Sejarah astronomi

Astronomiadalahilmu pengetahuan alamtertua, yang telah ada sejakzaman kuno,dengan asal mulanya dalam kepercayaanagama,mitologi,kosmologi,kalender,danastrologidan praktik-praktikpra-sejarah.

Sebuahpeta bintangdengan sebuah proyeksi cylindrical. Peta bintang buatanSu Songtersebut mewakili salah satu peta bintang tertua yang masih ada dalam bentuk yangdicetak.

Sejarah awal

Budaya-budaya awal mengidentifikasikan objek-objek ruang angkasa dengandewa-dewadanjiwa.Mereka mengaitkan objek-objek tersebut (dan gerakan mereka) dengan fenomena sepertihujandan musim. Mereka umumnya mempercayai bahwa astronom-astronom "profesional" pertama adalah parapendeta

Sejarawan astronomi

• Scholars Past.Willy Hartner,Otto Neugebauer,B. L. van der Waerden
• Scholars Present.Stephen G. BrushDiarsipkan2019-06-12 diWayback Machine.,Stephen J. DickDiarsipkan2000-03-02 diWayback Machine.,Owen Gingerich,Bruce StephensonDiarsipkan2016-05-23 di Portuguese Web Archive,Michael HoskinDiarsipkan2011-07-24 diWayback Machine.,Alexander R. JonesDiarsipkan2007-06-22 diWayback Machine.,Curtis A. Wilson
• Astronomer-historians.J. B. J. Delambre,J. L. E. Dreyer,Donald Osterbrock,Carl Sagan,F. Richard Stephenson

Referensi

• Aaboe,Asger.Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy.Springer-Verlag 2001ISBN 0-387-95136-9
• Aveni, Anthony F.Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico.University of Texas Press 1980ISBN 0-292-77557-1
• Dreyer, J. L. E.History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler,2nd edition. Dover Publications 1953 (revised reprint ofHistory of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler,1906)
• Eastwood, Bruce.The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe,Variorum Collected Studies Series CS 279 Ashgate 2002ISBN 0-86078-868-7
• Evans, James (1998),The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy,Oxford University Press,ISBN0-19-509539-1.
• Antoine Gautier,L'âge d'or de l'astronomie ottomane,in L'Astronomie, (Monthly magazine created byCamille Flammarionin 1882), December 2005, volume 119.
• Hodson, F. R. (ed.).The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World:A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy. Oxford University Press, 1974ISBN 0-19-725944-8
• Hoskin, Michael.The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction.Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-280306-9
• McCluskey, Stephen C.Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe.Cambridge University Press 1998ISBN 0-521-77852-2
• Pannekoek, Anton.A History of Astronomy.Dover Publications 1989
• Pedersen, Olaf.Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical Introduction,revised edition. Cambridge University Press 1993ISBN 0-521-40899-7
• Pingree, David(1998), "Legacies in Astronomy and Celestial Omens", dalam Dalley, Stephanie,The Legacy of Mesopotamia,Oxford University Press, hlm. 125–137,ISBN0-19-814946-8.
• Rochberg, Francesca (2004),The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture,Cambridge University Press.
• Stephenson, Bruce.Kepler's Physical Astronomy,Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 13. New York: Springer, 1987ISBN 0-387-96541-6
• Walker, Christopher (ed.).Astronomy before the telescope.British Museum Press 1996ISBN 0-7141-1746-3

Bacaan tambahan

• Neugebauer, Otto(1969) [1957],The Exact Sciences in Antiquity(edisi ke-2),Dover Publications,ISBN978-0-486-22332-2
• Revello, Manuela (2013)."Sole, luna ed eclissi in Omero", in TECHNAI 4, pp. 13-32.Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore.

Jurnal

• DIO: The International Journal of Scientific History
• Journal for the History of Astronomy
• Journal of Astronomical History and HeritageDiarsipkan2008-05-06 diWayback Machine.

Pranala luar

• UNESCO-IAU Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy
• Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomyat the Astronomical Institutes of Bonn University.
• Commission 41 (History of Astronomy)Diarsipkan2012-03-15 diWayback Machine.of theInternational Astronomical Union(IAU)
• Society for the History of Astronomy
• Mayan AstronomyDiarsipkan2007-06-06 diWayback Machine.
• Caelum Antiquum:Ancient Astronomy and Astrology atLacusCurtius
• Starry Messenger: Observing the Heavens in the Age of Galileo- an exhibition from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
• Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy
• "The Book of Instruction on Deviant Planes and Simple Planes"is a manuscript in Arabic that dates back to 1740 and talks about practical astronomy, with diagrams.
• More information on women astronomers