Guimao yuan calendar (1732-1911) and Isaac Newton's theory of the moon's motion.--Cervera Jiménez, J. A. Dominican contributions to science in the 16th and 17th centuries. The example of Fray Juan Cobo in East Asia.

Istoriia astronomii v Rossii i SSSR. Pod red. V. V. Soboleva. Moskva, "IAnus-K," 1999. 589 p., [16] p. of plates. illus., ports.

Contents: Predislovie.--1. Sobolev, V. V. Obshchii obzor.--2. Guliaev, A. P., and M. S. Zverev. Astrometriia.--3. Kholshevnikov, K. V. Nebesnaia mekhanika.--4. Gurshtein, A. A., and I. N. Minin. Fizika solnechnoi sistema.--5. Gel´freikh, G. B., and E. V. Kononovich. Fizika solntsa.--6. Gorbatski, V. G. Fizika zvezd.--7. Voshchinnikov, N. V., and L. P. Osipkov. Galakticheskaia astronomiia.--8. Hagen-Thorn, V. A., and A. D. Chernin. Vnegalakticheskaia astronomiia.--9. Guliaev, A. P., and A. K. Kolesov. Astronomiia v universitetakh.--10. Hagen-Thorn, V. A., and A. K. Kolesov. Nauchnye uchrezhdeniia.

Jachím, Frantiek. Tycho Brahe: hvezdárova odysea z Dánska do Cech. Praha, Eminent, 2000. 214 p., [32] p. of plates. illus., facsims., ports.

Jackson, Myles W. Spectrum of belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2000. 284 p. illus., facsims., ports.

Jaki, Stanley L. The limits of a limitless science, and other essays. Wilmington, Del., ISI Books, 2000. 246 p.

Partial contents: 2. Extraterrestrials, or better be moonstruck?--4. The Biblical basis of Western science.--5. The inspiration and counter-inspiration of astronomical phenomena.--8. The reality of the universe.--9. A telltale meteor [ALH 84001]--10. Cosmology: an empirical science?

Jordanus, Nemorarius. Il planisfero di Giordano Nemorario. [A cura di] Rocco Sinisgalli, Salvatore Vastola. Fiesole, Edizioni Cadmo, 2000. 95 p. illus. (Domus perspectivae, 6)

Latin and Italian in parallel columns.

Jungnickel, Christa, and Russell McCormmach. Cavendish: the experimental life. Rev. ed. Lewisburg, Pa., Bucknell, 1999. xvi, 814 p. illus., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.

In the third part, "Henry Cavendish," see particularly chapter 6, "Earth," with sections entitled "Philosophical Tours in Britain," "Entire Globe," "Weighing the World," and "The Cavendish Experiment."
Although the index contains no heading for astronomy, among the relevant topics treated or touched on are the Greenwich-Paris triangulation, the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus, the Hindu calendar, stars, double stars, comets, marine chronometers, and telescopes.
This revision includes, as part four, "Henry Cavendish's Scientific Letters" (p. 515-731). Among his correspondents, listed on p. 527, were Nevil Maskelyne, William Herschel, Charles Blagden, and John Michell.

Karl Friedrich Zöllner and the historical dimension of astronomical photometry. A collection of papers on the history of photometry. C. Sterken, K. B. Staubermann [eds.] Brussels, VUB Press, 2000. 186 p. illus., facsims., map, ports.

Contents: Sterken, C., and K. B. Staubermann. Preface.--I. Instruments of Zoellner's era. 1. Hearnshaw, J. B. Nineteenth century visual photometers and their achievements. 2. Geyer, E. H. The reversion spectrometer of Karl Friedrich Zöllner. 3. Geyer, E. H. Friedrich Magnus Schwerd (1792-1871) and his double-beam photometer. 4. Bartha, L. Zöllner and Zöllner-type photometers in Hungary. 5. Staubermann, K. B., and others. The replication of an original Zöllner-photometer. 6. Staubermann, K. B. Lessons from replicating Zöllner's photometer.--II. Zoellner's photometric data. 7. Sterken, C. Astrophysical insights based on archeo-photometry. 8. Sterken, C. The data content of Zöllner's catalogue. 9. Sterken, C., and K. B. Staubermann. Visual magnitudes based on Zöllner's catalogue.--III. Zoellner's personality. 10. Dick, W. R. Friedrich Zöllner's personal papers. 11. Dick, W. R., and G. Münzel. Friedrich Zöllner's correspondence with Wilhelm Foerster. 12. Münzel, G. Friedrich Zöllner's relation to the staff of Leipzig observatory.--IV. Studies on K.-F. Zoellner. 13. Herrmann, D. B. Zöllner studies at Archenhold Obsrvatory 1974-1994. 14. Hamel, J. Bibliography of publications by K.-F. Zöllner 1834-1882.

Kertz, Walter. Geschichte der Geophysik. Hrsg. von Ruth Kertz und Karl-Heinz Glassmeier. Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1999. 376 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. (Zur Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Bd. 3)

Covers the period 1600-1939.
See particularly sections 6, "Streit um die Figur der Erde" (p. 69-81); 9, "Kurzzeitige Variationen des Magnetfeldes und Polarlichter" (p. 116-129); 10, "Das Gravitationsgesetz bewährt sich auf der Erde" (p. 130-138); 16, "Licht von der Sonne und aus den Polgebieten der Erde" (p. 225-245); and 17, "Lord Kelvin und das Alter der Erde" (p. 246-255).

Kirch, Gottfried. Astronomie um 1700. Kommentierte Edition des Briefes von Gottfried Kirch an Olaus
Römer vom 25. Oktober 1703. Von Klaus Dieter Herbst. Thun, Verlag H. Deutsch, 1999. 143
p. facsims., ports. (Acta historica astronomiae, v. 4)

Kochhar, Rajesh K., and Jayant V. Narlikar. Astronomy in India, past, present and future. Pune, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics; Bangalore, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 1993. 121 p., [12] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), facsims., ports. (part col.)

Contents: Preface.--1. Historical perspective.--2. Observational facilities.--3. The university sector.--4. Research in astronomy and astrophysics.--5. Professional societies.--6. Amateur and popular astronomy.--Directory of addresses.

Kraemer, Robert S. Beyond the moon: a golden age of planetary exploration, 1971-1978. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. xxix, 270 p., [8] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), group ports. (Smithsonian history of aviation and spaceflight series)

Langermann, Y. Tzvi. The Jews and the sciences in the Middle Ages. Aldershot, Hants, Brookfield, Vt., Ashgate Variorum, 1999. [318], 19 p. illus., facsims. (Variorum collected studies series, CS624)

Partial contents: 1. Science in the Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula: an interim report (first publication).--2. Sa'adya and the sciences (first publication).--3. Some astrological themes in the thought of Abraham ibn Ezra (1993).--4. Maimonides and astronomy: some further reflections (first publication).--6. Gersonides on the magnet and the heat of the sun (1992).--7. The astronomy of Rabbi Moses Isserles (1991).--9. The scientific writings of Mordekhai Finzi (1988).--10. The Hebrew astronomical codex Ms. Sassoon 823 (with Karl A. F. Fischer and Paul Kunitzsch, 1989).

The Legacy of J. C. Kapteyn; studies on Kapteyn and the development of modern astronomy. [Edited] by P. C. van der Kruit and K. van Berkel. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. xvii, 382 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Astrophysics and space science library, v. 246)

Contents: Kruit, P. C. van der, and K. van Berkel. Preface.--1. Blaauw, A. Meeting Kapteyn in the Kapteyn Room.--2. Heijden, P. van der. The 'lost letters' of J. C. Kapteyn.--3. Krul, W. E. Kapteyn and Groningen: a portrait.--4. Sitter, W. R. de. Kapteyn and de Sitter; a rare and special teacher-student and coach-player relationship.--5. Feast, M. W. Kapteyn and South Africa.--6. DeVorkin, D. H. Internationalism, Kapteyn and the Dutch pipeline.--7. Berkel, K. van. Growing astronomers for export: Dutch astronomers in the United States before World War II.--8. Smith, R. W. Kapteyn and cosmology.--9. Gingerich, O. Kapteyn, Shapley, and their universes.--10. Kinman, T. D. Kapteyn and the selected areas: a personal perspective.--11. Sullivan, W. T. Kapteyn's influence on the style and content of twentieth century Dutch astronomy.--12. Gilmore, G. F. Surveys and star counts: the Kapteyn legacy.--13. Perryman, M. A. C. Modern astrometry.--14. Kruit, P. C. van der. The Milky Way compared to external galaxies.--15. Schmidt, M. Kapteyn's (m, log r) table and cosmology.--16. Woltjer, L. Kapteyn's unfortunate universe.--Appendix: A. J. H. Oort's public lecture of 1926: "Non-Light-Emitting Matter in the Stellar System", introduced and translated by P. C. van der Kruit.--Appendix: B. Berkel, K. van, and P. C. van der Kruit. Note on E. R. Paul's translation of H. Hertzsprung-Kapteyn's biography of J. C. Kapteyn.

Lippincott, Kristen. The story of time. With Umberto Eco, E. H. Gombrich, and others. London, Merrell Holberton in association with National Maritime Museum, 1999. 304 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.), ports. (part col.)

