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Practical Statistics for Astronomers
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00Presents the most relevant statistical and probabilistic machinery for use in observational astronomy. more...
Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moons Motion (1691-1757)
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon's mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the moon's 'secular acceleration', as this newly-discovered acceleration... more...
Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts
Springer 2012; US$ 119.99History of Astronomy
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 333.00This Encyclopedia traces the history of the oldest science from the ancient world to the space age in over 300 entries by leading experts. more...
Astronomy Through The Ages
CRC Press 1997; US$ 49.95From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non-mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by cutting edge technological advances. more...
Cleomedes' Lectures On Astronomy
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was The Heavens (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact from the first two centuries A. more...
The History of Astronomy
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 9.99This introduction to the history of Western astronomy from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-19th century emphasises such topics as the merging of Babylonian and Greek astronomy in later Antiquity, Kepler's conversion of astronomy into a branch of dynamics, and the first explorations of the universe of stars. more...
Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies
Springer 2006; US$ 35.99Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky within reach of astronomers. This book helps you if you are observing the sky from a light-polluted environment. It provides information needed to know about what to observe, and how to get views of faint and distant astronomical objects. more...









