Schechner, Sara J. “Conquest and Contemplation: Astronomy in New England.” In Scientific Instruments as Cultural Artifacts, edited by Paula Bertucci and Alexi Baker. New Haven: Yale University Press, Forthcoming.

Schechner, Sara J. “Comets: Sublunary or Celestial? Review of The Age of Two-Faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian World View in the Netherlands, by Tabitta van Nouhuys.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 34 (2003): 118-119. Read at SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Schechner, Sara J. “The Many Facets of Halley: Review of Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and Seas, by Alan Cook.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 31, no. 2 (2000): 73-74. Read at SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Schechner, Sara J. “Comets and Meteors.” In The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2000.

Schechner, Sara J. Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Princeton

Schechner-Genuth, Sara. “From Heaven's Alarm to Public Appeal: Comets and the Rise of Astronomy at Harvard.” History of Physics Newsletter 5, no. 5 (1994): 86.

Schechner-Genuth, Sara. “Review of Comets: A Chronological History of Observation, Science, Myth, and Folklore, by Donald K. Yeomans.” Isis 83 (1992): 468-469.

Genuth, Sara Schechner. “Comets and Their Malevolence. Review of The Origin of Comets, by M. E. Bailey, S. V. M. Clube, and W. M. Napier.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 23 (1992): 215-217. Read at SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Schechner-Genuth, Sara. “From Heaven's Alarm to Public Appeal: Comets and the Rise of Astronomy at Harvard.” In Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives, 28-54. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1992. schechner_comets_and_rise_of_astronomy_at_harvard_1992.pdf

Schechner-Genuth, Sara. “Devils’ Hells and Astronomers’ Heavens: Religion, Method, and Popular Culture in Speculations about Life on Comets.” In The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy since the Seventeenth Century. Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert, 3-26. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. schechner_devils_hells_astronomers_heavens_1992.pdf

Genuth, Sara Schechner. “Astronomical Imagery in a Passage of Homer.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 23 (1992): 293-298. Read at SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Schechner-Genuth, Sara. “Blazing Stars, Open Minds, and Loosened Purse Strings: Astronomical Research and Its Early Cambridge Audience.” In Two Astronomical Anniversaries: HCO & SAO. Chalfont St. Giles, England: Science History Publications for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1990.

Schechner-Genuth, Sara. “Newton and the Ongoing Teleological Role of Comets.” In Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Longer View of Newton and Halley, 299-311. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Genuth, Sara Schechner. “Blazing Stars, Open Minds, and Loosened Purse Strings: Astronomical Research and Its Early Cambridge Audience.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 20, no. 4 (1988): 947.

Genuth, Sara Schechner. “Bearded Stars in Science and Satire.” The Adler Planetarium Newsletter, 1986.

Genuth, Sara Schechner. “Three Harbingers of Halley's Comet. Essay review of The Mystery of Comets, by Fred L. Whipple, Comet, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, and Fire and Ice: A History of Comets in Art, by Roberta J. M. Olson.” The Chicago Tribune Book World, 1985.

Genuth, Sara Schechner. “Fear and Frolic in 1910: Chicago's Reaction to Halley's Comet.” The Adler Planetarium Newsletter, 1985.

Schechner-Genuth, Sara. “Comets, Teleology, and the Relationship of Chemistry to Cosmology in Newton's Thought.” Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze 10, no. 2 (1985): 31-65.

Genuth, Sara Schechner. “The Teleological Role of Comets in 17th and 18th Century Natural Philosophy.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 16, no. 2 (1984): 476-477.

Genuth, Sara Schechner. “Past Sightings of Comet Halley.” The Adler Planetarium Newsletter, 1984.