Contents: Acknowledgements. Forewords. Preface.--Eco, U. Times.--1. The creation of time.--2. The measurement of time. North, J. D. From observation to record: astronomy in prehistory and the early civilizations. The movement of the sun and moon. Time in India. Ackermann, S. The principles and uses of calendars; political and social implications. Aveni, A. F. Mesoamerican and Andean timekeeping and calendars. King, D. A. Time and space in Islam. Loewe, M. Cyclical and linear concepts of time in China. Hendry, J. Cycles, seasons and stages of life; time in a Japanese context. MacDonald, J. Inuit time. Dekker, E. Of spheres and shadows. Mechanical timekeeping in Europe: the early stages. Betts, J. The growth of modern timekeeping; from pendulums to atoms.--3. The depiction of time. Gaskell, I. The image of vanitas; efflorescence and evanescence. Campbell, L. Time and the portrait. House, J. Seasons and moments; time and nineteenth-century art. Pointon, M. "These fragments I have shored against my ruins." Ades, D. Art and time in the twentieth century.--4. The experience of time. Fenlon, I. Music and time. Arnold, K. Does time heal? Time in the history of medicine. Gombrich, E. H. The history of anniversaries: time, number and sign. Fernández-Armesto, F. Time and history. Rudwick, M. Geologists' time: a brief history Morphy, H. Australian boriginal concepts of time. Spalinger, A. Egyptian time.--5. The end of time. Rees, Sir M. J. Understanding the beginning and the end.
The essays are interspersed with catalog descriptions of 312 items displayed at the exhibition held Dec. 1, 1999-Sept. 24, 2000, at the Queen's House, National Maritime Museum.

Littlewood, Kevin, and Beverley Butler. Of ships and stars; maritime heritage and the founding of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. London, New Brunswick, NJ, Athlone Press and the National Maritime Museum, 1998. xxiii, 275 p., [41] p. of plates. illus., facsims., plan, ports.

McGlone, Bill, Phil Leonard, and Ted Barker. Archaeoastronomy of southeast Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle. Kamas, UT, Mithras, 1999. 156 p., [32] p. of plates. illus. (part col.)

Mathesis. Festschrift zum siebzigsten Geburtstag von Matthias Schramm. Rüdiger Thiele (Hrg.). Berlin, Diepholz, Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2000. 348 p. illus., facsims., port.

Partial contents: Mathematik. Knobloch, E. Archimedes, Kepler, and Guldin: the role of proof and analogy.--Astronomie. Maeyama, Y. Zur geozentrischen Planetenbewegung; Methoden zum Studien der Astronomiegeschichte. Oestmann, G. Das Chronometer des Bremer Uhrmachers Johann Georg Thiele (1714-1784). Hamel, J. Die erste deutsche Übersetzung des Hauptwerkes von Nicolaus Copernicus um 1586.

Mazzucotelli, Mauro. Cultura scientifica e tecnica del monachesimo in Italia. Seregno, Abbazia San Benedetto, 1999. 2 v. (338 p., [8] leaves of plates) facsims. (Orizzonti monastici, 22)

Partial contents: IV. Astronomia. 1. Studi astronomici nei monasteri prima di Galileo. 2. Astronomia monastica nel XVII secolo. 3. I monaci della cerchia di Galileo. 4. Giovanni Alberto Colombo insegnante di astronomia e meteorologia.--V. Astronomia applicata. 1. Scienze nautiche. 2. Costruzione di strumenti ottici. 3. Trattatisti di gnomonica e costruttori di orologi solari. 4. Monaci e riforme del calendario. Cronologia.--X. Astrologia e alchimia. 1. Placido Titi: "l'Astrologia è vero scienza." 2. Benedetto Mazzotta astrologo e alchimista.
Relevant illustrations appear on plates 1, 2, and 4 in v. 1.

Mijangos Díaz, Eduardo N. Felipe Rivera. Astrónomo michoacano [1852-1920] In Sánchez Díaz, Gerardo, and Eduardo N. Mijangos Díaz. Las contribuciones michoacanas a la ciencia mexicana del siglo XIX. Morelia, Michoacán, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morevallado Editores, 1996. p. 113-120. ports.

Four articles by Rivera are reprinted, with illustrations, on p. 191-208. These are: "Uranografía" (1901); "La fotografía como auxiliar del estudio de la astronomía" (1906); "El eclipse total del 28 de mayo de 1900. Descripción del gran fenómeno" (1900); and "Reseña histórica de los principales eclipses totales de Sol en el siglo XIX" (1905).

Milbrath, Susan. Star gods of the Maya: astronomy in art, folklore, and calendars. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1999. 348 p., [23] p. of plates. illus., map. (The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies)

Contents: Introduction.--1. Contemporary Maya images of the heavens.--2. Naked-eye astronomy.--3. Precolumbian and Colonial period Maya solar images.--4. Precolumbian and Colonial period lunar images and deities.--5. Venus and Mercury: the body doubles.--6. The celestial wanderers.--7. Stars, the Milky Way, comets, and meteors.--Appendix 1. Guide to astronomical identities.--Appendix 2. Table of Classic period dates, monuments, and associated astronomical events.--Appendix 3. Table for calculating the Tzolkin intervals.--Glossary.

Millburn, John R. Adams of Fleet Street, instrument makers to King George III. With the kind support of the Scientific Instrument Society, London. Aldershot, Hants, Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2000. xix, 420 p. illus., facsims., geneal. tables, map.

The instruments made by George Adams Sr. and his two sons include armillary spheres, celestial globes, quadrants, sextants, octants, orreries, and telescopes.

Montgomery, Scott L. Science in translation: movements of knowledge through cultures and time. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000. 325 p. facsims.

Contents: Introduction. Transfers of learning, questions of influence.--pt. 1. The heavens through time and space; a history of translating astronomy in the West. 1. The era of Roman translation; from Greek science to medieval manuscript. 2. Astronomy in the East; the Syriac and Persian-Indian conversions. 3. The formation of Arabic science, eighth through tenth centuries; translation and the creation of intellectual traditions. 4. Era of translation into Latin; transformations of the medieval world.--pt. 2. Science in the non-Western world; levels of adaptation. 5. Record of recent matters; translation and the origins of modern Japanese science. 6. Japanese science in the making; of texts and translators. 7. Issues and examples for the study of scientific translation today. 8. Conclusion; gained in translation.

Mosello, Rosario. Orologi solari nell'arco alpino: le meridiane della Val d'Ossola. Domodossola, Edizioni Grossi, 1999. 260 p., [16] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), facsims., maps.

Summary in English: p. 229-237.

Nautical Almanac Office Sesquicentennial Symposium, Washington, D.C., 1999. Proceedings, Nautical Almanac Office Sesquicentennial Symposium, U.S. Naval Observatory, March 3-4, 1999. Edited by Alan D. Fiala and Steven J. Dick. [History] Washington, D.C., U.S. Naval Observatory, 1999. p. 9-177. illus., ports.

Contents: Fiala, A. D. Dedication of the history session to Leroy E. Doggett, 1941-1996.--Dick, S. J. History of the American Nautical Almanac Office.--Wilkins, G. A. The history of H.M. Nautical Almanac Office.--Waff, C. B. Navigation vs. astronomy: defining a role for an American nautical almanac.--Moyer, A. E. Simon Newcomb at the Nautical Almanac Office.--Gutzwiller, M. C. Wallace Eckert, computers, and the Nautical Almanac Office.--Carter, M. S., P. Cook, and B. J. Luzum. The contributions of women to the Nautical Almanac Office, the first 150 years.

Navarro Brotóns, Víctor, and Enrique Rodríguez Galdeano. Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la España del siglo XVI. Los Comentarios al segundo libro de la Historia Natural de Plinio de Jerónimo Muñoz. Valencia, Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Históricos sobre la Ciencia, Universitat de València-C.S.I.C., 1998. 664 p. (Cuadernos valencianos de historia de la medicina y de la ciencia, ser. A, 54)

The edition of the Comentarios (p. 254-659) is presented in Latin with Spanish translation on facing pages.

Le Nuove stelle. Il dialogo tra scienza e letteratura nella cultura moderna. Atti del convegno di S. Giovanni in Persiceto, 22 novembre 1997. A cura di Bruno Capaci. San Giovanni in Persiceto, Comune di San Giovanni in Persiceto, 1998. 95 p. illus., port.

Supplement to Strada maestra, n. 43, 2. semestre 1997.
Contents: Marulli, F., and G. Nicoli. Presentazione.--Capaci, B. Prefazione.--Battistini, A. Introduzione: Le ragioni di un dialogo.--Celli, G. Van Gogh e le stelle.--Battistini, A. Galileo e il telescopio nell'immaginario barocco.--Barbieri, C. Il telescopio nazionale Galileo.--Baffetti, G. Tradizione gesuitica e nuova astronomia: la ricezione del "Sidereus Nuncius" presso il Collegio Romano.--Braccesi, A. Galileo, Torricelli, Cartesio e Pascal: antefatti e discussioni sul pieno, il vuoto, il peso dell'aria e l'esperienza barometrica.--Capaci, B. Da Conti a Rezzonico. La poesia del cielo nel Settecento.--Dragoni, G. Isaac Newton (1642-1727): uno scienziato ai confini del pensiero.--Ferrarini, M. L'astrofilo in biblioteca: le riviste divulgative della Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Astronomia date in deposito alla Biblioteca "G. C. Croce" di San Giovanni in Persiceto.

Panaino, Antonio. Titrya. Roma, Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1990-95. 2 v. illus. (Serie orientale Roma, 68)

Contents: pt. 1. The Avestan hymn to Sirius.--pt. 2. The Iranian myth of the star Sirius.

Paschos, Emmanuel A., and P. Sotiroudis. The schemata of the stars; Byzantine astronomy from A.D. 1300. Singapore, River Edge, N.J., World Scientific, 1998. xiv, 213 p. illus. (part col.), facsims.

Provides Greek text, with English translation on facing pages, of [in Greek: Peri ton schematon ton asteron], ascribed to Gregory Chioniades.

Peebles, Curtis. Asteroids; a history. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. 280 p., [8] p. of plates. illus., port.

Perspectives arabes et médiévales sur la tradition scientifique et philosophique grecque. Actes du colloque de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques), Paris, 31 mars-3 avril 1993. Édité par Ahmad Hasnawi, Abdelali Elamrani-Jamal et Maroun Aouad. Préf. de Roshdi Rashed. Leuven, Peeters; Paris, Institut du monde arabe, 1997. xiv, 665 p. illus. (Orientalia lovaniensia analecta, 79)

Partial contents: Morelon, R. Le Livre des hypotheses de Claude Ptolémée et la lecture de cet auteur en langue arabe.--Saliba, G. A redeployment of mathematics in a sixteenth-century Arabic critique of Ptolemaic astronomy.--Pingree, D. Masha'-allah: Greek, Pahlavi, Arabic and Latin astrology.--Lemay, R. Acquis de la tradition scientifique grecque confrontés aux réalités des civilisations médiévales: cas particulier de l'astrologie-cosmologie.--Federici Vescovini, G. Perspectives médiévales sur l'astronomie ancienne: l'astronomie arabe du IX^e au XII^e siècle et le témoignage de Pierre de Padoue (le Lucidator dubitabilium astronomiæ, 1303-1310).

