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The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (BEA) is a two-volume biographical dictionary, first published in 2007, 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 biographies of both well-known and more obscure astronomers, produced by 410 contributors.

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

Editions

• Hockey, Thomas A.; Virginia Trimble; Thomas R. Williams; Katherine Bracher, eds. (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. Bibcode:2007bea..book.....H. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7. ISBN 9780387310220. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers at Google Books

References

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.

External links

• Publisher's webpage (1st Edition)
• Publisher's webpage (2nd Edition)

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