Author: Edmond Halley
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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ASTRONOMICAL TABLES WITH PRECEPTS BOTH IN ENGLISH and LATIN For Computing the Places of the SUN, MOON, PLANETS, and COMETS
Author: Edmond Halley
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Catalogue of Science and Technology, No
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author: Royal Astronomical Society
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year ...
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Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757)
Author: John M. Steele
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461421497
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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 moon’s ‘secular acceleration’, as this newly-discovered acceleration became known. This book contains the first detailed study of the use of ancient and medieval astronomical observations in order to investigate the moon’s secular acceleration from its discovery by Halley to the establishment of the magnitude of the acceleration by Richard Dunthorne, Tobias Mayer and Jérôme Lalande in the 1740s and 1750s. Making extensive use of previously unstudied manuscripts, this work shows how different astronomers used the same small body of preserved ancient observations in different ways in their work on the secular acceleration. In addition, this work looks at the wider context of the study of the moon’s secular acceleration, including its use in debates of biblical chronology, whether the heavens were made up of æther, and the use of astronomy in determining geographical longitude. It also discusses wider issues of the perceptions and knowledge of ancient and medieval astronomy in the early-modern period. This book will be of interest to historians of astronomy, astronomers and historians of the ancient world.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461421497
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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 moon’s ‘secular acceleration’, as this newly-discovered acceleration became known. This book contains the first detailed study of the use of ancient and medieval astronomical observations in order to investigate the moon’s secular acceleration from its discovery by Halley to the establishment of the magnitude of the acceleration by Richard Dunthorne, Tobias Mayer and Jérôme Lalande in the 1740s and 1750s. Making extensive use of previously unstudied manuscripts, this work shows how different astronomers used the same small body of preserved ancient observations in different ways in their work on the secular acceleration. In addition, this work looks at the wider context of the study of the moon’s secular acceleration, including its use in debates of biblical chronology, whether the heavens were made up of æther, and the use of astronomy in determining geographical longitude. It also discusses wider issues of the perceptions and knowledge of ancient and medieval astronomy in the early-modern period. This book will be of interest to historians of astronomy, astronomers and historians of the ancient world.
The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw from the Encyclopedia Americana].
Author: Popular encyclopedia
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The popular encyclopedia; or, "Conversations lexicon;" being a general dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, biography, and history. With ... illustrations
Author: Encyclopaedias
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T.G. Bradford).
Author: Encyclopaedia Americana
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Author: Pierre-Simon Laplace
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461241847
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered among probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie". The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in 1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the various editions published during Laplace's lifetime. Translations of various editions in different languages have apeared over the years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today. This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826, with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461241847
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered among probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie". The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in 1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the various editions published during Laplace's lifetime. Translations of various editions in different languages have apeared over the years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today. This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826, with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs.
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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