Medieval chronicles occasionally recorded unusual astronomical events that puzzled observers of the time. One account describes a night when witnesses claimed the moon appeared to split in two. Such ...

When astronomers hunt for the remnants of ancient stellar explosions, they increasingly find themselves reading the night sky through the eyes of medieval scholars. Arabic chronicles, astronomical ...

In medieval and Renaissance society and culture, celestial events were not mere spectacles in the sky. Rather, they were omens, predictors of the future, and windows into the workings of the universe.

LONDON — A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it. The brass device, called an ...

Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter-1; The Origins of Astronomy; Human Experience of the Sky; Figures in the Sky: The Constellations; The Ancients' Astronomy; Chapter-2; The Babylonians; The ...

PRAGUE (AP) — A medieval astronomical clock that is a major tourist attraction in Prague is working again after more than eight months of repairs. Thousands of people gathered in the Czech capital on ...