Poirier, Jean P. Ces pierres qui tombent du ciel. Paris, Éditions Le Pommier, 1999. 159 p. (Leçons de choses)

"Les météorites, du prodige à la science."

Principio di secol novo; saggi su Galileo. A cura di L. A. Radicati di Brozolo. Pisa, Cassa di risparmio, 1999. xxi, 374 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.), ports. (part col.)

Partial contents: Garin, E. Galileo filosofo.--Radicati di Brozolo, L. A. Il libro della natura.--Maccagni, C. La cosmologia di Galileo.--Brandmüller, W. Galileo e la chiesa alla luce della storia di pensiero.--Howald-Haller, M. Le meraviglie del cielo nel cannocchiale di Galileo.--Maffei, L., and A. Fiorentini. Galileo al telescopio: che cosa il suo cervello disse al suo occhio.--Baldo-Ceolin, M. Galileo e il telescopio.

Riccobono, Nanni. Tunguska: un'avventura nella taiga siberiana per risolvere il mistero dei corpi celesti che minacciano la Terra. Milano, Rizzoli, 2000. 239 p., [8] p. of plates. illus. (part col.), maps.

On the 1999 Italian expedition led by Giuseppe Longo.

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de. Il Trattato de la spera. Volgarizzato da Zucchero Bencivenni. Edizione critica a cura di Gabriella Ronchi. Firenze, Presso l'Accademia della Crusca, 1999. 212 p. (Quaderni degli "Studi di filologia italiana," 15)

Sakai, Masato. Reyes, estrellas y cerros en Chimor; el proceso de cambio de la organización espacial y temporal en Chan Chan. Lima, Perú, Editorial Horizonte, 1998. 139 p. illus. (part col.) (Arqueología e historia, 11)

Sanchez, Jean C. Le Pic du Midi de Bigorre et son observatoire; historie scientifique, culturelle et humaine d'une montagne et d'un observatoire scientifique. Pau, éditions Cairn, 1999. 334 p. illus., maps. (Lieux de mémoire pyrénéens)

Contents: Coupinot, G. Préface.--Introduction.--1. Légende et découverte géographique d'un pic des Pyrénées centrales.--2. Les savants à la conquête du Pic du Midi.--3. Le projet d'Observatoire: les hommes et les sciences du XIX^e siècle à la conquête du Pic du Midi.--4. La fondation de l'Observatoire, 1867-1882.--5. L'époque héroïque, 1892-1920.--6. Un très actif établissement scientifique, 1920-1937.--7. Espoirs et rêves dans une période troublée, 1937-1947.--8. Les "Trente Glorieuses."--9. Les menaces de fermeture.--En guise de conclusion, ou à la recherche d'un observatoire perdu.--Chronologie de l'Observatoire du Pic du Midi de Bigorre.--Annexes.--Sources et bibliographie.

Sartori, Eric. Histoire des grands scientifiques français, d'Ambroise Paré à Pierre et Marie Curie. Préf. de Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. Paris, Plon, 1999. 425 p., [16] p. of plates. illus., ports.

Partial contents: Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827). L'intelligence du monde.--François-Dominique Arago (1786-1853). La jeuness de la science.

Schiaparelli, Giovanni V. La vita sul pianeta Marte. Tre scritti di Schiaparelli su Marte e i "marziani." A cura di Pasquale Tucci, Agnese Mandrino e Antonella Testa. Milano, Mimesis, 1998. 116 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.)

Contents: Tucci, P. Premessa.--Elenco e didascalie delle tavole.--Tucci, P. Fu solo illusione? I canali di Marte tra il 1877 e il 1910.--Mandrino, A. G. V. Schiaparelli, memoria storica dell'Osservatorio di Brera: breve nota.--Testa, A. Il telescopio rifrattore Merz da 218 mm (8.05 pollici francesi): scheda.--Nota editoriale.--Schiaparelli, G. V. Il pianeta Marte (1893).--Schiaparelli, G. V. La vita sul pianeta Marte (1895).--Schiaparelli, G. V. Il pianeta Marte (1909).

Schuetz, Melvin H. A Chesley Bonestell space art chronology. Parkland, Fla., Universal Publishers, 1999. xxxiii, 221 p.

Science antique, science médiévale (autour d'Avranches 235). Actes du colloque international (Mont-Saint-Michel, 4-7 septembre 1998). Édités par Louis Callebat et Olivier Desbordes. Hildesheim, New York, Olms-Weidmann, 2000. 469, [15] p., [39] p. of plates. illus., facsims. (part col.)

Partial contents: Holtz, L. Ms. Avranches, B.M. 235; étude codicologique.--Burnett, C. S. F. Avranches, B.M. 235 et Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 283.--Pingree, D. Avranches 235 dans la tradition manuscrite du Preceptvm Canonis Ptolomei [in English]--Puigvert i Planagumà, G. Textes communs au manuscrit ACA Ripoll 225 et au manuscrit Avranches 235 [in Spanish]--Abry, J. Martianus Capella: la diffusion du livre 8 du De nvptiis dans les florilèges astronomiques.--Hübner, W. Une glose à la Massa compoti d'Alexandre de Villedieu contenant des vers sur le zodiaque.--Kunitzsch, P. La table des climats dans le corpus des plus anciens textes latins sur l'astrolabe.--Poulle, E. Astrolabivm, astrolapsvs, horologivm: enquête sur un vocabulaire.

Sciences exactes et sciences appliquées à Alexandrie. Textes réunis et édités par Gilbert Argoud et Jean-Yves Guillaumin. Astronomie. Saint-Étienne, 1998. (Centre Jean-Palerne. Mémoires, 16) p. 289-395. illus.

Contents: Bakhouche, B. L'héritage alexandrin (III^e a.c.-I^er p.c.) dans les textes latins d'astronomie.--Abry, J. H. Les anaphorai des signes du zodiaque dans les écrits astrologiques.--Hübner, W. Astrologie et mythologie dans la Tétrabible de Ptolémée d'Alexandrie.--Feraboli, S. Astrotesie celesti in antichi cataloghi stellari.--Santini, C. Sulle tracce dei catasterismi di Eratostene a Roma.--Delattre, J. Théon de Smyrne: modèles mécaniques en astronomie.

Standage, Tom. The Neptune file; a story of astronomical rivalry and the pioneers of planet hunting. New York, Walker, 2000. 240 p. illus., facsims., ports.

La Stazione astronomica di Carloforte; immagini e strumentazione storica. A cura di Pino Calleda e Edoardo Proverbio. Cagliari, Cooperativa Universitaria Editrice Cagliaritana, 2000. 158 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.), col. map, ports.

Steele, John M. Observations and predictions of eclipse times by early astronomers. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. 321 p. illus., facsims., map. (Archimedes, v. 4)

Stephenson, Bruce, Marvin Bolt, and Anna F. Friedman. The universe unveiled: instruments and images through history. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press; Chicago, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, 2000. 152 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.), maps (part col.)

Contents: Acknowledgments.--Introduction.--Discovering space.--Discovering time.--Understanding the Earth.--Understanding the heavens.--Glossary.--Astronomical appendix.--Further reading.--List of illustrations.

Sweetnam, George K. The command of light: Rowland's school of physics and the spectrum. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 2000. xxv, 233 p. illus., ports. (American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Memoirs, v. 238)

Taton, René. Études d'histoire des sciences. Recueillies pour son 85^e anniversaire par Danielle Fauque, Myriana Ilic et Robert Halleux. Turnhout, Brepols, 2000. 544 p. illus., facsims., port. (De diversis artibus, t. 47)

Reprints of articles that were first published in periodicals, proceedings, and other collections.
Partial contents: Les origines et les débuts de l'Observatoire de Paris (1976).--Picard et la Mesure de la Terre (1987).--L'expédition géodésique de Laponie (avril 1736-août 1737) (1988).--Madame du Châtelet, traductrice de Newton (1969).--Sur une pièce nouvelle concernant les recherches de Clairaut sur la théorie de la Lune (1982).--Clairaut et le retour de la Comète de Halley (1980).

Thorel, Jean C. Robert Jonckheere, 1888-1974. Un Roubaisien, astronome à Hem, l'Observatoire de Hem, puis de Lille; ou, une passion pour les étoiles doubles. Hem, 1999. 60, 29, [1] p. illus. (part col.), map, ports.

Tomilin, Anatoli. TSaritsa neba. Moskva, "Sovremennik," 1998. 303 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Pod sen´iu druzhnykh muz)

Contents: 1. ch. Nebo nevooruzhennym glazom.--2. ch. Teleskopy shturmuiut nebo.--3. ch. Planety v vek radioteleskopov i raket.--4. ch. Mir zvezd.

Torno, Armando. La truffa del tempo; scienziati, santi e filosofi all'eterna ricerca di un orologio universale. Milano, Mondadori, 1999. 115 p. (Saggi)

Voelkel, James R. Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. 141 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Oxford portraits in science)

Whelan, Richard. The sun, the moon and the stars. Designed by Arnold Skolnick. Cobb, Calif., First Glance Books, 1998. 176 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. (part col.)

Subtitle on book jacket: "Art, literature, science & mythology."
The 185 illustrations, more than 150 of them in color, derive from many cultures and historical periods. The author's text is interspersed with quotations from Blake, Dickinson, Dryden, Emerson, Milton, Shakespeare, Shelley, Thoreau, Whitman, and others.

Wilk, Stephen R. Medusa: solving the mystery of the Gorgon. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. 277 p. illus.

