History
Categories
- Eclipses, Occultations and Transits (8)
- Instruments (12)
- Observatories (3)
- People (81)
- Solar System (10)
- Worldviews (14)
Links
Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/aa/enha/
Complete archive and subscription information.
From Stargazers to Starships
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sintro.htm
Tutorial/historical exposition of the motion of Earth in space, Newtonian mechanics and spaceflight, on a high school level.
Gene Smith's Brief History of Astronomy
http://cassfos02.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/History.html
Covers the development of this ancient science from days of Stonehenge (3100 BC) to the discovery of Pulsars (1968 AD). Includes related resource links.
Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/cellarius.html
Atlas of the heavens as seen by the astronomers of the time of its 1661 printing: Copernicus, Ptolemy, Brahe, and Aratus. Entire book has been digitized and the images may be browsed or searched.
HASTRO-L
http://listserv.wvu.edu/archives/hastro-l.html
Archive of the History of Astronomy Discussion Group, the mailing list for scholars in this field.
Heavenly Mathematics: Cultural Astronomy
http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/heavenly.html
An interdisciplinary course on cultural astronomy.
Hindu Cosmological Time Cycles
http://www.aaronsrod.com/time-cycles/index.html
An accurate calendar and the progenitor of the sexagesimal (base 60) "degree, minutes, seconds" measurement system.
Historiacoelestis
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/historiacoelestis/
Yahoo group moderated by Stuart Williams, F.R.A.S.
Historical Astronomy Division
http://www.aas.org/~had/had.html
American Astronomical Society division devoted to history, with a link to pages on the history of the society itself.
History and Philosophy of Western Astronomy
http://www.astronomynotes.com/history/s1.htm
The History chapter of an introductory astronomy course.