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According to Wikipedia, Bernard Raphael Goldstein is a historian of science and professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. Goldstein published on the history of astronomy in medieval Islamic and Jewish civilization and early modern times.

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The Arabic Version of Ptolemy's Planetary Hypotheses (1970) (136)
A New View of Early Greek Astronomy (1983) (73)
Saving the Phenomena: The Background to Ptolemy's Planetary Theory (1997) (65)
Book-Review - the Astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson 1288-1344 (1985) (61)
Theological Foundations of Kepler's Astronomy (2001) (58)
Realism and Instrumentalism in Sixteenth Century Astronomy: A Reappraisal (1998) (51)
Is Seventeenth Century Physics Indebted to the Stoics (1984) (48)
Astronomical Handbooks and Tables from the Islamic World (750-1900): an Interim Report (2001) (43)
From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept (2008) (42)
The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo (2003) (41)
The astronomical tables of Levi ben Gerson (1974) (37)
Astronomy and Astrology in the Works of Abraham ibn Ezra (1996) (36)
Levi ben Gerson's Theory of Planetary Distances (1986) (35)
The Pre-Telescopic Treatment of the Phases and Apparent Size of Venus (1996) (35)
Copernicus and the Origin of his Heliocentric System (2002) (34)
Some Medieval Reports of Venus and Mercury Transits (1969) (33)
A Survey of European Astronomical Tables in the Late Middle Ages (2012) (33)
Evidence for a supernova, of A.D. 1006 (1965) (32)
Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print (2000) (31)
The role of Rothmann in the dissolution of the celestial spheres (1995) (29)
Theory and Observation in Medieval Astronomy (1972) (28)
Astronomy and the Jewish Community in Early Islam (2011) (28)
The role of comets in the Copernican revolution (1988) (26)
Distance and velocity in Kepler's astronomy (1994) (25)
The introduction of dated observations and precise measurement in Greek astronomy (1991) (25)
On Early Hellenistic Astronomy: Timocharis and the First Callippic Calendar (1989) (25)
On the Babylonian Discovery of the Periods of Lunar Motion (2002) (24)
Levi Ben Gerson and the Brightness of Mars (1996) (23)
Medieval observations of solar and lunar eclipses. (1979) (22)
Levi Ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction of 1345 (1990) (20)
Maxwell’s contrived analogy: An early version of the methodology of modeling (2012) (20)
Theory and observation in ancient and medieval astronomy (1985) (19)
Kepler's Move from Orbs to Orbits: Documenting a Revolutionary Scientific Concept (2005) (18)
Computational Astronomy: Five Centuries of Finding True Syzygy (1997) (18)
Andalusian astronomy: al-Zij al-Muqtabis of Ibn al-Kammâd. (1994) (18)
How Einstein Made Asymmetry Disappear: Symmetry and Relativity in 1905 (2005) (18)
From proportion to balance: the background to symmetry in science (2005) (17)
The Astronomical Tables of Judah ben Verga (2001) (17)
Eratosthenes on the “measurement” of the earth (1984) (16)
Geminus and the concept of mean motion in Greco-Latin astronomy (1996) (16)
Levi Ben Gerson's Analysis of Precession (1975) (14)
The Hebrew Astronomical Tradition: New Sources (1981) (13)
The 1006 supernova in far eastern sources (1965) (13)
Abraham Zacut and the Medieval Hebrew Astronomical Tradition (1998) (12)
The Status of Models in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy (1980) (12)
Historical Perspectives on Copernicus's Account of Precession (1994) (12)
From ancient omens to statistical mechanics : essays on the exact sciences presented to Asger Aaboe (1987) (12)
The astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288-1344) : a critical edition of chapters 1-20 with translation and commentary (1985) (12)
