DIO is primarily a journal of scientific history & principle. Most
articles are authored by astrononomers, physicists, mathematicians, &
classicists -- not historians. There are no
page charges, and offprints are free.
Since 1991 inception, has gone without fee thrice annually to leading scholars
& libraries.
Publisher & journal cited (1996 May 9) in New York Times frontpage
story on his discovery of data blowing open the famous 70-year Richard Byrd North
Pole controversy. [Featured in DIO 4.3 and DIOvol. 10]
Journal is published primarily for universities' and scientific institutions'
collections; among subscribers (by written request) are libraries at: Oxford University,
Cambridge University, Johns Hopkins, Cal Tech, Cornell University, the universities of Chicago, Toronto, London, Munich, Göttingen, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Tartu, Amsterdam, Ličge, Ljubljana, Bologna, Canterbury (NZ); the US Naval Observatory, Royal Astronomical Society
(London), Royal Observatory (Scotland), British Museum, Russian State Library, International
Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste).
Contributors include world authorities in their respective fields, experts at,
e.g., Johns Hopkins University, Cambridge University, University of London.
New findings on Mayan eclipse math, Columbus' landfall, and Comet Halley apparitions.
Journal first to reveal data [DIO 2.3, 4.2, 7.1 & 9.1] gutting history's harsh
verdict on J. Challis (Cantab) for missing Neptune after U. Leverrier (Paris
Observatory) publicly predicted the then-unknown planet, later (1846 Sept. 23,
Berlin Observatory) found within 1° of computed spot -- still, 150 years later,
astronomical history's #1 miracle-event.
Includes occasional satirical supplement, customarily devoted to an ever-bubbling
stream of math-science howlers, published by the most dissent-suppressive
History-of-astronomy professorial deities.
Entire 1993 volume [DIO vol. 3] devoted to the first (and still the only)
critical edition of Tycho's legendary 1004-star catalog.
Scholars familiar with DIO are urged to bring it to the attention of the
serials departments of appropriate institutional libraries.