Category:History of astronomy

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• ► Astronomers by period‎ (3 C)
• ► Historians of astronomy‎ (17 P)

A

• ► History of astrology‎ (7 C, 62 P)
• ► Astronomical controversies‎ (6 C, 16 P)
• ► Astronomical objects by year of discovery‎ (261 C)
• ► Astronomical tables‎ (8 P)
• ► Islamic astronomy‎ (3 C, 10 P)

C

• ► Chinese astronomy‎ (6 C, 102 P)
• ► Copernican Revolution‎ (6 C, 24 P)

D

• ► Discovery and exploration of the Solar System‎ (11 C, 9 P)

M

• ► Medieval astronomy‎ (2 C, 1 P)
• ► Astronomy museums‎ (2 C, 9 P)

O

• ► Opticians‎ (2 C, 151 P)

S

• ► Star parties‎ (8 P)

T

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

W

• ► Works about the history of astronomy‎ (1 C, 4 P)

• History of astronomy

0–9

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

A

• Aerial telescope
• Antique Telescope Society
• The Assayer
• Astrarium
• History of astrology
• List of astronomers
• List of French astronomers
• Astronomia nova
• Astronomische Nachrichten
• Astronomy and religion

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
• Floating collimator

G

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

H

• Historical astronomy
• Historical comet observations in China
• Honcheonsigye

I

• IAU definition of planet

J

• Jacob's staff

K

• Kumeyaay astronomy

L

• List of women astronomers

M

• The Man in the Moone
• History of Mars observation
• Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world

N

• Nebular hypothesis
• Discovery of Neptune

P

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

R

• Regiment of the North Pole

S

• Savilian Professor of Astronomy
• Sevenfold sun miracle
• Sextant (astronomical)
• Shadow square
• Sidera Lodoicea
• History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses
• Somnium (novel)
• Stars proposed in religion
• History of supernova observation

T

• History of the telescope
• Timeline of astronomy
• A Treatise on the Astrolabe

W

• Welteislehre

Z

• Zij al-Sindhind