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Galileo's World Guide: Astronomy & Cosmology
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History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia
by
John Lankford (Editor); Marc Rothenberg (Editor)
Publication Date: 1997
The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy
by
John L. Heilbron (Editor)
Publication Date: 2005
BEA
Bibliographies & Guides - Primary & Secondary Sources
Arabic astronomical and astrological sciences in Latin translation; a critical bibliography.
Bibliography of astronomers : books and pamphlets in English by and about astronomers
A bibliography of Sanskrit works on astronomy and mathematics
The history of modern astronomy and astrophysics : a selected, annotated bibliography
Mathematical astronomy in medieval Yemen : a biobibliographical survey
Internet
The Astronomy of Many Cultures: A Resource Guide
Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide to Materials in English
Optics
Astronomy and optics from Pliny to Descartes : texts, diagrams and conceptual structures
Astronomical Instruments
Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials
by
Catherine Eagleton
ISBN: 9789004176652
Publication Date: 2010-01-11
Origins of the Telescope
by
Albert Van Helden (Editor); Huib Zuidervaart (Editor); Rob van Gent (Editor); Sven Dupré (Editor)
ISBN: 9789069846156
Publication Date: 2011-10-15
Renaissance astrolabes and their makers
Astronomical Images
Fire in the sky : comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science
Picturing the cosmos Hubble Space Telescope images and the astronomical sublime
by
Elizabeth A. Kessler
ISBN: 9780816679577
Publication Date: 2012-11-24
Atlases & Maps
Illustrating the phaenomena : celestial cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages
by
Elly Dekker
ISBN: 9780199609697
Publication Date: 2012-12-29
Out of this world : the golden age of the celestial atlas : an exhibition of rare books from the collection of the Linda Hall Library
The sky explored : celestial cartography, 1500-1800
Star Maps
by
Nick Kanas
ISBN: 9781461409175
Publication Date: 2012-06-05
Early Modern Era
Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691-1757)
by
John M. Steele
ISBN: 9781461421481
Publication Date: 2012-02-17
The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750
by
Rienk Vermij
Publication Date: 2002
Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology
by
Patrick J. Boner (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010-11-30
Novelties in the heavens : rhetoric and science in the Copernican controversy
Practical astronomy during the seventeenth century : almanac-makers in America and England
The sun in the Church : cathedrals as solar observatories
by
J. L. Heilbron
ISBN: 9780674005365
Publication Date: 2001-04-02
Early Modern Era - Art, Optics, Astronomy
Baroque Science
by
Ofer Gal; Raz Chen-Morris
ISBN: 9780226923987
Publication Date: 2013-03-18
Galileo's Glassworks
by
Eileen Reeves
ISBN: 9780674026674
Publication Date: 2008-01-31
Influences : art, optics, and astrology in the Italian Renaissance
by
Mary Quinlan-McGrath
ISBN: 9780226922843
Publication Date: 2013-02-20
The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope
by
Samuel Y. Edgerton
ISBN: 9780801447587
Publication Date: 2009-02-05
Painting the Heavens
by
Eileen Reeves
ISBN: 9780691009766
Publication Date: 1999-10-17
Medleval West
Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe
by
Stephen C. McCluskey
Publication Date: 2000-11-20
Historians have long recognized that the rebirth
Ordering the heavens : Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian renaissance
by
Bruce S. Eastwood
ISBN: 9789004161863
Publication Date: 2007-07-20
Planets, stars, and orbs : the medieval cosmos, 1200-1687
by
Edward Grant
ISBN: 9780521433440
Publication Date: 1994-01-28
The revival of planetary astronomy in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Europe
Antiquity
Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia
by
Hermann Hunger; David Pingree
ISBN: 9789004101272
Publication Date: 1999-08-25
The Babylonian theory of the planets
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
by
O. Neugebauer
Publication Date: 1969-06-01
The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
by
James Evans
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
A history of ancient mathematical astronomy
Advanced studies
Timekeeping
Calendars and Years
by
John M. Steele
ISBN: 9781842173022
Publication Date: 2007-10-08
Calendars and Years II
by
John M. Steele (Editor)
ISBN: 9781842179871
Publication Date: 2011-02-15
Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition
by
Sacha Stern (Editor); Charles Burnett (Editor)
ISBN: 9789004259652
Publication Date: 2013-11-07
Time in Early Modern Islam
by
Stephen P. Blake
ISBN: 9781107030237
Publication Date: 2013-02-11
Comets
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
by
Sara J. Schechner
ISBN: 9780691009254
Publication Date: 1999-09-27
A History of Physical Theories of Comets, from Aristotle to Whipple
by
Tofigh Heidarzadeh
ISBN: 9789048178421
Publication Date: 2013-01-02
Solar System
Exploring the sun : solar science since Galileo
The Moon and the Western Imagination
by
Scott L. Montgomery
ISBN: 9780816519897
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
The Moon That Wasn't
by
Helge Kragh; Kurt Møller Pedersen (Assisted by)
ISBN: 9783764389086
Publication Date: 2008-09-18
Overviews & Introductory Works
Astronomy Across Cultures The History of Non-Western Astronomy
by
Helaine Selin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000-10-31
General History of Astronomy
Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology
by
John North
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
The Universe Unveiled
by
Bruce Stephenson; Marvin Bolt; Anna Felicity Friedman
ISBN: 9780521791434
Publication Date: 2000-11-13
Overviews - Antiquity through Sci Rev
Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical Introduction
by
Olaf Pedersen
Publication Date: 1993
Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley
by
Albert Van Helden
Publication Date: 1985
Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution
by
Michael J. Crowe
Publication Date: 2001 (2nd Rev. Edition)
1st edition (1990) also available
Astronomy & Islam
Islamic Astronomical Tables Mathematical Analysis and Historical Investigation
by
Benno Van Dalen
ISBN: 9781472422385
Publication Date: 2014-01-08
Islamic Astronomy and Geography
by
David A. King
ISBN: 9781409442011
Publication Date: 2012-12-10
The observatory in Islam
China
Granting the Seasons : the Chinese astronomical reform of 1280, with a study of its many dimensions and a translation of its records : 授時暦叢考
by
Nathan Sivin
ISBN: 9780387789552
Publication Date: 2008-10-20
India
Astronomy and mathematics in ancient India = Astronomie et mathémathiques de l'Inde ancienne
Astronomy in India, 1784-1876
by
Joydeep Sen
ISBN: 9781848934566
Publication Date: 2014-07-01
Spain
Islamic astronomy and medieval Spain
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