History of Astronomy

Ancient Astronomical Cosmology Resource Center ( A Central Resource for Educators and Student )

Contains an interactive atlas of world astronomy, with detailed descriptions of the astronomy of cultures around the world. Also includes an interactive Dresden and Borgian codex for studying Mayan and Aztec astronomy. Several student essays and links to other relevant sites are included.

Astronomy Acknowledgement Index ( AAI )

This service provides references to all personal acknowledgements from all papers published in the leading journals in astronomy. Search by name and lists of the most acknowledged scientists are available. The database is updated monthly. The AAI is compiled by Dima Verner, University of Kentucky.

Astronomy and Islam

A galaxy of astronomical links many with an Islamic flavour.

Franz Niklaus König: Celestial atlas (1826)

Greek Astronomy (extra) ( Object Omitted from Exhibit )

The Greek Astronomy subsection in the Mathematics section at the Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit

Greek Astronomy ( The Revival of an Ancient Science )

The Greek Astronomy subsection in the Mathematics section at the Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit

History of Astronomy

The first general History of Astronomy pages on the Web. These pages are maintained by the Working Group for the History of Astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft

PhotoTech

We offer photographic restoration services and plan to offer a "digital image ligrary" or photographic "stock-house" of thousands of historic images of astronomical observatories (primarily concerned with the history and building of the Lick Observatory in California.

RNOA - Astronomia On-Line ( Portugal )

Um Projecto da Associação Nacional de Observação Astronómica

Rome Observatory Astronomical Museum

Historical Astronomical Museum, with description cards and some pictures

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh ( ROE )

This site offers information about the extensive activities of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, a PPARC establishment responsible for building common-user IR and sub-mm instrumentation and managing telescope sites and data archive resources, as well as the UK Schmidt Telescope and the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine. The ROE site also has links to, or acts as the home page for:

• Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh;
• latest research e-prints;
• the Crawford library;
• the ROE Visitor Centre;
• the UKIRT data archive;
• Public Understanding of Science;
• ROE Photolabs;
• Teacher Research Inititive

and much more information besides.

The Face of the Moon: Gallileo to Apollo, An Exhibit of Rare Books and Maps from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library

Welcome to: The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo
An Exhibit of Rare Books and Maps from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library
We have prepared an online version of an exhibition catalog that was originally published in 1989. The catalog was written by William B. Ashworth, Jr and it won the First Place Award in the annual competition sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Copies of the printed catalog are still available.
For this online version, several minor errors have been corrected; otherwise, it follows the format of the printed version. However, the addition of the many hypertext links makes it possible to browse the catalog in an entirely new way. We hope you enjoy it.

The Galileo Project

A web resource on the life and works of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).

Working Group for the History of Astronomy ( in the Astronomische Gesellschaft )

The working group is open for all who are interested, it's membership is independent from that in the AG.

Working Group for the History of Astronomy: Electronic newsletters ( EMA/ENHA )

The newsletters contain announcements of conferences, exhibitions, new books, and other related material. They are available in the German original as well as in English translation.