The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini (2009) (11)
Ibn al-Kammād’s Muqtabis zij and the astronomical tradition of Indian origin in the Iberian Peninsula (2015) (11)
Andalusian astronomy: al-Zîj al-Muqtabis of Ibn al-Kammâd (1994) (11)
Patronage and the Production of De Revolutionibus (2003) (11)
On the Theory of Trepidation (1965) (11)
Ancient and Medieval Values for the Mean Synodic Month (2003) (10)
Descriptions of Astronomical Instruments in Hebrew (1987) (10)
Nicholaus de Heybech and his table for finding true syzygy (1992) (10)
Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy (2014) (10)
Computing Planetary Positions: User-Friendliness and the Alfonsine Corpus (2013) (10)
Ibn al‐Kammâd's Star List (1996) (10)
Ibn Mucādh's treatise on twilight and the height of the atmosphere (1977) (10)
Star Lists in Hebrew (1985) (9)
Hipparchus' Treatment of Early Greek Astronomy: The case of Eudoxus and the length of daytime (1991) (9)
An Anonymous Zij in Hebrew for 1400 A.D.: A Preliminary Report (2003) (9)
Legendre’s Revolution (1794): The Definition of Symmetry in Solid Geometry (2005) (9)
The Role of Science in the Jewish Community in Fourteenth‐Century France (1978) (8)
A Treatise on Number Theory from a Tenth Century Arabic Source (1965) (8)
Levi ben Gerson's preliminary lunar model. (1974) (7)
John Vimond and the Alfonsine Trepidation Model (2003) (7)
Planetary distances and sizes in an anonymous arabic treatise preserved in Bodleian Ms. Marsh 621. (1971) (7)
THE MEDIEVAL HEBREW AND ITALIAN VERSIONS OF IBN MU'DH'S ON TWILIGHT AND THE RISING OF CLOUDS (1983) (7)
Early Alfonsine Astronomy in Paris: The Tables of John Vimond (1320) (2004) (7)
Lunar Velocity in the Middle Ages: a Comparative Study (1996) (7)
John of Murs Revisited: The Kalendarium Solis Et Lune for 1321 (2012) (7)
Horoscopes from the Cairo Geniza (1977) (7)
Astronomy as a "Neutral Zone": Interreligious Cooperation in Medieval Spain (2009) (7)
Galileo's account of astronomical miracles in the Bible: a confusion of sources (1990) (7)
Refraction, twilight, and the height of the atmosphere (1976) (7)
Symmetry in Copernicus and Galileo (2004) (6)
The Moon in the Oxford Tables of 1348 (2016) (6)
Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures: Astronomy among Jews in the Middle Ages (2012) (6)
Levi Ben Gerson: On Instrumental Errors and the Transversal Scale (1977) (6)
Astrological Almanacs from the Cairo Geniza, Part 1 (1979) (6)
The Festivals of Israel and Judah and the Literary History of the Pentateuch (1990) (6)
Symmetry and asymmetry in electrodynamics from Rowland to Einstein (2006) (5)
The Maximum Solar Equation in the Alfonsine Tables (2001) (5)
Transmission of Computational Methods within the Alfonsine Corpus: The Case of the Tables of Nicholaus De Heybech (2008) (5)
An Occultation of Venus Observed by Abraham Zacut in 1476 (1999) (5)
At the Entrance to the Tent: More Cultic Resonances in Biblical Narrative (1997) (5)
Colors of Eclipses in Medieval Hebrew Astronomical Tables (2005) (5)
John of Murs’s Tables of 1321 (2009) (5)
Additional Astrological Almanacs from the Cairo Geniza (1983) (4)
Levi Ben Gerson: On Astronomy and Physical Experiments (1991) (4)
Preliminary Remarks on the Astronomical Tables of Solomon Franco (2013) (4)
The Medieval Hebrew Tradition in Astronomy (1965) (4)
Planetary Velocities and the Astrological Month (2013) (4)
Levi ben Gerson's Lunar Model (1972) (4)
Analysis of the astronomical tables for 1340 compiled by Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils (2017) (4)
Levi ben Gerson's Preliminary Remarks for a Theory of Planetary Latitudes (2011) (4)
The Cult of the Dead and the Theme of Entry Into the Land (1993) (4)
Reflections on the Practice of Physics (2020) (4)
Medieval Astronomy. (Book Reviews: Ibn al-Muthanna's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi) (1967) (4)
Before the Sun in the Church (2001) (4)
