Category:History of astronomy

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• ► Astronomers by era‎ (3 C)
• ► Historians of astronomy‎ (13 P)

A

• ► Ancient astronomy‎ (11 C, 48 P)
• ► Archaeoastronomy‎ (3 C, 59 P)
• ► History of astrology‎ (17 C, 106 P)
• ► Astronomical objects by year of discovery‎ (180 C)

A cont.

• ► Astronomical tables‎ (3 P)
• ► Islamic astronomy‎ (3 C, 5 P)

C

• ► Chinese astronomy‎ (5 C, 87 P)

D

• ► Discovery and exploration of the Solar System‎ (3 C, 3 P)

E

• ► Early scientific cosmologies‎ (3 C, 25 P)

H

• ► Hindu astronomy‎ (5 C, 64 P)

M

• ► Medieval European astronomy‎ (3 P)
• ► Astronomy museums‎ (2 C, 4 P)

O

• ► Opticians‎ (1 C, 128 P)

S

• ► Star parties‎ (8 P)

T

• ► Tibetan astronomy‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• ► Astronomy timelines‎ (20 P)

• History of astronomy

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• List of women astronomers

A

• A Passage to Infinity
• Aerial telescope
• Almagest
• Antikythera mechanism
• Archaeoastronomy
• Armillary sphere
• The Assayer
• Astrarium
• Astrolabe
• Astrology and astronomy
• List of astronomers
• Astronomia nova
• Astronomical clock
• Astronomical complex
• Astronomical rings
• Astronomische Nachrichten
• Astronomy and religion
• Astronomy in medieval Islam
• Australian Aboriginal astronomy

B

• History of the Big Bang theory

C

• Callippic cycle
• Candravakyas
• Carte du Ciel
• Celestial spheres
• Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido
• Chinese astronomy
• Classical planet
• Classical planets in Western alchemy
• Copernican heliocentrism
• Copernican Revolution
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Cracovian
• Cultural astronomy

D

• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
• Deferent and epicycle
• Definition of planet
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
• Dynamics of the celestial spheres

E

• Egyptian astronomy

E cont.

• Einstein's unsuccessful investigations
• Empyrean
• Equant
• Equatorium

F

• Fifth planet (hypothetical)
• Filar micrometer
• Firmament
• Fixed stars

G

• Galactocentrism
• Galileo affair
• Ganita-yukti-bhasa
• Geocentric model
• Gerald J. Toomer
• Govinda Bhattathiri
• The Great Debate
• Great Year
• Greek astronomy

H

• Haridatta
• Harmonices Mundi
• Hebrew astronomy
• Heliocentrism
• Hellenistic astrology
• Hipparchic cycle
• Historical astronomy
• History of astrology
• History of gamma-ray burst research
• History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses
• History of the constellations
• Honcheonsigye

I

• IAU definition of planet
• Indian astronomy
• Inuit astronomy

J

• Jacob's staff
• Jyotirmimamsa

K

• Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics

L

• Lost lands
• Luminary (astrology)

M

• The Man in the Moone
• Manuel Dias (Yang MaNuo)
• History of Mars observation
• Maya calendar

M cont.

• Mazzaroth
• Mural instrument
• Musica universalis
• Mysterium Cosmographicum

N

• Nebular hypothesis
• Discovery of Neptune

O

• Other moons of Earth
• Out of the Ordinary Festival

P

• Passemant astronomical clock
• Patronage in astronomy
• Personal equation
• Phaeton (hypothetical planet)
• Planets in astrology
• Pole Hill
• Portingbury Hills
• Prague Astronomical Clock
• Pretelescopic astronomy
• Primum Mobile
• Ptolemy's table of chords

R

• Regiment of the North Pole

S

• Savilian Professor of Astronomy
• Scaphe
• Sextant (astronomical)
• Shadow square
• Sidera Lodoicea
• Solar symbol
• Somnium (novel)
• Spherical Earth
• Sublunary sphere
• History of supernova observation

T

• History of the telescope
• Tibetan astronomy
• Timeline of astronomy
• Treatise on the Astrolabe
• Trepidation (astronomy)
• Triquetrum (astronomy)
• Tychonic system

V

• Venvaroha

W

• Wandlebury Enigma
• Names of the days of the week
• Welteislehre