Duke University Press Books, 2010. — 400 p. — (Science and Cultural Theory). — ISBN: 978-0822346289. “The Heavens on Earth” explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology,...
Quercus, 2011. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0857385984. From the ancient origins of astronomy to the Copernican revolution, and from Galileo to Hawking's research into black holes, The Story of Astronomy charts the discoveries of some of the greatest minds in human history, and their attempts to unveil the secrets of the stars. Peter Aughton's trademark narrative style is to the fore,...
Vintage Books, 2006. — 720 p. — ISBN, 0-307-51323-8 978-0-307-51323-6. An unparalleled history of astronomy presented in the words of the scientists who made the discoveries. Here are the writings of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Halley, Hubble, and Einstein, as well as that of dozens of others who have significantly contributed to our picture of the universe. From...
Pantheon Books, NY, 2009. — 468 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-37801-9. The riveting and mesmerizing story behind a watershed period in human history, the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe. On New Years Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that our Universe was far bigger, eventually measured as a thousand trillion times larger than...
Cosmology Science Publishers, 2015. — 454 p.
Prologue: Ancient Cosmologies: The Paleolithic and Neolithic Universe
Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: The Role of Astronomy In Ancient Cultures (Juan Antonio Belmonte)
Prehistoric Astronomers? Ancient Knowledge Created By Modern Myth (Emília Pásztor)
The Cosmology of the Paleolithic (R. Joseph)
Neolithic Cosmology: The Equinox...
NY: St. Martins Press, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN 978-1137280084, 1137280085. The IceCube Observatory has been called the «weirdest» of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice , Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Located near the U.S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at...
Oxford: Lion Books, 2015. — 295 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7459-5627-5, 978-0-7459-5787-6. A comprehensive history of how the heavens were discovered and mapped, by the leading astronomers from 1500 onwards Building on the work of the Greek and Arabian astrologers before him, the idea of a sun-centered universe was proposed by a church lawyer called Nicholas Copernicus. It was later...
Rev. 2nd Edition. — Transl. from lat.: Rosen E. — Dover Publications, Inc., 2018. — 224 p. — (Dover thrift editions). — ISBN: 0486827755, 978-0486827759. Universally regarded as a founder of modern astronomy, Copernicus wrote in Latin, and his works were unavailable in English until the publication of this 1939 translation. A three-part collection, it consists of the...
Michael O'Mara Books Limited, 2016. — 262 p. — ISBN: 2781782434306. From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between. Big History is the attempt to understand and condense the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang...
Dover Publications, 2001, 229 pages. Language: English This Professor Crowe's accessible and enlightening book recreates one of the most dramatic developments in the history of thought: the change from an earth-centered to a sun-centered conception of the solar system. Written in a clear and straightforward manner, the work is organized around a hypothetical debate: Given the...
Springer, 2021. — 289 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-80653-8. This book tells the story of how, over the past century, dedicated observers and pioneering scientists achieved our current understanding of the universe. It was in antiquity that humankind first attempted to explain the universe often with the help of myths and legends. This book, however, focuses on the time when cosmology...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-509539-5. The subject of this book is the Western astronomical tradition from ancient Babylonia to the European Renaissance, with special emphasis on the Greek period. Throughout the book two questions constantly recur: what evidence permits us to reconstruct the astronomy of the ancient past? How was astronony actually...
Springer, 2021. — 302 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-80308-7. This book recounts the stories of the astronomical pioneers who forever changed our views of the cosmos. The chapters delve into their fascinating lives over the centuries, showing how these pivotal minds built upon the work of their predecessors and unlocked the unique properties of specific stars. From ancient astronomy to...
Pegasus Books, 2019. — 336 p. Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light years away. But before its invention, people used nothing more than their naked eye to fathom what took place in the visible sky. So how did four men in the 1500's—of different nationality, age, religion, and class—collaborate to discover that the Earth revolved...
Harper Perennial, 2003. — 512 p. From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it. From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to...
Translated by Albert Van Helden — University Of Chicago Press, 2016 — 135 p. — ISBN 9780226320120. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) published Sidereus Nuncius, or the «Starry Messenger» in 1610. In it he provided a lively and accessible account of his telescopic work: his observations of the Moon and, particularly, his discovery and observations of four satellites around Jupiter....
Pan Books, 2010. — 420 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-330-54007-0. Contrary to popular belief fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the earth was round. The idea of a spherical world had been widely accepted in educated circles from as early as the fourth century b.c. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational...
Springer, 2020. — 212 p. This book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures. Archaeoastronomy is a branch of positional astronomy that helps to determine the epochs of ancient astronomical alignments and special astronomical events. In this book, only the descriptions...
Yale University Press, New Haven, London, UK, 2015. – 188 p. – ISBN: 0300218273, 1848319185 The twentieth century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behavior of very large things, and quantum theory the behavior of very small things. In this landmark book, John Gribbin—one of the best-known science writers of the past thirty...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 653 p. — ISBN: 9780300226751. What if Newton had never lived? A compelling dual biography argues that Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley easily could have filled the giant’s shoes—and deserve credit for the birth of modern science. Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were...
Routledge, 2021. — 268 p. Above the land and its horizon lies the celestial sphere, that great dome of the sky which governs light and darkness, critical to life itself, yet its influence is often neglected in the archaeological narrative. Visualising Skyscapes captures a growing interest in the emerging field of skyscape archaeology. This powerful and innovative book returns...
Oxford University Press, 2003. "The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction" traces the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century and the technical developments since the Second World War. Astronomy, perhaps the first of the sciences, was already well developed by the time of Christ — the...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-14833-5. Discoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of William's sister, Caroline, who assisted him in his observations of the night sky and became...
Springer, 2023. — 377 p. — (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series). — ISBN 978-3-031-31485-8. The Barnard Objects have fascinated professional and amateur astronomers for over one hundred years. Many of those objects first imaged by E.E. Barnard on black-and-white photographic plates are now being captured daily in thousands of color astrophotographs. This book tells of...
World Scientific Publishing, 2021. — 332 p. Chinese Astrology and Astronomy: An Outside History discusses the ancient Chinese's needs and reasons for engaging in astronomy. It presents the study on ancient astronomical phenomena and manuals, and analyzes the cosmological views of ancient Chinese. It also expounds the nature and functions of astronomy to ancient Chinese, as well...
Penguin, 2017. — 572 p. — (Penguin Modern Classics). — ASIN B06VSXFQJH. Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic...
Springer, 2021. — 346 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-80259-2. Starting from Newton’s times this follow-up to the author’s Springer book “Our Place in the Universe - Understanding Fundamental Astronomy from Ancient Discoveries” addresses the question of “our place in the Universe” from astronomical, physical, chemical, biological, philosophical and social perspectives. Using the history of...
New York, USA: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009. — 242 p. — (Published Titles in the Great Discoveries Series). – ISBN: 978-0-393-07208-2. Responsible for the greatest advances in astronomy since Copernicus, William and Caroline Herschel forever transformed our view of the heavens. Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after...
3rd Edition. — Springer, 2025. — 328 p. This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and their religious and symbolic worlds. The book is...
BenBella, 2009. — 184 р. The historical and social implications of the telescope and that instrument’s modern-day significance are brought into startling focus in this fascinating account. When Galileo looked to the sky with his perspicillum, or spyglass, roughly 400 years ago, he could not have fathomed the amount of change his astonishing findings—a seemingly flat moon...
New York, NY : The Countryman Press, A division of W.W Norton & Company, 2018. — 268 pages : illustrations, maps. The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our distant ancestors. From anywhere on Earth, a person may view the celestial panorama simply by stepping outside at night and gazing upward. The first part of...
