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==Historical context==
[[Johann Friedrich Weidler]] publishingpublished the first comprehensive history of astronomy in 1741 and the first astronomical bibliography in 1755,. inThis was an effort to archive and classify earlier astronomical knowledge and works.
 
This effort was continued by [[Jérôme Lalande|Jérôme de La Lande]], who published his ''Bibliographie astronomique'' in 1803, a work that covered the timeperiod from 480 B.C. to the year of publication.
 
The ''Bibliographie générale de l’astronomie, Volume I and Volume II'', published by J.C. Houzeau and A. Lancaster, followed in 1882 until 1889.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Houzeau |first1=J. C. |title=Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie |date=1887 |publisher=F. Hayez, Imprimeur de L'Académie Royale de Belgique |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJhA9noqjT0C&q=Bibliographie+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale+de+l%27astronomie+volume+I |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Houzeau |first1=Jean-Charles |title=Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie ou catalogue méthodique des ouvrages, des mémoires et des observations astronomiques publiés depuis l'origine de l'imprimerie jusqu'en 1880: Mémoires et notices insérés dans les Collections académiques et les Revues |date=1882 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GzxeAAAAcAAJ |language=fr}}</ref>