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{"title":"Index To Volume 54","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00218286231216796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231216796","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"127 1","pages":"487 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139304355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The solar eclipse of A.D. 1221 May 23 and the value of ΔT","authors":"Lihua Ma","doi":"10.1177/00218286231200486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231200486","url":null,"abstract":"A total solar eclipse was recorded in a classic Chinese book with the title The Travels of an Alchemist: the Journey of the Taoist Ch’ang Ch’un from China to the Hindukush at the Sumons of Chingiz Khan. In the present paper, possible locations of the solar eclipse observation are investigated, taking into account the geographical characteristics of local environments. With a modern astronomical planetary ephemeris, the authors confirm the observation records and derive an upper limit of +768 seconds for the ΔT value at the epoch A.D. 1221.","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"83 1","pages":"425 - 435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139295552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"John of Lignères as a table compiler","authors":"Seb Falk","doi":"10.1177/00218286231208663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231208663","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"11 1","pages":"481 - 483"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139304772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physicists becoming astronomers","authors":"Barbara Kirsi Silva","doi":"10.1177/00218286231208152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231208152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"1 1","pages":"483 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139298063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Present status of UBAI plate archive","authors":"Ehgamberdiev Shuhrat Abdumannapovich, Yuldoshev Qudratillo Khabibullaevich, Turaev Sobir Jurakobilovich, Jianhai Zhao, Meiting Yang, Zhenghong Tang, Yong Yu","doi":"10.1177/00218286231207414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231207414","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a photographic plate archive of the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (UBAI) of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, the history of photometric observations, the current state of photometric plates, and the process of their digitization. We will talk about telescopes used for observations, their characteristics and observations. In addition, we will also talk about the preparation of photographic plates for scanning. Also, the work carried out in the “UBAI-SHAO scientific and technical project” on digitization of photographic plates in the UBAI archive at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and future work will be reviewed and discussed.","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"190 1","pages":"456 - 468"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139298852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Total solar eclipse of AD 1133 and ΔT","authors":"Leslie V. Morrison, C. Hohenkerk, Marek Zawilski, F. R. Stephenson","doi":"10.1177/00218286231209030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231209030","url":null,"abstract":"Twenty-seven extant reports from medieval Europe and the Middle East of the total solar eclipse of AD 1133 (+1133) are analysed to set limits on the Earth rotation parameter ∆T. We conclude that at the epoch +1133, ∆T is in the range +720","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"23 1","pages":"469 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139299365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reducing meridian circle observations in positional astronomy","authors":"Jarosław Włodarczyk","doi":"10.1177/00218286231212665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231212665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"176 1","pages":"485 - 486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139301871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Plato and planetary order: Uncertainty in the positions of Mercury and Venus","authors":"James Brannon","doi":"10.1177/00218286231203198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231203198","url":null,"abstract":"In Plato’s Republic and Timaeus, and in the pseudo-Platonic Epinomis, the author(s) discuss the planetary order for the Moon, Sun, and planets. Based on these works, many ancient, medieval, and modern authors assert without explanation that Plato’s order for the first four planets is Moon-Sun-Venus-Mercury. While this order may have been Plato’s intention, this article presents a differing opinion by claiming that Plato’s words lack sufficient clarity for a reader to understand Plato’s order for Mercury and Venus. This claim has a three-fold basis: (1) Plato’s difficult to understand planetary color ideas in Republic do not uniquely identify the order for Mercury and Venus; (2) Historical accounts of planetary color do not always support Venus being whiter than Mercury—an argument sometimes used for Venus residing below Mercury in Plato’s scheme; (3) Neither Timaeus nor Epinomis clearly state the order for the two planets. The paper concludes with brief conjectures on why Plato remained obscure on planetary order.","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"9 1","pages":"404 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139294667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Ptolemaic lunar model of the 17th century: François Viète and his first lunar model","authors":"Christián C. Carman","doi":"10.1177/00218286231210546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231210546","url":null,"abstract":"In his unfinished Ad harmonicon coeleste, François Viète (1540–1603) approaches astronomical models in a purely mathematical way, analyzing the equations involved in the geometrical models and suggesting new geometrical approaches, usually equivalent but simpler. After dealing with the Copernican planetary models, he develops three different lunar models. The first one describes a model geometrically similar but not identical to the Ptolemaic lunar model. The second is identical to that of Copernicus, but offers simpler calculation methods, and the third one is inspired by Tycho’s lunar model in the Progymnasmata. In this paper, I describe and analyze the first (Ptolemaic) model, leaving the other two for future works.","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"35 1","pages":"375 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139299229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Owen Gingerich, 1930–2023","authors":"R. Kremer, JamesJ . Evans","doi":"10.1177/00218286231195409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00218286231195409","url":null,"abstract":"We regret to inform our readers of the death of Owen Gingerich, the distinguished astronomer and historian of astronomy, on May 28, 2023. Owen was a long-standing member of the Journal’s editorial team and he served as reviews editor for more than three decades (1973–2007). Owen was professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and an astronomer emeritus at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Owen was born in Washington, Iowa, to Verna Roth-Gingerich and Melvin Gingerich, members of Mennonite communities. Owen’s father was a high school teacher, who completed a Ph.D. in history when Owen was about 8 years old. After a period of insecurity and frequent moves, his father landed at job at Bethel College, a Mennonite institution in North Newton, Kansas. There Owen attended the first 3 years of high school, where he developed an interest in journalism and had an inspiring chemistry teacher. In 1947, before Owen’s senior year, his father moved to a new job at Goshen College, another Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana. In an unusual arrangement, even for the time, Owen skipped his last year of high school and matriculated at Goshen College. As Owen said in a 2005 oral history interview with David DeVorkin, “I skipped my senior year and did not graduate from high school until a year ago [i.e., 2004], when I was finally given an honorary degree by the Newton, Kansas School Board.”1 When he was about nine, his father helped him build a telescope from a mailing tube and purchased lenses. And his father’s interest in photography gave him the chance to learn some darkroom work. In high school, Owen built a more serious telescope, for which he ground his own mirror. He used this for a few years with a cardboard tube but then moved over to an open framework (Figure 1). In his junior year of college he wrote an article about telescope construction for a Mennonite weekly aimed at young people.2 At Goshen College, Owen majored in chemistry but continued also to pursue his interest in journalism, becoming editor of the student newspaper. Upon joining the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), headquartered at the Harvard College Observatory, Gingerich wrote Harlow Shapley, HCO Director and one of America’s best known astronomers, to ask whether he might work as a summer intern at the Observatory. Shapley, also from the Midwest and with a strong journalistic background, agreed and Owen spent the summer of 1948 at Shapley’s beck and call, fetching plates3 and breathing the astronomical air in Cambridge. The following summer he returned, this time to a job at Sky & Telescope, housed at the HCO and formed in 1941 by the merger of The Sky and The Telescope. These experiences seem to have won him for astronomy—for he had previously had no idea that one could make money at astronomy as an undergraduate. His connection with Sky & Telescope proved to be 1195409 JHA0010.1177/00218286231195409","PeriodicalId":56280,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the History of Astronomy","volume":"54 1","pages":"353 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42778446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}