See particularly chapters 6 and 7, "Mira and Algol" and "The Surrounding Sky" for the author's explanation of his belief that "the constellations and variable stars explain much about the myths of Perseus and Medusa, as well as Andromeda, Hesione, and Bellerophon and the Chimera."

Zichichi, Antonino. L'irresistibile fascino del tempo: dalla resurrezione di Cristo all'universo subnucleare. Milano, il Saggiatore, 2000. 299 p. illus., ports. (Nuovi saggi)

Zimmerman, Brett. Herman Melville: stargazer. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xiv, 142 p. facsims.

Contents: Introduction.--1. The Uranic muse: Melville's knowledge of astronomy.--2. The cosmic drama of Mardi.--3. Stars and spiritual navigation in Clarel.--4. Astronomical imagery and symbolic antitheses in Billy Budd.--Appendix 1. Catalogue of references to astronomical subjects in Melville's writings.--Appendix 2. More maps and drawings from Hiram Mattison's Atlas Designed to Illustrate Burritt's Geography of the Heavens.

Articles, Including Essays in Books and Papers in Proceedings

Abgrall, Philippe. La géométrie de l'astrolabe au X^e siècle. Arabic sciences and philosophy, v. 10, Mar. 2000: 7-77. illus.

Adelman, Saul J., and Michael M. Dworetsky. Dorothy N. Davis Locanthi. Physics today, v. 53, Apr. 2000: 88.

Aghjayan, George. William Stephen Mesrobian, 1943-1988 [i.e., 1998] In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1680. port.

Andersen, Johannes. In memoriam: Claudio Anguita. In International Astronomical Union. Information bulletin, 87, June 2000: 2.

Angerer, Martin. Die Museen der Stadt Regensburg. Einem Genie gewidmet--das Kepler-Gedächtnishaus. In Geschichte der Stadt Regensburg. Bd. 2. Hrsg. von Peter Schmid in Zusammenarbeit mit der Stadt Regensburg. Regensburg, Verlag F. Pustet, 2000. p. 961-963. illus.

See also, on p. 1182-1184 of Hermann Reidel's "Die Architektur der Dalbergzeit 1802/03-1810," a paragraph on, and an illustration of, an early 19th-century memorial honoring Kepler.

Anton, Ted. How much fun this is! Saul Perlmutter and the Supernova Cosmology Project. In his Bold science: seven scientists who are changing our world. New York, W. H. Freeman, 2000. p. 103-122.

Anton, Ted. Worlds in profusion: Geoffrey Marcy's planetary astronomy. In his Bold science: seven scientists who are changing our world. New York, W. H. Freeman, 2000. p. 55-77.

Armstrong, Thomas P., Stephen J. Shawl, Michael K. Bird, and Irene M. Engle. David B. Beard, 1922-1998. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1655-1656. port.

Ashmore, Patrick J. Archaeology and astronomy: a view from Scotland. Archaeoastronomy, v. 14, no. 2, 1999: 3-32. illus.

Ashwick, Brian, and Christopher Tucker. Gareth Hubert Stanley Jones, 1924-1997. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1672. port.

Athanassakis, Apostolos N. The Pelêades of Alcman's Partheneion and modern Greek Poulia. Ancient world, v. 31, no. 1, 2000: 5-14.

Aveni, Anthony F. Solving the mystery of the Nasca lines. Archaeology, v. 53, May/June 2000: 26-35. illus. (part col.), col. maps.

"Forget about runways for ancient astronauts. These famous geoglyphs were paths meant to be walked in rituals related to the acquisition of water."
Includes two boxes, "A Stupendous Feat of Engineering?" (p. 31) and "The Desert Zoo Parade" (p. 32-33).

Aveni, Anthony F., and Giuliano Romano. Temple orientations in Magna Graecia and Sicily. In Archaeoastronomy. no. 25; 2000. Cambridge, Science History Publications. p. S51-S57. illus.

Bahcall, John N., and Raymond Davis. The evolution of neutrino astronomy. In Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Publications, v. 112, Apr. 2000: 429-433. group port. (Millennium essay)

Balthasar, Horst, and Helmut Artus. 75 Jahre Einsteinturm. Sterne und Weltraum, 39. Jahrg., Nr. 8, 2000: 634-639. col. illus.

Barker, Peter. The role of religion in the Lutheran response to Copernicus. In Rethinking the scientific revolution. Edited by Margaret J. Osler. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. p. 60-88. facsims.

Barnbaum, Cecilia S. Our and astronomy's loss. Mercury, v. 29, July/Aug. 2000: 7. port.

On the death at age 92 of Philip C. Keenan, on Apr. 20, 2000

Bartky, Ian R. Chicago's Dearborn Observatory: a study in survival. Journal of astronomical history and heritage, v. 3, Dec. 2000: 93-114. illus., facsims., ports.

Bastakoty, Khila N. Ancient Nepalese astro-science. In Revisiting Indus-Sarasvati age and ancient India. Editors, Bhu Dev Sharma and Nabarun Ghose. Atlanta, GA, World Association for Vedic Studies, USA, 1998. p. 311-316.

Beebe, Herbert A. James Cuffey, 1911-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1658-1659. port.

Beech, Martin, and David W. Hughes. Seeing the impossible: meteors in the Moon. Journal of astronomical history and heritage, v. 3, June 2000: 13-22.

Bennett, J. A. Instruments and illustrations in eighteenth-century astronomy. In Science and the visual image in the Enlightenment. Edited by William R. Shea. Canton, MA, Science History Publications/USA, 2000. (European studies in science history and the arts, 4) p. 137-154. facsims.

Bònoli, Fabrizio. Coronelli astronomo e i globi celesti. In Un Intellettuale europeo e il suo universo: Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718). A cura di Maria Gioia Tavoni. Bologna, Costa Editore, 1999. p. 139-161. illus. (part col.), facsims.

English summary: p. 260-261.
Additional illustrations relating to celestial globes appear on p. 69, 136, 138, and 198.

Brown, Laurel. The astronomy of the Kerkennah Islands. Mercury, v. 30, Jan./Feb. 2001: 34-35. illus., map.

"Fishermen from isolated Mediterranean islands have developed their own unique brand of astronomy."

Brück, Hermann A. Recollections of life as a student and a young astronomer in Germany in the 1920s. Journal of astronomical history and heritage, v. 3, Dec. 2000: 115-129. illus., ports.

With an introduction by Mary T. Brück, who notes that the paper "is an edited extract from reminiscences which he wrote for his family."

Burns, Jack O., Harvey Moseley, and Ryszard Pisarski. Richard Allen White, 1946-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1693-1694. port.

Burns, William E. "The terriblest eclipse that hath been seen in our days": Black Monday and the debate on astrology during the Interregnum. In Rethinking the scientific revolution. Edited by Margaret J. Osler. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. p. 137-152.

"This essay is an attempt to read the English reception of a particular incident--the 'Black Monday' solar eclipse of March 29, 1652--not as an episode in the Scientific Revolution (although such a reading is possible), but as the clash of a variety of positions on natural phenomena and their meaning for humanity."

Burton, W. Butler. Gijsbert van Herk, 1907-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1689-1690. port.

Campbell, Donald B., Herbert Carlson, Alexander Muslimov, Mohammed Noori, and Hugh M. Van Horn. Valentin Boriakoff, 1938-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1656-1657. port.

Catani, Remo. The polemics on astrology 1489-1524. Culture and cosmos, v. 3, autumn/winter 1999: 16-30.

Clark, George W. Bruno Benedetto Rossi. 13 April 1905-21 November 1993. In American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Proceedings, v. 144, Sept. 2000: 329-341. port.

An abridgment of the obituary published in the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 75 (1998).

Cuesta Domingo, Mariano. Los libros de náutica en tiempos de Carlos V. In Jornadas Nacionales de Historia Militar, 9th, Seville, 1999. El Emperador Carlos y su tiempo. Actas, IX Jornadas Nacionales de Historia Militar, Sevilla, 24-28 de mayo de 1999. V. Descubrimientos. Madrid, Editorial Deimos, 2000. p. 657-681. facsims.

Cunningham, Clifford J. The first asteroid. Mercury, v. 30, Jan./Feb. 2001: 13. illus.

"The dawn of the new millennium also marks the bicentennial of one of astronomy's great discoveries."

Curry, Patrick. Astrology. In Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. v. 1. A-L. Editor, Kelly Boyd. London, Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. p. 55-57.

Reprinted as "Historical Approaches to Cosmology" in Culture and Cosmos, v. 4, spring/summer 2000, p. 3-9.

Cutri, Roc M. Robert M. Light, 1959-1998. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1676-1677. port.

Dambis, Andrei K., and Iurii N. Efremov. Dating Ptolemy's star catalogue through proper motions: the Hipparchan epoch. Journal for the history of astronomy, v. 31, May 2000: 115-134. illus.

Dedication: Walter J. Wild (1954-1999). In Adaptive optics systems and technology, 21-22 July 1999, Denver, Colorado. Robert K. Tyson, Robert Q. Fugate, chairs/editors. Bellingham, Wash., SPIE, 1999. (Proceedings of SPIE, v. 3762) p. xi. port.

Despoix, Philippe. Mesure du monde et représentation européenne au XVIII^e siècle: le programme britannique de détermination de la longitude en mer. Revue d'histoire des sciences, t. 53, avril/juin 2000: 205-233.

Summary in English.

DeVorkin, David H. Boris Garfinkel, 1904-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1666-1667. port.

DeVorkin, David H. Gerhard Herzberg, 1904-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1669-1670. port.

Dick, Steven J., and Wayne Orchiston. History of astronomy at the 2000 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union. Journal of astronomical history and heritage, v. 3, Dec. 2000: 165-168.

Dumont, Simone. Henri Mineur, 7 March 1899, Lille-7 May 1954, Paris. In IAP Meeting, 15th, 1999. XVth IAP Meeting, dynamics of galaxies: from the early universe to the present. Proceedings of the IAP Meeting held at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, IAP in Paris, France, 9-13 July 1999. Edited by F. Combes, G. A. Mamon, and V. Charmandaris. San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, v. 197) p. xxi-xxii. port.

