This page provides links for people to find useful resources for promoting the SHA or for research purposes.
- A Powerpoint presentation that can be used to introduce the SHA to an audience, provided by Geoff King
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