Category:History of astronomy

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• Astronomers by period‎ (3 C)
• Historians of astronomy‎ (56 P)

A

• Ancient astronomy‎ (13 C, 39 P)
• History of astrology‎ (6 C, 59 P)
• Astronomical controversies‎ (6 C, 26 P)
• Astronomical tables‎ (11 P)
• Astronomy in China‎ (6 C, 108 P)
• Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world‎ (3 C, 9 P)

C

• Celestial cartography‎ (4 C, 4 P)
• Copernican Revolution‎ (6 C, 28 P)

D

• Astronomical discoveries‎ (9 C)
• Discovery and exploration of the Solar System‎ (14 C, 23 P)

H

• Historical supernovae‎ (8 P)

M

• Medieval astronomy‎ (5 C, 1 P)
• Astronomy museums‎ (3 C, 9 P)

O

• Opticians‎ (4 C, 15 P)

S

• Star parties‎ (8 P)

T

• Tibetan astronomy‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Astronomy timelines‎ (21 P)

W

• Works about the history of astronomy‎ (1 C, 5 P)

• History of astronomy

0–9

• 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Campbell Island
• 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawaii

A

• Antique Telescope Society
• The Assayer
• Astrarium
• History of astrology
• List of astronomers
• Astronomia nova
• Astronomische Nachrichten
• Astronomy and religion
• Autograph of Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus

B

• History of the Big Bang theory

C

• Carte du Ciel
• History of the center of the Universe
• Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido
• Chinese astronomy
• Claimed moons of Earth
• Colonial American astronomy
• Constellation
• Copernican heliocentrism
• Copernican Revolution
• Cracovian

D

• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
• Definition of planet
• Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene in perpuosito de la stella Nuova
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

E

• Einstein's unsuccessful investigations

F

• Filar micrometer
• First European congress of astronomers
• Floating collimator

G

• Galileo affair
• History of gamma-ray burst research
• Great Debate (astronomy)

H

• Harvard Computers
• Historical astronomy
• Historical comet observations in China
• Historical models of the Solar System
• History of synthetic-aperture radar
• Honcheonsigye

I

• IAU definition of planet
• Indian astronomy

J

• Jacob's staff
• Janssen revolver

K

• Karaṇa (pañcāṅga)
• Kumeyaay astronomy

L

• Letters on Sunspots
• List of original copies of the Porter Garden Telescope
• List of women astronomers

M

• Manuel Foster Observatory
• History of Mars observation
• Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world

N

• Nebular hypothesis
• Discovery of Neptune
• Nirayana system
• Nityayoga

P

• Patronage in astronomy
• Personal equation
• Phaeton (hypothetical planet)
• Pole Hill
• Savilian Professor of Astronomy
• Ptolemy's table of chords

R

• Regiment of the North Pole

S

• Sevenfold Sun miracle
• Sextant (astronomy)
• Shadow square
• Sidera Lodoicea
• History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses
• Somnium (novel)
• Star Names
• Stars proposed in religion
• Strangelet
• History of supernova observation

T

• History of the telescope
• The Porter Garden Telescope
• Timeline of astronomy
• Timeline of Solar System astronomy
• Tithi
• A Treatise on the Astrolabe

V

• Vāra (astronomy)
• Vienna, Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, MS 5203

W

• Welteislehre
• Worship of heavenly bodies

Z

• Zij as-Sindhind