Tierra (planeta)

 

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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

 

Earth (planet)

 

Early works

Miscellaneous

 

 

 

Early works

 

Burnet, Thomas. Telluris Theoria Sacra. Natural philosophy. 2 vols. 1681-9.

_____. A Sacred Theory of the Earth. Trans. of vol. 1 of Telluris Theoria Sacra. 1684.

_____. Sacred Theory of the Earth. London: Norton, 1691.

_____. The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the General Changes Which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo Till the Consummation of All Things. The Two First Books Concerning The Deluge and Concerning Paradise. The Third Edition Review'd by the Author. London: Printed by R. N. for Walter Kettiby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1697.* Online at Google Books:

         https://books.google.es/books?id=pt33OCWIB6EC

         2019

Halley, Edmund. "A Short Account of the Cause of the Saltiness of the Ocean, and of the Several Lakes that Emit on Rivers; with a Proposal, by Help Thereof, to Discover the Age of the World." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 29 (1714-16): 296-300.

_____. "A short Account of the Cause of the Saltness of the Ocean, and of the several Lakes that emit no Rivers; with a Proposal by help thereof, to Discover the Age of the World." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 29 (issue 344, 1 Jan. 1714): 290-300. Online PDF (1 Jan. 1997):*

         https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1714.0031

         https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1714.0031

         2019

Hutton, James. "Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe." Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1 (1788): 209-304.

_____. Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations. Edinburgh, 1795.

_____. "Teoría de la Tierra." 1785, 1788. Trans. Cándido Manuel García Cruz. Enseñanza de las ciencias de la Tierra 12.2 (2005): 153-205.

Juan, Jorge, and Antonio de Ulloa. Relación Historica del viage a la América Meridional. Hecho de Orden de S. Mag. Para medir algunos grados de Meridiano Terrestre, y venir por ellos en conocimiento de la verdadera Figura, y Magnitud de la Tierra, con otras Varias Observaciones Astronomicas, y Phisicas; Por Don Jorge Juan, Comendador de Aliaga, en el Orden de San Juan, Socio correspondiente de la Real Academia de las Ciencias de Paris, y Don Antonio de Ulloa, de la Real Sociedad de Londres; ambos Capitanes de fragata de la Real Armada. Primera Parte, Tomo Primero. Impressa de orden del Rey Nuestro Señor En Madrid Por Antonio Marin, Año de M.DCC.XLVIII.*

Marsh, George Perkins. The Earth as Modified by Human Action. 1874.

Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de. Sur la figure de la terre. 1738.

Orthelius. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 1574.

Whiston, William. New Theory of the Earth. 1696. (Vs. Burnet).

Woodward, John. (1665-1728). Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth. 1695.

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

Asimov, Isaac. Frontiers.  Essays. Nightfall, Inc., cop. 1987, 1988, 1989.

_____. Fronteras y otros ensayos. Trans. Josep Ferrer i Aleu. Barcelona; Edicones B, 1994.*

Attenborough, David. Life on Earth: A Natural History. London: Collins, 1979.

_____. The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth. London: Collins, 1984.

_____. El planeta viviente. Barcelona: Salvat, 1995.

Barnes, C. W. Earth, Time and Life. New York: John Wiley, 1980.

Christian, David. "3. Origins and History of the Earth." In Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004. 2005. 57-76.*

Clark, Stephen R. L. How to Think About the Earth. 1993.

Darlrymple, G. Brent. "How Old Is the Earth? A Reply to 'Scientific' Creationism." In Evolutionism Confronts Creationists: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ed. F. Awbrey and W. M. Thwaites. 1.66-131.

Delibes, Miguel, and Miguel Delibes de Castro. La tierra herida: ¿qué mundo heredarán nuestros hijos? 2005.

Dott, R. H., Jr. "James Hutton and the Concept of a Dynamic Earth." In Toward a History of Geology. Ed. Cecil J. Schneer. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 1967.

"Drilling the Ocean Floor for Earth's Deep Secrets." Valley News 21 Aug. 1995.

"The Earth's Mantle." Nature 2 Aug. 2001: 501-6.

Gardner, Martin. On the Wild Side. Buffalo (NY): Prometheus Books, 1992. (Pseudoscience; Parapsychology, vs. John Rhine; vs. Wilhelm Reich; Vs. Earth as organism., vs. Reagan and astrology; vs. telepreachers; vs. spiritism, vs. Biblical literalism; Science and Christianity).