"Compiled by Simone DUMONT from texts by Henri MINEUR himself, as well as his IAP colleagues Daniel BARBIER and Daniel CHALONGE, as well as Jean DUFAY and Jacques LEVY."
Includes a list of books by Mineur.

Dunn, Richard B., George W. Simon, Raymond N. Smartt, and Jack B. Zirker. John Wainwright Evans, 1909-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1663-1665. port.

Dworetsky, Michael M., and Ian D. Howarth. Keith Colin Smith, 1965-2000. Astronomy & geophysics, v. 41, Aug. 2000: 38. col. port.

"Fellow of the RAS, stellar spectroscopist and dedicated teacher."

Edmondson, Frank K. Daniel Kirkwood--"dean of American astronomers." Mercury, v. 29, May/June 2000: 26-33. illus., ports.

Espenak, Fred. Kenneth W. Willcox, 1943-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1695-1696. port.

Esteban Piñeiro, Mariano. El Emperador y la astronomía. El Astronómico real del matemático sevillano Alonso de Santa Cruz. In Jornadas Nacionales de Historia Militar, 9th, Seville, 1999. El Emperador Carlos y su tiempo. Actas, IX Jornadas Nacionales de Historia Militar, Sevilla, 24-28 de mayo de 1999. V. Descubrimientos. Madrid, Editorial Deimos, 2000. p. 689-700. facsims.

Faidit, Jean M. Nouveaux éclairages sur l'uvre de Marcel Moye. L'Astronomie, v. 114, janv. 2000: 19-23. illus., ports. (Histoire)

Fermor, John, and John M. Steele. The design of Babylonian waterclocks: astronomical and experimental evidence. Centaurus, v. 42, no. 3, 2000: 210-222. illus.

Fernie, J. Donald. Eclipse vicissitudes: Thomas Edison and the chickens. American scientist, v. 88, Mar./Apr. 2000: 120-123. illus., facsims. (Marginalia)

On an occurrence at Rawlins, Wyoming Territory, during the eclipse of July 29, 1878.

Fernie, J. Donald. In search of better skies: Harvard in Peru. I. American scientist, v. 88, Sept./Oct. 2000: 396-399. illus. (Marginalia)

Fideler, David R. Astronomy, contemplation, and the objects of celestial desire: notes from a cosmological journal. In Alexandria. 3. Edited by David Fideler. Grand Rapids, Mich., Phanes Press, 1995. p. 380-445. illus., facsims.

"This essay is an attempt to revive the ancient dialogue between the act of observing the heavens and the act of philosophical speculation. Out of this discussion, astronomy emerges as an ideal metaphor that can literally 'carry us across' (metapherein) to deeper ways of seeing and reflecting."

Flórez Miguel, Cirilo. La reforma del calendario eclesiástico. In Estudios históricos salmantinos. Homenaje al P. Benigno Hernández Montes. José Antonio Bonilla y José Barrientos, coordinadores. Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, 1999. p. 443-463. facsims.

On the work leading to the Gregorian reform of 1582.

Forcada, Miquel. L'expression du cycle lunaire dans l'ethnoastronomie arabe. Arabica, t. 47, janv. 2000: 37-77.

Freeman, Kenneth C. In memory of Olin Eggen. In The Formation of galactic bulges. Edited by C. M. Carollo, H. C. Ferguson, R. F. G. Wyse. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. (Cambridge contemporary astrophysics) p. xiv-xv.

Freeman, Kenneth C., Albert E. Whitford, Jesse L. Greenstein, Katherine Kron, Gerald E. Kron, and Virginia Trimble. Olin Jeuck Eggen, 1919-1998. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1661-1662. port.

Frercks, Jan. Creativity and technology in experimentation: Fizeau's terrestrial determination of the speed of light. Centaurus, v. 42, no. 4, 2000: 249-287. illus.

Fugate, Robert Q. Walter James Wild, 1954-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1694-1695. port.

García Rosselló, Jaume, Joan Fornés Bisquerra, and Michael A. Hoskin. Orientations of the talayotic sanctuaries of Mallorca. In Archaeoastronomy. no. 25; 2000. Cambridge, Science History Publications. p. S58-S64. illus., map.

Gaspani, Adriano. Pianvalle un tempio proto-celtico. L'Astronomia, anno 22, giugno 2000: 36-45. illus. (part col.), col. map. (Archeoastronomia)

Includes three boxes: "Cicli lunari di levata e tramonto" (p. 38-39), "Lunistizi: un'importanza rituale?" (p. 40), and "Le stelle nella Cultura di Golasecca" (p. 42-43).

Gingerich, Owen. Plotting the pyramids. Nature, v. 408, Nov. 16, 2000: 297-298. col. illus. (News and views)

Comments on the findings of Kate Spence, detailed in a paper cited below.
Another color illustration appears on the outside front cover of the issue.

Görgemanns, Herwig. Sonnenfinsternisse in der altgriechischen Wissenschaft. Sterne und Weltraum, 39. Jahrg., Nr. 1, 2000: 30-36. ports. (part col.)

"Wer hat als erster die Ursache von Sonnen- und Mondfinsternissen erkannt? Dass es ein Grieche des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. gewesen ist, steht fest. Aber wem unter den Denkern dieser Zeit die Priorität gehört, ist nicht sicher auszumachen. Interessanter ist es jedoch, die Voraussetzungen, die Denkweise und die Argumente zu verfolgen, die hinter dieser Entdeckung standen."

Gómez Ruiz, Adriano, and Michael A. Hoskin. Orientations of megalithic tombs of Huelva. In Archaeoastronomy. no. 25; 2000. Cambridge, Science History Publications. p. S41-S50. illus., plans. (Studies in Iberian archaeoastronomy, 7)

Goody, Richard M. An early view of Earth and planetary atmospheres. Planetary and space science, v. 48, Apr. 2000: 351-356. (Planetary pioneers)

Grafton, Anthony. Geniture collections, origins and uses of a genre. In Books and the sciences in history. Edited by Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. p. 49-68. facsim.

Gundrum, Darrell S. Fabric of time. Archaeology, v. 53, Mar./Apr. 2000: 46-51. col. illus., col. map.

"A 2,000-year-old Peruvian textile offers evidence of early Andean calendrical systems."

Gursky, Herbert. Herbert Friedman, 1916-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1665-1666. port.

Gursky, Herbert. Technology and the emergence of X-ray astronomy. Journal of astronomical history and heritage, v. 3, June 2000: 1-12. illus.

Gurzadyan, V. G. Astronomy and the fall of Babylon. Sky & telescope, v. 100, July 2000: 40-45. illus. (part col.), col. map, ports. (part col.)

"Pottery, lunar eclipses, and state-of-the-art analytical techniques solve a 3,500-year-old mystery."
Includes a box, "Babylonian Chronologies" (p. 42-43), by James A. Armstrong.
Gurzadyan establishes the date of the fall of Babylon at 1499 B.C.
See also the letters from John P. Britton and Peter J. Huber, with Gurzadyan's response, published in the Nov. 2000 issue, p. 16 and 18, under the heading "Dating of Babylon's Fall Disputed."

Hall, Douglas S. John Hibbett DeWitt, Jr., 1906-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1659-1660. port.

Hallyn, Fernand. L'"Absurdum [in Greek: akroama]" de Copernic. Bibliothèque d'humanisme et renaissance, t. 62, no 1, 2000: 7-24.

Happer, William, P. J. E. Peebles, and David T. Wilkinson. Robert Henry Dicke, May 6, 1916-March 4, 1997. In National Academy of Sciences. Biographical memoirs. v. 77. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1999. p. 78-94. port.

Harrington, Spencer P. M. Vintage Altar of Heaven. Archaeology, v. 53, Mar./Apr. 2000: 19. col. illus.

Describes an altar dating from the Sui Dynasty that was "unearthed, then reburied, this past summer in the city of Xian by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences." The reburial was necessary since funds were lacking to put it on public display. An Hayao, the archaeologist who published the site report, is quoted as stating, "We hope the altar will one day be open to the public."

Harrison, Mark. From medical astrology to medical astronomy: sol-lunar and planetary theories of disease in British medicine, c. 1700-1850. British journal for the history of science, v. 33, Mar. 2000: 25-48.

Hartmann, William K. Painting the contours of space. Astronomy, v. 28, Aug. 2000: 52-57. col. illus.

On the work of Ludek Pesek.

Harwit, Martin. Instrumentation and astrophysics: how did we get to be so lucky? In Imaging the universe in three dimensions: astrophysics with advanced multi-wavelength imaging devices. Proceedings of an international conference held under the auspices of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Walnut Creek, California, USA, 29 March-1 April 1999. Edited by W. van Breugel and J. Bland-Hawthorn. San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, v. 195) p. 3-10.

"To see where the future might take us, I thought I might review how we got to where we are now ..."

Hearnshaw, John B. Astrophysics in the 1890s--the dawn of a new age in astronomy. In IAU Colloquium, 176th, Budapest, 1999. The impact of large-scale surveys on pulsating star research. IAU Colloquium 176. Proceedings of a meeting held in Budapest, Hungary, 8-12 August 1999. Edited by L. Szabados and D. W. Kurtz. San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, v. 203) p. 1-6. port.

Henbest, Nigel, and Heather Couper. James Stanley Hey, 1909-2000. Astronomy & geophysics, v. 41, June 2000: 38. col. port.

"Fellow and Eddington Medallist of the RAS, Fellow of the Royal Society, MBE, pioneer in radar and radio astronomy."

Heuvel, Edward P. J. van den. Jan A. van Paradijs, 1946-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1690-1691. port.

Heuvel, Edward P. J. van den. Jan van Paradijs. Physics today, v. 53, Apr. 2000: 87-88. port.

