Essays on Astronomical History and Heritage

Chapter 1 Cosmos and Culture: Linking the Heavens and the Earth

Chapter 2 Sweden’s Thirty Days in February: Calendar Reform

Chapter 3 Early Star Charts of the Dutch East India Company

Chapter 4 The Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations: A Scientific, Technical, Political, Social, and Cultural Adventure

Chapter 5 What’s in a Name? That Which We Call Anders’ Earthrise, as ‘Pasteur T,’ Didn’t Sound as Sweet (Adventures in Lunar Exploration and Nomenclature on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Apollo 8)

Chapter 6 The Life and Science of Léon Foucault as a Muse

Chapter 7 The Mere Fanciful Abstractions of Science

Chapter 8 Henry Norris Russell’s Campaign to Make Physics the Core of Astrophysics

Chapter 9 Astronomical Travels in Asia

Chapter 10 The Discovery of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies

Chapter 11 From Aircraft Carriers to the Cosmos: Comparing and Contrasting the Careers of John Bolton and Joseph Weber

Chapter 12 Grote Reber in Tasmania

Chapter 14 The Hole-in-the-Ground Telescope and the Discovery of the Galactic Centre

Chapter 15 Remains of the Day: Historical Remnants of the CSIRO Radiophysics Field Stations

Chapter 16 History of Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Chapter 17 ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Leonard Waldo and the 1878 Total Solar Eclipse in Fort Worth, Texas

Chapter 18 The Evolution of ‘Meteor’ as an Astronomical Trope 1560–1760

Chapter 19 New Zealand Observations of the Great Comet of 1881, C/1881 K1 (Tebbutt)

Chapter 20 Solar Eclipses, Wayne Orchiston, and Me

Chapter 21 Politics and the Dimensions of the Solar System: John Winthrop’s Observations of the Transits of Venus

Chapter 22 Investigation of Shang Dynasty Oracle Bones and Eclipses

Chapter 23 On Jean-Charles Houzeau and Hilmar Duerbeck: How Transits of Venus Molded Their Late Professional Lives

Chapter 24 William Herschel and the Moon

Chapter 25 The ‘Nashville Trio’ of Astronomers at the Dyer Observatory in Tennessee: Carl Seyfert, Robert Hardie and John Dewitt

Chapter 26 Early Photometers at the Royal Observatory, Cape

Chapter 27 Evolutions in the History of Visual Time Signals for Mariners

Chapter 28 Closing Encounters: The Efforts of the NSW Branch of the British Astronomical Association to Save Sydney Observatory

Chapter 29 Finding Colonial New Zealand’s Place in the World: Astronomy and a Geodesical Surveyor

Chapter 30 Inca Cultural Astronomy

Chapter 31 The Astronomy of the Aboriginal Peoples of the Sydney Basin

Chapter 32 Using the Significant Horizons Methodology to Determine Potential Astronomical Use of Aboriginal Stone Arrangements

Chapter 33 Astronomical Phenomena in Premodern Armenian and Georgian Written Sources