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Starry Messenger - http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/starrymessenger.html
Phase I of the Electronic History of Astronomy, developed in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Trinity College, Cambridge. Covers the history of instruments and techniques, themes such as astrology and calendar reform, and biographies of major historical astronomers. |
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The Society For The History Of Astronomy - http://www.freewebs.com/sochistastro/
Academic and popular topics, with a focus on Britain. |
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History and Philosophy of Western Astronomy - http://www.astronomynotes.com/history/s1.htm
The History chapter of an introductory astronomy course. |
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Rundetaarn (The Round Tower) - http://www.rundetaarn.dk/engelsk/observatorium/history.htm
Astronomy in Denmark: Brahe, Roemer, Hertzsprung. |
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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. |
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Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy Pictures - http://www42.pair.com/infolund/bolaget/DAHAP/
Images from the history of astronomy, old telescopes, pictures of astronomers, observatories. |
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A Brief SETI Chronology - http://www.setileague.org/general/history.htm
A timeline of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from Morrison and Coconni to SETI@home. |
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The Àryabhatíya of Àryabhata - http://www.jqjacobs.net/astro/aryabhata.html
The oldest exact astronomic constant? The ratio of earth rotations to lunar orbits in Aryabhata's AD 498 writing. |
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History of Astronomy Pages - http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~heijden/history.html
Frederik Kaiser (1808-1872) and the professionalisation of Dutch astronomy; The "Lost Letters" of J.C. Kapteyn (1851-1922); Many history of astronomy and history of science links with a Dutch flavour. |
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The Star of Bethlehem - http://www.bethlehemstar.net/
An investigation of the science and history which bear on the mysterious star said to have accompanied the advent of Christ. |
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Atlas Celeste - http://www.mikeoates.org/mas/bevis/home.htm
A rare celestial atlas discovered in the library of the Manchester Astronomical Society. |
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Biennial History of Astronomy Conferences - http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/index.html
Workshops at Notre Dame, papers presented, abstracts, group pictures of attendees. |
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Islamic Astronomy - http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/PHYS/alshukri/PHYS215/Islamic_astronomy.htm
Article by Owen Gingerich explores refinement and criticism of Ptolemaic astronomy, including religious influences on direction, and describes precursors to and influences on Copernicus. |
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Northern California History of Astronomy Luncheon and Discussion Association - http://nchalada.org/
Announcements of discussions (in Oakland, California), open to the public, on various astronomy history topics, and an archive of past discussions |
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A History of X-ray Astronomy at Goddard - http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/xrays/history.html
Describes observations using balloons, rockets and satellites. |