Index of DIO Contents

 

DIO 14

 

 

1. Eratosthenes: Pharos Truth Behind Alexandria-Aswan Myth

 

2. Aristarchos Unbound: Ancient Vision

 

3. The Ptolemy GEOGRAPHY’s Secrets

DIO 13.2-3

 

 

1. The Babylonian Theory of the Planets

 

2. Source of Hebrew Month Duration: Babylonian Science or Ancient Tradition?

 

3. Hebrew Month:  Information from Almagest?

 

4. Ancient Declinations and Precession

DIO 13.1

 

 

1. On the Orientation of Early Egyptian Pyramids

 

2. Vast Eclipse Cycles: Stabilities & Gaps

DIO 12

 

 

1. The Southern Limit of the Ancient Star Catalog, by Keith A. Pickering

 

2. On the Clarity of Visibility Tests, by Dennis Duke

 

3. The Measurement Method of the Almagest Stars, by Dennis Duke

 

4. The Instuments Used by Hipparchos, by Keith A. Pickering

 

5. A Re-identification of some entries in the Ancient Star Catalog, by Keith A. Pickering

DIO 11.3

 

 

5. Ancient Solutions of Venus & Mercury orbits, by Dennis Duke

 

6. The Crucial-Test V-bomb, by Dennis Rawlins

DIO 11.2

 

 

4. Ancient Planet Tables' Long-Cycle Ancestries

DIO 11.1

 

 

1. Aristarchos & the "Babylonian" System B Month

 

2. Babylon's System A &am; the 1274 BC Eclipse

 

3. Hipparchos' Draconitic Month & the 1245 BC Eclipse

DIO 10

 

 

DIO's Report (co-published with the University of Cambridge) on R.Byrd's 1926 North Pole Hoax

DIO 9.2-3

 

 

4. Response to FACS's "Critical Review", by Robert M. Bryce

 

5. The "Washburn-Rawlins-Bryce Troika", by Robert M. Bryce

 

6. High Comedy at Low Altitude, a DIO Commentary

DIO 9.1

 

 

1. British Neptune-Disaster File Recovered

 

2. Ecliptical Coordinates Beneath Hipparchos'Commentary, by Keith Pickering

 

3. Continued-Fraction Decipherment: Ancestry of Ancient Yearlengths & [pre-Hipparchan] Precession

DIO 8.1-2

 

 

1. R.R. Newton versus Ptolemy, by Hugh Thurston

 

2. Mediaeval Indians and the Planets, by Hugh Thurston

 

3. WWII Cryptography, by Hugh Thurston

 

4. Book Reviews of Evans 1998 & Swerdlow 1998, by Hugh Thurston

 

5. Scrawlins

DIO 7.2-3

 

 

7. The Fake Peak Revisited, by Robert M. Bryce

 

8. Cook's Curious Timetable, by Robert M. Bryce

 

9. Unfalsifiability-Summit, Flub-Summit, Barometer-Bomb: a DIO commentary

DIO 7.1

 

 

1. Robertson's Data Fabrications, by E. Myles Standish

 

2. Hipparchus and Spherical Trigonometry, by Curtis Wilson

 

3. Hipparchos at Lindos, a Modest Confirmation, by Dennis Rawlins

 

4. Peary's Memorandum on Steering, by Hanne Christiansen

 

5. Unpublished Letters

 

6. van der Waerden: a Mathematician's Appreciation, by Hugh Thurston

DIO 6.1

 

 

1. Testing Princetitute-Muffia Omerta: Equation 31, by Dennis Rawlins

 

2. A Mayan Table of Eclipses, by Hugh Thurston

 

3. Crawling Towards Integrity

 

4. OJ Darts & Nordberg Walks

 

5. Hero & Doppelfanger: A Shaggy Were-Dog Story

DIO 5

 

 

 Aubrey Diller’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, Book 8

DIO 4.3

 

 

11. Concise Chronology of Approaches to the Poles, by R. K. Headland

 

12. Richard Byrd, Bernt Balchen, & the North Pole, by Dennis Rawlins

 

13. Scrawlins

 

14. Recovering Hipparchos' Last Lost Lustrous Star

 

15. Naked Came the Arrogance

DIO 4.2

 

 

Competence Held Hostage #2: The Princeton Institute vs. Aubrey Diller

 

6. Ptolemy's Backwardness, by Hugh Thurston

 

7. Unpublished Letters

 

8. The JFK Assassination Conspiracy Conspiracy

 

9. Scrawlins

 

