Author: William Wallace
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Category : Conic sections
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Apollonius (of Perga.)
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Category : Conic sections
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Charles Taylor
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Category : Conic sections
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: O. Neugebauer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461255597
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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The collection of papers assembled here on a variety of topics in ancient and medieval astronomy was originally suggested by Noel Swerdlow of the University of Chicago. He was also instrumental in making a selection* which would, in general, be on the same level as my book The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. It may also provide a general background for my more technical History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy and for my edition of Astronomi cal Cuneiform Texts. Several of these republished articles were written because I wanted to put to rest well-entrenched historical myths which could not withstand close scrutiny of the sources. Examples are the supposed astronomical origin of the Egyptian calendar (see [9]), the discovery of precession by the Babylonians [16], and the "simplification" of the Ptolemaic system in Copernicus' De Revolutionibus [40]. In all of my work I have striven to present as accurately as I could what the original sources reveal (which is often very different from the received view). Thus, in [32] discussion of the technical terminology illuminates the meaning of an ancient passage which has been frequently misused to support modern theories about ancient heliocentrism; in [33] an almost isolated instance reveals how Greek world-maps really looked; and in [43] the Alexandrian Easter computus, held in awe by many historians, is shown from Ethiopic sources to be based on very simple procedures.

Author: George Salmon
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Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library
Publisher: London : J. Murray
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Walter Low
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Author: Cornell University. Libraries
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Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Languages : en
Pages : 1128

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