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• - An overview of the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence using radio frequencies. Includes photos.
  
• - Exhibition catalog for The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas. Includes an historical essay and sample pictures.
  
• - Articles on astronomers, observatories, work performed and its significance from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries.
  
• - Complete archive and subscription information.
  
• - Historical and modern Japanese astronomy, and its place in Japanese culture
  
• - Short descriptions of important discoveries, events, and birthdays sorted by month.
  
• - Article by Jane T. Tolbert in the Historian publication in 1999. Whereas Galileo sought to confront and embarrass the established Church, Peiresc worked from within clerical ranks with persuasion and tact.
  
• - Phase I of the Electronic History of Astronomy, developed in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Trinity College, Cambridge. Covers the history of instruments and techniques, themes such as astrology and calendar reform, and biographies of maj
  
• - Discusses the development of reflective telescopes during the 1700's. Covers the different types of mirrors and lens that were used during these times. Includes some key contributors to the improvement of the telescope during this period.
  
• - An investigation of the science and history which bear on the mysterious star said to have accompanied the advent of Christ.
  
• - Tutorial/historical exposition of the motion of Earth in space, Newtonian mechanics and spaceflight, on a high school level.
  
• - The History chapter of an introductory astronomy course.
  
• - Frederik Kaiser (1808-1872) and the professionalisation of Dutch astronomy; The "Lost Letters" of J.C. Kapteyn (1851-1922); Many history of astronomy and history of science links with a Dutch flavour.
  
• - The discovery of the binary pulsar.
  
• - From the Uppsala University Newsletter for History of Science.
  
• - An interdisciplinary course on cultural astronomy.
  
• - A personal account by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on the discovery of pulsars.
  
• - Atlas of the heavens as seen by the astronomers of the time of its 1661 printing: Copernicus, Ptolemy, Brahe, and Aratus. Entire book has been digitized and the images may be browsed or searched.
  
• - Astronomy in Israel from Og's Circle to the Wise Observatory.
  
• - Offers a history of the field and science. Features links to related sites, awards and contact details. Provided by the Working Group for the History of Astronomy.
  
• - Describes observations using balloons, rockets and satellites.
  
• - Article by Owen Gingerich explores refinement and criticism of Ptolemaic astronomy, including religious influences on direction, and describes precursors to and influences on Copernicus.
  
• - Radio astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
  
• - Yahoo group moderated by Stuart Williams, F.R.A.S.
  
• - Covers the development of this ancient science from days of Stonehenge (3100 BC) to the discovery of Pulsars (1968 AD). Includes related resource links.
  
• - Celestial atlases and globes on exhibit at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
  
• - An accurate calendar and the progenitor of the sexagesimal (base 60) "degree, minutes, seconds" measurement system.
  
• - A timeline of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from Morrison and Coconni to SETI@home.
  
• - A substantial look at the subject, and a review of N. M. Swerdlow's book.
  
• - The first hundred years, list of presidents, list of archived documents.
  
• - Archive of the History of Astronomy Discussion Group, the mailing list for scholars in this field.
  
• - PBS articles about 20th century astronomy and physics.
  
• - Burndy Library online publication of 1940 article detailing the background and details of Roemer's work.
  
• - Academic and popular topics, with a focus on Britain.
  
• - A rare celestial atlas discovered in the library of the Manchester Astronomical Society.
  
• - Robert Woodrow Wilson Nobel Lecture.
  
• - Images from the history of astronomy, old telescopes, pictures of astronomers, observatories.
  
• - Article by Peter Brosche on gaining understanding of changes in the Moon's orbit.
  
• - Excerpts and commentary with reproductions of some of Elihu Vedder's illustrations.
  
• - Eclipse calculation, heliocentric theory, size of the world.
  
• - Astronomy in Denmark: Brahe, Roemer, Hertzsprung.
  
• - Workshops at Notre Dame, papers presented, abstracts, group pictures of attendees.
  
• - Announcements of discussions (in Oakland, California), open to the public, on various astronomy history topics, and an archive of past discussions
  
• - Features history of discoveries and references.
  
• - The oldest exact astronomic constant? The ratio of earth rotations to lunar orbits in Aryabhata's AD 498 writing.
  
• - American Astronomical Society division devoted to history, with a link to pages on the history of the society itself.