_____. Extravagancias y disparates. Prologue by Vladimir de Semir. Trans. Jordi Fibla. (Campo de Agramante – Libros para la Controversia). Barcelona: Martínez Roca - Alcor, 1993.*

Gould, Stephen J. "The Late Birth of a Flat Earth." In Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. 1996. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. 38-50.*

_____. "El nacimiento tardío de una tierra plana." In Gould, Un dinosaurio en un pajar. Barcelona: Crítica, 1997. 51-62.*

Hands, John. "12. Un planeta idóneo para la vida." In Hands, Cosmosapiens: La evolución humana desde los orígenes del universo. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2017. 271-316.*

Hapgood, Charles H. Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science. Prologue by Albert Einstein. New York: Pantheon, 1958. (Vs. Plate tectonics).

Hartmann, William K. The History of Earth: An Illustrated Chronicle of an Evolving Planet. London: Workman Publishing, 1991.

"Journey to the Centre of the Earth." New Scientist Suppl. 14 Oct 2000: 1.

Kohler, Pierre. Histoire de notre planète.  Librairie Académique Perrin, 1991.

_____. Historia de nuestro planeta. Trans. Pedro J. Salas Peralta. Madrid: Alianza, 1993.*

Lewis, Cherry. The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Lovelock, James. "Gaia as seen through the Atmosphere." Atmospheric Environment 6 (1972): 579.

_____. The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth. New York: Norton, 1988.

_____. Las edades de Gaia. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1993.

_____. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

_____. The Revenge of the Earth: Wy the Earth Is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity. 2006. (Ecology, technology, progress, energy, global warming).

_____. La venganza de la Tierra: Por qué la Tierra está rebelándose y cómo podemos todavía salvar a la humanidad (Cover subtitle: La teoría de Gaia y el futuro de la Humanidad). Trans. Mar García Puig. (Biblioteca Divulgación Científica). Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, 2007.*

Luhr, James F., gen. ed. Earth. UK: Pearson Education-Dorling Kindersley, 2003.

_____. Tierra. Madrid: Pearson -Alhambra, 2004.* (I. El planeta. II. La tierra. III. El océano. IV. La atmósfera. V. La tectónica).

Morin, Edgar, and Anne Brigitte Kern. Terre-Patrie. Paris: Seuil, 1993. Rpt. (Points, 207). Paris: Seuil, 1996.

Morin, Edgar, and Christoph Wulf. Planète, l'aventure inconnue. Paris: Mille et Une Nuits, 1997.

"Much About Motion in the Mantle." Science 1 Feb. 2002.

Novacek, Michael. Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem — and the Threats that Now Put it at Risk. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Officer, Charles, and Jake Page. Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms and Perturbations of the Blue Planet.  New York: Oxford UP, 1993.

Overbye, Dennis. "Earth, the marvelous blue orb." New York Times 2 April 2015.*

         http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/science/earth-the-marvelous-blue-orb.html

         2015

Ozima, Minoru. The Earth: Its Birth and Growth. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.

Parker, Ronald B. Inscrutable Earth: Explorations in the Science of Earth. New York: Scribner's, 1984.

Powell, James Lawrence. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998.

_____. Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth. New York: Simon and Schuster / Free Press, 2001.

"The Rocky Road to Dating the Earth." Nature 4 Jan. 2001: 20.

Romm, James. (Bard College). The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought. Princeton: Princeton UP, forthcoming 1993.

Russell, J. B. Inventing the Flat Earth. New York: Praeger, 1991.

"Sculpting the Earth from Inside Out." Scientific American (March 2001).

Stager, Kurt. El futuro profundo: Los próximos 100.000 años de vida en la Tierra. Trans. Joan Lluís Riera. (Drakontos). Barcelona: Crítica, 2012.* (Climate change).

Tarbuck, Edward J., and Frederick K. Lutgens. Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology. Illust. Dennis Tasa. 8th ed. Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005.

_____. Ciencias de la Tierra: Una introducción a la geología física. Illust. Dennis Tasa.  8th ed. Book + CD. Madrid: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005. 2011.*

_____. "12. El interior de la tierra." In Ciencias de la tierra. Madrid: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005. 341-60.*

_____. "22. Geología planetaria." In Ciencias de la tierra. Madrid: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005. 623-52.*

Vogel, Shawna. Naked Earth: The New Geophysics. New York: Dutton, 1995.

