{"id":702,"date":"2018-07-05T18:52:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:58:42","slug":"my-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/my-library\/","title":{"rendered":"My Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As this project has progressed, I&#8217;ve picked up a number of books related to it. So others can know what I&#8217;ve read (and have available should they be interested in reading them themselves), I&#8217;ve compiled a list of the books in my medieval astronomy library, as well as some other excellent books on historical astronomy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>De Sphaera<\/em> &#8211; John of Sacrobosco<\/li>\n<li><em>De Le Stelle Fisse<\/em> &#8211; Alessandro Piccolomini<\/li>\n<li><em>Dialoghi Di Pietro Messia<\/em> &#8211; Pietro Messia (translation by Alfonso d&#8217;Ulloa)<\/li>\n<li><em>Ephemerides<\/em> &#8211; Luca Gaurico<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Primary Sources\u00a0<\/strong>(chronological)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Timaeus and Critias\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Plato (translation by Desmond Lee)<\/li>\n<li><em>Constellation Myths<\/em> &#8211; Eratosthenes and Hyginus (translation by Robin Hard)<\/li>\n<li><em>Elements<\/em> &#8211; Euclid (translation by Thomas L. Heath)<\/li>\n<li><em>Introduction to the Phenomena<\/em> &#8211; Geminos (translation by Evans &amp; Berggren)<\/li>\n<li><em>Astronomica\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Manilius (translation by G. P. Goold)<\/li>\n<li><i>Almagest<\/i> &#8211; Ptolemy (translation by G. J. Toomer)<\/li>\n<li><em>Theorica Planetarum<\/em> &#8211; Campanus of Novara (translation by Francis Benjamin &amp; G.J. Toomer)<\/li>\n<li><em>Ulugh Beg&#8217;s Catalogue of Stars<\/em> &#8211; Ulugh Beg<\/li>\n<li><em>Libro de Cosmographia\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Pedro de Medina (translation by Ursula Lamb)<\/li>\n<li><em>De Revolutionibus<\/em> &#8211; Copernicus (translation by Charles G. Wallis)<\/li>\n<li><em>Three Treatises on Copernican Theory<\/em> &#8211; Copernicus (translation by Edward Rosen)<\/li>\n<li><em>Minor Works of Copernicus<\/em> &#8211; Edward Rosen<\/li>\n<li><em>Candelaio <\/em>&#8211; Giordano Bruno (translation by Alan Powers)<\/li>\n<li><em>Astronomia Nova<\/em> &#8211; Kepler (translation by William H. Donahue)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Secondary Sources<\/strong> (alphabetical by author)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Chaucer and the Universe of Learning<\/em> &#8211; Ann W. Astell<\/li>\n<li><em>Copernicus &#8211; Vistas in Astronomy (Vol 17)<\/em> &#8211; Arthur Beer &amp; K. A. Strand<\/li>\n<li><em>Kepler<\/em><em> &#8211; Vistas in Astronomy (Vol 18)<\/em> &#8211; Arthur Beer &amp; Peter Beer<\/li>\n<li><em>Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art<\/em> &#8211; Brian Anderson<\/li>\n<li><em>Imagining the Heavens Across Eurasia<\/em> &#8211; Rana Brentjes, Sonja Brentjes, &amp; Stamatina Mastorakou<\/li>\n<li><em>The Abacus and the Cross<\/em> &#8211; Nancy Marie Brown<\/li>\n<li><em>The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth<\/em> &#8211; Glen Van Brummelen<\/li>\n<li><em>Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy<\/em> &#8211; Jose Chabas &amp; Bernard R Goldstein<\/li>\n<li><em>Gods in the Sky: Astronomy from the Ancients to the Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Allan Chapman<\/li>\n<li><em>On Tycho&#8217;s Island<\/em> &#8211; John Robert Christianson<\/li>\n<li><em>Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens<\/em> &#8211; John Robert