A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler
Complete, thorough history: Near Eastern, early Greeks, homocentric theories, Ptolemaic system, medieval cosmology, Copernicus, Kepler, etc. This volume is a Dover republication of Dreyer's "History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler" originally published in 1906. The first Dover reprint, revised and with a foreword by W.H. Stahl, was published in 1953.