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Since its founding, Centaurus has served as a journal of reference for the history of astronomy. To celebrate this tradition, our first virtual issue assembles ten articles from our archives and one article that is in currently in press. Together, these articles show off the range of contributions in history of astronomy that have appeared in the pages of Centaurus from the 1950s onward. Articles...
This paper traces the reception of Babylonian astronomy into the history of science, beginning in early to mid twentieth century when cuneiform astronomical sources became available to the scholarly public. The dominant positivism in philosophy of science of this time influenced criteria employed in defining and demarcating science by historians, resulting in a persistently negative assessment of...
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