Hidayat, Bambang. Under a tropical sky: a history of astronomy in Indonesia. Journal of astronomical history and heritage, v. 3, June 2000: 45-58. illus.

Hingley, Peter D. Public understanding of science, naval style. Astronomy & geophysics, v. 41, Aug. 2000: 6. facsim. (From the RAS archives)

Reproduces and discusses a sketch from Punch, Sept. 5, 1874, in which a sailor with a small refractor provides the public with a view of the moon, as well as an exact figure for its distance (24 million miles, measured to the inch).

Hockey, Thomas A. Recognizing Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Mercury, v. 29, Sept./Oct. 2000: 19-25. illus.

Examines reports of observations made during the years 1878-83, when the spot was particularly prominent, and shows how they were used to determine more precisely the planet's rotation period--an effort which resulted in the conclusion that Jupiter's surface was not solid and, like the sun, exhibited differential rotation.
See also the reproduction, in color, of Creti's 1711 painting on the front cover of the issue.

Hoffleit, Dorrit. Astronomy in Australia--a brief historical survey. In American Association of Variable Star Observers. Journal, v. 28, no. 1, 2000: 47-66. illus., maps, ports.

Hoffleit, Dorrit. In memory of Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas, August 21, 1905-August 6, 1997. In American Association of Variable Star Observers. Journal, v. 28, no. 1, 2000: 40-46. port.

"A shorter version of this paper first appeared in Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, March, 1998."

Huber, Peter J. Babylonian short-time measurements: lunar sixes. Centaurus, v. 42, no. 3, 2000: 223-234. illus.

Hunger, Hermann. Planetenstellungen bei der Geburt. In Munuscula Mesopotamica. Festschrift für Johannes Renger. Hrsg. von Barbara Böck, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Thomas Richter. Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 1999. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 267) p. 229-239. illus.

Includes illustration and transcription of text on a cuneiform tablet, with transliteration, German translation, and commentary.

Impey, Chris D. Reacting to the size and the shape of the universe. Mercury, v. 30, Jan./Feb. 2001: 36-39. illus., ports.

"As astronomers changed humanity's perception of the universe, the great writers and poets have risen to the challenge."
To be concluded in the Mar./Apr. issue.

Introductory session. In Optical and infrared spectroscopy of circumstellar matter. Proceedings of a workshop held in honor of the 65th birthday of Josef Solf at the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Tautenburg, Germany, 10-12 March 1999. Edited by Eike W. Guenther, Bringfried Stecklum, and Sylvio Klose. San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, v. 188) p. 1-22. illus., ports.

Contents: Sedlmayr, E. Laudatio: Josef Solf.--Elsässer, H. Thirty years of partnership--laudatio.--Böhm, K. H., and S. Matt. Spectroscopic insight and the physics of circumstellar matter: Josef Solf's contribution to astrophysics.

Israel, Werner. Black hole 2000: the astrophysical era. In Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Publications, v. 112, May 2000: 583-585. (Millennium essay)

Jaki, Stanley L. The origin of the Earth-Moon system and the rise of scientific intelligence. In Plenary session on the origin and early evolution of life. pt. 1. Vatican City, Pontificia Academia Scientiarvm, 1997. (Commentarii, v. 4, n. 3) p. 321-331.

Jan van Paradijs (1946-1999). Zenit, 26. jaarg., dec. 1999: 495.

Jardine, Nicholas, and Alain P. Segonds. Kepler as reader and translator of Aristotle. In Philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: conversations with Aristotle. Edited by Constance Blackwell and Sachiko Kusukawa. Aldershot, Hants, Brookfield, Vt., Ashgate, 1999. p. 206-233.

Jardine, Nicholas. Koyré's Kepler/Kepler's Koyré. History of science, v. 38, Dec. 2000: 363-376.

Jardine, Nicholas. The place of astronomy in early-modern European culture. In Science and power: the historical foundations of research policies in Europe. A conference organized by the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Firenze, Italy). Edited by Luca Guzzetti. 1. From patronage to the management of science. Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2000. (Euroscientia conferences) p. 13-23.

"A different version of this article has been published in Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 29, 1998, pp. 49-62."

Jones, Alexander. A likely source of an observation report in Ptolemy's Almagest. Archive for history of exact sciences, v. 54, no. 3, 1999: 255-258.

Jones, Alexander. Studies in the astronomy of the Roman period. 4. Solar tables based on a non-Hipparchan model. Centaurus, v. 42, no. 2, 2000: 77-88. illus.

Kastner, Joel. Sidney O. Kastner, 1926-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1672-1673. group port.

Keil, Inge. III. Optische Instrumente. 3. Fernrohre. In her Augustanus Opticus: Johann Wiesel (1583-1662) und 200 Jahre optisches Handwerk in Augsburg. Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2000. (Colloquia Augustana, Bd. 12) p. 267-307. illus.

King, Ivan R., James W. Liebert, and Imke de Pater. Observations of Hyron Spinrad. In The Hy-redshift universe: galaxy formation and evolution at high redshift. Proceedings of a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA to celebrate the research interests of Hyron Spinrad on his 65^th birthday, 21-24 June 1999. Edited by Andrew J. Bunker and Wil J. M. van Breugel. San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, v. 193) p. 1-8.

"The artwork on the [book's] front cover is a pastel sketch of Hyron Spinrad by his wife, Bette Spinrad, entitled 'The Great Observer', circa 1965."--p. xxiii.

Krebs, Robert E. Astrology, astronomy, and cosmology. In his Scientific development and misconceptions through the ages, a reference guide. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1999. p. 163-212. illus.

Krupp, Edwin C. Managing expectations. Sky & telescope, v. 100, Aug. 2000: 83-85. col. illus., col. port.

Explains why it took so long to realize that the object discovered by William Herschel in 1781 was actually a planet.

Krupp, Edwin C. Negotiating the highwire of heaven: the Milky Way and the itinerary of the soul. In Alexandria. 5. Edited by David Fideler. Grand Rapids, Mich., Phanes Press, 2000. p. 74-102. illus.

Laird, Edgar S. Heaven and the Sphaera Mundi in the Middle Ages. Culture and cosmos, v. 4, spring/summer 2000: 10-35. facsims.

Landolt, Arlo U. Raymond T. Grenchik, 1922-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1668. port.

Launius, Roger D. Project Apollo in American memory and myth. In International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Business in Space,7th,Albuquerque, N.M., 2000. Space 2000. Proceedings of Space 2000: the seventh International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Business in Space. Edited by Stewart W. Johnson, Koon Meng Chua, Rodney Galloway, Phil Richter. Reston, Va., American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000. p. 1-13.

Lawson, Peggy M., and Peter Shull. Harrison Shepler Mendenhall, 1903-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1679-1680. port.

Levitt, Theresa. Editing out caloric: Fresnel, Arago and the meaning of light. British journal for the history of science, v. 33, Mar. 2000: 49-65. illus.

Liller, William. Freeman D. Miller (1909-1999). International comet quarterly, v. 22, Oct. 2000: 105.

Lim, Choong-Shin. The Egyptian pyramids and the sun. In Russian-Korean International Symposijm on Science and Technology, 3d, Novosibirsk, 1999. Proceedings, the Third Russian-Korean International Symposium on Science and Technology, KORUS 99. June 22-25, 1999, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russia. v. 1. Novosibirsk, KORUS99 Organization Committee; Piscataway, NJ, IEEE, 1999. p. 101-105. illus.

Liu, Dun. The recent archaeological discoveries and their use in teaching the history of science in China. In Methods and materials for teaching the history of science. I. Papers of the Istanbul-Symposium of the Commission on Teaching the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, 17-21 July 1995. pt. 1. Editors: Alistair M. Duncan, Jaroslav Folta, Feza Günergun, Horst Remane. Halle/Saale, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1995. (Manuskripte zur Chemiegeschichte, Heft 6) p. 42-50. illus.

Discusses examples relating to astronomy, mathematics, and the technology of papermaking.

Lüthen, Hartwig, Ignacio Ferrín, Daniel W. E. Green, and John E. Bortle. Max Beyer (1894-1982): a master of comet observing. International comet quarterly, v. 22, Oct. 2000: 105-114. illus., ports.

McConnell, Anita, and Alison Brech. Nathaniel and Edward Pigott, itinerant astronomers. In Royal Society of London. Notes and records, v. 53, Sept. 1999: 305-318.

McKitterick, Rosamond. Books and sciences before print. In Books and the sciences in history. Edited by Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. p. 13-34. illus., facsims.

Includes discussion of surviving texts on geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, cosmology, and medicine.

Marvin, Ursula B., John A. Wood, and Bruce A. Campbell. Patricia Grizzaffi Rogers Campbell, 1963-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1657-1658. port.

Maul, Stefan M. Gottesdienst im Sonnenheilgtum zu Sippar. In Munuscula Mesopotamica. Festschrift für Johannes Renger. Hrsg. von Barbara Böck, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Thomas Richter. Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 1999. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 267) p. 285-316. illus., plan.

Includes illustration and transcription of text on a cuneiform tablet, with transliteration, German translation, and commentary.

Maul, Stefan M. Sonnenfinsternisse in Assyrien: eine Bedrohung der Weltordnung. Sterne und Weltraum, 39. Jahrg., Nr. 9, 2000: 742-750. illus. (part col.)

Mendis, D. A. Of comets, rings and other things: a random walk in cosmic physics. Planetary and space science, v. 48, Feb./Mar. 2000: 251-270. (Planetary pioneers)

Methuen, Charlotte. The teaching of Aristotle in late sixteenth-century Tübingen. In Philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: conversations with Aristotle. Edited by Constance Blackwell and Sachiko Kusukawa. Aldershot, Hants. Brookfield, Vt., Ashgate, 1999. p. 189-205.

Michel-Nozières, C. Second millennium Babylonian water clocks: a physical study. Centaurus, v. 42, no. 3, 2000: 180-209. illus.

