Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.43
Clifford Cunningham
{"title":"<italic>Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong</italic>, by Greg Brennecka.","authors":"Clifford Cunningham","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.43","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135142393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.26
Philip Yock
{"title":"JAPAN/NZ COLLABORATIONS ON COSMIC RAYS, EXOPLANETS AND DARK MATTER, AND HYPOTHETICAL QUERIES BY ISAAC NEWTON","authors":"Philip Yock","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135142409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.39
Mitsuru Sôma, Kiyotaka Tanikawa, Yo-Ichiro Sato
{"title":"THE DATE OF CHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION AND THE EARTH’S ROTATION","authors":"Mitsuru Sôma, Kiyotaka Tanikawa, Yo-Ichiro Sato","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.39","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.48
Peter D. Usher
{"title":"<italic>This Dark Star: Thomas Digges, The Scientific Revolution and the Infinite Universe</italic>, by Charles L. Ladner.","authors":"Peter D. Usher","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.38
S. Mohammad Mozaffari
{"title":"A SURVEY OF ABU ʾL-WAFĀʾ’S SOLAR AND STELLAR OBSERVATIONS","authors":"S. Mohammad Mozaffari","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.38","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.58
Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud
{"title":"<italic>Maître de Huainan: Traité des Figures Célestes 淮南子《天文訓》</italic>, Texte introduit, traduit et commenté par Marc Kalinowski.","authors":"Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.58","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.45
Steven J. Dick
{"title":"<italic>A History of Near-Earth Objects Research</italic>, by Erik M. Conway, Donald K. Yeomans, and Meg Rosenburg.","authors":"Steven J. Dick","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.60
Richard Strom
{"title":"<italic>The Growth and Development of Astron-omy and Astrophysics in India and the Asia-Pacific Region</italic>, edited by Wayne Orchiston, Aniket Sule and Mayank Vahia.","authors":"Richard Strom","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.60","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.44
Steven J. Dick
{"title":"<italic>Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy</italic>, by Andy Bruno.","authors":"Steven J. Dick","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.44","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.32
Srikumar M. Menon
: Badami in the valley of the Malaprabha River in northern Karnataka state of India was one of the earliest nuclei of construction of temples in stone in southern India. Among the various stone monuments built at Badami and other centres in the Valley, are rock-cut as well as structural sanctuaries of the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist faiths. Though most of these monuments were executed during the rule of the Early Chalukyan Dynasty, during the sixth to the eighth centuries CE, there are later monuments too, erected even after Badami ceased to be a capital city at the end of Chalukyan rule. In this paper, we examine one of the smaller rock-cut ‘caves’ at Badami and argue that it was intentionally aligned to receive the Sun’s rays at sunrise on every day of the year. We examine the orientation of the excavation and verify the incidence of the rays of the rising Sun throughout the year. We examine the legend of a leper king (Koshtaraya) prevalent in the region and associated with an enigmatic image near the rock-cut cave, and we hypothesize on the creation of this unique Sun-facing rock-cut feature.
{"title":"A UNIQUE SUN-FACING ROCK-CUT FEATURE AT BADAMI, KARNATAKA, INDIA","authors":"Srikumar M. Menon","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.32","url":null,"abstract":": Badami in the valley of the Malaprabha River in northern Karnataka state of India was one of the earliest nuclei of construction of temples in stone in southern India. Among the various stone monuments built at Badami and other centres in the Valley, are rock-cut as well as structural sanctuaries of the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist faiths. Though most of these monuments were executed during the rule of the Early Chalukyan Dynasty, during the sixth to the eighth centuries CE, there are later monuments too, erected even after Badami ceased to be a capital city at the end of Chalukyan rule. In this paper, we examine one of the smaller rock-cut ‘caves’ at Badami and argue that it was intentionally aligned to receive the Sun’s rays at sunrise on every day of the year. We examine the orientation of the excavation and verify the incidence of the rays of the rising Sun throughout the year. We examine the legend of a leper king (Koshtaraya) prevalent in the region and associated with an enigmatic image near the rock-cut cave, and we hypothesize on the creation of this unique Sun-facing rock-cut feature.","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}