Ward, Peter D., and Donald Brownlee. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe. New York: Copernicus, 1999.

Wegener, Alfred. Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane. 1912. Rev. ed. 1920. (English ed. 1915).

_____. El origen de los continentes y océanos. Trans. Francisco Anguita Virella and Juan Carlos Herguera García. Introd. Agustín Udías Vallina. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1996.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blogs

 

 

Dot Earth. Blog at New York Times (Andrew Revkin)

         http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com

         2015

 

 

 

 

Films

 

 

The Whole History of the Earth and Life [Finished Edition]. Dir. Hiromitsu Kohsaka. Documentary. Exec. Prod. Shigenori Maruyama. Hadean Bioscience Project / Live Creation and Technology. Online at YouTube (Kaoru GreenEmerald) 7 June 2019.*

https://youtu.be/NQ4CUw9RcuA

2020

 

 

 

Images

 

 

NASA. "The Pale Blue Dot: Self-Portrait." In García Landa, Vanity Fea  15 Feb. 2022.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-pale-blue-dot-self-portrait.html

         2022

_____. "Bright 'Evening Star' Seen from Mars Is Earth." NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2 June 2014.*

         http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17936

         2014

 

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

 

Earth (June 1996).

 

Física de la Tierra

Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid 

Vol. 15 (2005)

http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/revistasBUC/portal/modules.php?name=Revistas2&id=FITE

2007-01-28

 

Tellus 26 (1973).

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

 

Harvey, Samantha. Orbital. Novel. 2024. (On the ISS, Boooker Prize 2024).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

 

Gabaráin, Cesáreo. "Yo pensaba que el hombre era grande (Sólo Dios es grande - Canción del astronauta)." Audio. YouTube (wwwyologo) 29 May 2012.*

         https://youtu.be/TZTj1C12H44

         2022

García Landa, José Ángel. "Planète." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 26 July 2011.* (Song by Juliette Gréco).

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/07/planete-2_26.html

         2011

_____. "Planète (2)." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 March 2012.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/planete-2.html

         2012

_____. "Planète (5)." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 3 Jan. 2016.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/planete-5.html

         2016

Haza, Ofra. "Adama." YouTube (william842) 4 Aug. 2009.* ("Earth").

         https://youtu.be/eM3Eq3amlg4

         2018

Oldfield, Mike. The Songs of Distant Earth. MC. Prod. Warner Music UK-WEA, 1994.*

_____. The Songs of Distant Earth. YouTube (Paramagnetic Newage Music) 7 April 2024.*

         https://youtu.be/MVcEUdoA0qg

         2024

Tierra: Poemas y música de las esferas. Zaragoza: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza / Delicias Discográficas, 2015.* (José Luis Simón et al.).

Tricot, Jean. "Petite planète." YouTube 27 Nov. 2011.*

         https://youtu.be/gZWIm8hMDxU

         2015

 

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Earth: Making of a Planet. National Geographic TV. Online at YouTube (LibertarianSara) 5 June 2012. ("The History of Earth").*

         http://youtu.be/RQm6N60bneo

         2023

The Story of Earth. National Geogaphic, 2011. Online at YouTube (The Highbe) 18 oct. 2013 ("The Story of Earth and Life").*

         http://youtu.be/57merteLsBc

         2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See also World; Geography; Geology; Natural sciences; Ecology.

 

 

Astronomía

 

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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

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by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Astronomy

 

Early works

Miscellaneous

 

 

 

Early works

 

Agnesius, Amedeus. Fr. Amedei Agnesii S. Theol. Magistri Ord. Praed. Olim in Taurinensi universitate primum ethicae christianae. Deinde sacrarum scripturarum, & Orientalium Linguarum Professoris. De Optica Astronomiae Parte Tractatus Tom. III.

Alfonsus, Petrus. Tabulae Astronomicae. Bilingual ed. Latin-English. In The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi Translated with Commentaries of the Latin Version by H. Suter. Ed. Otto Neugebaer. Copenhaguen: Munskgaard, 1962.

_____. Sententia Petri ebrei cognomento Anphus de Dracone. 1120. (On the astrolabe, based on the Arabic astronomical tables by al-Khwarizmi, transmitted by Walcher).

_____. De Draconae. Ed. José María Millás Vallicrosa. In Millás Vallicrosa, "La aportación astronómica de Pedro Alfonso." Sefarad 3 (1943): 87-97.

Aristotle. De coelo.

Bessel, Friedrich. Fundamenta Astronomiae. 1818.

