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Links to Astronomer Biographies (Popularity:  )
http://me.in-berlin.de/~jd/himmel/hotlist.html
Short biographies of Argelander, Bürgel, Cassini, Celsius, Encke, Fermat, Goodricke, Huygens, and Scheiner written by Jens Dengler. [Also in German]
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Jean Houzeau in Jamaica (Popularity: )
http://joyousjam.tripod.com/jeanhouzeauinjamaica/
Detailed biography of Belgian astronomer, Jean Charles Houzeau (1820-1888)
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Christiaan Huygens (Popularity: )
http://me.in-berlin.de/~jd/himmel/astro/Huygens-e.html
Short biography of Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695).
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Charles Messier (Popularity: )
http://www.messiermarathon.com/about.htm
Highly detailed biography including links to his full catalogue of 110 objects.
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Memoirs of a Space Engineer (Popularity: )
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/memoirs/default.htm
Stories from Doug Rickard's memoirs and his involvement in the early exploration of space.
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So Who Is this Challis Bloke Anyway? (Popularity: )
http://www.winwaed.com/comp/challis/challis_bio.shtml
Short description of Professor James Challis, the almost-discoverer of Neptune.
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The Legacy of Ulugh Beg (Popularity: )
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-2/cam6.html
Article by Kevin Krisciunas, with notes and bibliography, about the grandson of Tammerlane, his observatory, and the significance of his ...
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History of Astronomy (Popularity: )
http://www.mikeoates.org/astro-history/
Short biographies of several less well known British astronomers.
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The Noble Dane: Images of Tycho Brahe (Popularity: )
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/tycho/index.htm
An exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
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Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler (Popularity: )
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/tycho.htm
Short biographies. Lecture notes from the course "Galileo and Einstein".
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Tycho Brahe - official website (Popularity: )
http://www.tychobrahe.com/
About his life and scientific work. Presented by the city of Landskrona.
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Tycho Brahe (Popularity: )
http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/
About his achievements, life and world system. From the Swedish society Tycho Brahes Glada Vänner.
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Brahe, Tycho (Popularity: )
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_brahe.html
Link collection, mainly biographies.
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Rundetaarn: Tycho Brahe (Popularity: )
http://www.rundetaarn.dk/engelsk/observatorium/life.htm
Concise timeline of his life and accomplishments.
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MacTutor History of Mathematics: Tycho Brahe (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Brahe.html
Short article of his life and work.
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Astronomiæ Instauratæ Mechanica (Popularity: )
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/HST/Brahe/brahe.htm
Digital edition of orignal book, with illustrations and introduction.
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The astronomical instruments of Tycho Brahe (Popularity: )
http://www.kb.dk/elib/lit/dan/brahe/
Exhibition from The Royal Library in Copenhagen. Includes scanned book pages, links and bibliograhy.
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The Galileo Project: Tycho Brahe (Popularity: )
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html
Bibliographical essay.
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Carl Sagan Memorial Book (Popularity: )
http://www.fas.org/sagan.htm
Includes contributions from around the world (hosted by the Federation of American Scientists).
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Carlsagan.com (Popularity: )
http://www.carlsagan.com/
Official page with articles, including the Baloney Detection Kit. Includes sale of books and videos.
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