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 memercayai 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
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* 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
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* 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

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## 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