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History of Astronomy
- General: Windows to the Universe page.
- Lecture Notes: Jose Wudka (ucr.edu) history of cosmology
notes.
Archaeoastronomy
- In General: Center for Archaeoastronomy site;
Windows to the Universe page.
- Megaliths: Stone Pages site.
Antiquity and Topics
- Aristarchus of Samos: St Andrew's University page;
K Riley's page
at Tufts.
- Aristotle: St Andrew's University page;
2002 Rowan-Robinson article.
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene: St Andrew's University page.
- Hipparchus of Rhodes: St Andrew's University page;
Cornell University page.
- Ptolemy, Claudius: Galileo Project page;
St Andrew's University page;
seds page.
- Mythology: M.F. Lindemans' pantheon.org Encyclopedia
Mythica site.
- Writing: Ancient Scripts site.
- The Sun: NASA sponsored project on The
Sun in Time.
Medieval Astronomy
- Giordano Bruno: The Radical Academy page.
- Nicholas of Cusa: St-Andrews University page.
- E A Paschos & P Sotiroudis The Schemata of the Stars:
Byzantine Astronomy from 1300 AD, World Scientific 2003.
Astronomy in Different
Cultures
- Arabs: A. Zahoor's site
on Muslim scientists.
- Babylonians: St Andrew's University pages on Babylonian
mathematics
and numerals.
- Greeks: Greek cosmology page.
- Mayas: Maya astronomy page;
The Dresden Codex text
and image
pages.
Online Articles
- S. Kak, "Babylonian and Indian astronomy: Early connections",
physics/0301078.
- G. Magli, "On the astronomical orientation of the IV
dynasty Egyptian pyramids and the dating of the second Giza pyramid",
physics/0307100.
Books
- A.F. Aveni, Conversing with the Planets: How Science and
Myth Invented the Cosmos, Kodansha 1992.
- A.F. Aveni, Ancient Astronomers, Smithsonian Books
1993.
- M.J. Crowe, Theories of the World from Antiquity to the
Copernican Revolution, 2nd edition, New York: Dover 2001.
- J. Evans,The History & Practice of Ancient Astronomy,
Oxford University Press 1998.
- S.M. Fabian, Patterns in the Sky: An Introduction to Ethnoastronomy,
Waveland.
- E.C. Krupp, Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy
of Lost Civilizations Oxford University Press 1994.
- M. Lachièze-Rey and J.-P. Luminet, Celestial Treasury:
From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space, Cambridge
University Press 2001.
- T.P. McCleary, The Stars We Know: Crow Indian Astronomy
and Lifeways, Waveland.
- J. North, The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology,
London 1994.
- D. Teresi, Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern
Science, from the Babylonians to the Maya, Simon & Schuster
2002.
- H. Thurston, Early Astronomy Springer-Verlag 1994
[up to Kepler].
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