History of Astronomy : Publications

History of Astronomy: Publications: Books

Individual books: authors', publishers' and booksellers' information

The following list is very incomplete. See publishers' and booksellers' catalogues for much more books.

Lists of new history of astronomy books are included in the Electronic newsletters for the history of astronomy.

• 3 x Foerster. Das Leben und Werk von Wilhelm, Friedrich Wilhelm und Karl Foerster, 1995 (in German) (See also here.)
• 300 Jahre Astronomie in Berlin und Potsdam, 2000
• Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s, 1993
• Ashbrook, Joseph: The Astronomical Scrapbook: Skywatchers, Pioneers and Seekers in Astronomy, 1985
• Astronomies and Cultures, 1993
• Baiada, Enrica et al.: Museo della Specola. Catalogo - Catalogue, Bologna 1995
  16 Feb 1998: The announcement of the book has disappeared, but an on-line catalogue is now on display.
• Batten, Alan H.: Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve, 1988
• Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 1, 1998 (mostly in German, with English abstracts)
• Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 2, 1999 (mostly in German, with English abstracts)
• Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 3, 2000 (mostly in German, with English abstracts)
• Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Band 4, 2001 (in German, with English abstracts)
• Biermann, Kurt R.: Carl Friedrich Gauss. Der "Fürst der Mathematiker" in Briefen und Gesprächen, 1990 (in German)
• Blaauw, Adriaan: History of the IAU, 1994
• Brosche, Peter: Der Astronom der Herzogin - Franz Xaver von Zach, 2001
• The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations, 1995
  With antique constellation maps from Linda Hall Library, 32 of them available on-line.
• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy, 1996
• Chapman, Allan: Astronomical Instruments and Their Users : Tycho Brahe to William Lassell, 1996
• Chapman, Allan: Dividing the Circle: The History of Precise Angular Measurement in Instrument Making, 1500-1850, 1982
• Chapman, Allan: Dividing the Circle: The development of critical angular measurement in astronomy, 1990
• Chapman, Allan: Dividing the Circle, 1995 (2nd ed.) (Or see here. (3 Feb 1998: disappeared))
• Chapman, Allan: The Victorian Amateur Astronomer : Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920, 1996
• Cook, Richard S.: The Etymology of Chinese Chén, 1997 (See also here.)
• Coronelli, Vincenzo: Libro dei Globi (facsimile), 1997 (?)
• Cullen, Christopher: Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: the Zhou bi suan jing, 1996
• Donahue, William H.: Kepler's New Astronomy: The Central Argument
• Erhard Weigel - 1625 bis 1699, 1999 (in German, with English abstract)
• Euclid's Phaenomena : A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Treatise in Spherical Astronomy, 1996
• Feldhay, Rivka: Galileo and the Church
• Feynman, Richard, et al.: Feynman's Lost Lecture : The Motion of Planets Around the Sun, 1996
• Fideler, David: Jesus Christ, Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism, 1993
• Gascoigne, S.C.B. et al.: The Creation of the Anglo-Australian Observatory, 1990
• General History of Astronomy, Vol. 2A, 1989
• General History of Astronomy, Vol. 2B, 1995 (or see here)
• General History of Astronomy, Vol. 4, 1984
• Gingerich, Owen: The Great Copernicus Chase, 1992
• Greenberg, John L.: The Problem of the Earth's Shape from Newton to Clairaut
• Der Große Refraktor auf dem Potsdamer Telegrafenberg, 2000
• Guericke, Otto von: The New (so-called) Magdeburg Experiments, 1994
• Einstein, Albert: The Collected Papers
• Hamel, Jürgen: Die astronomischen Forschungen in Kassel unter Wilhelm IV., 1998 (in German, with English abstract)
• Hearnshaw, J. B.: The Analysis of Starlight: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Astronomical Spectroscopy, 1990
• Hentschel, Klaus: Zum Zusammenspiel von Instrument, Experiment und Theorie: Rotverschiebung im Sonnenspektrum und verwandte spektrale Verschiebungseffekte von 1880 bis 1960, 1998 (in German)
• Herbst, Klaus-Dieter: Die Entwicklung des Meridiankreises 1700-1850, 1996 (in German)
