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(a) Bibliographic and similar resources
1. Astronomer Robert H. van Gent's marvelous web site page listing extensive resources for history of astronomy research on the web:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astrobib/astrobib.htm
2. Astronomer Robert H. van Gent's comprehensive bibliography on Mesopotamian astronomy and astrology:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/babylon/babybibl.htm
3. Extensive bibliography by Nathan Sivin on the sciences in ancient China (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/nakbib.html
4. Extensive annotated bibliography by Nathan Sivin on ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/astro.html
5. Extensive bibliography on the Maya (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.pauahtun.org/mayabib.html
6. Complete bibliographic file-card index compiled and used by Otto Neugebauer (and containing thousands of references) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.philoscience.unibe.ch/docuserver/echo/projekte/neugebauer/index.html
7. Comprehensive bibliography on Australian Aboriginal astronomy by the astrophysicist Ray Norris:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/AboriginalAstronomy/Literature.htm
8. Excellent detailed Graeco-Roman constellation catalogue by Alun Salt (still under development but expected to be completed during 2010):
9. Excellent French educational site URANOS (established by academics) on the origin and history of Western and non-Western constellations, star names, and sky lore:
http://www.uranos.fr/index.htm
10. Superb web site page by Joseph Leichter containing a huge range of links to PDF files of rare books and other material related to the history of ancient astronomy:
11. Extensive and well illustrated website on the history of Chinese astronomy by Marilyn Shea (2007):
http://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/astronomy/index.html#1
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(b) Online books and similar
13. A (PDF file) copy of the rare landmark book Astronomisches aus Babylon by Joseph Epping and Johann Strassmaier (1889); at University of Michigan:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bibperm?q1=AGG7825
and also at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/astronomischesa00stragoog
14. A (PDF) copy of Franz Kugler's Die babylonische Mondrechnung (1900); a monumental rediscovery of Babylonian lunar theory
http://www.archive.org/details/diebabylonische00stragoog
15. (A (PDF) copy of Franz Kugler's Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel (1907); a monumental rediscovery of Babylonian planetary theory:
http://www.archive.org/details/sternkundeundst00kuglgoog
16. A (PDF file) copy of The Astronomy of the Bible by Edward Maunder (1908) available through the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/astronomyofbible00maunrich
http://www.archive.org/details/theastronomyofth00maunuoft
17. A copy (PDF file) of Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars by Christian Peters and Eduard Knobel (1915) available through the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/ptolemyscataloqu00ptoluoft
18. A (PDF file) copy of the excellent doctoral thesis Parapegmata by Daryn Lehoux (2000); made available at the National Library of Canada:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ53766.pdf
19. A (PDF file) copy of Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Part XXXIII (1912) which contains copies of important astronomical tablets, including star calendars:
http://www.etana.org/abzu/coretext.pl?RC=17082
http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/datastreamListing.aspx?PID=ksl/:bmc3300 (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return)
20. Ian Ridpath's web page that includes sample material from his 1988 book "Star Tales":
http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/contents.htm
21. Copy of the booklet The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori by Elsdon Best (1922), and his other publications in HTML format:
http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/kete/taonga/taonga.html
22. Bill Thayer's online text of the 1963 reprint of Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by Richard Allen:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/home.html
23. The Oriental Institute (University of Chicago) has made all volumes comprising the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (a mine of information on Babylonian constellations) freely available for download in PDF format:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/cad/
24. A PDF copy of The Phainomena or 'Heavenly Display' of Aratos: Done into English Verse by Robert Brown Junior (1885) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/phainomenaorhea00aratgoog
25. A PDF copy of the rare booklet The Names of the Stars and Constellations Compiled from the Latin, Greek, and Arabic: with Their Derivations and Meanings by William Higgins (1882) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/namesstarsandco00higggoog
