Author: Antonio Ghisilieri
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Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Antonio Ghisilieri
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Antonio Ghisilieri
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Category : Ephemerides
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Author: Bryant Tuckerman
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871690562
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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The need for these tables became pressing when hundreds of astronomical cuneiform tables in the British Museum became available for study, partly through the copies made in the 1880s and 1890s. All these texts originally came from some archive in Babylon which was discovered by Arabs in the middle of the 19th century. Most of the texts were written from about 330 B.C. to the first century A.D. Many of the texts are fragments of the original clay tables which have broken. In many cases, a fragment contains only parts of a few legible lines. Much of the information is of an astronomical character. It is evident that for investigations of these tablets the possibility of rapid scanning of accurately dated planetary positions is of primary importance.

Author: Owen Gingerich
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871695901
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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These tables cover the period from the mid-17th to the 19th cent. when astronomical ephemerides were evolving most rapidly. These tables resemble those previously pub. by the APS: Tuckerman's "Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1" and "A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649" and Goldstine's "New and Full Moon, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651." The tables contain features consistent with the almanacs and ephemerides pub. in this period: planetary positions are computed for 12 hours U.T. (noon); and the Julian day number is given for new and full moons. An analytical essay examines the theoretical and computational developments in almanac-making in the period that bridges between Kepler and Laplace.

Author: Owen Gingerich
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9780871695901
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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These tables cover the period from the mid-17th to the 19th cent. when astronomical ephemerides were evolving most rapidly. These tables resemble those previously pub. by the APS: Tuckerman's "Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1" and "A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649" and Goldstine's "New and Full Moon, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651." The tables contain features consistent with the almanacs and ephemerides pub. in this period: planetary positions are computed for 12 hours U.T. (noon); and the Julian day number is given for new and full moons. An analytical essay examines the theoretical and computational developments in almanac-making in the period that bridges between Kepler and Laplace.

Author: Sotheby's (Firm)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Robert Watt
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 968

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Author: Agustin UDIAS
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401703493
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The history of these observatories has never been published in a complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were established in Jesuit colleges. During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of Beijing. In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories in Africa, South America and the Far East. Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the history of these sciences.

Author: J. Dobrzycki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789027703118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Traces intertribal trade relations of the Iroquois and the impact Europeans had on this in the seventeenth century.