Mitchell, Grace. Cures from the Lapidario. In Alfonso X el Sabio Institute, University of Kentucky, 1990. Estudios alfonsinos y otros escritos; en homenaje a John Esten Keller y a Aníbal A. Biglieri. Edición y prólogo de Nicolás Toscano Liria. New York, National Endowment for the Humanities; National Hispanic Foundation for the Humanities, 1991. p. 156-164.

"The Lapidario reflects the characteristic preoccupation with astrology and enumerates both the beneficial and the damaging qualities that selected stones acquire through the influence of the signs of the zodiac, the planets, the constellations, and the position of the stars."

Mosley, Adam. Astronomical books and courtly communication. In Books and the sciences in history. Edited by Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. p. 114-131. illus., facsims.

Narlikar, Jayant V. Concept of time in science. In Science, spirituality and the future; a vision for the twenty-first century. Essays in honour of His Holiness the fourteenth Dala Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Edited by L. L. Mehrotra. New Delhi, Mudrit, 1999. p. 103-112.

Navarro Brotóns, Víctor. La Libra astronomica y philosophica de Sigüenza y Góngora: la polemica sobre el cometa de 1680. Cronos, cuadernos valencianos de historia de la medicina y de la ciencia, v. 2, jul. 1999: 100-144. illus.

Summary in English.

Nietupski, Nancy. Hypatia of Alexandria: mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. In Alexandria. 2. Edited by David Fideler. Grand Rapids, Mich., Phanes Press, 1993. p. 45-56.

Norris, Raymond P., Michael M. De Robertis, and Sun Kwok. Charlene Anne Heisler, 1961-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1668-1669. port.

Ogilvie, Marilyn B. Obligatory amateurs: Annie Maunder (1868-1947) and British women astronomers at the dawn of professional astronomy. British journal for the history of science, v. 33, Mar. 2000: 67-84.

Orchiston, Wayne, Tom Love, and Steven J. Dick. Refining the astronomical unit: Queenstown and the 1874 transit of Venus. Journal of astronomical history and heritage, v. 3, June 2000: 23-44. illus., maps, plan, ports.

Orchiston, Wayne. Role of the large refracting telescope in Australian amateur astronomy: an historical perspective. Australian journal of astronomy, v. 7, Nov. 1997: 89-114. illus., map, ports.

Orchiston, Wayne. The 'tyranny of distance' and Antipodean cometary astronomy. Australian journal of astronomy, v. 7, Nov. 1997: 115-126. illus., ports.

Osterbrock, Donald E. Dorothy N. Davis Locanthi, 1913-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1677-1678. port.

Osterbrock, Donald E. Kandarpa Narahari Rao, 1921-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1684-1685. port.

Osterbrock, Donald E. A view of the future as seen from the past. In Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Publications, v. 112, July 2000: 869-872. (Millennium essay)

Peale, Stanton J., Marc A. Murison, Harlan Lebo, and Stuart Wolpert. William Mason Kaula, 1926-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1673-1674. port.

Peccatte, Patrick. Les origines du zodiaque et la démarcation de l'astrologie antique. In his La consistance rationnelle; critique de la raison démarcative. Saint-Étienne, Aubin Éditeur, 1996. (Collection Philosophie: essais) p. 173-188.

Contents: 1. La croyance en l'influence des astres et son "explication" analogique.--2. Les origines du zodiaque et la quadripartition du cosmos.--3. Le zodiaque astrologique.--4. La démarcation inattendue de l'astrologie antique.

Peña, José H. Obituary. Rosario Peniche García, 1944-2000. Revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica, v. 36, abr. 2000: 77-78. port.

Peperoni, Laura, and Marina Zuccoli. Urania: un volto di donna nell'iconografia astronomica. Giornale di astronomia, v. 25, dic. 1999: 29-41. facsims.

An enlargement of one of the illustrations is reproduced on the outside front cover of the issue.

Pereira, Michela. Heavens on earth: from the Tabula Smaragdina to the alchemical fifth essence. Early science and medicine, v. 5, no. 2, 2000: 131-144.

Pesic, Peter. Kepler at the bridge. In his Labyrinth; a search for the hidden meaning of science. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2000. p. 87-112. facsims.

Pfundstein, James M. Per astra ad aspera: Aeneid 6.725. In Vergilius. v. 43; 1997. [n.p.] Vergilian Society. p. 22-30.

Argues that "Titania astra" signifies the zodiac.

Pöss, Ondrej. Matematicko-fizikálne vedy na Slovensku v medzivojnovom období a ich hlavní reprezentanti. In Priekopníci vedy a techniky na Slovensku. 3. Zostavili: Ján Tibenský, Ondrej Pöss. Bratislava AEP, 1999. p. 181-216. illus., ports.

Includes discussion of astronomical activities in Slovakia during the period between the first and second world wars, and biographical sketches of three astronomers: Milan Rastislav ...tefánik (1880-1919), by Ondrej Pöss (p. 205-208); Bohumil ...ternberk (1897-1983), by Zdenek Horský (p. 209-212), and Antonín Becvár (1901-1965), by Zdenek Horský (p. 212-216).

Pogge, Richard W., and Gordon Newsom. Arne Slettebak, 1925-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1686-1687. port.

Portolano, Marlana. John Quincy Adams's rhetorical crusade for astronomy. Isis, v. 91, Sept. 2000: 480-503. illus., port.

Preston, George W. What are extremely metal poor stars good for anyway? In Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Publications, v. 112, Feb. 2000: 141-143. (Millennium essay)

Professor Hermann Alexander Brück 1905-1999. Irish astronomical journal, v. 27, July 2000: 114. port.

A portrait of Prof. Brück and his wife appears on the outside front cover of the issue.

Rao, P. Venugopala. Astronomy in ancient India: observations and speculations. In Revisiting Indus-Sarasvati age and ancient India. Editors, Bhu Dev Sharma and Nabarun Ghose. Atlanta, GA, World Association for Vedic Studies, USA, 1998. p. 305-310.

Rao, S. Balachandra, and Padmaja Venugopal. Astronomy in Sanskrit texts. In Sanskrit: a source of science. (A collection of research articles presented in a seminar.) Edited by G. N. Bhat. Mangalore, Centre for Inter-Disciplinary Studies and Research in Sanskrit, Canara College; Canara High School Association, 1997. p. 10-24. illus.

Rees, Sir Martin J. Dennis Sciama, 1926-1999. Astronomy & geophysics, v. 41, June 2000: 37.

"Fellow of the RAS, Fellow of the Royal Society, inspiring cosmologist and leader."

Reflections of V. A. Ambartsumian. In International Astronomical Union. Symposium, 194th, Byurakan, 1998. Active galactic nuclei and related phenomena. Proceedings of the 194^th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Byurakan, Armenia, 17-22 August 1998. Edited by Yervant Terzian, Daniel Weedman and Edward Khachikian. San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999. p. 463-477. illus., group port.

Contents: Boiarchuk, A. A. Influence of V. A. Ambartsumian on the development of astronomy.--Arp, H. C. Ambartsumian's greatest insight--the origin of galaxies.
See also the biographical note, "Victor Amazasp Ambartsumian (1908-1996)," on p. xiii of the volume, with a portrait on the facing page.

Rieke, George. Carol Jane Anger Rieke, 1908-1999. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1685-1686. port.

Rihll, T. E. IV. Astronomy. In her Greek science. Oxford, New York, Published for the Classical Association, Oxford University Press, 1999. (Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics, no. 29) p. 62-81. illus.

Rochberg, Francesca. Continuity and change in omen literature. In Munuscula Mesopotamica. Festschrift für Johannes Renger. Hrsg. von Barbara Böck, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Thomas Richter. Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 1999. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 267) p. 415-425.

Rochberg, Francesca. Empiricism in Babylonian omen texts and the classification of Mesopotamian divination as science. In American Oriental Society. Journal, v. 119, Oct./Dec. 1999: 559-569.

Roger Bonnet at 60. In Space science and the long-term future of space in Europe. Proceedings of a colloquium to celebrate R. M. Bonnet's 60th birthday, Paris, 7/8 January 1998. Noordwijk, The Netherlands, European Space Agency, 1998. (SP-431) p. 1-23. col. illus.

Contents: Huber, M. C. E. Introduction.--Pecker, J. C. Roger Bonnet, the early years.--Manno, V. Roger M. Bonnet--the man behind Horizon 2000.
A portrait of Bonnet appears on p. 106.

Rood, Robert T., David E. Hogg, and Anthony R. Kerr. Samuel J. Goldstein, 1925-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1667-1668. port.

Ros, Rosa M. Astronomical photography and Galileo's observations. In Methods and materials for teaching the history of science. II. Papers of the Istanbul-Symposium of the Commission on Teaching the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of the History of Science, 17-21 July 1995. pt. 2. Editors: Alistair M. Duncan, Jaroslav Folta, Feza Günergun, Horst Remane. Halle-Saale, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1996. (Manuskripte zur Chemiegeschichte, Heft 7) p. 7-38. illus.

Describes experiments intended to introduce the history of astronomy in a mathematics class at the high school level.

Ros, Rosa M., and Ederlinda Vinaules. Graeco-Alexandrian astronomy today. In Strategies for maintaining the teaching of the history of science. Selected papers of the symposium 57 of the XIXth International Congress of History of Science. Zaragoza (Spain): 22.-29. August 1993. Commission on Teaching the History of Science of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of the History of Science. Editors: Alistair Duncan, Jaroslav Folta, Horst Remane. Halle-Saale, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1994. (Manuskripte zur Chemiegeschichte, Heft 5) p. 49-58. illus.

Rosen, David M., and Victoria P. Rosen. New myths and meanings in Jewish new moon rituals. Ethnology, v. 39, summer 2000: 263-277.

"In recent years new rituals linking women to the traditional festival of the new moon, Rosh Chodesh, have become an important part of Jewish life. A central element of these rituals is the recasting of traditional Jewish origin myths about the moon. An examination of this process reveals a tension between gendered and nongendered readings and versions of these myths. Despite this, all new versions attempt to root new myths in the authentic soil of Jewish tradition."

