Digital Resources

This page provides links for people to find useful resources for promoting the SHA or for research purposes.

  1. A Powerpoint presentation that can be used to introduce the SHA to an audience, provided by Geoff King

SHA_Intro

2. Links to digital sources of Astronomical History put together by Daniel Bélteki

Observatories:

Royal Greenwich Observatory papers via the Cambridge Digital Library –  https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude

[Within this collection:

Papers of the Board of Longitude – https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rgo14 & https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/nmm_mss/1 

Papers of Nevil Maskelyne – https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rgo4 

Papers of John Pond – https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rgo5 

Papers of George Biddell Airy – https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rgo6/1 

Transit of Venus 1874 Papers – https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/tov]

Lady Huggins Observatory Book – https://repository.wellesley.edu/islandora/object/wellesley%3A4552/pages 

Digital Collections of the Paris Observatory – https://bibnum.obspm.fr/collections/

Leiden observatory – https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1889150 

Project Phaedra notebooks relating to the Harvard College Observatory –  https://library.cfa.harvard.edu/project-phaedra-finding-aid 

Lick Observatory Collection at UC Santa Cruz Library – https://digitalcollections.library.ucsc.edu/collections/tx31qn116 

Lowell Observatory (digital collection via Arizona Memory project) – https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/search/collection/p17220coll1!loaselect/ 

Allegheny Observatory – https://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/allegheny-observatory-records 

David Dunlap Observatory Scrapbook – https://archive.org/details/ddobook00astr/mode/2up 

David Dunlap Observatory Logbooks – http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/AALibrary/ddologbooks.html 

The Historical Archives of the Department of Astronomy of the University of Bologna – http://archiviostoricoastronomia.unibo.it/en_home 

Observatory photo collections:

Yerkes Observatory (Photographic Archive) – http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/browse-yerkes.html 

Goodsell Observatory – https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/observatory/history/goodsell-photos/  ; and https://contentdm.carleton.edu/digital/collection/Archives/search/searchterm/observatory 

Georgetown College/University Observatory (digital collection images) – https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/discover ; (finding aid) https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1047407 

Creighton Observatory (3 documents and 20 images) – http://cdm16272.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/searchterm/observatory/order/nosort 

University of Alabama – http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/search/all/observatory?page=1&limit=20 (images of Observatory from the digital collection)

US Naval Observatory (images from digital collections) –  https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/search.html?q=observatory & https://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/library/historical/historical-images-search 

Laws Observatory (University of Missouri) – https://muarchives.missouri.edu/historic/buildings/LawsObservatory/general.html 

McKim Observatory – https://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/search/collection/archives!p15705coll77/searchterm/observatory 

Shattuck Observatory [Type in ‘observatory’ or ‘shattuck observatory’ into the search field]- https://libarchive.dartmouth.edu/cdm/search/collection/photofiles/searchterm/observatory/order/nosort

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory – https://siarchives.si.edu/history/smithsonian-astrophysical-observatory 

Ricard Observatory (Santa Clara University): https://content.scu.edu/digital/collection/buildings/search/searchterm/observatory/page/1 

Harvard College Observatory – https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/4/resources/4018/digital_only 

The Image Archive of Hamburg Observatory – https://plate-archive.hs.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/en/2-root-all/53-image-archives 

ETH Zurich Image Archive – https://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/login/welcome.jspx?es=1 

Institutions/Societies:

Bureau des longitudes project – http://bdl.ahp-numerique.fr/ 

Canadian Astronomical Society Newsletter Collection – https://casca.ca/?page_id=4770

Netherlands Geodetic Commission – https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1889153 

Individuals:

The Newton Project – http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/ 

Thomas Harriot Online – https://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/scientific_revolution/harriot 

Bond Family Papers (Harvard College Observatory) – https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/33/resources/7480/digital_only

George Ellery Hale Papers – https://digital.archives.caltech.edu/hale/ 

The correspondence of Adolphe Quetelet – http://quetelet.oma.be/ 

The Correspondence of Tycho Brahe (505 letters) – http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=tycho-brahe 

The complete correspondence of Carl Friedrich Gauß – https://gauss.adw-goe.de/ 

The works of Johannes Kepler – https://kepler.badw.de/kepler-digital.html 

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL) Project – https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/start 

National Edition of Galileo’s Works (including correspondence) – https://galileoteca.museogalileo.it/GTConsult/?lang=en 

Diaries of Otto J. Klotz (1866-1923) – https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/collectionsearch/Pages/collectionsearch.aspx?q=Otto+J.+Klotz+diaries&start=0&num=10&OnlineCode=1 

Edwin Powell Hubble Papers (Huntington Library) [only photographs] – https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/search/searchterm/Hubble,%20Edwin%20Powell/mode/exact 

The Papers of George Boole – http://georgeboole.ucc.ie/?page=4

H.G. van de Sande Bakhuyzen – https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1889158 

Frederik Kaiser – https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1889150 

Antonie Pannekoek’s political correspondence – https://www.aaap.be/Pages/Pannekoek-Letters.html 

Bernhard Schmidt Archive – https://plate-archive.hs.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/en/?id=51 

Papers of Grote Reber [links to digitised documents within the finding aid] – https://www.nrao.edu/archives/reber-finding-aid 

Georges Lemaître Archives – https://archives.uclouvain.be/items/browse?collection=43 

Papers of Karl G. Jansky (photographs only) – https://www.nrao.edu/archives/collections/show/44 

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan and his audio interviews with radio astronomers (audio and transcripts available online) – https://www.nrao.edu/archives/sullivan-individuals-listing 

Daniel Kirkwood papers – http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?brand=general&docId=InU-Ar-VAA2674&doc.view=print 

The films of Andrew Ellicott Douglass – https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1336 

Rare Books & Manuscript Collections:

Rare Book Collection at the Vienna Observatory – https://www.univie.ac.at/hwastro/ 

Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (ISMI) – https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ 

Qatar Digital Library (Astronomical Works to 1800) – https://www.qdl.qa/en/search/site/?f%5B0%5D=document_source%3Aarchive_source&f%5B1%5D=subject%3AAstronomy–Early%20works%20to%201800 

Harvard Library Islamic Heritage Project – https://library.harvard.edu/collections/islamic-heritage-project 

Astronomie-rara (Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, Zürich & Deutsches Museums, München) – https://astronomie-rara.ethbib.ethz.ch/ 

Mixed and Miscellaneous:

American Philosophical Society Digital Library [search for terms ‘astronomy’ and ‘observatory’] – https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/search/dc.type%3A%28text%29 

American Institute of Physics Digital Collections – https://repository.aip.org/ 

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Archives (various documents) – https://www.rasc.ca/national-archives 

Schiaparelli’s researches on Mars [ITALIAN] – http://www.brera.inaf.it/MARTE/marte.html

Marius-Portal (about Simon Marius, 1573-1624) [Letters will be added to the site in 2024] – https://www.simon-marius.net/index.php?lang=en&menu=3 

NASA History Books – https://history.nasa.gov/books_sort_SP.html 

Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond (Library of Congress) – https://www.loc.gov/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/about-this-collection/ 

British Library Add MS 89442 Lewis of Caerleon, collected astronomical and mathematical works – http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100108506588.0x000001 

Christianus Prolianus’s Astronomia – http://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s/7w3l33 

Doc Ewen: The Horn, HI, and Other Events in US Radio Astronomy – https://www.nrao.edu/archives/static/Ewen/ewen.shtml