Chapter 2:

The Early History of Astronomy


Links from Chapter

Museum of the History of Science, Florence (including Galileo exhibits)
www.galileo-galilei.org
Tycho Brahe exhibit at Museum of History of Science, Oxford
Kepler's biography from the Kepler mission
Working Group for the History of Astronomy
International Astronomical Union's History of Astronomy site
Center for Archaeoastronomy, University of Maryland
History of Astronomy and Physics References from MIT
The Galileo Project: documents on early astronomers
Stonehenge watch
Tycho Brahe site, Museum of History of Science, Oxford


Archaeoastronomy Web page

See Paula Giese's page on Aboriginal Star Knowledge,
http://indy4/jfdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/stars/starmenu.html.

Stonehenge Proceedings

The Proceedings of a conference on "Science and Stonehenge" held in 1996 at the Royal Society, London, have been published as Barry Cunliffe and Colin Renfrew, eds., "Science and Stonehenge," published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-726174-4.

Census of Stone Monuments

A tour of megalithic sites in Western Europe, and links to other archaeoastronomy sites.

Aveni Describes Archaeoastronomy

Prof. Anthony Aveni of Colgate University, an expert on archaeoastronomy, discusses Stonehenge, Mayan astronomy, medicine wheels, and a variety of other topics in "Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures" (Wiley & Sons, 1997). On Stonehenge, he concludes (p. 91): "Over the past few decades, reflection, coupled with remeasurement and analysis of Megalithic sites by interdisciplinary teams of researchers, seems to have toned down the presumed scientific motivations of our archaic ancestors. The compromise Stonehenge model the new millennium seems to desire leaves room for a fusion of scientific ideology with religious worship and social concerns. Postmodern Stonehenge recognizes the diversity of the interrelated components that make up civilized culture."


Galileo Links

Galileo, Florence Museum of the History of Science

Galileo, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry

Galileo, from the Astronomical Observatory of Padua