Objects of interest include
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. It uses
Professional astronomy is split into observational and theoretical branches. Observational astronomy is focused on acquiring data from observations of astronomical objects. This data is then analyzed using basic principles of physics.
A Short History of Astronomy From Earliest Times Through the 19th Century. New York:
Dover Publications
Inc. ISBN 978-0-486-20210-5. ^ Hoskin
Michael
Ed. (1999). The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57600-0. ^ McKissackPat; McKissack
Frederick (1995).
After millenniums of observing the cosmos, by the dawn of the twenty-first century, advances in astronomyallowed humans to gaze into the night sky and realize that they were looking at the light from stars distant in space and time, and that they, also, were made from the very dust of stars.
It seeksto describe the structure, movements, and processes of celestial bodies and materials. Included within astronomy are the theories and observations that have been set forth by astronomers over the many thousands of years of its existence.
This is a list of encyclopedias and encyclopedic/biographical dictionaries published on the subject of astronomy and astronomers in any language.Entries are in the English language except where noted.
Type of reference work
An encyclopedia or encyclopædia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline.Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by article name or by thematic categories
Or else are hyperlinked and searchable.Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries.Generally speaking
Encyclopedia articles focus on factual information concerning the subject named in the article's title; this is unlike dictionary entries
Which focus on linguistic information about words
Chinese language encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of China is the first large-entry modern encyclopedia in the Chinese language.The compilation began in 1978.Published by the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House
The encyclopedia was issued one volume at a time
Beginning in 1980 with a volume on astronomy; the final volume was completed in 1993.It comprised 74 volumes
With more than 80000 entries.Arranged by subject
Entries were arranged by pinyin as many modern Chinese dictionaries have been.A Uyghur language edition was also published in 2015.
The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Astronomy is a Ukrainian encyclopedia of astronomy.It was published in 2003 and has around 3000 entries.
