Astronomy books

page=309|thumb|An edition in Latin of the Almagestum in 1515 The Almagest ( ) is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy ( ) in Koine Greek. One of the most influential scientific texts in history, it canonized a geocentric model of the Universe that was accepted for more than 1,200 years from its origin in Hellenistic Alexandria, in the medieval Byzantine and Islamic worlds, and in Western Europe through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance until Copernicus. It is also a key source of informati

In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (; ; , ) is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects and artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the position (and possibly velocity) over time. Historically, positions were given as printed tables of values, given at regular intervals of date and time. The calculation of these tables was one of the first applications of mechanical computers. Modern ephemerides are often provided in electronic form. However, printed ephemerides are still produced, as they are useful when computational devices ar

book by Copernicus

Pre-columbian Maya astronomic manuscript from Chichen Itza, Mexico

1632 book by Galileo Galilei

astronomical treatise of Galileo

book by Johannes Kepler

popular-science book by Stephen Hawking

book by Johannes Kepler

1597 astronomy book by Johannes Kepler

Sanskrit text on Indian astronomy

1980 non-fiction work by Carl Sagan

star atlas

work by Archimedes

work by Aristotle

non-fiction work by Shen Kuo

The Commentariolus (Little Commentary) is Nicolaus Copernicus's brief outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe. After further long development of his theory, Copernicus published the mature version in 1543 in his landmark work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).

non-fiction work by Carl Sagan

book by Lawrence Krauss

thumb| Reference of Kuttaka in Aryabhatiya

1623 essay by Galileo Galilei

work

18th-century American almanac

book by Andreas Cellarius

milestone work by Johannes Hevelius

book by Sacrobosco

book by Theodor von Oppolzer

work by Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer

essay by Carl Sagan

2017 non-fiction work by Neil deGrasse Tyson

book by Neil deGrasse Tyson

book by Richard Feynman

medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer

book from Georg Joachim Rheticus, first publication of Copernican heliocentrism

2010 memoir by Michael E. Brown

Tantrasamgraha, or Tantrasangraha, (literally, A Compilation of the System) is an astronomical treatise written by Nilakantha Somayaji, an astronomer/mathematician belonging to the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. The treatise was completed in 1501 CE. It consists of 432 verses in Sanskrit divided into eight chapters. Tantrasamgraha had spawned a few commentaries: Tantrasamgraha-vyakhya of anonymous authorship and Yuktibhāṣā authored by Jyeshtadeva in about 1550 CE. Tantrasangraha, together with its commentaries, bring forth the depths of the mathematical accomplishments the Kerala

Yuktibhāṣā (), also known as Gaṇita-yukti-bhāṣā and '''' (English: Compendium of Astronomical Rationale''), is a treatise on mathematics and astronomy, written by the Indian astronomer Jyeṣṭhadeva of the Kerala school of mathematics around 1530. The treatise, written in Malayalam, is a consolidation of the discoveries by Madhava of Sangamagrama, Nilakantha Somayaji, Parameshvara Nambudiri, Jyeṣṭhadeva, Achyuta Piṣāraṭi, and other astronomer-mathematicians of the Kerala school. It also exists in a Sanskrit version, with unclear author and date, composed as a rough translation of the Malayalam o

non-fiction work by Neil deGrasse Tyson

1985 popular-science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

non-fiction work by Simon Singh

book by Robert Zubrin

Khaṇḍakhādyaka (meaning "edible bite; morsel of food") is a Sanskrit-language astronomical treatise written by Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta in 665 CE. The treatise contains eight chapters covering such topics as the longitudes of the planets, diurnal rotation, lunar and solar eclipses, risings and settings, the moon's crescent and conjunctions of the planets. The treatise also includes an appendix which in some versions has only one chapter, and in other has three.

essay by Arthur Koestler

book by Neil deGrasse Tyson

ancient Chinese astronomy manuscript