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Most Used Titles in Class QB15

Rank TITLE Lib Uses Year
1 Early astronomy from Babylonia to Copernicus / W.M. O'Neil WCU 30 1986
2 The eye of heaven : Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler / Owen Gingerich UNCA 21 1993
3 The Cambridge concise history of astronomy / edited by Michael Hoskin UNCA 21 1999
4 The Norton history of astronomy and cosmology / [John North] UNCA 15 1994
5 Theories of the world from antiquity to the Copernican revolution / by Michael J. Crowe UNCA 13 1990
6 A history of astronomy from Thales to Kepler, formerly titled History of the planetary systems fro UNCA 13 1953
7 The eye of heaven : Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler / Owen Gingerich WCU 12 1993
8 Astronomy through the ages : the story of the human attempt to understand the universe / Robert Wi UNCA 11 1997
9 The Cambridge illustrated history of astronomy / edited by Michael Hoskin WCU 10 1997
10 The story of astronomy / Lloyd Motz and Jefferson Hane Weaver WCU 8 1995
11 The story of astronomy / Lloyd Motz and Jefferson Hane Weaver ASU 8 1995
12 A concise history of astronomy. With a foreword by Sir Harold Spencer Jones ASU 8 1950
13 The Norton history of astronomy and cosmology / [John North] WCU 7 1994
14 The astronomers WCU 7 1964
15 Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics / edited by René Taton and C UNCA 7 1989
16 This wild abyss : the story of the men who made modern astronomy / Gale E. Christianson ASU 6 1978
17 The history of astronomy translated from the Italian Storia dell'astronomia by Betty Burr Abetti WCU 6 1952
18 Changing views of the universe UNCA 6 1961
19 A history of astronomy, by Walter W. Bryant . UNCA 6 1907
20 The story of astronomy / Lloyd Motz and Jefferson Hane Weaver UNCA 5 1995
21 The Cambridge illustrated history of astronomy / edited by Michael Hoskin ASU 4 1997
22 The great Copernicus chase and other adventures in astronomical history / Owen Gingerich ASU 4 1992
23 Star struck : one thousand years of the art and science of astronomy / Ronald Brashear, Daniel Lew ASU 4 2001
24 Mindsteps to the cosmos / Gerald S. Hawkins UNCA 4 1983
25 Measuring the universe : cosmic dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley / Albert van Helden WCU 4 1985
26 Discovering the universe a history of astronomy [by] Colin A. Ronan ASU 4 1971
27 The history of astronomy : a very short introduction / Michael Hoskin UNCA 3 2003
28 Planetary motions : a historical perspective / Norriss Hetherington WCU 3 2006
29 Episodes from the early history of astronomy / Asger Aaboe UNCA 3 2001
30 A short history of astronomy, from earliest times through the nineteenth century ASU 3 1961
31 A history of astronomy WCU 3 1961
32 Watchers of the skies: an informal history of astronomy from Babylon to the space age ASU 2 1969
33 Understanding the heavens : thirty centuries of astronomical ideas from ancient thinking to modern UNCA 2 2001
34 The discovery of our galaxy / Charles A. Whitney UNCA 2 1971
35 This wild abyss : the story of the men who made modern astronomy / Gale E. Christianson WCU 2 1978
36 The stars and the mind : a study of the impact of astronomical development on human thought / by M UNCA 2 1947
37 Planetary astronomy : from ancient times to the third millennium / Ronald A. Schorn ASU 2 1998
38 Measuring the universe : cosmic dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley / Albert van Helden UNCA 2 1985
39 Changing views of the universe ASU 2 1961
40 Archives of the universe : a treasury of astronomy's historic works of discovery / edited and with WCU 2 2004
41 The discovery of our galaxy / Charles A. Whitney WCU 1 1971
42 Time for the stars : astronomy in the 1990s / Alan Lightman WCU 1 1994
43 The history of astronomy / Heather Couper & Nigel Henbest foreword by Arthur C. Clarke UNCA 1 2007
44 The day we found the universe / Marcia Bartusiak ASU 1 2009
45 Star struck : one thousand years of the art and science of astronomy / Ronald Brashear, Daniel Lew WCU 1 2001
46 Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics / edited by René Taton and C UNCA 1 1989
47 Man's conquest of the stars. Translated from the French by Michael Bullock ASU 1 1961
48 Exploration of the universe the story of astronomy [by] H. C. King ASU 1 1964
49 Changing views of the universe WCU 1 1961
50 And there was light the discovery of the universe. Translated from the German by Richard and Clar ASU 1 1957
51 Archives of the universe : a treasury of astronomy's historic works of discovery / edited and with UNCA 1 2004
52 Astronomy ASU 1 1962
53 The haunted observatory : curiosities from the astronomer's cabinet / Richard Baum ASU 2007
54 The discovery of our galaxy / Charles A. Whitney ASU 1971
55 Time for the stars : astronomy in the 1990s / Alan Lightman with a foreword by John Bahcall UNCA 1992
56 Planetary motions : a historical perspective / Norriss Hetherington ASU 2006
57 Planetary astronomy : from ancient times to the third millennium / Ronald A. Schorn WCU 1998
58 History of astronomy : an encyclopedia / edited by John Lankford WCU 1997
59 Discovery of the universe an outline of the history of astronomy from the origins to 1956 UNCA 1957
60 Cosmos : an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology / John North UNCA 2008
61 Cosmos : an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology / John North ASU 2008
62 Astrophysics and twentieth-century astronomy to 1950 / edited by Owen Gingerich ASU 1984
63 Astronomy UNCA 1962


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