Author: Canada. Department of the Interior. Topographical Surveys Branch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Catalogue of Stars
Author: Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue
Author: Gerd Graßhoff
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461244684
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was defined as what is described in the Almagest. The cautious emancipation of the late middle ages and the revolutionary creation of the new science in the 16th century are not conceivable without reference to the Almagest. This text lifted European astronomy to the high standard of knowledge on which the new science flourished. Before, the Ptolemaic models of the orbits of the sun, the moon, and the planets had been refined by Arabic astronomers. They provided the structural elements with which Copernicus and Kepler ushered in the era of modern astronomy. The Almagest survived the destruction of its epicyclic representation of the planetary orbits in the conceptual traces left behind in the theories of its successors. The clear separation of the sidereal from the tropical year, the celestial coordinate systems, the concepts of time, the forms of the constellations, and brightness classifications of celestial objects are, among many other things, still part of the astronomical canon even today.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461244684
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was defined as what is described in the Almagest. The cautious emancipation of the late middle ages and the revolutionary creation of the new science in the 16th century are not conceivable without reference to the Almagest. This text lifted European astronomy to the high standard of knowledge on which the new science flourished. Before, the Ptolemaic models of the orbits of the sun, the moon, and the planets had been refined by Arabic astronomers. They provided the structural elements with which Copernicus and Kepler ushered in the era of modern astronomy. The Almagest survived the destruction of its epicyclic representation of the planetary orbits in the conceptual traces left behind in the theories of its successors. The clear separation of the sidereal from the tropical year, the celestial coordinate systems, the concepts of time, the forms of the constellations, and brightness classifications of celestial objects are, among many other things, still part of the astronomical canon even today.
A General Catalogue of 1290 Double Stars Discovered from 1871 to 1899 by S.W. Burnham
Author: Sherburne Wesley Burnham
Publisher:
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Category : Double stars
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Double stars
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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NGC 2000.0
Author: John Louis Emil Dreyer
Publisher: Sky Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This essential amateur astronomer's reference is an updated and expanded edition of J. L. E. Dreyer's famous New General Catalogue, providing visual data and notes for 13,226 deep-sky objects.
Publisher: Sky Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This essential amateur astronomer's reference is an updated and expanded edition of J. L. E. Dreyer's famous New General Catalogue, providing visual data and notes for 13,226 deep-sky objects.
Star-names and Their Meanings
Author: Richard Hinckley Allen
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Category : Constellations
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Publisher:
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Category : Constellations
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters
Author: Wolfgang Steinicke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139490109
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
Providing the first comprehensive historical study of the New General Catalogue, this book is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing. It covers the people, observatories, instruments and methods involved in nineteenth-century visual deep-sky observing, as well as prominent deep-sky objects.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139490109
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
Providing the first comprehensive historical study of the New General Catalogue, this book is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing. It covers the people, observatories, instruments and methods involved in nineteenth-century visual deep-sky observing, as well as prominent deep-sky objects.
Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars
Author: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353864057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353864057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
A Catalogue of Stars for Latitude Observations on Dominion Lands Surveys
Author: Canada. Department of the Interior. Topographical Surveys Branch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Nine-year Catalogue of 2263 Stars
Author: Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Catalogue of Fundamental Stars for the Epochs 1875 and 1900 Reduced to an Absolute System
Author: Simon Newcomb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description