Core 1000: The Cosmos in the Premodern Imagination

• Does your Figure have an LC subject heading? 
• Can the sources that you browse lead you to more? 
• Ask: Is it probably okay to use an older source about my figure? 

• History of astronomy : an encyclopedia edited by John Lankford.  
• Encyclopedia of the history of astronomy and astrophysics by David Leverington
• The history of modern astronomy and astrophysics : a selected, annotated bibliography by David H. DeVorkin
• A source book in astronomy by Harlow Shapley and Helen E. Howarth
• Science and scientists
• The book of the cosmos : imagining the universe from Heraclitus to Hawking edited by Dennis Richard Danielson.
• Cambridge History of Science series (search limited to those covering astronomy)

NB: Sometimes it is better to search individual terms as separate subject headings so as to cast as wide a net as possible. For example, searching for "science" and "history" as seperate terms in the subject field will pull back results that have the subject heading "Science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century," which would not appear if you're just searching "Science -- History." As a rule of thumb, t's best to try different combinations until you find something that works.

Our guide to locating books in Pius Library 

https://www.slu.edu/library/research/locating-materials/index.php