Boulliau, Ismaël. Astronomia philolaica. 1645.

_____. Ad astronomos monita duo. 1667.

Browne, Thomas (Sir). "Of some others." Pseudodoxia Epidemica 6.14. In The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Ed. Charles Sayle. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1927. 2.397-400.* (Constellations, astronomy).

_____. (Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle). Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds. Trans. H. A. Hargreaves. Ed. Nina Rattner Gelbart. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Copernicus, Nicolas. "Sobre las revoluciones de los orbes celestes." In A Hombros de Gigantes: Las grandes obras de la física y la astronomía. Ed. Stephen Hawking. Barcelona: Crítica, 2004. Pbk. 2012. 23-49.*

Cunningham, William. The Cosmographical Glasse, conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Navigation. Compiled by Vviliam Cuningham Doctor in Physicke.  Excussum Londini in officina Ioan. Daij Typographi. Anno 1559.

Flammarion, Camilo. "XIV. La composición química de los astros revelada por el análisis de la luz." In Flammarion, Contemplaciones Científicas. Madrid: Gaspar y Roig, 1874. 253-74.*

_____. "XV. Lo que es el cielo." In Flammarion, Contemplaciones Científicas. Madrid: Gaspar y Roig, 1874. 275-90.*

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bouvier de. Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. 1686. 4th ed. Paris, 1866. (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds).

_____. The Theory or System of Several New Inhabited Worlds Trans. Aphra Behn. 1700.

_____. (Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle). Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds. Trans. H. A. Hargreaves. Ed. Nina Rattner Gelbart. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

_____. Conversaciones sobre la pluralidad de los mundos. Trans. A. Beltrán. Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1982.

Galilei, Galileo. SIDEREVS / NVNCIVS / magna, longeqve admirabilia / spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens / vnicuique, praefertim vero / philosophis,  atq. astronomis, qua à / GALILEO GALILEO / patritio florentino / Patauini Gymnasii Publico Mathematico / perspicilli / … apprime vero / in quatvor planetis / Circa IOVIS Stellam disparibus interuallis … / MEDICEA SIDERA / nvncvpandos decrevit.  / [Illustration] venetiis, apud Thomam Baglionum, MDCX. / Superiorum Permissu, & Privilegio.* (Dedicated to Cosimo Medici).

_____. Siderius Nuncius. 1610. Digital version on CD-ROM. Octavo Digital Rare Books, forthcoming 1998.

_____. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo. 1632.

_____. The Systeme of the World: In Four Dialogues. Trans. Thomas Salusbury. London, c. 1660.

_____. Diálogo sobre los dos máximos sistemas del mundo ptolemaico y copernicano. 1632. Ed. and trans. Antonio Beltrán. (Biblioteca Universal, Ciencia). Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1997.*

Humboldt, Alexander von. Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung.

_____. Cosmos: Ensayo de una descripción física del mundo. Trans. Bernardo Giner and José Fuentes. 4 vols Madrid: Gaspar y Roig, 1874.

_____. Cosmos. Ensayo de una descripción física del mundo. Ed. Sandra Rebok; foreword by Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper; afterword by Ottmar Ette. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata / CSIC, 2011.*

Kant, Immanuel. Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens. 1755.

Kepler, Johannes. (1571-1630). Mysterium Cosmographicum.

_____. "Las armonías del mundo. Libro Quinto." In A Hombros de Gigantes: Las grandes obras de la física y la astronomía. Ed. Stephen Hawking. Barcelona: Crítica, 2004. Pbk. 2012. 115-64.*

Laplace, Pierre Simon de. Exposition du système du monde. Paris: L'imprimerie du Cercle-Social, year IV [1796].

_____.  The System of the World.  Trans. Henry Harte.  2 vols.  Dublin: Dublin UP, 1830.

_____. Mécanique céleste. 1799-.

_____. Œuvres complètes. 18--?

Llull, Raymond. Liber de astronomia.

Manilius. Astronomicon. 16th cent.

_____.  M. Manilii Astronomica.

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/manilius.html

_____. (Works). Ed. A. E. Housman. 5 vols. 1902-30.

Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de. Sur la figure de la terre. 1738.