26. A PDF copy of Primitive Time Reckoning by Martin Nilsson (1920) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/primitivetimerec00nilsrich
27. Excellent website by Felice Stoppa dedicated to the Atlas Coelestis (and interesting links page):
http://www.atlascoelestis.com/link.htm
28. A PDF copy of the excellent 2008 (French-language) PhD thesis, Conception d'un modèle de visibilité d'étoile à l'oeil nu. Application à l'identification des décans égyptiens, by Karine Gadre:
http://thesesups.ups-tlse.fr/424/1/Gadre_Karine.pdf
29. PDF copies of 6 of the 7 parts of the now very rare Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel (1907-1924) by Franz Kugler at the Internet Archive. (SSB, Ergan. 3 (1935) by Johann Schaumberger in not yet available.):
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=franz xaver kugler sternkunde
30. Retyped PDF e-book, Le Origines de L'Astronomie by Léopold de Saussure (comprising a series of his articles in T'oung Pao, from 1909 to 1922):
http://www.chineancienne.fr/début-20e-s/saussure-les-origines-de-l-astronomie-chinoise/
31. Retyped PDF e-book, Le Système Astronomique de Chinois Léopold de Saussure (comprising a multi-part article in Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, from 1919 to 1920) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.chineancienne.fr/début-20e-s/saussure-le-système-astronomique-des-chinois/
32. Webpage for component parts of Linda Therkorn's 2004 doctoral thesis, Landscaping the Powers of Darkness and Light, setting out her Muggenburg pit-zodiac theory (to access search on therkorn):
http://dare.uva.nl/auteur/therkorn, 11.
or (see link at bottom of page)
http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/t/h/l.l.therkorn/l.l.therkorn.html
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(c) Online articles
35. Bradley Schaefer's web page with his fascinating paper (and other material) on the results of his recent analysis of the constellations on the Farnese Atlas:
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/farnese/
36. A copy of the detailed 1987 (English-language) paper by Vladimiro Valerio on the constellations depicted on the Farnese Atlas, which appeared in Der Globusfreund (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.coronelli.org/farnese/
37. Astronomer Dennis Duke's interesting collection of links to discussions and photographs of the Farnese globe, Mainz globe, and Kugel globe:
http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~dduke/farnese
38. A (PDF file) copy of the article "Understanding Planets in Ancient Mesopotamia" by Enn Kasak and Raul Veede in Folklore, Volume 16, 2001:
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol16/planets.pdf
39. Excellent web site of physicist Dennis Duke containing (PDF file) copies of his recent articles on the history of ancient astronomy:
http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~dduke
40. "The Constellations on Archilles' Shield (Iliad 18.485-489" by Robert Hannah in Electronic Antiquity:
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V2N4/hannah.html
41. "Three Archaic Egyptian Constellations used as Seasonal Markers?" by the archaeologist J. D. Degreef:
http://www.catchpenny.org/thoth/3arch.htm
42. Excellent (PDF) lengthy article on Ancient Egyptian Astronomy by Gerald Dobek (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.nmc.edu/science-math/Astronomy/AST109 Class Page/Egypt.pdf
43. Interesting article by Philip Mozel on the history of the constellation Pegasus (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/people/aaquisto/astronomy/essays/PegasusPaper/Pegasus.htm
44. Interesting article by David Ross on the antiquity of the cross in Cygnus:
http://www.twcac.org/onlinehorizon/cross.htm
45. PDF article by John Morieson on Australian Aboriginal astronomy (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://bdas.fastmail.fm/astronomers/JohnMorieson/documents/World_Archaeological_Congress.pdf
46. Lengthy (83 pages) PDF article "Ancient Egyptian Astronomy" by Gerald Dobek (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.nmc.edu/science-math/Astronomy/AST109Class Page/Egypt.pdf
47. Excellent web site on the Dunhuang star chart (the oldest extant star chart):
http://irfu.cea.fr/Sap/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast.php?t=actu&id_ast=2615
48. PDF copy of the excellent article "From Mesopotamia to Greece: to the Origin of Semitic and Greek Star Names" by Lara Bobrova and Alexander Militarev (1991):
http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/downloads/bobrova_gms3.pdf
49. PDF copy of Bartel van der Waerden's excellent article "History of the Zodiac" (1953):
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/96412/files/CERN-ARCH-PMC-06-353.pdf
50. PDF copy of Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin's article "Origines iraniennes et babyloniennes de la nomenclature astral" (1986) (Note: Defunct from May 19 2011, but it may return):
