Hipparchus: Full Bibliography
Recommended Reading
Crowe, Michael J. Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution, New York 1990King, David A. 'Astrolabe' In Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, London 1998
North, J. The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, London 1994
Taub, L.C. 'Hipparchus' in History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia, Ed. John Lankford. New York 1997
Toomer, G.J. "Aratus" in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. Oxford 1996
Toomer, G.J. 'Astronomical Instruments' in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. Oxford 1996
Toomer, G.J. "Eudoxus" in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. Oxford 1996
Toomer, G.J. "Hipparchus" in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. Oxford 1996
Toomer, G.J. "Hipparchus" in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles C. Gillespie, Supplement I: 207-224. New York 1978
Toomer, G.J. "Trigonometry" in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. Oxford 1996
Other Texts
Aratus Phenomena, Loeb Classical Library.Barton, T. Ancient Astrology, London 1994
Beck, R.L. 'Astrology' In Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. Oxford 1996
Grasshoff, G. The History of Ptolemy's Star Catalogue, New York 1990
Hipparchus Commentary on the Phainomena of Aratus and Eudoxus (Hipparchi in Arati et Eudoxi Phaenomena Commentariorum). Ed. and trans. into German by C. Manitius. Leipzig 1894
[Hipparchus] The geographical fragments of Hipparchus, Ed. D.R. Dicks. London 1960
Jones, Alexander "The Adaptation of Babylonian Methods in Greek Numerical Astronomy," Isis 82 (1991): 441-453
Jones, Alexander 'Hipparchus's Computations of Solar Longitudes', Journal for the History of Astronomy 22 (1991): 101-25
Neugebauer, O. A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. New York 1975
Neugebauer, O. 'The Early History of the Astrolabe' Isis 40 (1949): 240-56
North, John D. 'The Astrolabe' Scientific American 230 (January 1974): 96-106
Ptolemy Ptolemy's Almagest, Trans. G.J. Toomer. New York 1984
Taub, L.C. 'Ancient World, Astronomy in' in History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia, Ed. John Lankford. New York 1997
Toomer, G.J. "Hipparchus and Babylonian Astronomy" in A Scientific Humanist: Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs, edited by Erle Leichty, Maria deJ. Ellis, and Pamela Gerardi, 353-365. Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 9. Philadelphia 1988
Toomer, G.J. 'The Chord Table of Hipparchus and the Early History of Greek Trigonometry', Centaurus 18 (1973): 6-28