Celestial Charts and Spherical Triangles: The Unifying Power of Symmetry (2007) (4)
The Determination of the Coordinates of Cities: Al-Bīrūnī's Taḥdīd al-Amākin@@@The Determination of the Coordinates of Cities: Al-Biruni's Tahdid al-Amakin (1969) (4)
The General History of Astronomy. Vol. 2: Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics. Part A: Tycho Brahe to Newton. Rene Taton , Curtis Wilson (1992) (4)
The Astronomical Tables of Isaac ben Joseph Israeli of Toledo (2017) (3)
Maxwell’s Methodological Odyssey in Electromagnetism (2016) (3)
Solomon Franco on the Zero Point for Trepidation (2011) (3)
Adaptations of the Oxford Tables to Paris, Mantua, and Louvain (2018) (3)
Displaced tables in Latin: the Tables for the Seven Planets for 1340 (2013) (3)
Solar and lunar velocities in the Alfonsine Tables (1980) (3)
A HISPANO-ARABIC ASTROLABE WITH HEBREW STAR NAMES (1983) (3)
Unpacking “For Reasons of Symmetry”: Two Categories of Symmetry Arguments* (2006) (3)
The Physical Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1997) (3)
Ptolemy, Bianchini, and Copernicus: Tables for Planetary Latitudes (2004) (3)
The Sociological Eye: Selected Papers.Everett C. Hughes (1986) (3)
Levi ben Gerson on the Sources of Error in Astronomy (2010) (3)
The Hebrew Astrolabe in the Adler Planetarium (1976) (3)
THE MAKING OF ASTRONOMY IN EARLY ISLAM (1986) (2)
A Note on the Metonic Cycle (1966) (2)
Book Review: Astronomy and Astrology in Babylon: Die Rolle der Astronomie in den Kulturen Mesopotamiens (1995) (2)
WHAT'S NEW IN PTOLEMY'S ALMAGEST? (2007) (2)
Astronomical Activity in Portugal in the Fourteenth Century (2010) (2)
The development of the priestly calendars (I) : The daily sacrifice and the Sabbath (2003) (2)
J. J. Thomson's plum‐pudding atomic model: The making of a scientific myth (2013) (2)
A Table of New Moons from 1501 to 1577 in a Hebrew Fragment Preserved in the John Rylands Library (2013) (2)
Science as a 'Neutral Zone' for Interreligious Cooperation (2002) (2)
Three Tables for the Daily Positions of the Moon in a Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscript (2015) (2)
Levi ben Gerson and the Cross Staff Revisited (2011) (2)
Kepler and Hebrew Astronomical Tables (2001) (2)
The medieval Moon in a matrix: double argument tables for lunar motion (2019) (1)
Centenary of the Franck‐Hertz experiments (2013) (1)
Chapter Sixteen Fixed Stars (2012) (1)
The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwārizmī in a Nineteenth Century Egyptian Text (1978) (1)
In pursuit of conceptual change: the case of Legendre and symmetry (2009) (1)
Book Review: Alhazen on Ptolemy: Ibn al-Haytham, al-Shukūk ‘alā Batlamyūs (Dubitationes in Ptolemaeum) (1973) (1)
The Legacy of Alfonsine Astronomy (2003) (1)
Adding Velocities without Exceeding the Velocity of Light: Wilhelm Wien’s Algorithm (1904) and Albert Einstein’s Light Postulate (1905) (2006) (1)
Ibn al-Muthannā's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwārizmī@@@Ibn al-Muthanna's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi (1969) (1)
Studies in the making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in motion (2012) (1)
Towards a Philosophy of Ptolemaic Planetary Astronomy (1985) (1)
List of Manuscripts (2012) (1)
The Master and the Disciple: The Almanac of John of Lignères and the Ephemerides of John of Saxony (2019) (1)
Al-Biṭrūjī: On the Principles of Astronomy@@@Al-Bitruji: On the Principles of Astronomy (1973) (1)
Levi ben Gerson on the Principles of Cosmology (2012) (1)
Notes on Hebrew Lists of Geographical Coordinates of Cities (2018) (1)
Al-Bitruji: On the principles of astronomy. An edition of the Arabic and Hebrew versions with translation, analysis and an Arabic-Hebrew-English glossary. (1971) (1)
The Astronomical Tables of Moses Farissol Botarel (2016) (1)
John of Murs's Tables of 1321 (2009) (1)
Hertz’s methodology and its influence on Einstein (2008) (1)