Icon Books, 2024. — 141 p. Eyes in the Sky - Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb by Andrew May is a must-read book for anyone interested in astronomy, astrophysics, and history of space exploration. Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope. This allowed them to gaze further into outer space and examine anything that appears in the sky above...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — 197 p. — (Historical & Cultural Astronomy) — ISBN: 3319235990 Alexus McLeod explores every aspect of the lesser-known history of astronomy in the Americas (Mesoamerica and North America), China and India, each through the frame of a particular astronomical phenomena. Part One considers the development of astronomy in the...
New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — 256 p. — ISBN-13 9781538754153. Млечный Путь: автобиография нашей галактики Астрофизик и фольклорист рассказывает о Млечном Пути в этой доступной и чрезвычайно увлекательной автобиографии титульной галактики, подробно описывая, что люди узнали обо всем, от ее образования до ее возможной смерти, и что еще нужно узнать об этой...
New York: Thames&Hudson, 2022. — 304 p. — ISBN-13 9780500024645. The story of our Universe, from its beginning in the first milliseconds of the Big Bang up to our present moment and beyond, told in a gripping narrative by one of the world's leading astronomers. Everyone knows astronomers use telescopes to peer into distant space. But did you know that they also use them as time...
New York, USA: The Experiment, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN: 9781615196142. Within the pages of this eclectic pop-history, scientist and educator Sten Odenwald at NASA examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From Sputnik to Skylab and Galileo’s telescope to the Curiosity rover, some objects are iconic and some obscure—but all are...
Penguin Classics, 2023. — 672 p. 'How great, then, must be the incomprehensible space all the way to the furthest fixed stars? How wide and immense must be the depth of that fantastical sphere?' In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only...
Springer, 2014. — 2326 p. How human communities interpret what they perceive in the sky is vital in fulfilling humankind’s most basic need to comprehend the universe it inhabits, both from a modern scientific perspective and from countless other cultural standpoints, extending right back to early prehistory. Archaeoastronomy, which is concerned with cultural perceptions and...
Random House, 2020. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0-262-04429-3, 978-0-262-04429-5. From newborn galaxies to icy worlds and blazing quasars, a behind-the-scenes story of how Palomar Observatory astronomers unveiled our complex universe.Ever since 1936, pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory in Southern California have pushed against the boundaries of the known universe, making a...
Walker & Company, 2011. — 288 p. By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the next two decades, Copernicus expanded his...
Knopf; 1st edition, 2012. - 334 c. - ASIN: B0082XLSIK. This is a book about the mystery and the passion, the imagination, religion, and poetry, the philosophy, the intellectual flights—and, above all, the people—that have created the science of astronomy, from Thales of Miletus predicting eclipses in the sixth century B.C. to today’s scientists probing the cosmic significance...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 692 с.: 40 ил. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5284-8. Книга авторитетного британского ученого Джона Дрейера посвящена истории астрономии с древнейших времен до XVII века. Автор прослеживает эволюцию представлений об устройстве Вселенной, начиная с воззрений древних египтян, вавилонян и греков, освещает космологические теории Фалеса, Анаксимандра, Парменида и...
Пер. с англ.: К. Иванов. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. — 1104 с.: илл. — ISBN 978-5-4448-1387-4 Подобно нашим далеким предкам, мы до сих пор смотрим на звезды в надежде понять, как возникла и развивается Вселенная, исчезнет ли она, каково в ней место и предназначение человечества. Британский историк науки Джон Норт (1934–2008) написал книгу, которая позволяет узнать...
М., 1960-1966. — 124 с. Работа публиковалась также в издании «Историко-астрономические исследования» (ИАИ). Содержание: Предисловие Солнцеворот и солнечные праздники Волос - лунный языческий бог славян Затмения как борьба Солнца и Луны Календарь и счисление часов у наших предков Звездное небо в народных представлениях Использованная литература Представления об устройстве...
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