📚 Astronomy - General

Books with astronomy - general on their catalogue record, first published between 1899 and 2007, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject astronomy - general in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 419 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A star atlas and telescopic handbook	Arthur P. Norton	1910	55
	The fabric of the heavens	Stephen Edelston Toulmin	1961	22
	Universe	Roger A. Freedman	2001	22
	The Planets	Dava Sobel	2005	19
	Explorations	Thomas Arny	1994	17
	Pulsar astronomy	A. G. Lyne	1989	11
	Astronomy	William K. Hartmann	1978	9
	Life in the universe	Jeffrey O. Bennett	2003	9
	Earth (Picture Reference)	Barbara Taylor	1998	8
	Universe	Theodore P. Snow	1996	6
	Stargazer	Fred Watson	2005	6
	The monuments of Mars	Richard C. Hoagland	1987	5
	Challenges of astronomy	W. Schlosser	1991	5
	Discovering the universe	Comins, Neil F.	1999	5
	Cosmology and particle astrophysics	L. Bergström	1999	5
	The living cosmos	Chris Impey	2007	5
	Nonclassical thermoelastic problems in nonlinear dynamics of shells	J. Awrejcewicz	2002	4
	The magnetic universe	G. Rüdiger	2004	4
	Fundamentals of solar astronomy	A. Bhatnagar	2005	4
	An introduction to nuclear astrophysics	Jean Audouze	1899	3
	SS Cygni light curves	Janet A. Mattei	1996	3
	R Coronae Borealis light curves	Janet A. Mattei	1996	3
	Bioastronomy 2002	International Astronomical Union. Symposium	2004	3
	Current studies in archaeoastronomy	Oxford International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy (5th 1996 Santa Fe, N.M.)	2005	3
	OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY	D. SCOTT BIRNEY	2006	3
	Investigations in observational astronomy	Wayne A. Christiansen	1968	2
	Descubriendo las estrellas	Laurence Santrey	1982	2
	Astronomy for GCSE	Patrick Moore	1989	2
	The concise illustrated book of planets and stars	Nicholas Booth	1990	2
	Under the Southern Cross	R. S. Bhathal	1991	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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