Sejarah astronomi

Astronomi adalah ilmu pengetahuan alam tertua, yang telah ada sejak zaman kuno, dengan asal mulanya dalam kepercayaan agama, mitologi, kosmologi, kalender, dan astrologi dan praktik-praktik pra-sejarah.

Sejarah awal 
Budaya-budaya awal mengidentifikasikan objek-objek ruang angkasa dengan dewa-dewa dan jiwa. Mereka mengaitkan objek-objek tersebut (dan gerakan mereka) dengan fenomena seperti hujan dan musim. Mereka umumnya mempercayai bahwa astronom-astronom "profesional" pertama adalah para pendeta

Catatan

Sejarawan astronomi 
 Scholars Past. Willy Hartner, Otto Neugebauer, B. L. van der Waerden
 Scholars Present. Stephen G. Brush , Stephen J. Dick , Owen Gingerich, Bruce Stephenson , Michael Hoskin , Alexander R. Jones , Curtis A. Wilson
 Astronomer-historians. J. B. J. Delambre, J. L. E. Dreyer, Donald Osterbrock, Carl Sagan, F. Richard Stephenson

Referensi 
 Aaboe, Asger. Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy. Springer-Verlag 2001 ISBN 0-387-95136-9
 Aveni, Anthony F. Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico. University of Texas Press 1980 ISBN 0-292-77557-1
 Dreyer, J. L. E. History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler, 2nd edition. Dover Publications 1953 (revised reprint of History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler, 1906)
 Eastwood, Bruce. The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe, Variorum Collected Studies Series CS 279 Ashgate 2002 ISBN 0-86078-868-7
 .
 Antoine Gautier, L'âge d'or de l'astronomie ottomane, in L'Astronomie, (Monthly magazine created by Camille Flammarion in 1882), December 2005, volume 119.
 Hodson, F. R. (ed.). The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World: A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy. Oxford University Press, 1974 ISBN 0-19-725944-8
 Hoskin, Michael. The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280306-9
 McCluskey, Stephen C. Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe. Cambridge University Press 1998 ISBN 0-521-77852-2
 Pannekoek, Anton. A History of Astronomy. Dover Publications 1989
 Pedersen, Olaf. Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical Introduction, revised edition. Cambridge University Press 1993 ISBN 0-521-40899-7
 .
 .
 Stephenson, Bruce. Kepler's Physical Astronomy, Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 13. New York: Springer, 1987 ISBN 0-387-96541-6
 Walker, Christopher (ed.). Astronomy before the telescope. British Museum Press 1996 ISBN 0-7141-1746-3

Bacaan tambahan

Jurnal 
 DIO: The International Journal of Scientific History
 Journal for the History of Astronomy
 Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage

Pranala luar 
 UNESCO-IAU Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy
 Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy at the Astronomical Institutes of Bonn University.
 Commission 41 (History of Astronomy)  of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
 Society for the History of Astronomy
 Mayan Astronomy 
 Caelum Antiquum: Ancient Astronomy and Astrology at LacusCurtius
 Starry Messenger: Observing the Heavens in the Age of Galileo - an exhibition from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
 Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy
 "The Book of Instruction on Deviant Planes and Simple Planes" is a manuscript in Arabic that dates back to 1740 and talks about practical astronomy, with diagrams.
 More information on women astronomers

 
Sejarah astrologi