Motz L., Weaver J.H. The Story of Astronomy

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 1995. — 398 p.Of all the scientific disciplines Astronomy stands out as the all-encompassing one in that all the other sciences grew out of astronomy and are still influenced by it. A history of astronomy to be complete, should trace these interscience relationships to some extent, but the story of astronomy is not subject to these constraints. By the very designation as a "story," this book was designed, and so written, to delineate the high points of astronomy and to trace the evolution of the great astronomical ideas from their birth as pure speculations in the minds of the great astronomers of the past to their present fully developed and fully accepted state.The Origins of Astronomy.
The Ancient Cosmologies.
The Greek Philosophers and the Early Greek Astronomers.
From Aristarchus to Ptolemy: The Birth of Accurate Observational Astronomy.
The Revival of European Astronomy.
Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.
Galileo, the Astronomical Telescope, and the Beginning of Modern Astronomy.
The Newtonian Era.
The Rise of Modem Astronomy.
Post-Newtonian Astronomy.
The Beginning of the New Age of Astronomy: Beyond the Solar System.
Astronomy as a Branch of Physics.
The New Physics and Its Impact on Astronomy.
Relativity and Astronomy.
The Origin and Development of Astrophysics.
Stellar Evolution and the Beginning of Galactic Astronomy.
Beyond the Stars: The Galaxies.
Cosmology.
Epilogue.