• Herbst, Klaus-Dieter: Astronomie um 1700, 1999 (in German, with English abstract)
• Herrmann, Dieter B.: 100 Jahre Archenhold-Sternwarte, 1996 (in German)
• Hetherington, Norriss S. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Cosmology, 1993
• Hodge, Paul: The Andromeda Galaxy, 1992
• The International Galilean bibliography (1965 - 1995)
• Kelly, John T.: Practical Astronomy During the Seventeenth Century : Almanac-Makers in America and England, 1991
• [Kepler, Johannes:] Johannes Kepler, Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works)
• Kepler, Johannes: New Astronomy, 1993
• Kepler, Johannes: Optics
• The Kepler and Copernicus Memorial Volume
• Kilmister, C. W.: Eddington's Search for a Fundamental Theory
• Kraus, John: Big Ear Two
• Krisciunas, K.: Astronomical Centers of the World, 1988
• Leverington, David: History of astronomy: From 1890 to the Present, 1995
• Lunden, R.; Srigley. M.: Ideas and identities, 1992
  Contains a chapter on "The New Cosmology"
• MacDonald, John: Arctic Sky, 1997
• Marschall, Laurence A.: The Supernova Story, 1994
• Marx, Siegfried and Pfau, Werner: Astrophotography with the Schmidt Telescope, 1992
• Massey, Harrie and Robins, M. O.: History of British Space Science, 1986
• The Message of the Angles - Astrometry from 1798 to 1998, 1998
• Moore, Patrick: Fireside Astronomy: An Anecdotal Tour Through the History and Lore of Astronomy, 1992
• Music and Science in the Age of Galileo, 1992
• Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences: Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake, 1990
• Newton's Principia: The Central Argument
• North, John David: The Universal Frame : Historical Essays in Astronomy, Natural Philosophy, and Scientific Method, 1989
• North, John: The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology, 1994, from W. W. Norton & Company (Or see here.)
• O'Malley, Michael: Keeping Watch : A History of American Time, 1990
• O'Malley, Michael: Keeping Watch : A History of American Time, 1996 (Paperback)
• Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300-1700: Tension and Accommodation, 1991
• Physics of Solar and Stellar Coronae: G.S. Vaiana Memorial Symposium, 1993
• The Quest for Longitude : The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993, 1996
• Records in Stone, 1988
• Redondi, P.: Galileo: Heretic, 1987
• Robertson, Peter: Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope, 1992
• The Role of Visual Representations in Astronomy, 2000
• Ross, Sydney: Nineteenth Century Attitudes: Men of Science, 1991
  Contains chapters on John Herschel.
• Science and Civilisation in China, 1954-
  Vol. III: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth, by Joseph Needham, 1954
• Sheehan, William: The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard
• Sherratt, Michael: Galileo (30 May 1996: removed from the Web)
• Smoller, L.A.: History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420, 1994
• Sobel, Dava: Longitude : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, 1995
• Sobel, Dava: Longitude, 1996 (Paperback)
• Sonnenuhren - Deutschland und Schweiz (in German)
• Stephenson, Bruce: Kepler's Physical Astronomy, 1994
• Stephenson, Bruce: The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy, 1994
• Stephenson, F. R. and Houlden, M. A.: Atlas of Historical Eclipse Maps: East Asia, 1500 BC-AD 1900, 1986
• Thulesius, Olav: Nicholas Culpeper: English Physician and Astrologer, 1992
• Treasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives, 1999
• Wallace, William A.: Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof, 1992
• Warner, Brian: Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1831, 1995
• White, Michael, Gribbin, John: Stephen Hawking - a Life in Science (30 May 1996: removed from the Web)
• Williams, Kay: Under an English Heaven: The Life Of George Alcock, 1996
• The Works of Galileo Galilei
• World Archaeoastronomy, 1989
• Yeomans, Donald K.: Comets: A Chronological History of Observation, Science, Myth, and Folklore, 1991
• Zambelli, Paola: The Speculum Astronomiae and its Enigma: Astrology, Theology and Science in Albertus Magnus and his Contemporaries, 1992
• Zinner, Ernst: Regiomontanus: His Life and Work, 1990

