In the past years projects of digitalization of rare books have grown to the extent that at present quite a number of rare texts in the field of Astronomy can be found on the web. The table which follows presents a selection of full-text Astronomy rare books, available at:
Gallica, the site of the Bibliothèque Nationale Francaise,
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology,
J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah,
the Posner Memorial Collection,
the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System,
Vienna University Observatory.
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
PUBL. DATE |
SOURCE |
| Abioso, Giovanni |
Divinus tractatus terrestium et celestium trutina artem exhibens |
post 1498 |
Gallica |
| Albohazen Haly |
Preclarissimus liber completus in judiciis astrorum |
1485 |
Gallica |
| Albumasar |
Introductorium in astronomiam Albumasaris Albalachi ... |
1489 |
Posner Library |
| Alchabitius |
Astronomie judiciarie principia tractans |
1519-23 |
Gallica |
| Alembert, Jean le Rond d’ |
Opuscules mathémathiques |
1761-1780 |
Gallica |
| Alfonso X, Rey de Castilla y Leon |
Caelestium motuum tabulae... |
1483 |
Gallica |
| Alfraganus |
Astronomorum peritissimi compendium |
1546 |
Gallica |
| Alfraganus |
Chronologica et astronomica elementa |
1618 |
Gallica |
| Alliacus, Petrus de |
Imago mundi |
ca. 1483 |
Gallica |
| Apianus, Petrus |
Cosmographia |
1553 |
Gallica |
| Arago, François |
Leçons d'astronomie |
1836 |
Gallica |
| Argoli, Andrea |
Pandosion sphaericum |
1653 |
Gallica |
| Bailly, Etienne-Marin |
Manuel d'astronomie |
1830 |
Gallica |
| Bailly, Jean Sylvain |
Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne |
1781 |
Gallica |
| Bailly, Jean Sylvain |
Histoire de l'astronomie moderne
T. premier T. second T. troisième
|
1785 |
Gallica |
| Bailly, Jean Sylvain |
Traité de l’astronomie indienne et orientale |
1787 |
Gallica |
| Bassantin, Jacques |
Astronomia |
1599 |
Gallica |
| Bayer, Johann |
Uranometria |
1603 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Bonardo, Giovanni Maria |
La grandezza larghezza, e distanza di tutte le sfere ridotte a nostre miglia... |
1589 |
Gallica |
| Borel, Pierre |
Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralité des mondes |
1657 |
Gallica |
| Bošković, Ruđer Josip |
Opera pertinentia ad opticam et astronomiam
T. primus T. secundus T. tertius
T. quartus T. quintus
|
1785 |
Gallica |
| Brahe, Tycho |
Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica |
1602 |
ADS |
| Brahe, Tycho |
Astronomicall Coniectur |
1632 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Brahe, Tycho |
De mvndi therei recentioribvs phnomenis, liber secvndvs ... |
1610 |
Posner Library |
| Brahe, Tycho |
Epistolarvm astrono micarvm libri |
1610 |
Posner Library |
| Cassini, Jean-Dominique |
La meridiana del tempio di S. Petronio |
1695 |
Gallica |
| Castelli, Benedetto |
Riposta alle opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe e del San Vincenzio di Grazia |
1615 |
Gallica |
| Cavalieri, Bonaventura |
Lo specchio ustorio overo trattato delle Settioni coniche |
1632 |
Gallica |
| Cellarius, Andreas |
Harmonia macrocosmica |
1661 |
Marriott Library |
| |
Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis |
1535 |
Gallica |
| Comte, Auguste |
Traité philosophique d'astronomie populaire |
1844 |
Gallica |
| Copernicus, Nicolaus |
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium |
1543 |
ADS |
| Dariot, Claude |
Ad astrorum judicia facilis introductio |
1557 |
Gallica |
| Delambre, Jean-Baptiste |
Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle |
1827 |
Gallica |
| Descartes, René |
Principia philosophiae |
1644 |
Posner Library |
| Duhamel, Jean Baptiste |
Astronomia physica ... |
1660 |
Gallica |
| Ferrier, Augier |
De diebus decretoriis secundum Pythagoricam doctrinam astronomi cum observationem |
1549 |
Gallica |
| Finé, Oronce |
De mundi sphaera, sive cosmographia |
1555 |
Gallica |
| Flamsteed, John |
Atlas Coelestis |
1729 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Flamsteed, John |
Atlas Céleste |
1776 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Galilei, Galileo |
Dialogo |
1632 |
Posner Library |
| Galilei, Galileo |
Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari ... |
1613 |
Posner Library |
| Galilei, Galileo |
Il Saggiatore nel quale ... |
1623 |
Gallica |
