PHY440 - Astronomy: History of Astronomy

A digital repository of some of the AIP's most significant collections.

The 'family tree' of PhD astronomers in the world.

A collaboration of 18 observatories that produced a 200 volume 'Astrographic Catalog' of the celestial vault.

The George Ellery Hale Papers at Caltech.

Made up of collections of books, maps, letters, diaries, instruments, paintings, sculptures, prints and more.

From the website "Project PHaEDRA is an initiative by the Wolbach Library, in collaboration with many partners, to catalog, digitize, transcribe, and enrich the metadata of over 2500 logbooks and notebooks produced by the Harvard Computers and early Harvard astronomers. Our goal is to ensure that this remarkable set of items, created by a remarkable group of people, is as accessible and useful as possible."

Schiaparelli's researches on Mars, but it seems only in Italian: