References
From All Skies Encyclopaedia
In many cases, there is a very limited corpus of literature dealing with the identifications of constellations.
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Standard References
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| Blume, Haffner, Metzger (2012/16) | Blume, Dieter; Haffner, Mechthild and Metzger, Wolfgang, Der gemalte Himmel zwischen Wissenschaft und Phantasie. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012/ 2016)
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| Delporte (1930) | Delporte, Eugène, Délimitation scientifique des constellations (tables et cartes) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930) -- published on behalf of the International Research Council of the International Astronomical Union. |
| Dekker (2013) | Dekker, Elly, Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0-19-960969-7. |
| Gössmann (1950) | Gössmann, Felix, Planetarium Babylonicum oder Die sumerisch-babylonischen Stern-Namen (Rome: Verlag des Päpstl. Bibelinstituts, 1950 [= Šumerisches Lexikon, Teil IV, Band 2]) [online link]. |
| Hoffmann and Wolfschmidt (2022) | Hoffmann, Susanne M and Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (eds.). Astronomy in Culture – Cultures of Astronomy. Proceedings of the Splinter Meeting in the Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society, Sept. 14-16, 2021; Nuncius Hamburgensis 57, (Ahrensburg: tredition & Berlin:OpenScienceTechnology, 2022) |
| Kanas (2012, 2019) | Kanas, Nick (2012, 2019). Star Maps. History, Artistry, and Cartography, Springer Science & Business Media, ISBN 1461409179, 9781461409175 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-13613-0. |
| Kurtik (2007) | Куртик, Г.Е., Звездное небо Древней Месопотамии. Шумеро-аккадские названия созвездий и других светил [The Star Heaven of Ancient Mesopotamia: Sumero-Akkadian Names of Constellations and Other Heavenly Bodies] (St. Petersburg: Aletejja, 2007) [online link]. |
| Ridpath (1988, 2018) | Ridpath, Ian, Star Tales (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1988) ISBN 0-7188-2695-7 [Internet Archive link] -- a revised and expanded edition was published in 2018 [ISBN 978-07188-9478-8] -- online version on Ridpath's website. |
| Warner (1979) | Warner, Deborah Jean, The Sky Explored: Celestial Cartography 1500-1800 (New York / Amsterdam: Alan R. Liss, Inc. / Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1979) ISBN 90-221-2003-1. |
| Zotti et al. (2020). | Zotti, Georg; Hoffmann, Susanne M.; Wolf, Alexander; Chéreau, Fabien & Chéreau, Guillaume, "The Simulated Sky: Stellarium for Cultural Astronomy Research", Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 6(2) (2020), 221--258 https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.17822. |
Library
Babylonian
The dictionary of Babylonian celestial names had been compiled by G. Kurtik (2007) based on Gössmann (1950). Kurtik's version is much improved and enriched, however it has been reworked by himself until his death in April 2023 and further reworked and translated to English by the research group led by Wayne Horowitz and Susanne M. Hoffmann.
As we present them here, the references for the Babylonian Sky Culture are so rich that they need to go to another website.
