Links and references on the History of Astronomy

The Internet History of Science Sourcebook

The History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, a list by Thomas Settle

The Starry Messenger, an electronic history of astronomy from Trinity College, Cambridge, England.

Medieval and Early Modern Science

• Atlas Coelestis
• Dante's Divine Comedy uses pre-Copernican astronomy
• The Medieval Science Page

Tycho Brahe

• Tycho Brahe
• Astronomiae Instauratae Mechnaica, electronic version of the 1602 book from the Smithsonian Institution.

Galileo

• The Galileo Project from Rice University
• Galileo's Telescope an on-line exhibit from Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florance
• PBS's NOVA program on Galileo
• Galileo Galilei Manuscript Gal. 72
• Biography and Links from St. Andrew's University, Scotland
• Discovery of Jupiter's Moons from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab

• Some books on Galileo

  Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible by Richard J. Blackwell

  Science, Religion and Authority: Lessons from the Galileo Affair by Richard J. Blackwell

  Galileo by Bertolt Brecht

  Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo Translated with an introduction and notes by Stillman Drake

  Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church second edition, by Annibale Fantoli, translated by George Coyne

  The Galileo Affair with notes by Maurice A. Finocchiaro. Available as an electronic book in the University of Texas library.

  The Letter to Grand Duchess Christina

  The Two World Systems (Dialogo dei massimi sistemi) by Galileo Galilei. A new abridged translation and guide is available as an electronic book in the University of Texas library.

  Galileo, Science, and the Church by Jerome Langford

  The Cambridge Companion to Galileo edited by Peter Machamer

  The Crime of Galileo by Giorgio Santillano

  Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel

   

Isaac Newton
The Newton Project

19th - 20th Century Science

• Discovery of the Electron
• Einstein-Image and Impact AIP History Center exhibit.
• Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920
• Nature of the Universe Debate in 1998

Women in Astronomy and other sciences

• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• Medieval Feminist Index
• Helen Sawyer Hogg
• Maria Mitchell Observatory
• Women in Astronomy Bibliography by Andrew Fraknoi and Ruth Freitag
• Contributions of Women at the US Naval Observatory
• Vera Rubin's list of references about women in science
• Sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset from the United States Naval Observatory

 

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