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  1. The Dynamics of the Solar System - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/dynamics/

    7 Mar 2023: See: Reaches of the Milky Way]. References:. A Berry, A short history of astronomy from the earliest times through the nineteenth century (New York, 1961). ... M Hoskin A Very Short Introduction: The History of Astronomy (New York, 2003).

  2. Ulugh Beg (1393 - 1449) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ulugh_Beg/

    4 Jan 2024: Hist. Astronom. 21 (2) (1990), 187-201. A U Usmanov, A short survey of the history of the development of astronomy in the medieval East up to the age of Ulugh ... Beg (Russian), Questions on the history of mathematics and astronomy I, Trudy Samarkand.

  3. Greek astronomy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_astronomy/

    7 Mar 2023: A Berry, A short history of astronomy (New York, 1961). D R Dicks, Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle (London, 1970). ... J L E Dreyer, A history of astronomy from Thales to Kepler (New York, 1953).

  4. The Reaches of the Milky Way - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/galaxy/

    7 Mar 2023: See: The Infinite Universe]. References:. 1. A Berry, A short history of astronomy from the earliest times through the nineteenth century (New York, 1961). ... 3. D Leverington, Encyclopaedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Cambridge, 2013).

  5. Tobias Mayer (1723 - 1762) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mayer_Tobias/

    7 Mar 2023: A Berry, A Short History of Astronomy (London, 1898), 282. R Eck, Tobias Mayer, Johann David Michaelis, Carsten Niebuhr und die Göttinger Methode der Längenbestimmung, Gauss-Ges. ... Hist. Astronom. 1 (2) (1970), 144-154. E G Forbes, Tobias Mayer's

  6. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713 - 1762) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lacaille/

    4 Oct 2023: A Berry, A Short History of Astronomy (Dover Publications, New York, 1961). ... D S Evans, Lacaille: astronomer, traveller; with a new translation of his journal (Pachart History of Astronomy Series, Tucson, 1992).

  7. James Bradley (1693 - 1762) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bradley/

    23 Nov 2023: According to the historian of astronomy, mathematical astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory Jean Baptist Joseph Delambre, in his 1821 history of astronomy in the 18th century:-. ... M Hoskin, The History of Astronomy (A Very Short Introduction)

  8. Guillaume Bigourdan (1851 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bigourdan/

    7 Mar 2023: and History of observational astronomy and observatories in France (3 volumes) (1918). ... L Baillaud, The Chalon Astronomer Benjamin Baillaud, and a Short History of His Bust in the Public Garden of Chalon-sur-Saône, Department of Physics and Astronomy,

  9. Édouard Benjamin Baillaud (1848 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Baillaud/

    7 Mar 2023: Baillaud, who had succeeded Le Verrier as Professor of Astronomy at the University of Paris, was a candidate for the vacant post in Toulouse. ... Anon, Édouard Benjamin Baillaud, Astronomische Nachrichten 253 (1934), 15-16. L Baillaud, The Chalon

  10. William Herschel (1738 - 1822) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Herschel_William/

    25 Jan 2024: A Armitage, William Herschel (Nelson, 1962). A Berry, A Short History of Astronomy. ... M Hoskin, William Herschel and the Southern Skies, Journal of the History of Astronomy 41 (2010), 503.