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• Biographical Memoir of Cleveland Abbe, 1838-1916 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1919), by W. J. Humphreys (page images at Google)
• Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), by Benjamin Banneker, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
  • HTML at UMD
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• Memoir of Benjamin Banneker : read before the Maryland Historical Society, at the monthly meeting, May 1, 1845 (Printed by John D. Toy, 1845), by John H. B. Latrobe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mécanique céleste (From the press of Isaac R. Butts, Charles C. Little and James Brown, publishers, 1839), by N. I. Bowditch, Pierre Simon Laplace, and Joseph T. Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Reminiscences of an Astronomer, by Simon Newcomb (Gutenberg ebook)

• Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America (New York: Macmillan, 1949), by Helen Wright
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
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• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell, ed. by Phebe Mitchell Kendall
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  • Gutenberg text

• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LLD. F.R.S., late president of the American Philosophical Society, &c. : interspersed with various notices of many distinguished men : with an appendix, containing sundry philosophical and other papers, most of which have not hitherto been published, by William Barton (Gutenberg ebook)

• An eulogy on the life and character of Nathaniel Bowditch ... (Printed at the office of the Gazette, 1838), by Daniel Appleton White (page images at HathiTrust)

• How astronomers use spectra to learn about the sun and other stars (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, 1999), by Jeffrey W. Brosius, Raytheon STX Corporation, and Goddard Space Flight Center (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Great Astronomers, by Robert S. Ball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Vierteljahrsschrift der Astronomischen Gesellschaft. (W. Engelmann., 1866), by Astronomische Gesellschaft (Germany), Alekseĭ Andreevich Tillo, G. Müller, Rudolf Lehmann-Filhés, Hugo von Seeliger, Eduard Schönfeld, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, and C. Bruhns (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great astronomers (Simon and Schuster, 1930), by Henry Smith Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vita e commercio letterario di Galileo Galilei, nobile e patrizio fiorentino (Losanna, 1793), by Giovan Battista Clemente Nelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newcomb-Engelmanns Populäre astronomie. (W. Engelmann, 1922), by Simon Newcomb, Hans Ludendorff, and Rudolph Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great astronomers (Isbister :, 1895), by Robert S. Ball, W. Isbister & Co, and J.B. Lippincott Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les fondateurs de l'astronomie moderne: Copernic, Tycho Brahé, Képler, Galilée, Newton (J. Hetzel, 1865), by Joseph Bertrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan, 1893), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great astronomers. (Newton Pub. Co., 1932), by Henry Smith Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liste générale des observatoires et des astronomes, des sociétés et des revues astronomiques (F. Hayez, 1890), by A. Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of science, and the development of their scientific theories. (Dover Publications, 1960), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newcomb-Engelmanns populäre astronomie. (W. Engelmann, 1911), by Simon Newcomb, P. Kempf, and Rudolph Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newcomb-Engelmanns Populäre Astronomie (Engelmann, 1914), by Simon Newcomb, P. Kempf, and Rudolph Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newcomb-Engelman (W. Engelmann, 1921), by Simon Newcomb, Hans Ludendorff, and Rudolph Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les fondateurs de l'astronomie moderne, Copernic - Tycho Brahé - Képler - Galilée - Newton (J. Hetzel, 1865), by Joseph Bertrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astronomers. (Society for promoting Christian knowledge;, 1882), by E. J. C. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newcomb-Engelmann's Populäre astronomie : herausgegeben von Dr. H. C. Vogel, mit dem Bildness W. Herschels, 1 Photographischen Tafel und 196 Holzschnitten. (Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1892), by Simon Newcomb, H. C. Vogel, and Rudolph Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grosse physiker; bilder aus der geschichte der astronomie und physik (B.G. Teubner, 1911), by Hans Keferstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Astronomers of to-day and their work (Gall & Inglis, 1905), by Hector Macpherson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan, 1926), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan and co., limited, 1919), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great astronomers (I. Pitman, 1920), by Robert S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Various biographies. ([n.p.,) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the great astronomers; conversations with a child (D. Appleton and company, 1900), by Edward S. Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituary notices of astronomers, fellows and associates of the Royal astronomical society written chiefly for the annual reports of the council. (Williams & Norgate, 1879), by Edwin Dunkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan, 1928), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Populäre Astronomie (W. Engelmann, 1881), by Simon Newcomb and Rudolph Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great astronomers (Isbister and company, limited, 1901), by Robert S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan, 1913), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Astronomy I︠U︡rʹevskago universiteta s 1802 po 1894 god (V Tip. K. Mattisena, 1899), by Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich Levit︠s︡kiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The outlook for women in physics and astronomy ... (Govt. Print. Off., 1948), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great astronomers (I. Pitmans, 1911), by Robert S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan and co., limited;, 1904), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan, 1905), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan and co. ;, 1908), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of science (Macmillan, 1985), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Porträtgallerie; Porträts nebst genealogischen Notizen. (Stockholm, 1904), by Astronomische Gesellschaft (Germany) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great astronomers (Newton, 1932), by Henry Smith Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liste générale des observatoires et des astronomes : des sociétés et des revues astronomiques (F. Hayez, imprimeur, 1890), by A. Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Science, by Oliver Lodge (Gutenberg ebook)

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