Would you like to fill in your collection of the Astronomical Calendar?
We have a few copies (from 1 to 7) of these years’ books:
1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
We offer these for $14.95 each plus postage.
They will be signed by the author.
UPDATE: All have now been bought exceot a single copy of Astronomical Calendaar 2913
You might like to get the book that shows what was happening in the universe in a year special to you.
To order copies, please click here. You will be able to select from a list of the issues still available.
These are the books on offer:
Astronomical Calendar 1975
The cover picture and story were about phosphorescent waves. This was the first large-size Astronomical Calendar, with many pages of supplementary sections, which later grew into the Astronomical Companion.
Astronomical Calemdar 1976
The cover story of the Andromeda Hour and the royal family of the sky (her parents Cepheus and Cassiopeia, her bane Cetus, her rescuer Perseus) began the idea of the Heavens by Hours, which may yet grow into a book.
Astronomical Calendar 1977
Steering by the stars to the Bahamas. And the supplmentary sections grew more ambitious, with an “Overview of Astronomy.”
Astronimcal Calendar 1978
Sothis brings the flood; that is, the heliacal rising of Sirius, and many other topics related to the development of our calendar out of that of the ancient Egyptians.
Astronomical Calendar 1979
Battle of the Eclipse between the Medes and Lydians, predicted by Thales, and giving a fixed date in ancient chronology. The many horizon scenes interspersed in the calendar pages were still hand-drawn.
Astronomical Calendar 1980
A hermitage in the Judean wilderness, as symbol of a window into the universe. This was a “lazy” year of the Astronomical Calendar, because of the time that had been demanded by producing the Astronomical Companion. Still, there were majestic hand-drawn globe pictures of the eclipse tracks across Africa and America.
Astronomical Calendar 1981
The cover painting, of the sky twins Castor and Pollux and the St. Elmo’s Fire that is associated with them and rescues ships in storms, still had to be printed in black-and-white.
Astronomical Calendar 1982
The cover painting of the bay of Guaymas on the west coast of Mexico (with rather strained astronomical significance) was the first for which color printing could be afforded.
Astronomical Calendar 1983
The Old Moon rising over a far horizon in the sunlight of a coming day; and the tale of True Thomas the rhymer.
Astronomical Calendar 1984
Children in the Navajo reservation observing the eclipse that was seen as total across the eastern coast.
Astronomical Calendar 1985
The Halley meteors as if being swatted along their course by giant Orion.
The calendar pages had moon graphs of a kind not used later.
Astronomical Calendar 2007
“Hertzsprung-Russell aurora”, as if the stars had all flown to their places on the invaluable color-magnitude graph that tells so much about their natures and evolution.
Astronomical Calendar 2009
This issue marked the International Year of Astronomy, 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic discoveries.
Astronomical Calendar 2010
Maya alignments with the sky; the temple at Palenque as if you could see a procession down its interior stairway.
Astronomical Calenda
r 2011
The ocean in the sky: the watery constellations. The “strip-chart of the Moon” later became our “Zodiac Wavy Charts”.
Astronomical Calendar 2012
Vertical midsuumer sunlight at the temple on a sometimes-flooded island at the southern end of Egypt allowed Eratosthenes to calculate the size of the Earth. A long story, involving the Stony Nile and the Smooth Nile and the flood that filled the Mediterranean.
Astronomical Calendar 2013
Moon mysteries, Flat Earth, Vernazza on the Ligurian coast of Italy, Dante’s Beatrice
Astronomical Calendar 2014
The sky for the equator, the Blue Lagoon at Watamu on the coast of Kenya
Astronomical Calendar 2015
Stellated polyhedrons, and much else about geometric shapes. The calendar pages introduced sky domes for other times and latitudes.
Astronomical Calendar 2016
The Camino de Santiago taking pilgrims to the end of the Earth at Finisterra. There was so much to say about this that it had to be woven through four pages of the book and the back cover.