History of Astronomy: Items: Other items (sorted by time)

• History of the Discovery of the Deep Sky objects, by Hartmut Frommert
• The Sun-ray origin of the Pyramids, by James Nasmyth
• Thales and the Origin of Theoretical Reasoning, by Dmitri Panchenko
  From Configurations, 1993, 1.3:387-414. Including a chapter on The Explanation of the Nature of Solar Eclipses
• Islamic Contribution to Science, by Aminuddin Ahmad
  Including astronomy
• Muslim Contribution to Science
  Including astronomers
• Muslims Contribution To Science
  Including astronomy
• Astronomy and Astrology in the 12th century, by Nicholas Whyte
• Catalogues for Toledan Tables, by Fritz S. Pedersen
  From Latin astronomical texts, AD 1170 - AD 1300
• Historical Astronomical Atlases
• The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations, 1995
  With antique constellation maps from Linda Hall Library, 32 of them available on-line.
• Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
  Full of ideas about astronomy, cosmology, and the physical and spiritual order within the universe.
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
  Virtual exhibit of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, including some history of astronomy.
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective, by Joseph W. Dauben
  This document consists of about 35 pages of html, 200 GIF images, 10 mpeg video clips and one audio file.
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective at another server
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective at another server
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective at another server
• Web Resources Concerning Art and Science in the Renaissance
  Appendix to "The Art of Renaissance Science"
• Pietro della Valle, Compendio ..., 1624, 1631
  Risalah- i Padri Khristafarus Burris Isavi dar tufiq-i jadid dunya. Compendio di un trattato del Padre Christoforo Borro Giesuita della nuova costitution del mondo secondo Tichone Brahe e gli altri astologi moderni (Compendium of a tractate of Father Christoforo Borri, S.J. on the new model of the universe according to Tycho Brahe and the other modern astronomers)
• Andreas Cellarius, Atlas Coelestis, Amsterdam, 1660
• The Astronomer, 1668
  Painting by Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), Paris, Louvre
• Ein historisches Halophänomen in Stockholm (in German)
  Painting in a church in Stockholm, Sweden, showing a solar halo
• Sir John Flamsteed, Atlas Coelestis, 1729
• The Spectacle of Science: An Experiment in 1744 Concerning the Aurora Borealis, by Svante Lindqvist
  From Configurations, 1992, 1.1:57-94.
• Lacaille's Catalogue of Nebulae of the Southern Sky, 1751-52, by Hartmut Frommert
• Charles Messier's Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, 1774-84, by Hartmut Frommert
• Messier 102, by Hartmut Frommert
• William Herschel's catalog of Deep Sky objects, by Hartmut Frommert
• Paper by C. G. J. Jacobi from Astronomische Nachrichten
  C. G. Jacobi, (Translated by G. W. Stewart). On a New Way of Solving the Linear Equations that Arise in the Method of Least Squares. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, CS-TR-2877. Translation of a paper of C. G. J. Jacobi, "Ueber eine neue Auflösungsart der bei der Methode der kleinsten Quadrate vorkommenden linearen Gleichungen," which appeared in Astronomische Nachrichten 22 (1845).
• On the role of photography in Swedish astronomy c. 1870-1914, by Gustav Holmberg
• A Short History of Space VLBI

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