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Astronomy in Japan (Popularity:  )
http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/jastro.html
Historical and modern Japanese astronomy, and its place in Japanese culture
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Jewish Astronomy, From Ancient to Modern Times (Popularity: )
http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/judaism/jewish_astro.html
Astronomy in Israel from Og's Circle to the Wise Observatory.
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Hindu Cosmological Time Cycles (Popularity: )
http://www.aaronsrod.com/time-cycles/index.html
An accurate calendar and the progenitor of the sexagesimal (base 60) "degree, minutes, seconds" measurement system.
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The Star of Bethlehem (Popularity: )
http://www.bethlehemstar.net/
An investigation of the science and history which bear on the mysterious star said to have accompanied the advent of Christ.
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A Brief SETI Chronology (Popularity: )
http://www.setileague.org/general/history.htm
A timeline of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from Morrison and Coconni to SETI@home.
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History and Philosophy of Western Astronomy (Popularity: )
http://www.astronomynotes.com/history/s1.htm
The History chapter of an introductory astronomy course.
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The Àryabhatíya of Àryabhata (Popularity: )
http://www.jqjacobs.net/astro/aryabhata.html
The oldest exact astronomic constant? The ratio of earth rotations to lunar orbits in Aryabhata's AD 498 writing.
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Rundetaarn (The Round Tower) (Popularity: )
http://www.rundetaarn.dk/engelsk/observatorium/history.htm
Astronomy in Denmark: Brahe, Roemer, Hertzsprung.
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Big Ear Radio Observatory (Popularity: )
http://www.bigear.org/
Radio astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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History of Astronomy Pages (Popularity: )
http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~heijden/history.html
Frederik Kaiser (1808-1872) and the professionalisation of Dutch astronomy; The "Lost Letters" of J.C. Kapteyn (1851-1922); Many history of astronomy and history of science links with a Dutch flavour.
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The Manchester Astronomical Society History (Popularity: )
http://www.mikeoates.org/mas/history.htm
The first hundred years, list of presidents, list of archived documents.
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Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy Pictures (Popularity: )
http://www42.pair.com/infolund/bolaget/DAHAP/
Images from the history of astronomy, old telescopes, pictures of astronomers, observatories.
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The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (Popularity: )
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1978/wilson-lecture.html
Robert Woodrow Wilson Nobel Lecture.
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Astronomy in Sweden 1860-1940 (Popularity: )
http://www.astro.uu.se/history/swehistory_1860-1940.html
From the Uppsala University Newsletter for History of Science.
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A Science Odyssey - Physics and Astronomy (Popularity: )
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/physastro.html
PBS articles about 20th century astronomy and physics.
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Biennial History of Astronomy Conferences (Popularity: )
http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/index.html
Workshops at Notre Dame, papers presented, abstracts, group pictures of attendees.
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Astronomical References in the Ruba'iyât of Omar Khayyam (Popularity: )
http://www.minaret.org/INSAP3.htm
Excerpts and commentary with reproductions of some of Elihu Vedder's illustrations.
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Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy (Popularity: )
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/aa/enha/
Complete archive and subscription information.
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Historical Astronomy Division (Popularity: )
http://www.aas.org/~had/had.html
American Astronomical Society division devoted to history, with a link to pages on the history of the society itself.
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Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 (Popularity: )
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html
Guide to understanding all facets of the Great Debate between Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis over the scale of the universe. Includes a complete transcript.
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