- Source: Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
- Baitul Hikmah
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- Friedrich Simon Archenhold
- Salih Zeki
- Severus Sebokht
- Arthur Auwers
- Minoru Honda
- Mary Adela Blagg
- Wilhelm Beer
- Muhammad al-Qunawi
- Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
- Copernican heliocentrism
- Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world
- John Grigg (astronomer)
- John Bainbridge (astronomer)
- Yaldā Night
- 10th century in literature
- Takeo Hatanaka
- Qibla compass
- House of Wisdom
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (BEA) is a two-volume biographical dictionary, first published in 2007, with a second edition released in 2014. The work covers astronomers from all geographies, born from antiquity to mid-1918. It includes more than 1500 biographies of both well-known and more obscure astronomers, produced by 410 contributors.
The encyclopedia has been published in both a print and online format by the publisher, Springer.
Editions
Hockey, Thomas A.; Virginia Trimble; Thomas R. Williams; Katherine Bracher, eds. (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. Bibcode:2007bea..book.....H. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7. ISBN 9780387310220. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers at Google Books
References
External links
Publisher's webpage (1st Edition)
Publisher's webpage (2nd Edition)