Early AstronomySpringer Science & Business Media, 1994 - 268 من الصفحات The earliest investigations that can be called scientific are concerned with the sky; they are the beginnings of astronomy. Many early civilizations produced astronomical texts, and several cultures that left no written records left monuments and artifacts - ranging from rock paintings to Stonehenge - that show a clear interest in astronomy. Civilizations in China, Mesopotamia, India, and Greece had highly developed astronomies, and the astronomy of the Mayas was by no means negligible. Greek astronomy, as developed by medieval Arab philosophers, evolved into the astronomy of Copernicus. This displaced the Earth from the stationary central position that almost all earlier astronomies had assumed. Soon thereafter, in the first decades of the seventeenth century, Kepler found the true shape of the planetary orbits and Galileo introduced the telescope for astronomical observations. This book covers the history of astronomy from its earliest beginnings to this point, which marks the beginning of modern instrumental and mathematical astronomy. The work of earlier astronomers, of all civilizations, remains as a triumph of the human intellect. |
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... Planets Venus Observed Rising Azimuths The Stars ix 1 1 2 4 7 8 9 11 12 13 15 17 17 19 20 21 23 24 Heliacal Risings 24 Precession 24 Precession and the Pyramids 25 The Astronomer's Tools 26 Celestial Latitude and Longitude 32 ...
... Planets Venus Observed Rising Azimuths The Stars ix 1 1 2 4 7 8 9 11 12 13 15 17 17 19 20 21 23 24 Heliacal Risings 24 Precession 24 Precession and the Pyramids 25 The Astronomer's Tools 26 Celestial Latitude and Longitude 32 ...
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... Planets 79 4. The Egyptians 82 5. The Chinese Introduction Chinese Units Units of Length Dates Time of Day Cosmology Almanacs 84 84 86 87 87 90 90 91 The Length of the Year 92 Official Records 93 Noon Shadows 96 A Tang Dynasty Survey 96 ...
... Planets 79 4. The Egyptians 82 5. The Chinese Introduction Chinese Units Units of Length Dates Time of Day Cosmology Almanacs 84 84 86 87 87 90 90 91 The Length of the Year 92 Official Records 93 Noon Shadows 96 A Tang Dynasty Survey 96 ...
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... Planets 155 Mercury 159 Venus 163 Mars 166 Accuracy 169 Calculations from the Theory 170 Latitudes 170 Note on the Epicycle Theory 170 Closing Remarks on the Almagest 171 The Ptolemaic Universe 171 7. The Astronomy of Aryabhata 178 The ...
... Planets 155 Mercury 159 Venus 163 Mars 166 Accuracy 169 Calculations from the Theory 170 Latitudes 170 Note on the Epicycle Theory 170 Closing Remarks on the Almagest 171 The Ptolemaic Universe 171 7. The Astronomy of Aryabhata 178 The ...
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accurate alignments Almagest almanac angle anomalistic period apogee astronomy axis azimuth Babylonian Brahe calculate calendar called celestial pole celestial sphere Chapter Chinese chords circle constellations Copernicus correct cycle declination diameter direction distance earth eccentric-quotient ecliptic Egyptian epicycle equal equant equator equinox Euctemon Eudoxus fact Figure full moon give Greek Griffith Observatory Guo Shoujing heliacal rising Hipparchus Hipparchus's horizon interval Jupiter Kepler later latitude length longitude manda Mars mathematical Maya mean sun measured Megalithic Mercury meters midsummer midwinter modern months moon moonrise motion moves round nodes observations opposite Otto Neugebauer parallax planet position precession Ptolemy Ptolemy's radius result retrogression revolution rotation round the ecliptic saros Saturn shadow sidereal period southernmost stades stars stone Stonehenge summer solstice sunrise sunset synodic period tablets theory velocity Venus vertical visible volume whole number winter solstice Yuan dynasty Yuan shi zodiac