Duhem’s Continuity Thesis: The Intrusion Of Ideology Into History Of Science (2011) (1)
New evidence on Abraham Zacut’s astronomical tables (2018) (0)
Chapter Fourteen Planetary Conjunctions (2012) (0)
New Aesthetic Sensibilities in Italian and French Architecture (2008) (0)
The Introduction to Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils’ Tables for 1340 (2017) (0)
Displaced tables in Latin: the Tables for the Seven Planets for 1340 (2012) (0)
Chapter Five Mean Motions and Radices (2012) (0)
A Newly Identified Astronomical Table by Immanuel ben Jacob of Tarascon (2022) (0)
Maxwell's role in turning the concept of model into the methodology of modeling. (2021) (0)
In memoriam: David Edwin Pingree (2 Jan 1933 -- 11 Nov 2005) (2009) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
The Tabulae Eclypsium by Giovanni Bianchini (2021) (0)
Chapter Twelve Parallax (2012) (0)
Commentaries on 'The Statuts of Models in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy' by Bernard R. Goldstein, Centaurus 1980, 24, pp. 132-147 (2008) (0)
Chapter One Chronology (2012) (0)
New evidence on Abraham Zacut’s astronomical tables (2018) (0)
Chapter Two Trigonometry and Spherical Astronomy (2012) (0)
A Glossary of Technical Terms (2003) (0)
Notes on contributors (2008) (0)
ISAAC IBN Al-Hadib and Flavius Mithridates: The Diffusion of an Iberian Astronomical Tradition in the Late Middle Ages (2006) (0)
Astrological Almanacs from the Cairo Geniza, Part II (1979) (0)
Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections (2012) (0)
Analysis of the astronomical tables for 1340 compiled by Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils (2016) (0)
Asger Hartvig Aaboe (1922–2007) (2007) (0)
A Report in Hebrew of a Bright Object in the Sky in 1473 (2018) (0)
Book Review: Pre-Islamic Persian Astrology: The Astrological History of Māshā‘allāh (1972) (0)
Book-Review - the Astronomy of Levi-Ben 1288-1344 (1986) (0)
The Key to Maxwell's Theory of Electrodynamics (1873): A Productive Methodology (2022) (0)
Levi ben Gerson and Augustinus Ricius on the Moon (2021) (0)
Chapter Nineteen Miscellaneous Tables (2012) (0)
Las tablas alfonsíes de Toledo (2015) (0)
Chapter Three Equation of Time (2012) (0)
Book Review:The History of Science: A Collection of Manuscripts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (1982) (0)
What Keeps the Earth in Its Place? The Concept of Stability in Plato and Aristotle (2008) (0)
Studies in Hebrew Astronomy and Mathematics. Solomon Gandz (1972) (0)
ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Hāshimī, the Book of the Reasons behind Astronomical Tables@@@Ali ibn Sulayman al-Hashimi, the Book of the Reasons behind Astronomical Tables (1984) (0)
Chapter Thirteen Syzygies (2012) (0)
Preliminary Remarks on Medieval Hebrew Trigonometric Tables (2019) (0)
The Alfonsine Tables in Hebrew (2020) (0)
Commentary 01 on Goldstein 1980 (2008) (0)
Ibn al-Kammād’s Muqtabis zij and the astronomical tradition of Indian origin in the Iberian Peninsula (2015) (0)
Astronomical Computations for 1299 from the Cairo Geniza (1981) (0)
A Geographical List in Hebrew Previously Ascribed to Abraham Bar Ḥiyya1 (2019) (0)
Casting Doubt on Ptolemy: The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy . Robert R. Newton. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1977. xvi, 412 pp., illus. $22.50. (1978) (0)
OWEN GINGERICH, An Annotated Census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566). Studia Copernicana – Brill's Series, 2. Leiden, Boston, MA and Köln: Brill, 2002. Pp. xxxi+402. ISBN 90-04-11466-1. $132.00, €113.00 (hardback). (2005) (0)
The Ancient Concept of Symmetry in Scientific Contexts in Early Modern Times and Its Association with Harmony (2008) (0)
Chapter Four Precession and Apogees (2012) (0)
Scientific Methodology in Medieval Astronomy and Cosmology: The Case of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) (2020) (0)