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/crai_0065-0536_1986_num_130_2_14370
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(d) Online journals
52. Open access to early copies of Centaurus (from Volume 1 (1950) to Volume 24 (1980)) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://tidsskrift.kb.dk/centaurus/index.pl
53. Open access to early copies of Babyloniaca, études de philologie assyro-babylonienne which contain interesting articles on ancient astronomy:
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACG1616
54. The early volumes (Volume 1, 1892 to Volume 62, 1953) of The Journal of the Polynesian Society which are an important source of articles on Oceanic star names and constellations:
http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/browse.php
55.Open access to Zeitschrift
für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete (Currently Vol.1 (1886) - 44 (1938))
which contain numerous articles on Mesopotamian astronomy:
http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/structure/2374
56.Open access to Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (Currently Vol.1 (1847) - 155 (2005), annuals, and supplements) which contain numerous articles on ancient astronomy:
http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/structure/2327
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(e) Web site on pronunciation of constellation and star names
60. Steven Gibson's web site on Western star names and their definitions:
http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/starnames/
61. Web page on constellation and asterism pronunciation by Lisa Emerson (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.dischord.net/astro/pronuns/c.php
62. A (PDF file) copy of "Constellations and Star Names: A Handbook of Pronunciations," by the American linguist Linnea Lagerquist (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.sdaa.org/Docs/ConstellationStarNames.pdf
63. Bruce Perrault's web page on the pronunciation of constellation names:
http://www.perr.com/constellation.html
64. Lynne Stockman's web page on (Un)Common Star Names:
http://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/name.html
65. Jordanian Astronomical Society web site containing an extensive listing and detailed explanation of Arabic Star Names:
66. Web site with detailed pronunciation guide on both constellation and key star names:
http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/pronunciation_guide.html
67. The detailed Belmont Society guide to pronouncing constellation names (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.belmontnc.4dw.net/const.htm
68. Aaron Clevenson's comprehensive web page on pronunciation of constellation names and star names:
http://www.astronomyclub.org/learn/Say_What.htm
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(f) Websites on the history of constellations and star names
71. Daniel Marín's excellent and very extensive, but sometimes speculative, (Spanish-language) web site on the history of the constellations:
http://www.danielmarin.es/hdc/index.html
72. The sole location for Hope Anthony's uncompleted project "A Guide To Ancient Near Eastern Astronomy":
http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/archeo/outside/aneastro.html
73. Joanne Conman's web site which has several of her articles on Egyptian constellations and star names (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://home.maine.rr.com/imyunnut/Index.html
74. Astronomer Jim Kaler's extensive (and expanding) web site which contains extensive information on constellations and individual stars:
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sow.html
75. Article (in Spanish) by Luz Antequera Congregado identifying Paleolithic Period constellations in the Lascaux Cave (France):
http://www.luzantequeracongregado.com/index.lascaux.htm
76. Articles by Michael Rappenglüeck identifying Paleolithic Period constellations in the Lascaux Cave (France), and also in the Cueva di El Castillo (Spain), are accessible at his extensive web site:
77. Jim Fuchs interesting web site "Modern Constellations" (formerly "Filling the Sky" which has a focus on the history of the modern constellations:
http://modernconstellations.com/index.html
78. Lengthy web page on Indian star names:
http://tanmoy.tripod.com/naksatra.html
79. Web page enabling access to Sun Xiaochun's excellent articles on ancient Chinese constellations and star maps:
http://www.ihns.ac.cn/members/xiaochun/04.publications.html
80. Extensive University of Oklahoma (History of Science) web site on the history of the constellations:
http://hsci.cas.ou.edu/exhibits/exhibit.php?exbgrp=3&exbid=20&exbpg=0
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(g) History of astronomy web sites
84. Extensive "History of Astronomy" website created by Wolfgang Dick:
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html