Book reviews

• Broughton, R. Peter: Looking Up: A History of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
• Dohrn-van Rossum, Gerhard: Die Geschichte der Stunde: Uhren und moderne Zeitordnungen, 1992
• Gingerich, Owen: The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History, 1992
• Haramundanis, Katharine (Ed.): Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin: an autobiography and other recollections (2nd edition), 1996
  Reviewed by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. From J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 106, 6, 1996, p. 346
• Herzog, Reinhart: Restauration et Renouveau: La litterature latine de 284 a 374 apres J.-C., 1993
  Including astrology.
• Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta: The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance, 1993 (Or see here.)
• Levy, David H.: Clyde Tombaugh - Discoverer of Planet Pluto, 1991
• Neoplatonism and Christianity, 1992 (Or see here.)
  Including a contribution on astrology.
• Osterbrock, Donald E.: Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950, 1997
• Wattenberg, Diedrich: Wilhelm Olbers (1758-1840) im Briefwechsel mit Astronomen seiner Zeit, 1994 (in German)
• Williams, Kay: Under an English Heaven (A biography of G. E. D. Alcock), 1996
  Reviewed by Martin Mobberley. From . Brit. Astron. Assoc., 106, 5, 1996
• Williams, Sheridan: UK Solar Eclipses from Year 1, 1996
  Reviewed by Hazel McGee. From J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 106, 4, 1996

• Books reviewed in The Times Higher
  • History of Science
    Including history of astronomy
• Reviews by Gustav Holmberg (27 Apr 1998: disappeared)
• Selected Astronomy Book Reviews
  Database, includes also history of astronomy books. (Type in "history" in the search form.)
• The Space Book Board (3 Feb 1998: disappeared)
  • History of Astronautics
  • History of Astronomy

Books on-line

• ADS Digital Library
  Online books relating to astronomy and astrophysics, including historic publications
• NASA Histories On-Line

• Autobiography of James Nasmyth, London 1885
• Bouché-Leclercq, Auguste: Greek Astrology (L'Astrologie grecque), Chapter 1 [Bibliography], 1899
  Translation and Additional Appendix by Lester J. Ness, 1995
• Brahe, Tycho: Astronomiae instauratae mechanica, 1602
  In image form. Introduction by Ronald Brashear.
• Calvin, William H.: How the Shaman Stole the Moon, 1991, 1993, 1996 (partially on-line)
• Collected papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, 1984
  Compiled by Patricia A. Becker, Ann T. Dodson ; edited by Lois L. Yoakam. Dublin, Ohio : OCLC Online Computer Library Center
  • Professor John Winthrop's Notes on Sun Spot Observations (1739)
  • The First Century of Scientific Books in the Harvard College Library
    Including astronomy.
  • Thomas Robie (1689-1729), Colonial Scientist and Physician
  • The Rise of Scientific Activity in Colonial New England
    Including astronomy.
  • Science in the Colonies: Early American Science
    Including astronomy.
  • Science in the American Colonies and the Early Republic 1664-1845
    Including astronomy.
• Eddington, A. S.: Stars and Atoms
• Haeckel, Ernst: Die Welträthsel, 1899 (in German)
  Discusses also some astronomical and cosmological problems.
• Huygens, Christiaan: Systema Saturnium, 1659
  In image form. Introduction by Ronald Brashear.
• Kant, Immanuel: Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels, 1755
  "Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven". German text and a new English translation by Ian C. Johnston.
• Lowell, Percival: Mars, 1895
• Physiker und Astronomen in Frankfurt, 1989 (in German)
• Sheehan, William: The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery, 1996
• Tannery, Paul: Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, 1893
  Scanned version

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 12 Mar 1997. Latest update: 19 Sep 2003