References

From All Skies Encyclopaedia


In many cases, there is a very limited corpus of literature dealing with the identifications of constellations.

Dictionaries and Tools

Citation Form Bibliography
Delporte (1930) Delporte,Eugène (1930). Délimitation Scientifique Des Constellations (tables Et Cartes). International Astronomical Union. International Research Council, CUP, Cambridge (UK)
Dekker (2013) Dekker, Elly (2013). Illustrating the Phaenomena, Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. OUP Oxford
Gössmann (1950) Gössmann, Felix (1950). Planetarium Babylonicum oder Die sumerisch-babylonischen Stern-Namen, Verlag des Päpstl. Bibelinstituts, Rom, Italy.
Kanas (2012, 2019) Kanas, Nick (2012, 2019). Star Maps. History, Artistry, and Cartography, Springer Science & Business Media, ISBN1461409179, 9781461409175 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-13613-0
Kurtik (2007). Куртик, Г.Е. (2007). 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], Aletejja, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Pan Nai (2009) i潘鼐. Zhongguo Hengxing Guance shi中国恒星观测史[M]. Shanghai: Xuelin Pree
Ridpath (1988, 2018) Ridpath, Ian (1988). Star Tales, Lutterworth. original on Internet Archive. Ridpath's website
Warner (1979) Warner, Deborah Jean (1979). The Sky Explored: Celestial Cartography 1500-1800, University of Michigan/ A.R. Liss ISBN0845117009, 9780845117002
Zotti et al. (2020). Zotti, G., Hoffmann, S. M., Wolf, A., Chéreau, F. & Chéreau, G. (2020). `The simulated sky: Stellarium for cultural astronomy research.', Journal for Skyscape Archaeology 6(2), 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 Goessmann (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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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.

Citation Form Bibliography
de Houtman (1597) De Houtman, C. (1597). De Eerste Schipvaart
de Houtman (1603) De Houtman, F. (1603). Spraeck ende woord-boeck (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Cloppenburgh. OCLC 68675342.
  • Spanish Translation: (Selga 1918/9): Miguel Selga, "Un catálogo antiguo de estrellas australes", _Revista de la Sociedad Astronómica de España y América_, vol. 8 (1918), 84-90 & vol. 9 (1919), 11, 44-46 & 62-63.