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Author : John Thomas Kelly
Release : 1977
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Book Synopsis Practical Astronomy During the Seventeenth Century by : John Thomas Kelly
Download or read book Practical Astronomy During the Seventeenth Century written by John Thomas Kelly. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Thomas Kelly
Release : 1991
Genre : Reference
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Book Synopsis Practical Astronomy During the Seventeenth Century by : John Thomas Kelly
Download or read book Practical Astronomy During the Seventeenth Century written by John Thomas Kelly. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of astronomical data in American almanacs, and their English sources.
Author : John Thomas Kelly
Release : 1977
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Book Synopsis Practical astronomy during the 17th century by : John Thomas Kelly
Download or read book Practical astronomy during the 17th century written by John Thomas Kelly. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lesley Murdin
Release : 1985
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Under Newton's Shadow, Astronomical Practices in the Seventeenth Century by : Lesley Murdin
Download or read book Under Newton's Shadow, Astronomical Practices in the Seventeenth Century written by Lesley Murdin. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Newton and the Royal Society during the 17th century has always overshadowed the activities of other contemporary figures in astronomy. This book demonstrates the extent and significance of their particular contributions to observational astronomy, and to show how social, educational and economic factors affected their work. This survey of the characters and personal lives of British astronomers of the period - Edmond Halley, Robert Hooke, John Flamsteed and other less well known figures - will interest historians, astronomers, historians of science and astronomy, amateur astronomers, and the general reader.
Author : John M. Steele
Release : 2012-02-17
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Synopsis Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757) by : John M. Steele
Download or read book Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757) written by John M. Steele. This book was released on 2012-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the moon’s ‘secular acceleration’, as this newly-discovered acceleration became known. This book contains the first detailed study of the use of ancient and medieval astronomical observations in order to investigate the moon’s secular acceleration from its discovery by Halley to the establishment of the magnitude of the acceleration by Richard Dunthorne, Tobias Mayer and Jérôme Lalande in the 1740s and 1750s. Making extensive use of previously unstudied manuscripts, this work shows how different astronomers used the same small body of preserved ancient observations in different ways in their work on the secular acceleration. In addition, this work looks at the wider context of the study of the moon’s secular acceleration, including its use in debates of biblical chronology, whether the heavens were made up of æther, and the use of astronomy in determining geographical longitude. It also discusses wider issues of the perceptions and knowledge of ancient and medieval astronomy in the early-modern period. This book will be of interest to historians of astronomy, astronomers and historians of the ancient world.
