Astronomy and History Selected Essays

Astronomy and History Selected Essays
Author: O. Neugebauer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461255597

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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.


Astronomy and History Selected Essays
Language: de
Pages: 522
Authors: O. Neugebauer
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-11 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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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
Astronomy and History
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Otto Neugebauer
Categories: Astronomy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher:

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Astronomical Essays Historical and Descriptive
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: John Ellard Gore
Categories: Astronomy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1907 - Publisher:

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From Eudoxus to Einstein
Language: en
Pages: 530
Authors: C. M. Linton
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Since man first looked towards the heavens, a great deal of effort has been put into trying to predict and explain the motions of the sun, moon and planets. Dev
Astronomy Across Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 678
Authors: Helaine Selin
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy consists of essays dealing with the astronomical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the Uni