History of Astronomy - General History Page
History of Astronomy - General History Page

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Gary Agranat
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What's on this page:
This page highlights websites that introduce astronomy history or cover it
broadly. Also here are websites on some specialized history topics.
Contents
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A Brief History of Astronomy, part of a larger tutorial,
@ CASS, UC San Diego
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The Brief History of Astronomy
An astronomy timeline compiled by Marek Dudka.
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BBC - Final Frontier TV Program - Discoveries
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Events In Science- Mathematics- and Technology - Version 3.0
Includes several timelines in specialized astronomy topics.
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Windows to the Universe
includes history of astromomy and space information.
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Astronomy Related Resources On the Web (A.R.R.O.W.)
A web project by High School student Jean-Paul Wagner in Luxembourg. The website
format is actually a nicely done overview of the history of astronomy. He provides
biography cross links; most of these are to the MacTutor math history website.
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Science A-17 the Astronomical Perspective Harvard University.
See the Lecture Notes.
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History and Philosophy of Western Astronomy Nick Stroble's Astronomy Notes.
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From Stargazers to Starships David P. Stern, NASA GSFC
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
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Important Astronomers, their Instruments and Discoveries
by Paul M. Rybski
@ Ptolemy's Supper Club
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Astronomy.Rocks! The History of Astronomy
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Short biographies of The Bruce Medalists
awards by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific since 1898; includes
many prominent astronomers
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Planet Mars Chronology NASA Ames Mars Atmospheric Modeling Group.
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History of Astronomy at the Adler Planetarium
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Museo della Specola, Bologna
Università di Bologna, Dipartminto di Astronomia. In Italian.
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Copernic - Astronomie- Histoire & Astronautique in French
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Somnium- Cronología Astronómica AstroRED, history of astronomy website in
Spanish.
- Artículos @
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica Mexico.
in Spanish.
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Hypertext on Astronomy, National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)
in Chinese ¤Ñ¤å±Ð¾Ç¹êÅç«Ç
Has sections on Chinese and Western astronomy history.
- Also see
Astronomy Picture of the Day.
- Also see
General Astronomy References.

- Also see Biographies.

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The Height of the Sky A look at the history of determining how far away
celestial objects are. This is a sample chapter from the book
Fire in the Mind -
Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (Knopf 1995/Vintage 1996)
by George Johnson.
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The History of Radio Astronomy UREI-Radio Astronomy Tutorial,
MIT Haystack Observatory.
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Early History of Radio Astronomy NRAO
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What is the history of solar physics? and
Great Moments in Solar Physics @
About the Sun by the High Altitude Observatory.
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Speed of Light - Describes how the speed of light was measured
by Alwyn Botha.
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History of Astronomical Spectroscopy @ Laser Stars
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Chandra X-Ray Observatory - Xray Astronomy Field Guide (AXAF)

Has some astronomy history related to x-ray astronomy.
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History of Cosmic Ray Studies @
Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center associated with the
ACE
spacecraft.

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A Brief History of High-Energy Astrophysics (NASA GSFC HEASARC)
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Brief History of Cosmology @
Cambridge Relativity
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A Brief History of Cosmology @ History of Mathematics @ Mac Tutor.
- Also see
Cosmology links.

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Extrasolar Planets
"The Search for the Extrasolar Planets: A Brief History of the Search,
the Findings and the Future Implications"
by George H. Bell, @ Arizona State University.
- More about
Extrasolar Planets.

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Meteoritics A brief history of the early science of meteorites.
Meteorlab.Com.
- A Brief History of Comets I (until 1950) ESO.
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Dream: History of Planetarium
by Mark Chartrand, in IPS Planetarian, September 1973.
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Science Museum, National Museum of Science and Technology, London, UK.
- Time keeping, calendar, and navigation links are on the
Time & Navigation Page.

- Also see Technology History Links.

- Also see
The Sun page.

- Also see
The Planetary Science page.
- Also see
Astronomy by Wavelength

- Websites about your subject may carry some history. Be sure to check
those. Check for topics on the Main Astronomy Page.
- Chem 103 Notes - History of Science by Paul Charlesworth.
Michigan Tech.
From prehistory to the beginning of nuclear physics. The focus of these
pages is chemistry, yet it also encompasses a broadrer scope of science
history. Includes short biographies of early chemists and physicists.
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Carmen Giunta's classic chemistry page has
Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry (and
alphabetical version)
which includes papers relevant to physics, and indirectly,
relevant to astronomy. Also has This Week in the History of Chemistry.
- ChemTeam- Classic Papers Menu
- Book review of Prometheans In The Lab by Sharon McGrayne
by Popular Mechanics. The book is about the chemists behind the major developments
in chemistry since the French Revolution.
- Atomic Structure Timeline
Watertown High School , Watertown, Wisconsin.
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Center for History of Physics @ AIP
- 100 Years of Radioactivity History by Didier Verkindt.
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The X-Ray Century - 1896 A series of historical articles from when
X-Rays were first discovered. Emory Univ.
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History of Electricity & Magnetism by Michael Fowler
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IEEE History Center
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Prof. L.S. Taylor, Univ. of Md.:
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A Brief History of Electronics, 1745 - 1820's
The Millennium Education Group, Dennis Ramsey.
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Background of the SI Units NIST
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Steam Engine Library Univ. of Rochester. Background and applications
of thermodynamics.
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Changing views of the history of the Earth , Richard Harter
(URL updated July 21, 2002 -- thanks for writing me.)
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Technology History Links compiled by REFSTAR.
- Also see History of Technology and Math
- Also see Astronautics History.
- Also see
Related Sciences Pages.
- There are several website about the discovery of the electron in the
Physics section.
My Radio Bookmarks page has a
Radio History section.
- A History of Astronomy by Anton Pannekoek. 1961. Dover.
- A Short History of Astronomy -- From Earliest Times Through the 19th Century
by Arthur Berry. Originally published in 1898, published by Dover in 1961.
- The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by O. Neugebauer. 1969. Dover.
- Astronomy of the Ancients by Kenneth Brecher and Michael Seirthag.
1979. M.I.T. Press.
- The Copernican Revolution by Thomas S. Kuhn. 1957.
Harvard University Press
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy, edited by Michael Hoskin.
1997. Cambridge University Press.
- Mathematics in Western Culture by Morris Kline.
1953. Oxford University Press.
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The Extension of Man--The History of Physics before the Modern Age
by J.D. Bernal. 1972. MIT Press.
- Crucibles - The Story of Chemistry - From Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear
Fission by Bernard Jaffe. © 1930, 1942, 1948, 1976. Dover.
- Each history topic page also has specific book suggestions.
- More book suggestions on my
Book Suggestions Page.

- Other Book Suggestion Places

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Original page created October 19, 1997. Last revised March 12, 2001. Updated
August 26, 2003.
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