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The History of Women in Astronomy 
  
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Publisher:
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subject:
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy
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This website gives a historical account of women who contributed to astronomy from the late seventeen hundreds to the present.
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/history.html
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens 
  
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Editor:
Aguirre, Lauren
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / The Sun
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy
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In this activity students are asked to interpret a graph that represents the sunspot cycle from 1900 to 1990, then they are asked to graph the number of sunspots that occurred from 1995 to 2003 in order to ...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2912_galileo.html
Indexes of Biographies 
  
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School of Mathematics and Statistic at the University of St. Andrews
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy / History of Astronomy
Other Sciences / Mathematics
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An alphabetically sorted list of biographies of historically important mathematicians and scientists with references.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/BiogIndex.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Scientific Revolution 
  
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Author:
Halsall, Paul
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy / History of Astronomy
General Physics / History
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The Scientific Revolution is one book in The Internet Modern History Sourcebook which assembles text and images from numerous sources. It traces our modern conception of science from its roots in ancient Greece ...
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook09.html
The World 
  
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Author:
Penprase, Bryan
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Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy / Archaeoastronomy
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This comprehensive archeoastronomy site studies the history and ethnology of astronomy and cosmology. It contains an interactive atlas of the world which allows users to choose the area they wish to learn ...
http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/archeo/index.html
Solar Neutrinos: History 
  
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Bahcall, John
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Lower Undergraduate
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Astronomy / The Sun
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy / History of Astronomy
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John Bahcall's collection of articles on the history of neutrino astrophysics.
http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Papers/Popular/snhistory.html
The Galileo Project 
  
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Van Helden, Albert
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Astronomy / Historical Astronomy
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Extensive collection of student projects, activities, on the history, art and culture of Galileo and 17th century Italy. Students activities include a mock inquisition of Galileo.
http://galileo.rice.edu/
The Natures of the Stars 
  
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Author:
Kaler, James
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Astronomy / Stars
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy / History of Astronomy
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It is the purpose of this site to provide a deep, non-technical review of stars and their natures for the beginner. This page presents facts about stars as we know them without delving into the details of ...
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/star_intro.html
Epicycle and Deferent Demo 
  
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Author:
Kennett, Rosemary
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy / History of Astronomy
Astronomy / Fundamentals / Celestial Mechanics
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This web simulation demonstrates the concepts of epicycle and deferent. These historic methods for predicting planetary motion were developed by early Greek astronomers to explain observations of the planets. ...
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/java/demos/kennett/Epicycle/Epicycle.html
Cool Cosmos: The Infrared Universe 
  
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Publisher:
California Institute of Technology
Main Level:
Middle School
Subjects:
Astronomy / Instrumentation / Infrared Astronomy
Astronomy / Instrumentation / Ultraviolet Astronomy
Astronomy / Fundamentals / Properties of Light
Astronomy / Fundamentals / Spectra
Astronomy / Fundamentals / Energy and Temperature
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy / History of Astronomy
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This website provides K-12 classroom activities and educational resources on infrared astronomy. Sponsored by California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab, this collection offers lesson plans for ...
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/
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