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].