Christianson<\/li>\n<li><em>A History of Astronomy From Thales to<\/em> <em>Kepler<\/em> &#8211; J. L. E. Dreyer<\/li>\n<li><em>The Light Ages<\/em> &#8211; Seb Falk<\/li>\n<li><em>The Book Nobody Read<\/em> &#8211; Owen Gingerich<\/li>\n<li><em>The Astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson (1288-1344)<\/em> &#8211; Bernard Goldstein<\/li>\n<li><em>Planets, Stars, &amp; Orbs &#8211; <\/em>Edward Grant<\/li>\n<li><em>The History of Ptolemy&#8217;s Star Catalogue\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Gerd Grasshoff<\/li>\n<li><em>God&#8217;s Philosophers<\/em> &#8211; James Hannam<\/li>\n<li><em>The Sun in the Church<\/em> &#8211; J. L. Heilbron<\/li>\n<li><em>Time in the Medieval World<\/em> &#8211; Colum Hourihane<\/li>\n<li><em>The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN<\/em> &#8211; Hermann Hunger &amp; John Steele<\/li>\n<li><em>Ptolemy&#8217;s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages<\/em> &#8211; David Juste, Benno van Dalen, Dag Nikolaus Hasse &amp; Charles Burnett<\/li>\n<li><em>Ulugh Beg&#8217;s Catalogue of Stars<\/em> &#8211; Edward Ball Knobel<\/li>\n<li><em>Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe<\/em> &#8211; Stephen C. McCluskey<\/li>\n<li><em>Saints and Sinners in the Sky<\/em> &#8211; Michael Mendillo<\/li>\n<li><em>Studies on the Transmission of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy<\/em> &#8211; Raymond Mercier<\/li>\n<li><em>Inside the Stargazer&#8217;s Palace<\/em> &#8211; Violet Moller<\/li>\n<li><em>Chasing Shadows<\/em> &#8211; Clemency Montelle<\/li>\n<li><em>The Sphera of George Buchanan<\/em> &#8211; James R. Naiden<\/li>\n<li><em>A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy<\/em> &#8211; Otto Neugebauer<\/li>\n<li><em>A Fourteenth Century Chronologer and Critic of Astrology<\/em> &#8211; C. Phillip E. Nothaft<\/li>\n<li><em>Survey of the Almagest<\/em> &#8211; Olaf Pedersen<\/li>\n<li><em>Astronomie et Theologie<\/em> &#8211; Ortolan<\/li>\n<li><em>Galileo and the Almagest<\/em> &#8211; Ivan Malara<\/li>\n<li><em>Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Marijane Osborn<\/li>\n<li><em>Ptolemy&#8217;s Catalogue of Stars<\/em> &#8211; Peters &amp; Knobel<\/li>\n<li><em>Eastern Astrolabes<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; David Pingree<\/li>\n<li><em>Astronomie Planetaire au Moyen Age Latin<\/em> &#8211; Emmanuel Poulle<\/li>\n<li><em>Star Tales<\/em> &#8211; Ian Ridpath<\/li>\n<li><em>Giordano Bruno: Philosopher\/Heretic<\/em> &#8211; Ingrid D. Rowland<\/li>\n<li><em>A Kingdom of Stargazers<\/em> &#8211; Michael A. Ryan<\/li>\n<li><em>A History of Arabic<\/em> Astronomy &#8211; George Saliba<\/li>\n<li><em>On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Julio Samso<\/li>\n<li><em>The Greatest Comets in History<\/em> &#8211; David Seargent<\/li>\n<li><em>Medieval &amp; Early Renaissance Medicine<\/em> &#8211; Nancy G. Siraisi<\/li>\n<li><em>The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Age of Enlightenment<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; S. Frederick Starr<\/li>\n<li><em>The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher: Henry Bates&#8217; Navtivitas<\/em> &#8211; Carlos Steel, Steven Vanden Broecke, David Juste, Shlomo Sela<\/li>\n<li><em>The Babylonian Theory of Planets<\/em> &#8211; Noel Swerdlow<\/li>\n<li><em>Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus&#8217; De Revolutionibus<\/em> &#8211; Noel Swerdlow<\/li>\n<li><em>The Composition of Kepler&#8217;s Astronomia Nova<\/em> &#8211; James R. Voelkel<\/li>\n<li><em>Science Awakening I<\/em> &#8211; B. L. 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