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Astronomy

(a) Bibliographic and similar resources

1. Astronomer Robert H. van Gent's marvellous web site page listing extensive resources for history of astronomy research on the web:

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astrobib/astrobib.htm

2. Astronomer Robert H. van Gent's comprehensive bibliography on Mesopotamian astronomy and astrology:

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/babylon/babybibl.htm

3. Extensive bibliography by Nathan Sivin on the sciences in ancient China:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/nakbib.html

4. Extensive annotated bibliography by Nathan Sivin on ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/astro.html

5. Extensive bibliography on the Maya (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.pauahtun.org/mayabib.html

6. Complete bibliographic file-card index compiled and used by Otto Neugebauer (and containing thousands of references):

http://www.philoscience.unibe.ch/docuserver/echo/projekte/neugebauer/index.html

(b) Online books and similar

7. A (PDF file) copy of the rare landmark book Astronomisches aus Babylon by Joseph Epping and Johann Strassmaier (1889); at University of Michigan:

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bibperm?q1=AGG7825

8. A (PDF file) copy of The Astronomy of the Bible by Edward Maunder (1908); at Case Western Reserve University (Note: The URL has changed content):

http://www.cwru.edu/56304/UL/preserve/stack/AstroBible.html

9. A copy (PDF files) of Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars by Christian Peters and Eduard Knobel (1915) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://hbar.phys.msu.su/gorm/almagest/Peters.htm

10. A (PDF file) copy of the excellent doctoral thesis Parapegmata by Daryn Lehoux (2000); made available at the National Library of Canada:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ53766.pdf

11. A (PDF file) copy of Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Part XXXIII (1912) which contains copies of important astronomical tablets, including star calendars (Note: The URL has changed content):

http://library.case.edu/ksl/ecoll/books/bmc3300/bmc3300.pdf

12. Ian Ridpath's web page that includes sample material from his 1988 book "Star Tales":

http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/contents.htm

13. Copy of the booklet The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori by Elsdon Best (1922):

http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/kete/taonga/taonga.html

14. Bill Thayer's online text of the 1963 reprint of Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by Richard Allen:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Text/secondary/ALLSTA/home.html

(c) Online articles

15. Bradley Schaefer's web page with his fascinating paper (and other material) on the results of his recent analysis of the constellations on the Farnese Atlas:

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/farnese/

16. A copy of the detailed 1987 (English-language) paper by Vladimiro Valerio on the constellations depicted on the Farnese Atlas, which appeared in Der Globusfreund (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.coronelli.org/farnese/

17. Astronomer Dennis Duke's interesting collection of links to discussions and photographs of the Farnese globe, Mainz globe, and Kugel globe:

http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~dduke/farnese

18. A (PDF file) copy of the article "Understanding Planets in Ancient Mesopotamia" by Enn Kasak and Raul Veede in Folklore, Volume 16, 2001:

http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol16/planets.pdf

19. Excellent web site of physicist Dennis Duke containing (PDF file) copies of his recent articles on the history of ancient astronomy:

http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~dduke

20. "The Constellations on Archilles' Shield (Iliad 18.485-489" by Robert Hannah in Electronic Antiquity:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V2N4/hannah.html

21. "Three Archaic Egyptian Constellations used as Seasonal Markers?" by the archaeologist J. D. Degreef:

http://www.catchpenny.org/thoth/3arch.htm

22. Excellent (PDF) lengthy article on Ancient Egyptian Astronomy by Gerald Dobek (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.nmc.edu/science-math/Astronomy/AST109 Class Page/Egypt.pdf

23. Interesting article by Philip Mozel on the history of the constellation Pegasus:

http://www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/people/aaquisto/astronomy/essays/PegasusPaper/Pegasus.htm

24. Interesting article by David Ross on the antiquity of the cross in Cygnus:

http://www.twcac.org/onlinehorizon/cross.htm

(d) Online journals

25. Open access to early copies of Centaurus (from Volume 1 (1950) to Volume 24 (1980)) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://tidsskrift.kb.dk/centaurus/index.pl

