Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.35
Mayank Vahia, Mitsuru Sôma
{"title":"AN EXAMINATION OF 'ATRI’S ECLIPSE’ AS DESCRIBED IN THE <italic>RIG VEDA</italic>","authors":"Mayank Vahia, Mitsuru Sôma","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.35","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135142405","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.1440-2807.2023.06.30
Akira Okazaki
{"title":"COMETARY RECORDS IN THE VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL HISTORY <italic>ĐẠI NAM THỰC LỤC [CHÍNH BIÊN]</italic>","authors":"Akira Okazaki","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.30","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144172","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}
{"title":"GEOLOCATING SOUTHEAST ASIAN EARLY HISTORIC SITES FROM ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS IN PTOLEMY’S <italic>GEOGRAPHY</italic>, WITH SUPPORTING INFORMATION FROM INDIAN RECORDS","authors":"Peeravit Koad, Sirirat Somchuea, Thatdao Rakmak, Sanhanat Deesamutara","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144178","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.1440-2807.2023.06.28
Toner Stevenson
: In Australia a significant number of women were employed to measure, log and calculate the position of stars for the Astrographic Catalogue at Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth Observatories. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Astrographic Catalogue was considered the most important astronomical work in Australia. This paper provides a background to the social, legal and gender-specific barriers women faced and then focuses on the first women employed at Melbourne Observatory to measure the stars on glass plate negatives and calculate their relative positions. Charlotte Peel, Lillian Lewis, Muriel Heagney and Sarah Noonan, who worked for various periods of time on the Astrographic Catalogue between 1898 and 1918, are case studied. Rather than an anonymous group of ‘female computers’ this paper presents these four female computers as representative of the individual nature of the women and their range of skills, aptitudes and opportunities to produce new research. Examples of where the women had agency within the Observatory and influenced the physical workplaces and social environment are provided.
{"title":"MELBOURNE OBSERVATORY’S ASTROGRAPHIC WOMEN: STAR MEASURERS AND COMPUTERS","authors":"Toner Stevenson","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.28","url":null,"abstract":": In Australia a significant number of women were employed to measure, log and calculate the position of stars for the Astrographic Catalogue at Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth Observatories. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Astrographic Catalogue was considered the most important astronomical work in Australia. This paper provides a background to the social, legal and gender-specific barriers women faced and then focuses on the first women employed at Melbourne Observatory to measure the stars on glass plate negatives and calculate their relative positions. Charlotte Peel, Lillian Lewis, Muriel Heagney and Sarah Noonan, who worked for various periods of time on the Astrographic Catalogue between 1898 and 1918, are case studied. Rather than an anonymous group of ‘female computers’ this paper presents these four female computers as representative of the individual nature of the women and their range of skills, aptitudes and opportunities to produce new research. Examples of where the women had agency within the Observatory and influenced the physical workplaces and social environment are provided.","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144209","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.1440-2807.2023.06.42
Steven J. Dick
{"title":"<italic>Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement</italic>, by Jacob Haqq-Misra.","authors":"Steven J. Dick","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135142394","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.1440-2807.2023.06.46
Nicholas Campion
{"title":"<italic>Christ Came Forth from India: Georgian Astrological Texts of the 17<sup>th</sup>, 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> Centuries,</italic> by Timothy Paul Grove.","authors":"Nicholas Campion","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.46","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144183","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.1440-2807.2023.06.52
Woodruff T. Sullivan III
{"title":"<italic>William Herschel: Discoverer of the Deep Sky</italic>, by Wolfgang Steinicke.","authors":"Woodruff T. Sullivan III","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.52","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135142392","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.1440-2807.2023.06.55
Wolfgang Steinicke
{"title":"<italic>Der Briefwechsel Georg von Reichen-bachs</italic>, by Rolf Riekher.","authors":"Wolfgang Steinicke","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135142397","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.1440-2807.2023.06.54
Wolfgang Steinicke
{"title":"<italic>Der Briefwechsel Joseph von Fraun-hofers</italic>, by Rolf Riekher.","authors":"Wolfgang Steinicke","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.54","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135142408","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.1440-2807.2023.06.53
Clifford Cunningham
{"title":"<italic>Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History</italic>, by Katy Barrett.","authors":"Clifford Cunningham","doi":"10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1440-2807.2023.06.53","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42167,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144010","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}