Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
AuthorEdited by Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams, Katherine Bracher, Richard A. Jarrell, Jordan D. Marché, JoAnn Palmeri, Daniel W. E. Green
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAstronomy, History of Science
Genre Reference work
Publisher Springer
Publication date
2014
Publication place United States
ISBN 978-1-4419-9917-7
Website Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
Includes approximately 1850 biographical sketches on astronomers from antiquity to modern times.
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (BEA) is a two-volume biographical dictionary, first published in 2007, [1]  with a second edition released in 2014. The work covers astronomers from all geographies, born from antiquity to mid-1918. It includes more than 1500 [2]  biographies of both well-known and more obscure astronomers, produced by 410 contributors. [3]

The encyclopedia has been published in both a print and online format by the publisher, Springer.

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  1. ↑ Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard; Marché, Jordan D.; Jamil Ragep, F. (18 September 2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer. ISBN   978-0-387-30400-7.
  2. ↑ Stickland, David (2008). "Review: Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers". The Observatory. 128: 410–12. Bibcode:2008Obs...128..410.
  3. ↑ Nicholson, Philip David; Bartlett, Jennifer Lynn (2020). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Bibcode:2020bea..book.....N.
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