History of Astronomy (and Science)

History of Astronomy (and Science)

• Working Group for the History of Astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG), Germany
• IAU Commision 41 - History of Astronomy
• IAU Working Group - Astronomy and World Heritage
• UNESCO-IAU Astronomical Heritage Web Portal
• The Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
  at the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT)
• Newsletter for the History of Science in Southeastern Europe
• The Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (JAHH) in ADS
• American Astronomical Society - Historical Astronomy Division
• ASTRONOMIE-rara of the Deutsches Museum and the ETH Zürich (in German)
• Historical Literature Scans in ADS (NASA Astrophysical Data System)
• Kepler Komission (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
• History of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• History of the Discovery of the Deep Sky objects
  (Der transparente "Atlas céleste")
• Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
• Map History / History of Cartography
• Historic celestial maps (Bayer, Hevelius, ...)
  (from "Danmarks Natur- og Lægevidenskabelige Bibliotek", Denmark)
• Historical Celestial Atlases on the World Wide Web
• Star Myths and Constellation Lore
• Constellations: myths and maps (Hawaiian Astronomical Society)
• Constellations
• Starlore
• DIO : The International Journal of Scientific History
• The Planet Mars - A History of Observation/wp-content/uploads and Discovery
  Book by William Sheehan
• Mars by Percival Lowell, 1895
• The Galileo Project , Rice University, USA
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
• Galileo and the Others - Background to a Revolution in Astronomy
• Maria Celeste's letters to her father Galileo Galilei
• Christiaan Huygens: Systema Saturnium , 1659
• Ron Baalke: Historical background of Saturn's rings , (1999)
• Hypatia of Alexandria - philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
• Italian Bibliography of the History of Science of the Institute and Museum of History of Science in Florence
• Vultus Uraniae (Göttin der Astronomie)
  (has a section on the astronomical museum : "Museo della Specola" and it's beautiful catalogue)
• Museum of the History of Science , Oxford , UK
• (Ancient) Astronomy in Japan
• Ireland's Historic Science Centre
• Perseus Project
  (A digital library that covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world)
• Venus in 1982: From Russia with love
• The Moon in 1910 (1910 map of the Moon by Walter Goodacre, reproduced here as a huge 400 megapixel image)

 

Archaeoastronomy

• Archaeastronomy in Wikipedia
• Gesellschaft fü Archäoastronomie  
• Australian Aboriginal Astronomy
• Center for Archaeastronomy , University of Maryland, USA  
• European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC)  
• Società Italiana di Archaeoastronomia (SIA)  
• Sociedad Interamericana De Astronomia Cultural (SIAC)
• UNESCO Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy  

 

History of Space Flight

• NASA Technical Reports Server
  On this site you can find more than 200 000 space-related documents, including English translations of rare foreign-language publications by early German and Russian space-flight pioneers.
• 50 Years NASA
• March to the Moon
• Apollo Image Archive
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (NASA)
• The Apollo Program (KSC)
• Apollo by the Numbers (book by R. Orloff; use "Next" to scroll down to index page!)
• NASA History Office (NASA)
• NASA History Office (MSFC)
• X-33 History Project
• NASA Astronaut Biography
• Space Calendar
• Solar System Exploration Missions (NASA)

 

Miscellaneous

• Snapshots from space history This website showcases a small selection of the historic space pictures in the NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF) at University College London, many of them never published online before, others only ever in low resolution.
• StratoCat   Stratospheric balloons, history and present
• Paleofuture (a look into the future that never was)
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
  (including many biographies)
• History of the International Date Line
• Biographies (biography.com)

• Encyclopedia Mythica (mythology, folklore, legend)

• Biographies (biography-center)
• Antiquariat Gerhard Renner
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