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.
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.
The Catalogue of Stars of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Catalogue of Stars
Author: Caroline Lucretia Herschel
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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The History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue
Author: Gerd Graßhoff
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780387971810
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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: 9780387971810
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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.
Star-names and Their Meanings
Author: Richard Hinckley Allen
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Category : Constellations
Languages : id
Pages : 598
Book Description
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Category : Constellations
Languages : id
Pages : 598
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Preliminary General Catalogue of 6188 Stars for the Epoch 1900
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Meridian Astrometry
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Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Preface to John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica, Or, British Catalogue of the Heavens (1725)
Author: John Flamsteed
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Catalogue of Stars Within Two Degrees of the North Pole Deduced from Photographic Measures Made at Vassar College Observatory
Author: Caroline Ellen Furness
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Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Second Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars
Author: John Louis Emil Dreyer
Publisher:
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Category : Nebulae
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Category : Nebulae
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Catalogue of Stars Near the Ecliptic
Author: Edward J. Cooper
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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