📚 Astronomy

30 works · ordered by editions in print

What is out there and how we know — the sky, the instruments, and the patience it takes to measure a star.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject astronomy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	1988	120
Cosmos	Carl Sagan	1980	74
Outlines of astronomy	John Frederick William Herschel	1849	71
A star atlas and telescopic handbook	Arthur P. Norton	1910	55
Astronomical Almanac for the Year 1993	Rand McNally	1983	54
21st Century Astronomy	Jeffrey S. Hester	2002	46
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	Royal Astronomical Society	1849	38
Astronomicon	Marcus Manilius	1498	31
Horizons	Michael A. Seeds	1981	30
Sidereus nuncius	Galileo Galilei	1610	26
Sleep walkers	Arthur Koestler	1959	26
De caelo	Aristotle	1545	25
Astronomy for amateurs	Camille Flammarion	1900	24
Astronomy	Kristen Lippincott	1994	23
Astronomica	Marcus Manilius	1472	22
The fabric of the heavens	Stephen Edelston Toulmin	1961	22
The Universe	Isaac Asimov	1966	22
Astrophysical techniques	C. R. Kitchin	1984	22
Universe	Roger A. Freedman	2001	22
The Fabric of the Cosmos	Brian Greene	2004	22
Astronomy	John D. Fix	1995	21
Popular astronomy	Simon Newcomb	1878	20
Curiosities of the Sky	Garrett Putman Serviss	1909	19
Pale Blue Dot	Carl Sagan	1994	19
Foundations of astronomy	Michael A. Seeds	1984	18
Understanding Our Universe	Stacy Palen	2011	18
Explorations	Thomas Arny	1994	17
Destination	Seymour Simon	2000	17
Astronomy	Eric Chaisson	1995	15
Intelligent life in the universe	Iosif Samuilovič Šklovskij	1966	14

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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