85. Extensive and excellent web site on the history of astronomy titled Starry Messenger:
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/index.html
86. Excellent web site by Manoochehr Arian on aspects of early astronomy:
87. The Star Catalogue of Ptolemy (the earliest extant star catalogue): (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://astro.isi.edu/reference/almagest.html
88. Pictures illustrating Egyptian astronomy (part of web site on ancient astronomy established by Professor Alexander Jones, University of Toronto, for students) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajones/cla206/egypt.html
89. Excellent and well illustrated 84 slide (PDF) presentation on ancient astronomy (including speculation on Paleolithic astronomy) by Howard Pomerantz, De Anza College:
http://voyager.deanza.fhda.edu/~howardp/AncientAstronomyLecture1-8OCT04.pdf
90. Excellent 25 slide presentation (by Anon) on early astronomy in Mesopotamia and Egypt (Note: Now requires user name and password for access):
http://www.astro.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/huette/himmel/kap3.pdf
91. Comprehensive bibliography on the history of astronomy in Korea by Jun Yong Hoon (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://chama.fltr.ucl.ac.be/chama2/biblio_east.htm
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(h) Mesopotamian astronomy
95. Excellent web site established by the British Museum on the astronomers of ancient Babylon:
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/astronomer/indxmain.html
96. Excellent website by Henry Zee dedicated to an extensive astronomical analysis of the Astronomical Diaries:
97. Excellent and well illustrated 46 slide (PDF) presentation on the history of Babylonian astronomy by Catherine Nozières, University of Joseph Fourier (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://osug.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/enseignement/dds/doc_pedago/tue350/031006/tue350_2.pdf
98. Access to 45 minute video titled Stars Over Babylon, at The University of Oklahoma web site (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://homepage.mac.com/kvmagruder/hsci/02-NearEast/background.html
99. The international database of the Melammu Project containing excellent information on Mesopotamian astronomy:
http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/
100. Details of Rumen Kolev's Babylonia 1.3 software program:
http://www.halloran.com/babylon1.htm
101. Extensive and interesting web site by John Halloran on all things Sumerian (Hint: Check the Undena catalogue):
102. Gerd Grasshoff's Babylonian Astronomy Calculator: Tool for the Reconstruction of Ancient Star Constellations (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.philoscience.unibe.ch/docuserver/echo/projekte/babylon/index.html
103. PDF file copy of the rare book Im Bannkreis Babels by Franz Kugler (1910), a demolition of Panbabylonism, at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/imbannkreisbabel00kugluoft
104. PDF copy of Hilprecht Anniversary Volume (1909) (for German assyriologist Hermann Hilprecht) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/hilprechtanniver00leip
105. PDF copy of the rare book Planetarium Babylonicum by Felix Gössmann (1950) made available by the Dutch astronomer Robert van Gent:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/babylon/downloads/goessmann_planetarium_babylonicum_1950.pdf
106. PDF file of Ancient Skies: Early Babylonian Astronomy, 2011 MPhil Thesis by Brian Harris (which includes discussion of the Mul.Apin series):
http://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/6704/harris_ancient_2011.pdf?sequence=2
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(i) Astronomical symbols on coins
109. Tom Buggey's web site dedicated to astronomical symbols on ancient coins:
http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/astro.html
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(j) Astronomical origin of the alphabet
113. Web site containing an interesting discussion of the theory of the astronomical origins of the alphabet (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.unifon.org/alfa-earliest-orderb.html
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(k) Sources of obituaries of modern astronomers
117. A Finding List of Obituary Notes of Astronomers (1900-1997):
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/obit/index.html
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(l) Hastro-L discussion group
121. Easy access to the new location of the HASTRO-L (History of Astronomy) discussion group archives:
http://listserv.wvu.edu/archives/hastro-l.html
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(a) Bibliographic and similar resources
125. Very extensive bibliography of ancient astronomy and astrology posted at Universidad de Málaga website:
http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol1.htm
http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol2.htm