26. Open access to early copies of Babyloniaca, études de philologie assyro-babylonienne which contain interesting articles on ancient astronomy:

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACG1616

(e) Web site on pronunciation of constellation and star names

27. Steven Gibson's web site on Western star names and their definitions:

http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/starnames/

28. Web page on constellation and asterism pronunciation by Lisa Emerson (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.dischord.net/astro/pronuns/c.php

29. A (PDF file) copy of "Constellations and Star Names: A Handbook of Pronunciations," by the American linguist Linnea Lagerquist (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.sdaa.org/Docs/ConstellationStarNames.pdf

30. Bruce Perrault's web page on the pronunciation of constellation names:

http://www.perr.com/constellation.html

31. Lynne Stockman's web page on (Un)Common Star Names:

http://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/name.html

32. Jordanian Astronomical Society web site containing an extensive listing and detailed explanation of Arabic Star Names:

http://www.jas.org.jo/

33. Web site with detailed pronunciation guide on both constellation and key star names:

http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/pronunciation_guide.html

34. The detailed Belmont Society guide to pronouncing constellation names (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.belmontnc.4dw.net/const.htm

(f) Websites on the history of constellations and star names

35. Daniel Marín's excellent (Spanish-language) web site on the history of the constellations (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://aagc.dis.ulpgc.es/gt_historia_constelaciones.html

36. The sole location for Hope Anthony's uncompleted project "A Guide To Ancient Near Eastern Astronomy":

http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/archeo/outside/aneastro.html

37. Joanne Conman's web site which has several of her articles on Egyptian constellations and star names:

http://home.maine.rr.com/imyunnut/Index.html

38. Astronomer Jim Kaler's extensive (and expanding) web site which contains extensive information on constellations and individual stars:

http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sow.html

39. Article (in Spanish) by Luz Antequera Congregado identifying Paleolithic Period constellations in the Lascaux Cave (France):

http://www.luzantequeracongregado.com/index.lascaux.htm

40. Articles by Michael Rappenglüeck identifying Paleolithic Period constellations in the Lascaux Cave (France), and also in the Cueva di El Castillo (Spain), are accessible at his extensive web site:

http://www.infis.org

41. Jim Fuchs interesting web site "Filling the Sky" which has a focus on the history of the modern constellations:

http://www.fillingthesky.com/

42. Lengthy web page on Indian star names:

http://tanmoy.tripod.com/naksatra.html

43. Web page enabling access to Sun Xiaochun's excellent articles on ancient Chinese constellations and star maps:

http://www.ihns.ac.cn/members/xiaochun/04.publications.html

44. Extensive University of Oklahoma web site on the history of the constellations:

http://hsci.cas.ou.edu/exhibits/exhibit.php?exbgrp=3&exbid=20&exbpg=0

(g) History of astronomy web sites

45. Extensive "History of Astronomy" website created by Wolfgang Dick:

http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html

46. Extensive and excellent web site on the history of astronomy titled Starry Messenger:

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/index.html

47. Excellent web site by Manoochehr Arian on aspects of early astronomy:

http://www.jamejamshid.com

48. The Star Catalogue of Ptolemy (the earliest extant star catalogue):

http://astro.isi.edu/reference/almagest.html

49. Pictures illustrating Egyptian astronomy (part of web site on ancient astronomy established by Professor Alexander Jones, University of Toronto, for students) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajones/cla206/egypt.html

50. Excellent and well illustrated 84 slide (PDF) presentation on ancient astronomy (including speculation on Paleolithic astronomy) by Howard Pomerantz, De Anza College:

http://voyager.deanza.fhda.edu/~howardp/AncientAstronomyLecture1-8OCT04.pdf

51. Excellent 25 slide presentation (by Anon) on early astronomy in Mesopotamia and Egypt:

http://www.astro.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/huette/himmel/kap3.pdf