_____. Discours sur la parallaxe de la lune. 1741.

_____. Discours sur la figure des astres. 1742.

_____. Lettre sur la comète de 1742. 1742.

_____. Accord de différentes loix de la nature qui avoient jusqu’ici paru incompatibles. 1744. English translation.

_____. Essai de cosmologie. 1750.

Newton, Isaac. De mundi systemate. (Posthumous pub., written in Latin before Principia; on Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Gravity, orbits, solar system, tides, Moon, planets, comets).

_____. De mundi systemate Liber Isaacci Newtoni. Preface by Andrew Motte. London: Impensis J. Tonson, J. Osborn & T. Longman, 1728.

_____. De mundi systemate. In Operum Newtoni, Tomus Tertius. Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae esctant omnia. Comentariis illustraat Samuel Horsley. London: Excudebat Joannes Nichols, 1782. 177-242.*

_____. A Treatise of the System of the World: Translated into English. London: Printed for F. Fayram, 1728. Online at Google Books:

         https://books.google.es/books?id=rEYUAAAAQAAJ

         2017

_____. El sistema del mundo. [With] Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, "Elogio de Sir Isaac Newton"; Andrew Motte, Prefacio a la edición inglesa de 1728. Ed. Eloy Rada García. (Pensamiento, 47). Oviedo: KRK, 2020.*

_____. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.  1687.

_____. Principia Mathematica. 3rd ed. 1726.

_____. Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his "System of the World." Trans. Andrew Motte. 1729. Rev. and ed. Florian Cajori. 2 vols. Berkeley, 1962.

_____. Principia Mathematica. French trans. Émilie du  Châtelet.

_____. Principios matemáticos de la Filosofía Natural. Ed. Antonio Escohotado. Trans. Antonio Escohotado and M. Sáenz de Heredia. Madrid: Tecnos, 1987. Rpt. Barcelona: Altaya, 1997.*

_____. "Principios matemáticos de la filosofía natural." In A Hombros de Gigantes: Las grandes obras de la física y la astronomía. Ed. Stephen Hawking. Barcelona: Crítica, 2004. Pbk. 2012. 165-96.*

Plotinus. "Enéada II, 1 (40). Sobre el cielo." In Plotino: Vida de Plotino por Porfirio. Enéadas (I-III). Introd. Ignacio Guiu. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Plotino, I). Madrid: Gredos, 2015. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2016. 129-40.*

_____. "Enéada II, 2 (14). Sobre el movimiento del cielo." In Plotino: Vida de Plotino por Porfirio. Enéadas (I-III). Introd. Ignacio Guiu. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Plotino, I). Madrid: Gredos, 2015. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2016. 141-46.*

Ptolomaeus. (Almagesto). (Arabic translation).

Smith, Adam. "Los principios que presiden y dirigen las investigaciones filosóficas, ilustrados por la historia de la astronomía." In Smith, Ensayos filosóficos. Madrid: Pirámide, 1998. 43-112.* (Surprise, novelties, origin of philosophy, astronomy).

_____. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. With a Life by Dugald Stewart. 1795.

_____. Essays: On Moral Sentiments, Astronomical Inquiries, Formation of Languages, Ancient Physics and Logic, Imitative Arts, etc. Murray, 1872.

_____. Ensayos filosóficos. Introd. John Reeder. Trans. Carlos Rodríguez Braun. (Clásicos de la Economía). Madrid: Pirámide, 1998.*

Tablas Alfonsíes. (Toledo translations, Based on Arabic astronomical books).

Walcher. Sententia Petri ebrei cognomento Anphus de dracone. c. 1120. (Teachings of Petrus Alfonsus).

Whewell, William. Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. London, 1833. (One of the Bridgewater Treatises).

_____. From Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. In Darwin: Texts. Commentary. Ed. Philip Appleman. 3rd ed. New York: Norton,  2001. 57-61.*

 

 

 

Anthologies

 

Hawking, Stephen. ed. The Illustrated On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy.

_____, ed. A Hombros de Gigantes: Las grandes obras de la física y la astronomía. Barcelona: Crítica, 2004. Pbk. 2012.* (Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Einstein).

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

Aller, Ramón María. Introducción a la Astronomía. Madrid: CSIC, 1944.

_____. Introducción a la Astronomía. Facsimile ed. of 1944 ed. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 1985.

_____. Astronomía a simple vista. Santiago de Compostela: Editorial y Librería Porto, 1948.

_____. Astronomía a simple vista. Facsimile ed. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 1998.

_____. Astronomía a simple vista: 2ª edición facsímil de la edición original (1948). Coordinada por José Angel Docobo Durántez. Facsimile ed. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela / FECYT, Fundación española para la Ciencia y Tecnología, 2014.*

Aragó, F. Grandes astrónomos: de Newton a Laplace. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1968.

