Early Astronomy in the University of Michigan Collections

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• Ancient Astronomy
  • Introduction
    • Early Greek Astronomy
    • Hellenistic Greek Astronomy
    • Ptolemy and Later Greek Astronomy
  • Stars and Constellations
    • Mesopotamian Constellations
    • Aratus’ Phaenomena
      • Aratus’ Phaenomena: The Signs of Zeus
    • Star Mythology: Eratosthenes’ Catasterismi
      • Giving an Identity to Constellations
      • The Tradition of Eratosthenes’ Catasterismi
    • Hipparchus on Aratus’ Phaenomena
    • The Reception of Aratus among the Romans
      • Cicero’s Aratea
      • Germanicus’ Aratea
      • Avienus’ Aratea
    • Ptolemy’s Catalogue of Stars
      • Translation by Gerard of Cremona and Its Reception among Islamic Astronomers
  • Sun, Moon, and Planets
    • Babylonian Lunar Systems
    • Ptolemy’s Planetary Model
    • Ptolemy’s Astronomical Tables
    • The Planets’ Motions
      • Working with Papyri
    • Ephemerides
    • Moon Phases and Calendars
      • Working with Papyri
  • Astrology
    • Popular Astronomy: Horoscopes
    • Horoscopes and Politics
    • Astronomy and Astrology
    • Astrological Medicine
• Islamic Astronomy
  • Introduction
  • Stars and Constellations
  • Mathematical Models
  • Planetary Theory
  • Observatory at Samarqand
    • Zīj of Ulugh Beg
    • ʻAlī Qushjī
    • Qāḍīʼzādah al-Rūmī
  • Study and Practice
• Western Astronomy
  • Introduction
  • Pre-Copernican Astronomy
    • Johannes de Sacrobosco
      • Eclipses
      • The Roundness of the Earth
      • The Five Zones
      • Astronomical Volvelles
    • The Theory of Planets
      • The Theory of Mercury
    • Georg Peurbach
      • The Lunar Eclipse
  • Astronomical Tables
    • Alphonsine Tables
      • The Sexagesimal System
    • Johannes Regiomontanus
      • The Tables of Directions
    • Johannes Schöner
    • Erasmus Reinhold
  • Copernicus
    • A New Universe?
    • De Revolutionibus (1543)
      • The Lamoignon Library
      • From Europe to Ann Arbor
      • Andreas Osiander
      • Heliocentrism
      • Jofrancus Offusius
    • De Revolutionibus (1566)
      • The Narratio Prima
    • Science and Religion
      • The Index
      • Copernicus Is Canceled
        • Emendation I
        • Emendation II
  • Brahe and Kepler
    • Brahe’s Astronomical Instruments
      • Zodiacal Armillaries
      • Equatorial Armillaries
      • Quadrants
    • Kepler’s Mysterium Cosmographicum
      • The Polyhedral Hypothesis
      • Table I
      • Table II
    • The New Astronomy
      • Synopsis
      • Observations of Mars
    • The Rudolphine Tables
      • Kepler and the History of Astronomy
  • Galileo
    • The Telescope
    • The Starry Messenger
      • Phases of the Moon
      • Orion and the Pleiades
      • The Moons of Jupiter
    • On Sunspots
      • De Maculis
      • De Maculis: Engraving
      • Istoria
      • Istoria: Engravings
    • On Comets
      • De Tribus Cometis
      • Discorso
      • Discorso: Woodcut
      • Libra Astronomica
      • Libra Astronomica: Woodcuts
    • Il Saggiatore
      • Il Saggiatore: Engraving
    • Dialogo
      • Dialogo: Woodcut
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