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SCIENCE AND ASTRONOMY
A Starting Bibliography
MOST GENERAL BACKGROUND:
- John Boardman, Jasper Griffin & Oswyn Murray (Edd.), The Oxford History of the Classical
World (Oxford, 1986), pp. 381-383; 678-679. [Library call #: DE59 .O94 1986]
- Albin Lesky, A History of Greek Literature 2nd ed. (NY: Thomas Crowell 1963), check index
under `Astrology' and `Astronomy'.
IMPORTANT WORKS:
- Singer, Charles, E.J. Holmyard and A.R. Hall, A History of Technology I (Oxford 1954), II (Oxford 1956).
- Forbes, R. J., Studies in Ancient Technology 9 vv. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955- ).
- Levey, M., Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia (Amsterdam 1954).
- Aitcheson, L., A History of Metals (London 1960).
- Lloyd, G.E.R., Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle (NY Norton 19 ).
- Lloyd, G.E.R., Greek Science after Aristotle (NY Norton 1973) paper [Q 127 .G7L58].
Chapter 5: Greek Astonomy.
- Sarton, George, A History of Science: Volume I: Ancient Science through the Golden Age of
Greece (NY: Norton 1952; paperback ed. 1970)
- Dreyer, J. L. E., A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler 2nd ed., revised by W. H. Stahl (Cambridge 1906; reprinted: NY Dover Publications 1953 paper)
- Berry, Arthur, A Short History of Astronomy, from Earliest Times through the Nineteenth
Century (NY Dover Publications 19xx)
- Clagett, Marshall, Greek Science in Antiquity (NY Collier 1953).
- Neugebauer, Otto, A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy 3 v. (Berlin/NY: Springer Verlag 1975) [QB 16 .N46]
- Neugebauer, Otto, Astronomy and History: Selected essays (New York: Springer Verlag 1983) [QB 15 .N48 1983].
- Neugebauer, Otto, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity 2nd ed. (Providence: Brown UP 1957) [NY Dover 1969].
- Neugebauer, Otto, The Transmission of Planetary Theories in ancient and medieval Astronomy
(NY: Yeshiva University 1956). [QB 51 .N39 or QB 361 .N4]
SOME ANCIENT TEXTS:
- Aristotle, De Caelo (On the Heavens), tr. J. L. Stocks, in Aristotle, Volume I (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica 1952), pp. 359-405. [Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books,
8]
- Claudius Ptolemy, The Geography (tr. E.L. Stevenson (NY: Dover 1991 [NY Public Library 1932].
- Claudius Ptolemy, The Astronomy; and The Geography [Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books, 16].
- Ptolemy Handbuch der Astronomie Deutsche Ubersetzung und erlauternde Anmerkungen von Karl Manitius. Vorwort und Berichtigungen von O. Neugebauer (Leipzig: B.G. Teuber 1962)
- Lucretius, de rerum natura (`On the Nature of Things') (Penguin paperback) [anti-astrology, Epicurean].
- Manilius, Astronomica (Loeb Classical Library).
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