| Galilei, Galileo |
Sidereus Nuncius |
1610 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Gemma Reinerus, Frisius |
Les principes d'astronomie et cosmographie |
1556 |
Gallica |
| Goldbach, Christian |
Neuester Himmels |
1799 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Halley, Edmond |
Astronomiae cometicae synopsis |
1705 |
Posner Library |
| Hell, Maximilian |
Beobachtungen des Durchganges der Venus durch die Sonnenscheibe |
1793 |
Vienna Univ. Observatory |
| Hell, Maximilian |
Observatio transitus Veneris ante discum Solis die 3 Junii anno 1769 |
1770 |
Vienna Univ. Observatory |
| Hémann, H.N. |
L'astronomie et la météorologie récréatives |
1835 |
Gallica |
| Herschel, John |
Traité d'astronomie |
1834 |
Gallica |
| Hevelius, Johannes |
Machinae coelestis pars prior-posterior |
1673-79 |
Posner Library |
| Hevelius, Johannes |
Mercurius in Sole visus Gedani, ... |
1662 |
Vienna Univ. Observatory |
| Hues, Robertus |
Traicté des globes et de leur usage |
1618 |
Gallica |
| Huygens, Christiaan |
Systema Saturnium |
1659 |
Smithsonian |
| Hyginus |
Poeticon Astronomicon |
1482 1485 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Hyginus |
De mundi et sphere ac utriusquem partium declaratione |
1512 |
Gallica |
| Indagine, Joannes de |
Proposition astrologicque et pronostication naturelle ... |
1545 |
Gallica |
| Kepler, Johann |
Astronomia nova aitiologetos |
1609 |
Posner Library |
| Kepler, Johann |
De stella nova in pede Serpentarii |
1606 |
Posner Library |
| Kepler, Johann |
Dioptrice ... |
1611 |
Gallica |
| Kepler, Johann |
Harmonices mvndi libri V |
1619 |
Posner Library |
| Kepler, Johann |
Mathematici, pro suo opera harmonices mundi apologia ... |
1622 |
Posner Library |
| Kepler, Johann |
Nova stereometria doliorvm vinariorvm |
1615 |
Posner Library |
| Kepler, Johann |
Prodromus dissertationvm cosmographicarvm |
1621 |
Posner Library |
| La Caille, Nicolas-Louis de |
Atlas céleste |
1782 |
Gallica |
| La Lande, Jérôme de |
Astronomie des dames 4. ed. |
1817 |
Gallica |
| Laplace, Pierre Simon |
Exposition du systeme du monde |
1796 |
Posner Library |
| Lefèvre d'Etaples, Jacques |
Introductorium astronomicum |
1517 |
Vienna Univ. Observatory |
| |
Lettres escrites au Sr Morin par les plus célèbres astronomes de France ... |
1635 |
Gallica |
| Manilius, Marcus |
Astronomicon primus-[quintus] |
ca. 1498 |
Gallica |
| Mizauld, Antoine |
Aesculapii et uraniae medicum simul et astronomicum ex colloquio conjugium harmoniam microcosmi cum macrocosmo |
1550 |
Gallica |
| Monte, Guidubaldo del |
Mechanicorum liber |
1577 |
Gallica |
| Nicephorus [Blemmyda] |
Logica |
1498 |
Vienna Univ. Observatory |
| Peuerbach, Georg von |
Theoricae novae planetarum |
1473 |
Vienna Univ. Observatory |
| Pontano, Giovanni |
De rebus coelestibus ... |
1512 |
Gallica |
| Proclus [Diadochus] |
Sphaera |
1499 |
Vienna Univ. Observatory |
| Regiomontanus, Joannes |
Ephemerides sive almanach perpetuus |
1498 |
Gallica |
| Regiomontanus, Joannes |
Epytoma ... in almagestum Ptolomei |
1496 |
Vienna Univ. Observatory |
| Regiomontanus, Joannes |
Kalendarium |
1499 |
Posner Library |
| Reissig, K |
Sozviezdiia Predstavlennyia |
1829 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Riccioli, G. Battista |
Almagestum novum astronomiam ...
T. primus T. secundus
|
1651 |
Gallica |
| Riccioli, G. Battista |
Astronomiae reformatae tomi duo |
1665 |
Gallica |
| Ricius, Augustinus |
De motu octaue sphere |
1513 |
Gallica |
| Rivard, Dominique-François |
Traité de la sphère et du calendrier |
1798 |
Gallica |
| Rost, Johann L. |
Atlas Portabilis Coelestis |
1723 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Sacrobosco, Joannes de |
... Sphera mundi feliciter incipit |
1478 |
Gallica |
| Schiller, Julius |
Coelum Stellatum Christianum |
1627 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Scot, Michael |
Michaelis Scoti super auctorem sperae cum questionibus... |
1495 |
Gallica |
| Squire, Thomas |
Beautés et merveilles du ciel |
1825 |
Gallica |
| Semler, Christian |
Coelum Stellatum in Quo Asterismi |
1731 |
Linda Hall Library |
| Stoeffler, Joannes |
Traité de la composition et fabrique de l'astrolabe et de son |
1560? |
Gallica |
| Verbiest, Ferdinand |
Astronomia europaea ... |
1668 |
Gallica |
| Viviani, Vincenzo |
Formazione, e misura di tutti i cieli |
1692 |
Gallica |
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