Rousseau, Claudia. An astrological prognostication to Duke Cosimo I de' Medici of Florence. Culture and cosmos, v. 3, autumn/winter 1999: 31-59. illus., facsims.

Includes transcription and English translation of the prognostication.

Rubin, Vera C. One hundred years of rotating galaxies. In Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Publications, v. 112, June 2000: 747-750. (Millennium essay)

Rubincam, David P., and Paul D. Lowman. John Aloysius O'Keefe, 1917-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1683-1684. port.

Ruggles, Clive L. N. Ancient astronomies--ancient worlds. In Archaeoastronomy. no. 25; 2000. Cambridge, Science History Publications. p. S65-S76.

Adapted from the inaugural lecture delivered at Leicester University, Jan. 25, 2000.

Ruggles, Clive L. N. Astronomy, oral literature, and landscape in ancient Hawai'i. Archaeoastronomy, v. 14, no. 2, 1999: 33-86. illus., maps.

Ruggles, Clive L. N., and Gordon Barclay. Cosmology, calendars and society in Neolithic Orkney: a rejoinder to Euan MacKie. Antiquity, v. 74, Mar. 2000: 62-74. map.

Rupen, Michael P., and David E. Hogg. Robert Michael Hjellming, 1938-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1670-1671. port.

Salmon, Wesley C. Quasars, causality, and geometry. A controversy that should have happened but didn't. In Scientific controversies: philosophical and historical perspectives. Edited by Peter Machamer, Marcello Pera, Aristides Baltas. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. p. 254-270. illus.

Sandage, Allan R. Episodes in the discovery of variations in the chemical composition of stars and galaxies. In Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Publications, v. 112, Mar. 2000: 293-296. (Millenium essay)

Sarma, K. V. Astronomical activity in Kerala during mediaeval times. In Facets of Indian culture. Ed. by P. C. Muraleemadhavan. Delhi, New Bharatiya Book Corp., 2000. p. 316-320.

Sauzade, Gérard. Orientations of the Provençal dolmens. In Archaeoastronomy. no. 25; 2000. Cambridge, Science History Publications. p. S1-S10. illus., map, plans.

Schaefer, Bradley E. The heliacal rise of Sirius and ancient Egyptian astrology. Journal for the history of astronomy, v. 31, May 2000: 149-155.

Schaefer, Bradley E. The most mysterious astronomical manuscript. Sky & telescope, v. 100, Nov. 2000: 40-43. col. illus.

"The Voynich Manuscript has defied codebreakers for centuries. Can you help crack its cipher?"

Sheehan, William, and Donald E. Osterbrock. Hale's "little elf": the mental breakdowns of George Ellery Hale. Journal for the history of astronomy, v. 31, May 2000: 93-114. ports.

Sheehan, William. The moon illusion. Mercury, v. 30, Jan./Feb. 2001: 12. illus.

"Why does the Moon appear larger when it's near the horizon?"

Shi, Yunli. Eclipse observations made by Jesuit astronomers in China: a reconsideration. Journal for the history of astronomy, v. 31, May 2000: 135-147.

Shostak, G. Seth. Jean Heidmann. Physics today, v. 53, Dec. 2000: 85. port.

Shrimplin, Valerie. Michelangelo and Copernicus: a note on the Sistine Last Judgment. Journal for the history of astronomy, v. 31, May 2000: 156-160. illus.

Spaeth, Ove von. Dating the oldest Egyptian star map. Centaurus, v. 42, no. 3, 2000: 159-179. illus.

Spence, Kate. Ancient Egyptian chronology and the astronomical orientation of pyramids. Nature, v. 408, Nov. 16, 2000: 320-324. illus.

Uses "trends in the orientation of Old Kingdom pyramids to demonstrate that the Egyptians aligned them to north by using the simultaneous transit of two circumpolar stars. Modelling the precession of these stars yields a date for the start of construction of the Great Pyramid that is accurate to ±5 yr, thereby providing an anchor for the Old Kingdom chronologies."

Spissinger, Jessica. In memory of Joseph Weber (1919-2000). Mercury, v. 30, Jan./Feb. 2001: 6.

...prajc, Ivan. Astronomical alignments at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, Mexico. In Archaeoastronomy. no. 25; 2000. Cambridge, Science History Publications. p. S11-S40. illus., plan.

Steele, John M. A re-analysis of the eclipse observations in Ptolemy's Almagest. Centaurus, v. 42, no. 2, 2000: 89-108.

Stierlin, Henri. The Caracol or observatory of Chichén Itzá. In his The Maya: palaces and pyramids of the rainforest. Photographs: Anne and Henri Stierlin. Köln, New York, Taschen, 1997. (Taschen's world architecture) p. 175-180. col. illus., col. plans.

Includes a box, "Divinatory Astronomy" (p. 180).

Strauss, Michael A., Stéphane Courteau, Vahé Petrosian, and Roger W. Romani. Jeffrey Alan Willick, 1960-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1696-1697. port.

Sundareswaran, N. K. A trinity of Kerala astronomers. In Facets of Indian culture. Ed. by P. C. Muraleemadhavan. Delhi, New Bharatiya Book Corp., 2000. p. 356-359.

Tempesti, Piero. Spigolando fra i calendari: il cielo periodico dell'anno liturgico. Giornale di astronomia, v. 25, dic. 1999: 42-44. col. facsims.

Teske, Richard G. Freeman Devold Miller, 1909-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1680-1682. port.

Thompson, Richard. Anomalous textual artifacts in archeo-astronomy. In Revisiting Indus-Sarasvati age and ancient India. Editors, Bhu Dev Sharma and Nabarun Ghose. Atlanta, GA, World Association for Vedic Studies, USA, 1998. p. 317-334. illus.

Thornton, Christopher J. Kepler on Mars. In his Truth from trash: how learning makes sense. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2000. p. 31-42. illus., facsims., ports.

Tonietti, Tito M. Newton credeva nella musica delle sfere? In La Scienza e i vortici del dubbio. A cura di Lino Conti e Marco Mamone Capria. Napoli, Edizioni scientifici italiane, 1999. (Università degli studi di Perugia. Ricerche filosofiche. Sezione epistemologia e storia della scienza, 7) p. 127-135.

"We read the 'Classical Scholium' to the Propositio VIII of the Third Book of the Principia, in which Newton stated the law of the inverse square in the distance for gravitational attraction between the bodies. In that scholium, already published by P. Casini, he constructed a musical model for the attraction considering sounding strings. We point out a mistake in the argument and discuss why Newton tried to justify his law in such a way."

Tonietti, Tito M. Verso la matematica nelle scienze: armonia e matematica nei modelli del cosmo tra Seicento e Settecento. In La Costruzione dell'immagine scientifica del mondo: mutamenti nella concezione dell'uomo e del cosmo dalla scoperta dell'America alla meccanica quantistica. A cura di Marco Mamone Capria. Napoli, La Città del sole, 1999. (Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici. Il pensiero e la storia, 56) p. 155-219. illus.

Contents: 1. Exercitium arithmeticae occultum.--2. Galileo o del cielo.--3. Keplero o dell'armonia.--4. Cartesio o della luce.--5. Newton o dell'infinito.--6. Leibniz o del infinitesimo.--7. Musica e morte.

Topper, David. "I know that what I am saying is rather obscure ...": on clarifying a passage in Galileo's Dialogue. Centaurus, v. 42, no. 4, 2000: 288-296. illus.

On Galileo's argument that the motion of sunspots is evidence in support of heliocentricity.

Trefil, James S. Putting stars in their place. Astronomy, v. 28, Nov. 2000: 62-67. illus. (part col.), ports.

"The creation of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram was a landmark advance in our understanding of the stars."
Includes discussion of the role of the Harvard women in classifying stellar spectra.

Trefil, James S. Rounding the earth. Astronomy, v. 28, Aug. 2000: 40-44. col. illus., facsim.

"Universal belief in a flat earth in Columbus's day is a myth."

Tribute to Nüzhet Gökdogan. In International Astronomical Union. Symposium, 177th, Antalya, Turkey, 1996. The carbon star phenomenon. Proceedings of the 177th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Antalya, Turkey, May 27-31, 1996. Edited by Robert F. Wing. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. p. xxvi-xxvii. group port.

Trimble, Virginia. The first explosions. In October Astrophysics Conference, 10th, College Park, Md., 1999. Cosmic explosions. Editors: Stephen S. Holt, William W. Zhang. Melville, N.Y., American Institute of Physics, 2000. (AIP conference proceedings, 522) p. 3-21.

"Events that can be (at least broadly) described as explosions have joined the astrophysical inventory in many different ways. Some were predicted and then discovered. Some were predicted, often as a tentative explanation for some specific sort of event, and have not yet been seen. Others were seen and understood quite promptly, or very slowly. And a good many had been in the inventory for years to millenia before their explosive nature was recognized."
Events are discussed in descending order of the total amount of energy released, beginning with the Big Bang.

Trimble, Virginia. Joseph Weber, 1919-2000. In American Astronomical Society. Bulletin, v. 32, no. 4, 2000: 1691-1693. port.

Troche-Boggino, Alexis E. Buenaventura Suárez SJ: the pioneer astronomer of Paraguay. Journal of astronomical history and heritage, v. 3, Dec. 2000: 159-164. illus., facsim., map.

Ueberschlag, Josette. Janssen et la démon de la précision. L'Astronomie, v. 114, févr. 2000: 58-61. illus., port. (Histoire)

Ulansey, David. Mithras, the hypercosmic sun, and the rockbirth. In Alexandria. 5. Edited by David Fideler. Grand Rapids, Mich., Phanes Press, 2000. p. 160-173.

Venugopal, Padmaja, and S. Balachandra Rao. Eclipses in the siddhantas. In Sanskrit: a source of science. (A collection of research articles presented in a seminar.) Edited by G. N. Bhat. Mangalore, Centre for Inter-Disciplinary Studies and Research in Sanskrit, Canara College; Canara High School Association, 1997. p. 25-39. illus.

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The portrait (of Gauss) appears on p.129.
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