The ''Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers'' (''BEA'') is a two-volume

biographical dictionary A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in ''Who's Who'', or deceased people onl ...

, first published in 2007, with a second edition released in 2014. The work covers astronomers from all geographies, born from antiquity to mid-1918. It includes more than 1500 biographies of both well-known and more obscure

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

s, produced by 410 contributors. The encyclopedia has been published in both a print and online format by the publisher,

Springer Springer or springers may refer to: Publishers * Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishing group founded in 1842 in Germany formerly known as Springer-Verlag. ** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...

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Publisher's webpage
(1st Edition)
Publisher's webpage
(2nd Edition) Biographical dictionaries by topic Historiography of science 21st-century encyclopedias 2007 non-fiction books {{science-hist-book-stub