Chinese
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| Chavannes (1913) | Chavannes, Édouard, “l’Instruction d’un futur empereur de Chine en l’an 1193”, Mémoires concernant l’Asie Orientale (Inde, Asie centrale, Extrême-Orient), publiés par l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1 (1913), 19-64 [Gallica link] -- the Suzhou Astronomical Chart [苏州石刻天文图 Sūzhōu Shíkè Tiānwén Tú / 平江府學天文圖 Píngjiāng Fǔxué Tiānwén Tú] is discussed, with a French translation of accompanying text, on pp. 43-57. |
| de Guignes (1785) | de Guignes, Joseph, "Planisphère céleste chinois, avec des explications, le catalogue alphabétique des étoiles et la suite de tous les comètes observées à la Chine, depuis l’an 613 avant J.-C. jusqu’à l’an 1222 de l’ère chrétienne, tirées des livres chinois", Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique, présentés à l’Académie Royale des Sciences, par divers Savans, et lus dans ses Assemblées, 10 (1785), addendum [BHL link] -- also published as a separatum [Gallica link] -- planispheres also in [Gallica link]. |
| Pan Nai (2009) | Pān Nài [潘鼐], Zhōngguó Héngxīng Guāncè Shǐ [中国恒星观测史] (Shanghai: Xuélín Chūbǎnshè, 2009) [Internet Archive link] -- revised edition of a work first published in 1989. |
| Pan Nai & Wang De-chang (1981) | Pān Nài [潘鼐] & Wang De-chang, “The Huang-You Star List of the Song Dynasty: A Chinese Star List of the Early Medieval Period”, Chinese Astronomy & Astrophysics, 5 (1981), 441-448 [ADS link] -– first published in Chinese in Acta Astronomica Sinica, 22 (1981), 107-119. |
| Pankenier (2013) | Pankenier, David W., Astrology and Cosmology in Early China: Conforming Earth to Heaven (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) ISBN 978-1-107-00672-0 -- the appendix [pp. 444-511] contains an English translation of Sīmǎ Qiān [司馬遷]'s "Treatise of the Celestial Offices" [chapter 27 of the Shǐjì [史記]] with the earliest comprehensive description of the Chinese constellations. |
| Rufus & Hsing-chih T'ien (1945) | Rufus, Will Carl & Hsing-chih T'ien, The Soochow Astronomical Chart (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1945) [HathTtrust link]. |
| Schlegel (1875) | Schlegel, Gustave, Uranographie chinoise, ou preuves directes que l'astronomie primitive est originaire de la Chine, et qu'elle a été empruntée par les anciens peuples occidentaux à la sphère chinoise (The Hague / Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff / E.J. Brill, 1875), 2 vols. [Gallica link 1 / Gallica link 2]. |
| Schlegel (1875a) | Schlegel, Gustave, Uranographie chinoise: Atlas céleste chinois et grec d'après le Tien-Youen-Lí-Li (The Hague / Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff / E.J. Brill, 1875) [Gallica link] -- based on the Tiānyuán Lìlǐ Quánshū [天元曆理全書] (1682) of Xú Fā [徐發]. |
| Stephenson (1994) | Stephenson, Francis Richard, “Chinese and Korean Star Maps and Catalogs”, in: J.B. Harley & D. Woodward (eds.), The History of Cartography: Volume 2, Book 2. Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 511-578 [HOC link]. |
| Sun Xiaochun & Kistemaker (1997) | Sun Xiaochun & Kistemaker, Jacob, The Chinese Sky during the Han: Constellating Stars and Society (Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 1997 [= Sinica Leidensia, vol. XXXVIII]) ISBN 90-04-10737-1. |
| Tsutsihashi & Chevalier (1914) | Tsutsihashi, Paul & Chevalier, Stanislas, Catalogue d’étoiles fixes observées en Chine sous l’empereur K’ien-long (Shanghai: Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1914 [= Annales de l’observatoire astronomique de Zó-Sê, 7, nr. 4]) -– catalogue of 3083 stars for the epoch 1744 [and 1875]. |
Greco-Roman
The dictionary of Greco-Roman celestial names is compiled by members of the IAU WGSN.
The original sources are compiled in a separate page.
Early Modern
Secondary literature (modern authors who write about specific cases of identifications or constellation history) is collected on a separate page.
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| Lodewijcksz (1598) | Lodewijcksz, Willem, D'eerste boeck. Historie van Indien, waer inne verhaelt is de avontueren die de Hollandtsche schepen bejeghent zijn ...: Daer by ghevoecht ... de conterfeytsels der inwoonderen (Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, 1598) [online link] , PDF.
Several partial or complete journals describing the events of the "Eerste Schipvaart" have been preserved - the journal of Willem Lodewijcksz, published in Amsterdam in April 1598, is generally considered to be the most important one. Reprinted with copious notes in the first volume of:
Some of the other journals were already published in October 1597 by the Middelburg publisher Berent Langenes who issued revised and expanded editions in December 1597 and early 1598:
Contemporary translations, mainly based on the 1597/98 edition of Langenes, were published in English, German, Latin and French:
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| de Houtman (1603) | De Houtman, Frederick, Spraeck ende woord-boeck inde Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche Talen, met vele Arabische ende Turcsche woorden ... : Noch zijn hier byghevoecht de declinatien van vele vaste sterren, staende omtrent den Zuyd-pool, voor desen tijdt noyt ghesien (Amsterdam: Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1603) [online link] (in Dutch).
Translations are available in:
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