52. Comprehensive bibliography on the history of astronomy in Korea by Jun Yong Hoon:

http://chama.fltr.ucl.ac.be/chama2/biblio_east.htm

(h) Mesopotamian astronomy

53. Excellent web site established by the British Museum on the astronomers of ancient Babylon:

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/astronomer/indxmain.html

54. Excellent website by Henry Zee dedicated to an extensive astronomical analysis of the Astronomical Diaries:

http://www.caeno.org

55. Excellent and well illustrated 46 slide (PDF) presentation on the history of Babylonian astronomy by Catherine Nozières, University of Joseph Fourier (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://osug.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/enseignement/dds/doc_pedago/tue350/031006/tue350_2.pdf

56. Access to 45 minute video titled Stars Over Babylon, at The University of Oklahoma web site (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://homepage.mac.com/kvmagruder/hsci/02-NearEast/background.html

57. The international database of the Melammu Project containing excellent information on Mesopotamian astronomy:

http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/

58. Details of Rumen Kolev's Babylonia 1.3 software program:

http://www.halloran.com/babylon1.htm

59. Extensive and interesting web site by John Halloran on all things Sumerian (Hint: Check the Undena catalogue):

http://www.sumerian.org

60. Gerd Grasshoff's Babylonian Astronomy Calculator: Tool for the Reconstruction of Ancient Star Constellations:

http://www.philoscience.unibe.ch/docuserver/echo/projekte/babylon/index.html

(i) Astronomical symbols on coins

61. T. Buggey's web site dedicated to astronomical symbols on ancient coins:

http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/astro.html

(j) Astronomical origin of the alphabet

62. Web site containing an interesting discussion of the theory of the astronomical origins of the alphabet (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.unifon.org/alfa-earliest-orderb.html

(k) Sources of obituaries of modern astronomers

63. A Finding List of Obituary Notes of Astronomers (1900-1997):

http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/obit/index.html

(l) Hastro-L discussion group

64. Easy access to the new location of the HASTRO-L (History of Astronomy) discussion group archives:

http://listserv.wvu.edu/archives/hastro-l.html

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Astrology

(a) Bibliographic and similar resources

65. Very extensive bibliography of ancient astronomy and astrology posted at Universidad de Málaga website:

http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol1.htm

http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol2.htm

http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol3.htm

http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol4.htm

http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol5.htm

66. Comprehensive historical astrological/astronomical bibliography posted by The Warburg Institute, University of London:

http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio1.htm

http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio2.htm

http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio3.htm

http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio4.htm

http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio5.htm

67. Extensive ancient and modern astrology and astronomy bibliographic list by Associazione Cielo e Terra:

http://www.cieloeterra.it/bibliografia.html

68. "Bibliographie de l'histoire de l'astrologie." An annotated critical (French-language) bibliography by Patrice Guinard:

http://cura.free.fr/02qomha.html

69. The latest revised and updated version of the comprehensive "Research Sources for Astrology," by Lester Ness:

http://www.smoe.org/arcana/astrol1.html

70. An annotated bibliography of Greek astrology by Lester Ness:

http://www.smoe.org/arcana/bl-bib.html

71. Tim Spalding's web site listing extensive scholarly material on ancient methods of astrology and divination:

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/astdiv/

(b) Online books and similar

72. Web version (i.e., 1995 revision) of Lester Ness's 1990 doctoral dissertation Astrology and Judaism in Late Antiquity:

http://www.smoe.org/arcana/diss.html

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Astronomical Mythology

(a) "Magi's star" bibliography

73. Astronomer Robert H. van Gent's web site page containing his comprehensive "Star of Bethlehem Bibliography":

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/stellamagorum/stellamagorum.htm

(b) Online books

74. A (PDF file) copy of Pantheon Babylonicum by Nicolaus Schneider (1914) which draws heavily from Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel by Franz Kugler. The text is Latin:

http://www.cwru.edu/979200/UL/preserve/Etana/Pant/Pant.html

75. A (PDF file) copy of Franz.Kugler's rare book Sibyllinischer Sternkampf und Phaëthon in Naturgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung (1927) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/kugler/kugler.htm

76. Electronic copy of 1821 edition of Abrégé de l'origine de tous les cultes by Charles Dupuis at Gallica:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?O=88260&T=2

77. The 22 illustrations from the Planches de l'Origine des tous les cultes by Charles Dupuis (1795) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/labo/LIRE/cl_retat.htm

(c) Online articles

78. A copy of Lawrence Sullivan's excellent article on astral mythology "Astral Myths Rise Again" (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://www.lawrenceesullivan.com/Articles/Articles/Finished Articles/Astral Myths Rise Again- Interpreting Religious Astronomy fro.rtf

(d) Web sites on astronomical lore

79. David Fideler's web site on Star Myths and Constellation Lore (includes Johann Schaubach's star maps (polar projections) of the forty-eight classical constellations of Ptolemy):

http://www.cosmopolis.com/star-myths/

80. Simo Parpola's 2001 informed and sympathetic paper "Back to Delitzsch and Jeremias: The Relevance of the Pan-Babylonian School to the MLAMMU Project":

http://www.elamit.net/melammu/melammu2001parpola.pdf

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Miscellaneous Search Engines

(a) Online books search engine

81. Oriental Institute Research Archives (and Argos search engine):

http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML

(b) Online articles search engine

82. Astronomical articles search engine (NASA Astrophysics Data System):

http://adsabs.harvard.edu

83. Sky and Telescope index search engine (1941 to present) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://skyandtelescope.com/magazinearchive/search/

84. Nature articles search engine (complete archives):

http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html

85. General articles search engine (which also locates articles on the history of astronomy):

http://www.findarticles.com

or the latest version of ABZU at:

http://www.etana.org/abzu/

(c) Photocopied books search engine

86. UMI Books On Demand catalogue (which has 150,000 out of print titles able to be obtained as bound photocopies, including many difficult to find history of astronomy titles):

http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod

(d) Used books search engine

87. BookFinder world-wide search engine for second-hand books (which connects with over 40,000 booksellers):

http://www.bookfinder.com

(e) Library catalogues search engine

88. University of Karlsruhe multiple-library search engine:

http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html

(f) Biographical resource

89. K. G. Saur World Biographical Index (Note: Now defunct):

http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_en/index.html

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Miscellaneous

(a) Free planetarium sofware

90. Download page for free trial version of CyberSky 4.0.1 (a PC "planetarium" program):

http://www.cybersky.com/free_trial_version.htm

91. Download page for Skyglobe 3.6 (a DOS version PC "planetarium" program that will run under Windows) with introductory instructions:

http://astrosoc.soc.ru.ac.za/archive/docs/skyglobe_course.html

92. Download page for Skyglobe 4.0 (a Windows version PC "planetarium" program), and other free astronomical software:

http://www.eaaa.net/download.htm

93. Download page for MyStars! 2.7 (a Windows version PC "planetarium" program (Shareware)):

http://www.relativedata.com/

94. Download for Stellarium 0.8.2 (a magnificent free 3D planetarium program for Windows, Macintosh, Linux operating systems):

http://www.stellarium.org

95. Bill Arnett's web page providing convenient access to a comprehensive range of planetarium software:

http://astro.nineplanets.org/astrosoftware.html

(b) Free sky chart and miscellaneous astronomical software

96. Dan Bruton's web page providing convenient access to a comprehensive range of astronomy software (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):

http://members.cox.net/astro7/software.html

also see:

http://members.cox.net/astro7/all2.html

97. Various sky chart software:

http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/stark/viewing/SkyMaps.html

(c) Free anti-virus software

98. Free AVG Antivirus software for Windows (including free updates):

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2

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