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General Astronomy History

books.gif Abetti, Giogio. The History of Astronomy. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1952.

Baade, Walter. Evolution of Stars and Galaxies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. Out of print. $?.

books.gif Berry, Arthur. A Short History of Astronomy. New York: Dover, 1961. $?.

Bobrovnikoff, Nicholas T. History of Astronomy, Part 1: Astronomy Before the Telescope: Solar System. Pachart Pub., 1989. Out of print. $?.

Bobrovnikoff, Nicholas T. Astronomy Before the Telescope, Part II: The Solar System. Pachart Pub., 1989. Out of print. $?.

Bobrovnikoff, Nicholas T. Astronomy Before the Telescope, Part III: Stars, Constellations, and Cosmology. Pachart Pub., 1989. ISBN: 0318607905. $?.

Brusch, Stephen J. A History of Modern Planetary Physics, Vols. 1-3. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 458 p., 144 p., 448 p. $145.

books.gif Crowe, Michael J. Modern Theories of the Universe: From Herschel to Hubble. New York: Dover, 1994. 435 p. $9.95.

Crowe, Michael J. Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution. New York: Dover, 1990. Out of print. $6.25.

Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph. Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne. 1817.

Doel, Ronald E. Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Science, 1920-1960. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 302 p. $59.95.

books.gif Dreyer, John Louis Emil. A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler, 2nd ed. New York: Dover, 1953. Formerly titled History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler. $14.95.

Gingerich, Owen (Ed.). Astrophysics and Twentieth Century Astronomy to 1950, Part A: The General History of Astronomy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. $47.95.

Gingerich, Owen. The Great Copernicus Chase. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Collection of essays. $29.95.

Grant, Robert. History of Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. London: Bohn, 1852.

books.gif Heath, Thomas Little. Aristarchus of Samos: The Ancient Copernicus. New York: Dover, 1981. 425 p. $10.95.

books.gif Heath, Thomas Little. Greek Astronomy. New York: Dover, 1991. 192 p. $8.95.

Hetherington, Barry. A Chronicle of Pre-Telescopic Astronomy. 1996. $110.

Hoffleit, Dorrit. Astronomy at Yale, 1701-1968. 1992. 230 p. $40.

Hoskin, Michael A. (Ed.). The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy. 320 p. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $69.95.

Hoskin, Michael A. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 392 p. $39.95.

Houzeau, Jean-Charles and Lancaster, Albert. 1887. Two volume epic bibliography of astronomy, running 1,500 pages. See Sky and Telescope, Nov. 1990.

Hubble, Edwin Powell. The Realm of the Nebulae. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. $42.

Johnson, Francis Rarick. Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England: A Study of the English Scientific Writing from 1500 to 1645. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1937. $?.

Kepler, Johannes. New Astronomy. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 665 p. $26.96.

Koestler, A. The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe. Arkana Books. 623 p. $11.16.

books.gif Koyré, Alexandre. The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus-Kepler-Borelli. New York: Dover, 1973. 531 p. $11.95.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957. $11.96.

Lankford, John and Rothenberg, Marx (Eds.). The History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia. Garland Pub., 1996. $95.

Leverington, D. A History of Astronomy from 1890 to the Present. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. 355 p. $28.80.

Lewis, G.C. An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients. 1862.

Ley, Willy. Watchers of the Skies: An Informal History of Astronomy. 1963. $?.

Lodge, Oliver. Pioneers of Science, corr. ed London: Macmillan, 1910. 404 p.

books.gif Lovell, Bernard. Astronomer by Chance. New York: Basic Books, 1990. Out of print. $24.95.

Lovell, Bernard. The Jodrell Bank Telescopes. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1985. $21.

Lovell, Bernard. Out of the Zenith. Harper and Row, 1973. $?.

books.gif Lovell, Bernard. The Story of the Jodrell Bank. New York: Harper and Row, 1968. 265 p. $?.

Lovell, Bernard. Voice of the Universe: Building the Jodrell Bank Telescope. Praeger, 1987. $14.95.

McCluskey, Stephen C. Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe. 1998. $54.95.

Neugebauer, O. A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy, Vol. 1. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975. $?.

North, John. The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. New York: Norton, 1995. 697 p. $17.06.

Noyes, Alfred. The Torch-Bearers, Vol. 1: Watchers of the Sky. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1922-30. Covers Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Epilogue.

Noyes, Alfred. The Torch-Bearers, Vol. 2: The Book of Earth. Covers the Greeks, moving eastward, Italy, France, Sweden, Lamarck, Germany, England.

Noyes, Alfred. The Torch-Bearers, Vol. 3: The Last Voyage. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1922-30.

books.gif Pannekoek, A. A History of Astronomy. New York: Dover, 1989. $11.65.

Paul, Erich Robert. The Milky Way Galaxy and Statistical Cosmology, 1890-1924. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 262 p. $47.95.

Pendray, George Edward. Men, Mirrors, and Stars. New York: London, Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1935.

Pfeiffer, John. The Changing Universe: The Story of the New Astronomy. NY: Random House, 1956. First popular book about radio astronomy.

books.gif Porter, Russell W. Giants of Palomar. Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology, 1983. 64 p. A picture book containing the famous drawings of the Palomar telescope by Russell Porter.

books.gif Preston, Richard. First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. 263 p. Excellent and highly readable account of current and past patrons of Palomar with many interesting anecdotes. $21.60.

Ressmeyer, Robert. Space Places. Collins Publishers, 1990. A pictorial book of space-related photos. Extracts appear in the Dec. 1990 Sky and Telescope, p. 592-599. $?.

Ronan, Colin A. Discovering the Universe: A History of Astronomy. New York: Basic Books, 1971. $?.

Rosen, Edward. The Naming of the Telescope. New York: H. Schuman, 1947.

Sheehan, William. Worlds in the Sky: Planetary Discovery from Earliest Times Through Voyager and Magellan. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1992. $17.96.

Taton, René and Wilson, Curtis (Eds.). Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A: Tycho Brahe to Newton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. $59.95.

Taton, René; Wilson, Curtis; and Hoskin, Michael (Eds.). Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part B: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. $69.95.

books.gif Tester, Jim. A History of Western Astrology. Burry St. Edmunds, Suffock, England: St. Edmundsbury Press, 1987. $23.

Thurston, H. Early Astronomy. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994. 268 p. $49.

Turner, Herbert Hall. Astronomical Discovery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. 225 p.

van Helden, A. Sidereus Nuncius or the Sidereal Messenger. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989. $10.85.

Walker, Christopher (Ed.). Astronomy Before the Telescope. New York: St. Martin's Press. 352 p. $45.

Wilson, Robert. Astronomy through the Ages: The Story of the Human Attempt to Understand the Universe. 1997. $29.95.

Zwicky, Fritz. Discovery, Invention, Research. New York: Macmillan, 1969.


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