http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol3.htm
http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol4.htm
http://webdeptos.uma.es/dep_griego/astrol5.htm
126. Comprehensive historical astrological/astronomical bibliography posted by The Warburg Institute, University of London (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio1.htm
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio2.htm
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio3.htm
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio4.htm
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/mnemosyne/orientation/astrobib/astro_biblio5.htm
127. Extensive ancient and modern astrology and astronomy bibliographic list by Associazione Cielo e Terra:
http://www.cieloeterra.it/bibliografia.html
128. "Bibliographie de l'histoire de l'astrologie." An annotated critical (French-language) bibliography by Patrice Guinard:
http://cura.free.fr/02qomha.html
129. The latest revised and updated version of the comprehensive "Research Sources for Astrology," by Lester Ness:
http://www.smoe.org/arcana/astrol1.html
130. An annotated bibliography of Greek astrology by Lester Ness:
http://www.smoe.org/arcana/bl-bib.html
131. Tim Spalding's web site listing extensive scholarly material on ancient methods of astrology and divination:
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/astdiv/
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(b) Online books and similar
135. Web version (i.e., 1995 revision) of Lester Ness's 1990 doctoral dissertation Astrology and Judaism in Late Antiquity:
http://www.smoe.org/arcana/diss.html
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(a) "Magi's star" bibliography
139. Astronomer Robert H. van Gent's web site page containing his comprehensive "Star of Bethlehem Bibliography":
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/stellamagorum/stellamagorum.htm
140. PDF file copy of 2011 doctoral thesis by Christine Heinlein: Kaiser und Kosmokrator. Der Große Kameo von Frankreich als astrale Allegorie:
http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/volltexte/2011/5822/pdf/Heinlein.pdf
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(b) Online books
143. A (PDF file) copy of Pantheon Babylonicum by Nicolaus Schneider (1914) which draws heavily from Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel by Franz Kugler. The text is Latin (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.case.edu/univlib/preserve/Etana/Pant/Pant.html
144. A (PDF file) copy of Franz.Kugler's rare book Sibyllinischer Sternkampf und Phaëthon in Naturgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung (1927) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/MN40024ucmf_4
145. Electronic copy of 1821 edition of Abrégé de l'origine de tous les cultes by Charles Dupuis at Gallica (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?O=88260&T=2
146. The 22 illustrations from the Planches de l'Origine des tous les cultes by Charles Dupuis (1795):
http://lire.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/pages_perso/cl_retat_1.htm
147. PDF copies of Volume 1 (1893) and Volume 2 (1897) of The Night of the Gods by John O'Neill at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/nightgods00unkngoog
http://www.archive.org/details/nightofgodsinqui02onei
148. PDF copy of Sphaera by Franz Boll (1903) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/sphaeraneuegrie00magoog
149. PDF copy of Astronomy in the Old Testament by Giovanni Schiaparelli (1905) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/astronomyintheo1029390mbp
150. PDF copy of Alter und Bedeutung der babylonischen Astronomie und Astrallehre by Ernst Weidner (1914) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/alterundbedeutun00weiduoft
151. PDF copy of Handbuch der babylonischen Astronomie by Ernst Weidner (1915) at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/handbuchderbaby101weiduoft
152. Truncated text of The Myths of Hyginus (translated and edited) by Mary Grant (1960) - which includes both the Fabulae and Poetica Astronomica:
http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html
http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusAstronomica.html
153. PDF copies of Albert Rehm's doctoral thesis Mythographische Untersuchungen über griechische Sternsagen (1896):
http://www.archive.org/details/mythographische00rehmgoog
http://www.archive.org/details/mythographische01rehmgoog
154. PDF files comprising an English-language translation of the comprehensive study The Romanian Peasant's Belief's in Stars and Sky by Ion Orrescu (1907) (kindly brought to my attention by David Ross):
155. PDF copy of Volume 1 of Scritti sulla storia della astronomia antica [Essays on the history of ancient astronomy] by Giovanni Schiaparelli (1925) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/schiaparelli/scritti_sulla_storia_1/pdf/schiaparelli_scritti_1