Book Review:Islamic Geomancy and a Thirteenth-Century Divinatory Device Emilie Savage-Smith, Marion B. Smith (1981) (0)
II. THE HEBREW TEXT (1983) (0)
Pliny and Hipparchus's 600-Year Cycle (1995) (0)
Book Review: Unpublished Greek Papyri: Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus (2000) (0)
Chapter Eight Velocity (2012) (0)
The Aesthetic Path (2008) (0)
Augustinus Ricius, On the Motion of the Eighth Sphere (2022) (0)
Book Review:MULAPIN: An Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform Hermann Hunger, David Pingree (1990) (0)
Chapter Eleven Visibility of the Moon and the Planets (2012) (0)
F. Jamil Ragep and Taro Mimura, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Astronomia (2016) (0)
Chapter Six Equations (2012) (0)
Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (2003), and edi-tor of Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences (2001). Her recent research is on the history of experimentation and technoscience in the eighteenth-and early nineteenth centuries (2005) (0)
Chapter Seventeen Geographical Lists (2012) (0)
Station 3 (1865) (2020) (0)
Philosophical reflections on Maxwell’s methodological odyssey (2020) (0)
Maxwell’s choice (2020) (0)
New Applications of Symmetry in Mathematics and Physics: 1788–1815 (2008) (0)
Book Review: Observations and predictions of eclipse times ba early astronomers / Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 4. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, XII+321 pp., 2000 (2003) (0)
Abraham Zacut, the foremost astronomer in the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the fifteenth century. (2004) (0)
Chapter Eighteen Astrology (2012) (0)
The X-ray Source Sco X-3 (1966) (0)
The Lunar Cycle of 11,325 Days (2020) (0)
Ibn al-Ḥadib’s Tables for Finding True Syzygy (2019) (0)
Chapter Seven True Positions (2012) (0)
Chapter Fifteen Eclipses (2012) (0)
Chapter Ten Stations and Retrogradations (2012) (0)
Chapter One. Giovanni Bianchini: Life And Work (2009) (0)
Thomson, Stokes, Rankine, and Thomson and Tait (2020) (0)
The Arabic and Hebrew versions (1971) (0)
Station 2 (1861–1862) (2020) (0)
The medieval Moon in a matrix: double argument tables for lunar motion (2019) (0)
To the Editor: (2004) (0)
In memoriam David Pingree (2015) (0)
Isaac Ibn al-Ḥadib and Flavius Mithridates: The Diffusion of an Iberian Astronomical Tradition in the Late Middle Ages (2006) (0)
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) and Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): “Revolutions” That Did Not Happen (2008) (0)
Casting doubt on ptolemy. (1978) (0)
The Mathematical Path (2008) (0)
Recently Published Books (1977) (0)
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages (2023) (0)
Abraham Zacut’s Signature: A Mystery Solved (2011) (0)
Constitution and model. The quantum theory of Bohr and imagining the atom (2014) (0)
Book Review:Science Awakening II: The Birth of Astronomy B. L. van der Waerden (1978) (0)
Station 1 (1856–1858) (2020) (0)
Analysis and translation (1971) (0)
Station 4 (1873) (2020) (0)
The Treatment of Symmetry in Natural History (1738–1815) (2008) (0)
New Astronomy. Johannes Kepler , William H. Donahue (1995) (0)
Kepler's move from (2005) (0)
Palmieri and Vesel on Symmetry and Harmony in Copernicus’ Cosmology (2016) (0)
Book Review:Probability and Statistical Inference in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Literature Nachum L. Rabinovitch (1975) (0)
The Astronomical Works of Thābit b. Qurra@@@The Astronomical Works of Thabit b. Qurra (1965) (0)
Chapter Two. Analysis Of The Tables (2009) (0)
Legendre’s Revolutionary Definition of Symmetry as a Scientific Concept (1794) (2008) (0)
Timepieces. (Book Reviews: Ivory Diptych Sundials, 1570-1750.) (1993) (0)
Essay Review: The Almagest Analysed, a Survey of the Almagest (1976) (0)
Chapter Nine Latitude (2012) (0)

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