10. The "Theft" of the Neptune Papers: Amnesty for the Astronomer Royal?

DIO 4.1

 

 

Competence Held Hostage #1

 

1. Pan-Babylonianism Redivivus? Ivy League Fundamentalism, by David Dicks

 

2. Columbus's Landfall at Plana Keys, by Keith Pickering

 

3. Hipparchos' Sites, his Spherical Trig, & R. Newton's Star Catalog Test, by Dennis Rawlins

 

4. Casting Pearls Before Pyglets: a Cautionary Tale of Duffermuffs & Flatterfeet

 

5. Announcing DIO Edition of Tycho's Star Catalog: Gratis to Subscribing Libraries

DIO 3

 

 

Tycho's Star Catalog: the First Critical Edition

 

A. KiloPerfectionism

 

B. Spherical Trig: Precision by Brainpower

 

C. The Catalog's Misunderstood Accuracy

 

D. Error Medians

 

E. Error Standard Deviations

 

F. Least-Squares Analysis of Errors

 

G. Principal-Star Error Trends

 

H. Exceptional-Star Error Trends

 

I. Select-Star Error Trends

 

J. Discussion of Error Tables

 

K. Total Star Count

 

L. How Dim Was Tycho's Magnitude Limit?

 

M. Discussion of Individual Stars' Errors [& List of Abbreviations]

 

N. The Final Fifty Stars: Complete Spherical Trig Reconstructions

 

O. Tycho's Rank

 

P. Preface to Full Tabulation of Catalog D's 1004 Stars & 100 Select Stars

DIO 2.3

 

 

6. Scrawlins

 

7. Unpublished Letters

 

8. Current Developments: Columbus, Amundsen, Ptolemy's Jekyll & Hide Defenders

 

9. The Neptune Conspiracy: British Astronomy's Post-Discovery Discovery

DIO 2.2

 

 

5. Amundsen's "Nonexistent" 1911 South Pole Aiming Data

 

A. Ted Heckathorn

 

B. The You're-Another Defense of Peary's Alleged Course-Setting

 

C. Clott of the Antarctic

 

D. Moore Logic

 

E. The NavFou Piles On

 

F. Heckathorn Finds Amundsen's Transverse Data

 

G. Recovering Amundsen's Spherical Trig Calculations

 

H. Scott's Navigational Math

 

I. Ex-Meridian Overprecision & Fatigue

 

J. Amundsen's Path to the Pole

 

K. Bunker Buncombe

 

L. Appendix: Coverup Cubed

DIO 2.1

 

 

1. Scrawlins

 

2. Correspondence

 

3. Referees Refereed

 

4. Tycho's 1004-Star Catalog's Completion Was Faked

DIO 1.3

 

 

K. Old Turkey: The Mystery of Hipparchos' Roots

 

L. Hipparchos' Eclipse Trio B Reveals His Early Solar Orbit

 

M. Frankensteinorbit Meets Trio A

 

N. From Hipparchos' Sham Emerges: Aristarchos' Lunar Apogee

 

O. Ancient Heliocentrists' Adoption of the Astronomical Unit

 

P. Basking Case

 

Q. Improved Estimates of Aristarchos' Distances to Sun & Moon

 

R. Haute Cowture & Pseudo-Aristarchos' Fatal Contradiction

 

S. Hipparchos in Scientific History

 

10. Black Affidavit

DIO 1.2

 

 

9. Muffia Orbituary

 

A. Let Us Now Braise Famous Men

 

The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy

 

B. The Winter of Our Disrefereeing

 

C. Somersaults & Winter Equinoxes

 

D. Even a Hun Can Have Fun: Blitzkreig in the 'Jest

 

E. DeToga Party: Lead Paper, Lead Balloon

 

F. R. Newton's Ghost Flattens Babylonian Unicycle

 

G. TrigOut Orgy

 

H. Browning-Squared

 

I. It Is Best To Be Clear About One's Conduct

 

J. And The Last Shall Be First: Muffia Immolation-Scene

DIO 1.1

 

 

1. Prologue

 

2. Rawlins' Scrawlins

 

3. Unpublished Letters

 

4. Peary, Verifiability, and Altered Data

 

5. The Scholarly Integrity of Book Reviews, by Robert R. Newton

 

6. Hipparchos' Ultimate Solar Orbit

 

The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy

 

7. Figleaf Salad: Ptolemy's Planetary Model as Funny Science

 

8. Royal Cometians: Reputability, Reform, & Higher Selfpublication