156. PDF copy of Volume 2 of Scritti sulla storia della astronomia antica [Essays on the history of ancient astronomy] by Giovanni Schiaparelli (1926) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/schiaparelli/scritti_sulla_storia_2/pdf/schiaparelli_scritti_2
157. PDF copy of Volume 3 of Scritti sulla storia della astronomia antica [Essays on the history of ancient astronomy] by Giovanni Schiaparelli (1927):
http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/schiaparelli/scritti_sulla_storia_3/pdf/schiaparelli_scritti_3
158. PDF copy of the very rare book Hipparchi in Arati et Eudoxi Phaenomena commentariorum libri tres ["Commentary on the Phainomena of Aratus and Eudoxus" by Hipparchus of Rhodes] edited by Carolus [Karl] Manitius (1894):
http://www.wilbourhall.org/pdfs/hipparchus/Hipparch-Aratos.pdf
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(c) Online articles
161. A copy of Lawrence Sullivan's excellent article on astral mythology "Astral Myths Rise Again" (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
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(d) Web sites on astronomical lore
165. David Fideler's web site on Star Myths and Constellation Lore (includes Johann Schaubach's star maps (polar projections) of the forty-eight classical constellations of Ptolemy):
http://www.cosmopolis.com/star-myths/
166. Simo Parpola's 2001 informed and sympathetic paper "Back to Delitzsch and Jeremias: The Relevance of the Pan-Babylonian School to the MLAMMU Project":
http://www.elamit.net/melammu/melammu2001parpola.pdf
167. English-language articles on a variety of Romanian astral beliefs and sky lore at the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) web site (kindly brought to my attention by David Ross):
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(a) Online books search engine
171. Oriental Institute Research Archives (and Argos search engine):
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML
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(b) Online articles search engine
175. Astronomical articles search engine (NASA Astrophysics Data System):
176. Sky and Telescope index search engine (1941 to present) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://skyandtelescope.com/magazinearchive/search/
177. Nature articles search engine (complete archives):
http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
178. General articles search engine (which also locates articles on the history of astronomy):
or the latest version of ABZU at:
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(c) Photocopied books search engine
182. UMI Books On Demand catalogue (which has 150,000 out of print titles able to be obtained as bound photocopies, including many difficult to find history of astronomy titles) (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
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(d) Used books search engine
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(e) Library catalogues search engine
190. University of Karlsruhe multiple-library search engine:
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
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(f) Biographical resource
194. K. G. Saur World Biographical Index (Note: Now defunct):
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_en/index.html
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(a) Free planetarium software
198. Download page for free trial version of CyberSky 5.0.2 (a PC "planetarium" program):
http://www.cybersky.com/free_trial_version.htm
199. Download page for Skyglobe 3.6 (a DOS version PC "planetarium" program that will run under Windows) with introductory instructions (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://astrosoc.soc.ru.ac.za/archive/docs/skyglobe_course.html
200. Download page for Skyglobe 4.0.4 (a Windows version PC "planetarium" program), and other free astronomical software:
http://www.eaaa.net/download.htm
201. Download page for MyStars! 2.7 (a Windows version PC "planetarium" program (Shareware)):
202. Download for Stellarium 0.10.6 (a magnificent free 3D planetarium program for Windows, Macintosh, Linux operating systems):
203. Bill Arnett's web page providing convenient access to a comprehensive range of planetarium software:
http://astro.nineplanets.org/astrosoftware.html
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(b) Free sky charts and miscellaneous astronomical software
207. Dan Bruton's web page providing convenient access to a comprehensive range of astronomy software (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://members.cox.net/astro7/software.html
also see:
http://members.cox.net/astro7/all2.html
208. Various sky chart software (Note: Presently defunct, but it may return):
http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/stark/viewing/SkyMaps.html
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(c) Free anti-virus software
212. Free AVG Antivirus software for Windows (including free updates):
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