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Renaissance Astronomy: Further Reading and Resources

An introduction to the holdings of L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Recommended Reading

Heilbron, J.L., ed. The Oxford guide to the history of physics and astronomy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

  • HBLL Stacks Qc 7 .O94 2005

Hoskin, Michael, ed. The Cambridge illustrated history of astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

  • HBLL Stacks QB 15 .C36 1997

Lankford, John, ed. History of astronomy: an encyclopedia. Garland reference library of social science, vol. 771. New York: Garland, 1997.

  • HBLL Stacks QB 15 .H624 1997

Motz, Lloyd, and Jefferson Hane Weaver. The story of astronomy. New York: Plenum Press, 1995.

  • HBLL Stacks QB 15 .M67 1995

Wilson, Robert. Astronomy through the ages: the story of the human attempt to understand the universe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

  • HBLL Stacks QB 15 .W56 1997

Digitized Editions

Important Books and Manuscripts at Other Libraries

Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Nuremberg: Johannes Petreus, 1543. (Lehigh University Digital Library)

Galileo's Library, Galileo Digitale Project (National Central Library of Florence)

Tycho Brahe, Observationes planetarum c. 1596 (Royal Library of Denmark)

Christiaan Huygens, Systema Saturnium. (Smithsonian Institution Libraries)

On the Web

History of Astronomy Online

Starry Messenger (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

The Galileo Project (Rice University)

Online Exhibits

The Astrolabe (Oxford Museum of the History of Science)

Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica (Royal Library of Denmark)

Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work (Cambridge University Libraries)

Thinking Outside the Sphere: Views of the Stars from Aristotle to Herschel (Linda Hall Library)

Out of this World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas (Linda Hall Library)

The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo (Linda Hall Library)