Asimov, Isaac. Frontiers.  Essays. Nightfall, Inc., cop. 1987, 1988, 1989.

_____. Fronteras y otros ensayos. Trans. Josep Ferrer i Aleu. Barcelona; Edicones B, 1994.*

Atlante del cielo. By Adriana Rigutti et al. Florence: Giunti Gurppo Editoriale.

_____. Atlas del Cielo: Un viaje entre estrellas y planetas para conocer el Universo. By Adriana Rigutti et al. Spanish ed. Isabel Ortiz. Madrid: Susaeta, 2003.*

Bachiller, Rafael. "Una gran revolución astronómica." El Mundo 9 Dec. 2017: 19.* (Gravitational waves, Nobel Prize for Physics 2017).

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1712/171211_z0_elm27.pdf

         2017

Barrado Navascués, David. "Así hicimos posible desde España el lanzamiento del nuevo telescopio espacial James Webb." The Conversation 26 Dec. 2021.*

         https://theconversation.com/asi-hicimos-posible-desde-espana-el-lanzamiento-del-nuevo-telescopio-espacial-james-webb-174129

         2022

Bojowald, Martin. "6. Cosmología observacional." In Bojowald, Antes del Big Bang: Una historia completa del Universo. Madrid: Debate, 2010. 161-207.*

Chaisson, Eric. Universe: An Evolutionary Approach to Astronomy.

_____. Astronomy Today.

Chaisson, Eric, and S. M. McMillan. Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe.

Christianson, Gale E. Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1995.

Dyson, Freeman. "La evolución de la ciencia." In Evolución: Sociedad, ciencia y universo. Ed. Andrew C. Fabian. Barcelona: Tusquets, 2001. 183-208.*

Ciel et espace. French Astronomical Society, 1990.

di Santillana, Giorgio, and Hertha von Dechend. Hamlet's Mill. Boston: David Godine, 1977. (Myths and astronomy).

Estes, Adam Clark. "The Number of Known Planets in the Universe Just Doubled." Gizmodo (OffWorld) 26 Feb. 2014.*

         http://offworld.gizmodo.com/the-number-of-known-planets-in-the-universe-just-double-1531792316

         2014

Esteve, María José, Inés Larao, and Gonzalo Camiña. "A Study of Nouns and Their Provenance in the Astronomy Section of the Coruña Corpus of Scientific Englsih Writing: Some Preliminary Considerations." In Los caminos de la lengua: Estudios en homenaje a Enrique Alcaraz Varó. Ed. J. L. Cifuentes et al. San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante): Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, 2010. 537-46.*

Ferguson, Kitty. Measuring the Universe: The Historical Quest to Quantify Space. London: Headline, 1999.

_____. La medida del universo. Teiá: Ma Non Troppo, 2000.

Fernández, Telmo. Guía del Cielo 2009. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 2008.

Ferris, Timothy. The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe(s) Report. London: Phoenix, 1998.

_____. Informe sobre el universo. Barcelona: Crítica, 1998. (Trans. of The Whole Shebang).

_____. Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

_____. Coming of Age in the Milky Way. London: HarperCollins, 2003.

Galfard, Christophe. The Universe in Your Hand: A JOurney through Space, Time, and Beyond. (Solar System, astronomy, universe, laws, cosmology, Big Bang, time, quantum theory, nothingness, matter, singularities, multiverse, string theory).

_____. El universo en tu mano: Un viaje extraordinario a los límites del tiempo y el espacio. Trans. Pablo Álvarez Ellacuría. Barcelona: Blackie Books, 2016.*

Goldsmith, Donald. The Astronomers. New York: St. Martin's, 1991.

Greeley, Ronald, and Raymond Batson. The NASA Atlas of the Solar System. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Gribbin, John. "15. El espacio exterior." In Gribbin, Historia de la Ciencia 1543-2001. Barcelona: RBA, 2009. 467-98.*

Harrison, Edward. Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Heath, Thomas (Sir). Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus: a History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus, together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the Size and Distance of the Sun and Moon: A New Greek text with Translation and Notes by Sir Thomas Heath. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. Electronic edition in Oxford Text Archive

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Hubble, Edwin. El dominio de las nebulosas. 1936.

Jardine, N. The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus with Essays on Its Provenance and Significance. 1984. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.

