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MOST GENERAL BACKGROUND

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• 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'.
  
  

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IMPORTANT WORKS

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• 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 volumes (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]
  
  

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SOME ANCIENT TEXTS

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• 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).