Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004437274
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
By examining the pressing questions the supernova of 1604 prompted, Kepler’s New Star traces the enduring impact of Kepler and his star on the course of modern science.
Kepler’s New Star (1604)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004437274
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
By examining the pressing questions the supernova of 1604 prompted, Kepler’s New Star traces the enduring impact of Kepler and his star on the course of modern science.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004437274
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
By examining the pressing questions the supernova of 1604 prompted, Kepler’s New Star traces the enduring impact of Kepler and his star on the course of modern science.
The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2014
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780707741420
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
This text provides precise ephemerides and phenomena, for the Sun, Moon and their satellites and the bright stars.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780707741420
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
This text provides precise ephemerides and phenomena, for the Sun, Moon and their satellites and the bright stars.
Almanacco Astronomico Astronomical Almanac 2021
Author: Pier Paolo Ricci
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716571329
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This year the Almanac is bilingual, with the intention of promoting a dialog within the international community. In fact, because its distribution is exclusively through the web, it was necessary to meld the two versions, Italian and English, into one document. The format of the charts has remained the same as well as the contents, with some broadening and graphic improvements. The great events are detailed for the major cities of the world. Over 300 pages covers events in great detail, with orderly data in easy to read charts for a wide variety of phenomenon. Exhaustive data contained in this Almanac is designed to satisfy the needs of anyone that observes the sky whether professional or amateur. Included are phenomena that will be visible to the naked eye and those notable for their spectacularity and rarity. Besides the classical ephemerides of Sun, planets and Moon, there is data about conjunctions of every type, between planets, with the Moon, with the comets...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716571329
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This year the Almanac is bilingual, with the intention of promoting a dialog within the international community. In fact, because its distribution is exclusively through the web, it was necessary to meld the two versions, Italian and English, into one document. The format of the charts has remained the same as well as the contents, with some broadening and graphic improvements. The great events are detailed for the major cities of the world. Over 300 pages covers events in great detail, with orderly data in easy to read charts for a wide variety of phenomenon. Exhaustive data contained in this Almanac is designed to satisfy the needs of anyone that observes the sky whether professional or amateur. Included are phenomena that will be visible to the naked eye and those notable for their spectacularity and rarity. Besides the classical ephemerides of Sun, planets and Moon, there is data about conjunctions of every type, between planets, with the Moon, with the comets...
Imperium and Cosmos
Author: Paul Rehak
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299220133
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Caesar Augustus promoted a modest image of himself as the first among equals (princeps), a characterization that was as popular with the ancient Romans as it is with many scholars today. Paul Rehak argues against this impression of humility and suggests that, like the monarchs of the Hellenistic age, Augustus sought immortality—an eternal glory gained through deliberate planning for his niche in history while flexing his existing power. Imperium and Cosmos focuses on Augustus’s Mausoleum and Ustrinum (site of his cremation), the Horologium-Solarium (a colossal sundial), and the Ara Pacis (Altar to Augustan Peace), all of which transformed the northern Campus Martius into a tribute to his major achievements in life and a vast memorial for his deification after death. Rehak closely examines the artistic imagery on these monuments, providing numerous illustrations, tables, and charts. In an analysis firmly contextualized by a thorough discussion of the earlier models and motifs that inspired these Augustan monuments, Rehak shows how the princeps used these on such an unprecedented scale as to truly elevate himself above the common citizen.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299220133
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Caesar Augustus promoted a modest image of himself as the first among equals (princeps), a characterization that was as popular with the ancient Romans as it is with many scholars today. Paul Rehak argues against this impression of humility and suggests that, like the monarchs of the Hellenistic age, Augustus sought immortality—an eternal glory gained through deliberate planning for his niche in history while flexing his existing power. Imperium and Cosmos focuses on Augustus’s Mausoleum and Ustrinum (site of his cremation), the Horologium-Solarium (a colossal sundial), and the Ara Pacis (Altar to Augustan Peace), all of which transformed the northern Campus Martius into a tribute to his major achievements in life and a vast memorial for his deification after death. Rehak closely examines the artistic imagery on these monuments, providing numerous illustrations, tables, and charts. In an analysis firmly contextualized by a thorough discussion of the earlier models and motifs that inspired these Augustan monuments, Rehak shows how the princeps used these on such an unprecedented scale as to truly elevate himself above the common citizen.
Between Copernicus and Galileo
Author: James M. Lattis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226469263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books—the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226469263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books—the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.
The Rotunda in Rome
Author: Kjeld De Fine Licht
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pantheon (Rome, Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pantheon (Rome, Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Les Edifices Antiques De Rome
Author: Antoine Desgodetz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915346493
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915346493
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Penguin Dictionary of Ancient History
Author: Graham Speake
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Ranging from the year of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, this dictionary contains over 2000 entries providing a reference guide to the ancient Greco-Roman world. It includes entries on personalities, events, politics, literature, art and society.
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Ranging from the year of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, this dictionary contains over 2000 entries providing a reference guide to the ancient Greco-Roman world. It includes entries on personalities, events, politics, literature, art and society.
A Collection of Mathematical Tables,
Author: Andrew Mackay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy
Author: Giulio Magli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387765662
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky. A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with “nature”, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes. Finally, having formulated his hypothesis, Professor Magli returns to visit one specific place in detail, searching for proof. This in-depth examination studies the most compelling, the most intensively studied, the most famous and, until recently, the most misunderstood sacred landscape on the planet - Giza, in Egypt. The archaeoastronomical analysis of the orientation of the Giza pyramids leads to the hypothesis that the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren belong to the same construction project.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387765662
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky. A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with “nature”, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes. Finally, having formulated his hypothesis, Professor Magli returns to visit one specific place in detail, searching for proof. This in-depth examination studies the most compelling, the most intensively studied, the most famous and, until recently, the most misunderstood sacred landscape on the planet - Giza, in Egypt. The archaeoastronomical analysis of the orientation of the Giza pyramids leads to the hypothesis that the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren belong to the same construction project.