Johnson, Francis R. Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England. Baltimore, 1937.

Koyre, Alexandre.  From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1957.

Lallena Rojo, Antonio M. "4. La abundancia de los elementos." In El Big Bang y el origen del universo. Barcelona: RBA, 2015. 105-36.*

Lambert, Armando. La astronomía. Madrid: Mercurio, 1927.

Longuet-Higgins, H. Christopher. "'The History of Astronomy': A Twentieth-Century View." In Adam Smith Reviewed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1992. 79-93.

Meadows, A. J. The High Firmament. (Astronomy in Literature). Leicester, 1969.

Millás Vallicrosa, José María. "La aportación astronómica de Pedro Alfonso." Sefarad 3 (1943): 87-97.

Moore, Patrick. Fireside Astronomy: An Anecdotal Tour through the History and Lore of Astronomy. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1992.

_____. Astronomía. Madrid: Pirámide, 1998. (Trans. of Fireside Astronomy).

Moore, Patrick, Brian May and Chris Lintott. Bang! The Complete History of the Universe. London: Carlton Books, 2006.*

_____. ¡Bang!: La historia completa del Universo. Trans. Javier García Sanz. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, n. d. [c. 2008].*

Neugebauer, Otto, ed. The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi Translated with Commentaries of the Latin Version by H. Suter. Copenhaguen: Munskgaard, 1962.

New Yorker. "Among Planets." New Yorker 9 Dec. 1996: 84.

North, John. Astronomy and Cosmology. Fontana, 1994.

Poincaré, Henri. Ciencia y método. In Poincaré, Sobre la ciencia y el método. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1997.*

_____.  Sobre la ciencia y el método: Ciencia y método / El espacio / Últimos pensamientos. (Biblioteca Universal, Ciencia). Introd. José Manuel Sánchez Ron. Trans. M. García Miranda, L. Alonso, A. B. Besio and J. Banfi. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1997.*

Ponce de León, Brígido. Influencia de la Iglesia Católica en el desarrollo de la astronomía y ciencias afines. Duval, Granada: Imprenta de la Escuela del Valle de Lecrín, 1917.

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Rowan-Robinson, Michael. The Cosmological Distance Ladder. New York: Freeman, 1985.

Russell, Bertrand. "La matemática y la astronomía griega primitivas." In Russell, Historia de la Filosofía Occidental, in Russell, Historia de la filosofía. Madrid: Aguilar, 1973.*

Sain-Echaluce Lacleta, Mª Luisa. "Sobre la ecuación de Szebehel y Bond y sus aplicaciones en mecánica celeste." In Resúmenes de Tesinas: Curso 83-84. Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, Secretariado de Publicaciones, 1986. 239-50.*

Smolin, Lee. "II.3. The Setting: The Puzzles of Contemporary Cosmology." In The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time. By Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 393-413.* (Cosmology, Astronomy, Big Bang, Singularity, Future, Multiverse).

Timberlake, Todd. "A Modern Scientist Considers Smith's History of Astronomy." Adam Smith Works.*

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         2020

"El tamaño de estrellas y planetas, en una espectacular animación." Microsiervos 16  Nov. 2009.*

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         2009

Trefil, James. Meditations at Sunset: A Scientist Looks at the Sky. New York: Scribner's 1987.

Woodhouse, Chris. The Astrophotography Manual: A Practical and Scientific Approach to Deep Sky Imaging. 2^nd ed. New York and London: Routledge - Focal Press, 2017.*

 

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

"El Universo: Más allá del Big Bang." iVoox 7 April 2010.*

         http://www.ivoox.com/universo-mas-alla-del-big-bang-audios-mp3_rf_249592_1.html

         2010

 

Sánchez Ron, José Manuel. "Galileo, observador e intérprete de los cielos." Lecture at Fundación Juan March 18 March 2014.*

         http://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?p1=100019&l=1

         2014

 

 

 

 

 

Blogs

 

AstroWright: Astronomy and Meta-Astronomy with Jason Wright. Astronomy blog.*

         https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/

         2023

 

Blogastronomía

         http://www.blogastronomia.com/

         2012

 

Le Ciel de Ruusu. Science blog at Scoop.it. (Carles Ruiz Conde).*

         http://www.scoop.it/t/le-ciel-de-ruusu

         2015

 

Cosmos. Blog at El Mundo.* (Javier Armentia).

         http://www.elmundo.es/blogs/elmundo/cosmos/

         2014

 

