Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-38255-8 (ISBN)
Professor J.L. Mancha directs a research unit in the History and Philosophy of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Seville, Spain.
Contents: Preface. Astronomy and Optics: Egidius of Baisiu's theory of pinhole images; Astronomical use of pinhole images in William of Saint-Cloud's Almanach planetarum (1292). The astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson: The Latin translation of Levi ben Gerson's astronomy; Levi ben Gerson's astronomical work: chronology and Christian context; Heuristic reasoning: approximation procedures in Levi ben Gerson's astronomy; The Provençal version of Levi ben Gerson's table for eclipses; Right ascensions and hippopedes: homocentric models in Levi ben Gerson's astronomy, I: first anomaly. Arabic Astronomy in Western Texts: Ibn al-Haytham's homocentric epicycles in Latin astronomical texts of the 14th and 15th centuries; On Ibn al-Kammad's table for trepidation; A note on Copernicus' 'correction' of Ptolemy's mean synodic month; Al-Bitruji's theory of the motions of the fixed stars. Addenda et corrigenda; Index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 22.03.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Variorum Collected Studies |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 224 mm |
Gewicht | 648 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-38255-8 / 1138382558 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-38255-8 / 9781138382558 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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