History of Astronomy : Topics

History of Astronomy: Topics: Other Topics

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General items

• History of Photography in Astronomical Measurements
• History of Photometry in Astronomical Observations
• Islamic Contribution to Science, by Aminuddin Ahmad
  Including astronomy
• Muslim Contribution to Science
  Including astronomers
• Muslims Contribution To Science
  Including astronomy

Special items (sorted by time)

• The Sun-ray origin of the Pyramids, by James Nasmyth
• Thales and the Origin of Theoretical Reasoning, by Dmitri Panchenko
  From Configurations, 1993, 1.3:387-414. Including a chapter on The Explanation of the Nature of Solar Eclipses
• Ptolemy's Star Catalogue (Almagest)
  The catalogue in machine-readable form. From Astronomical Data Center.
• Astronomy and Astrology in the 12th century, by Nicholas Whyte
• Catalogues for Toledan Tables, by Fritz S. Pedersen
  From Latin astronomical texts, AD 1170 - AD 1300
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
  Virtual exhibit of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, including some history of astronomy.
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective, by Joseph W. Dauben
  This document consists of about 35 pages of html, 200 GIF images, 10 mpeg video clips and one audio file.
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective at another server
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective at another server
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective at another server
• Web Resources Concerning Art and Science in the Renaissance
  Appendix to "The Art of Renaissance Science"
• Rømer and the Doppler Principle: The velocity of light, by Erling Poulsen
• Rømer and the refraction, by Erling Poulsen
• The Spectacle of Science: An Experiment in 1744 Concerning the Aurora Borealis, by Svante Lindqvist
  From Configurations, 1992, 1.1:57-94.
• Paper by C. G. J. Jacobi from Astronomische Nachrichten
  C. G. Jacobi, (Translated by G. W. Stewart). On a New Way of Solving the Linear Equations that Arise in the Method of Least Squares. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, CS-TR-2877. Translation of a paper of C. G. J. Jacobi, "Ueber eine neue Auflösungsart der bei der Methode der kleinsten Quadrate vorkommenden linearen Gleichungen," which appeared in Astronomische Nachrichten 22 (1845).
• Constellations of Meaning: Religion, Gender and Ideology in Late-Victorian Astronomy, by Bernie Lightman
  Research fiche (description of a project) at Faculty of Arts, York University
• On the role of photography in Swedish astronomy c. 1870-1914, by Gustav Holmberg
• Not a Heavenly View: Women in the Helsinki Carte du Ciel Project, 1893-1930, by Eva Isaksson
• Adrien de Gerlache
  Astronomical observations in Antartica in 1898 are mentioned.
• A Short History of Space VLBI

Wolfgang R. Dick Created: 22 Nov 1995. Latest update: 12 Apr 2000