As this project has progressed, I’ve picked up a number of books related to it. So others can know what I’ve read (and have available should they be interested in reading them themselves), I’ve compiled a list of the books in my medieval astronomy library, as well as some other excellent books on historical astronomy.
Primary Sources (chronological)
- Timaeus and Critias – Plato (translation by Desmond Lee)
- Elements – Euclid (translation by Thomas L. Heath)
- Introduction to the Phenomena – Geminos (translation by Evans & Berggren)
- Almagest – Ptolemy (translation by G. J. Toomer)
- De Revolutionibus – Copernicus (translation by Charles G. Wallis)
- Three Treatises on Copernican Theory – Copernicus (translation by Edward Rosen)
- Astronomia Nova – Kepler (translation by William H. Donahue)
Secondary Sources (alphabetical by author)
- Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art – Brian Anderson
- The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth – Glen Van Brummelen
- On Tycho’s Island – John Robert Christianson
- A History of Astronomy From Thales to Kepler – J. L. E. Dreyer
- The Light Ages – Seb Falk
- The Book Nobody Read – Owen Gingerich
- The Astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson (1288-1344) – Bernard Goldstein
- Planets, Stars, & Orbs – Edward Grant
- The History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue – Gerd Grasshoff
- Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages – David Juste, Benno van Dalen, Dag Nikolaus Hasse & Charles Burnett
- Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe – Stephen C. McCluskey
- Studies on the Transmission of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy – Raymond Mercier
- Chasing Shadows – Clemency Montelle
- A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy – Otto Neugebauer
- A Fourteenth Century Chronologer and Critic of Astrology – C. Phillip E. Nothaft
- Survey of the Almagest – Olaf Pedersen
- Ptolemy’s Catalogue of Stars – Peters & Knobel
- Eastern Astrolabes – David Pingree
- A History of Arabic Astronomy – George Saliba
- The Babylonian Theory of Planets – Noel Swerdlow
- Western Astrolabes – Roderick and Marjorie Webster
Post Period (alphabetical by author)
- Einstein’s Jury – Jeffrey Crelinsten
- The Measurement of Starlight – J. B. Hearnshaw
- Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos – Alan W. Hirshfeld
- Galileo’s Daughter – Dava Sobel
- Chasing Venus – Andrea Wulf