Télécharger le livre :  Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy

This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-03-20
Collection : SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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Télécharger le livre :  A Mathematician's Journeys

This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-02-03

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116,04

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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691-1757)

The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-02-17

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