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson. YouTube (StarTalk).*

         https://www.youtube.com/@StarTalk

         2024

 

Ventana Estelar: Blog de la Agrupación Astronómica de Huesca

         http://ventanaestelar.blogspot.com

         2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

Astrofotografía

         http://www.astrofotografia.es

         2008

 

Astrosurf: Astronomie amateur

         http://astrosurf.com/

         2007

 

HubbleSite.org

         http://hubblesite.org/

         2006-04-29

 

Lobo Rayado: Blog de Ángel R. López Sánchez sobre astronomía y ciencia en general

         http://angelrls.blogalia.com/

         2005-01-15

 

Observatorio: Imagen astronómica del día. (Alex Dantart, Aragón)

         http://observatorio.info/

         2008

 

The Planetary Society

         http://www.planetary.org/

         2012

 

Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University

         http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/

         2013

 

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

         http://www.sdss.org/

         2013

 

Universe Today. Blog on astronomy.

         http://www.universetoday.com/

         2006-12-25

 

"William Herschel." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*

         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel

         2012

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

 

Anuario del Observatorio Astronómico de Madrid (2013).*

         http://astronomia.ign.es/

         2018

 

L'Astronomie

 

Astronomische Nachrichten

 

 

Astronomy.*

         https://astronomy.com/

         2021

 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1931)

 

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 29 (2012).

         2015

 

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Periodical.

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Adcock, Fleur "The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers." Poem. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.2759-60.*

Stapledon, Olaf. Poems from Metaphysical Posters. Unpublished collection. ("Poem 2 from 'First Volley: Astronomical'; Poem 15 from 'First Volley: Astronomical'; Poem 17 from 'First Volley, Astronomical'; Poem 1 from 'The Nether Worlds'). 304-7.*

Whitman, Walt. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Poem. In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 1103.*

 

 

 

 

 

Series

 

 

 

(Physics and Astronomy Online Library). Berlin: Springer,

         http://www.springer.de/phys/

 

 

 

 

 

Societies and Institutions

 

 

Dpt. of Physics and Astronomy, U of Calgary, Calgary, T2N 1N4, Canada

 

European Southern observatory

         http://www.eso.org/

         2012

 

OARMA: Observatorio Astronómico 'Ramón Mª Aller', U de Santiago de Compostela. Dir. José Angel Docobo Durántez.

 

Observatorio Astronómico Nacional; Instituto Geográfico Nacional; Ministerio de Fomento.

         http://astronomia.ign.es/

         2018

 

The Planetary Society

         http://www.planetary.org/

         2013

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Antikythera. "The Antikythera Mechanism – 2D." Video. YouTube (Antikythera – Anticythère…) 26 June 2011.*

         https://youtu.be/UpLcnAIpVRA

         2023

 

Ballyn, Charles. "16. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang." YouTube (YaleCourses) 29 Sept. 2008.*

         http://youtu.be/4Jsr_24D6Eo

         2013

_____. "19. Omega and the End of the Universe." YouTube (YaleCourses) 29 Sept. 2008.*

         http://youtu.be/UaD1a25gbxk

         2013

 

Cergneux, Ricardo. "Video 001 - Mirando al cielo." Video. YouTube (Ricardo Cergneux) 22 Dec. 2021.* (Astronomy; Universe; Physics; Electromagnetism; Photons; Atoms).

https://youtu.be/W8xKzxsWs-Y

         2022

_____. "Video 007 - La Ley del Tiempo." Video. YouTube (Riccardo Cergneux) 2 April 2022.* (Time, Present, Universe, Photons, Physics, Astronomy; Space, Dark energy).

https://youtu.be/d8eJR8LG5Y0

         2022

 

Hueso Alonso, Ricardo. "La formación del sistema solar." Audio and slides. Lecture at Fundación Juan March 22 Nov. 2011.*

         http://www.march.es/conferencias/anteriores/voz.aspx?id=2810&l=1

         2013

 

Punset, Eduard, et al. "Redes 123: Los misterios del Universo (Astronomía)." Video. RTVE  (Redes para la Ciencia). YouTube (Softenible Group) 3 April 2021.* (Interview with Stuart Clark).

         https://youtu.be/DIh2SFd2BFA

         2022

 

The Story of Science. Documentary series. YouTube (EverybdyGoesFishing) 1 Sept. 2013.*

         http://youtu.be/xpNEf4-BauM

         2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

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