[2] He earned his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1968; his doctoral dissertation, Ptolemy's Theory of the Distances and Sizes of the Planets: A Study of The Scientific Foundations of Medieval Cosmology, was supervised by Asger Aaboe.
[4] The Derivation and First Draft of Copernicus's Planetary Theory: A Translation of the Commentariolus with Commentary by Noel M. Swerdlow in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol.
423–512 (90 pages) In 1984, Swerdlow, with co-author Otto E. Neugebauer, published Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus, Springer.
ISBN 978-1-4613-8262-1 a two volume investigation of the sources and methods of that pivotal work in the development of astronomy that first laid out a heliocentric theory of the solar system.
The Babylonian Theory of the Planets by N. M. Swerdlow | Princeton University Press | 1998 | ISBN 9780691605500[5] Otto E. Neugebauer 1899–1990 A Biographical Memoir by N. M. Swerdlow published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences | 1998 An Essay on Thomas Kuhn's First Scientific Revolution, "The Copernican Revolution" in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol.