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- A Brief SETI Chronology - A timeline of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from Morrison and Coconni to SETI@home.
www.setileague.org/general/history.htm
- A Reminiscence of Project Ozma - Frank D. Drake describes his experience searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.
www.bigear.org/vol1no1/ozma.htm
- A Science Odyssey - Physics and Astronomy - PBS articles about 20th century astronomy and physics.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/physastro.html
- Arabic Astronomy Before Islam - Some Babylonian and Greek background, then pre-Islamic astronomy on the Arabian peninsula.
www.al-kawn.com/Ihsan/Before%20Islam.htm
- Armagh Observatory History and Architecture - Instuments, astronomers, a list of original sources archived.
www.arm.ac.uk/history
- Astronomy in Japan - Historical and modern Japanese astronomy, and its place in Japanese culture
www2.gol.com/users/stever/jastro.html
- Astronomy in Sweden 1860-1940 - From the Uppsala University Newsletter for History of Science.
www.vethist.idehist.uu.se/english/newsletter/astronomy.html
- Atlas Celeste - A rare celestial atlas discovered in the library of the Manchester Astronomical Society.
www.u-net.com/ph/mas/bevis/home.htm
- Biennial History of Astronomy Conferences - Workshops at Notre Dame, papers presented, abstracts, group pictures of attendees.
www.nd.edu/~histast4/index.html
- Dudley Observatory - Library, archives, outreach programs.
www.dudleyobservatory.org
- Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy - Complete archive and subscription information.
www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/aa/enha
- From Stargazers to Starships - Tutorial/historical exposition of the motion of Earth in space, Newtonian mechanics and spaceflight, on a high school level.
www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sintro.htm
- Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius - 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.
www.lib.utah.edu/digital/cellarius.html
- HASTRO-L - Archive of the History of Astronomy Discussion Group, the mailing list for scholars in this field.
wvnvm.wvnet.edu/htbin/listarch?hastro-l&a:scmcc.archives
- Hindu Cosmological Time Cycles - An accurate calendar and the progenitor of the sexagesimal (base 60) "degree, minutes, seconds" measurement system.
www.aaronsrod.com/time-cycles/index.html
- Historiacoelestis - Yahoo group moderated by Stuart Williams, F.R.A.S.
groups.yahoo.com/group/historiacoelestis
- Historical Astronomy Division - American Astronomical Society division devoted to history, with a link to pages on the history of the society itself.
www.aas.org/~had/had.html
- History and Philosophy of Western Astronomy - The History chapter of an introductory astronomy course.
www.astronomynotes.com/history/s1.htm
- History of Astronomy - Short biographies of several less well known British astronomers.
www.u-net.com/ph/astro-history
- History of Astronomy in Ancient India - Eclipse calculation, heliocentric theory, size of the world.
india.coolatlanta.com/GreatPages/sudheer/astro.html
- History of Astronomy Pages - 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.
www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~heijden/history.html
- History of SETI - An overview of the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
www.seti-inst.edu/general/history.html
- History of the Leander J. McCormick Observatory - Early astronomy at the University of Virginia.
www.astro.virginia.edu/research/observatories/26inch/history
- Islamic Astronomy - Ancient astronomy preserved and improved by the Islamic empire.
www.scivis.com/AC/hist/islamastro.html
- Jewish Astronomy, from ancient to modern times - Astronomy in Israel: from Og's Circle to the Wise Observatory.
wise-obs.tau.ac.il/judaism/jewish_astro.html
- Linda Hall Library - An exhibit of 15th through 19th century celestial atlases, and an exhibit of pictures of the moon from Galileo to Apollo.
www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/onlineexhibits.htm
- Little Green Men, White Dwarfs or Pulsars? - A personal account by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on the discovery of pulsars.
www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm
- Northern California History of Astronomy Luncheon and Discussion Association - Announcements of discussions (in Oakland, California), open to the public, on various astronomy history topics, and an archive of past discussions
nchalada.org
- Reaching for the Stars - Swedish stellar and nebular astronomy, 1860-1940.
www.kult.lu.se/ilh/staff/gustav/diss.html
- Rundetaarn (The Round Tower) - Astronomy in Denmark: Brahe, Roemer, Hertzsprung.
www.rundetaarn.dk/engelsk/observatorium/history.htm
- Russell A. Hulse - Nobel Lecture - The discovery of the binary pulsar.
www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1993/hulse-lecture.html
- Some great folks in the History of Astronomy - From Hicetas of Syracuse to Jocelyn Bell, with a dozen in between, people the author thinks should have the Nobel Prize.
www.axs.com.au/~jjjacq/sundry/astro.html
- The Àryabhatíya of Àryabhata - The oldest exact astronomic constant? The ratio of earth rotations to lunar orbits in Aryabhata's AD 498 writing.
www.jqjacobs.net/astro/aryabhata.html
- The Babylonian Theory of the Planets - A substantial look at the subject, and a review of N. M. Swerdlow's book.
www.maa.org/reviews/babplanets.html
- The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation - Robert Woodrow Wilson Nobel Lecture.
www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1978/wilson-lecture.html
- The Manchester Astronomical Society History - The first hundred years, list of presidents, list of archived documents.
www.u-net.com/ph/mas/history.htm
- The Star of Bethlehem - An investigation of the science and history which bear on the mysterious star said to have accompanied the advent of Christ.
www.bethlehemstar.net
- The1882 Transit of Venus - Simon Newcomb's expedition to Wellington, South Africa.
canopus.saao.ac.za/~wpk/tov1882/tovwell.html
- This Month in the History of Astronomy - Short descriptions of important discoveries, events, and birthdays sorted by month.
Astro.MartianBachelor.com/TMITHOA
- Twenty Years After - Philip Morrison's reminiscences about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
www.bigear.org/vol1no1/twenty.htm
- Tycho's Star Maps - Celestial atlases and globes on exhibit at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/museum/brahe/index.html
- Vatican Observatory History - From calendar reform in 1582 to modern telescopes in Arizona
clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo/history.html
- History of Astronomy - This is the "official" history of astronomy page on the web. It is an extensive resource to the field.
www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html
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