[PDF.51tc] The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

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 | #702749 in Books |  1998-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.70 x1.50 x10.90l,3.04 | File type: PDF | 496 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A really good introduction on how astronomy was done before the telescope.|By Peter D. McLoughlin|This book is as the title states both a history of astronomy done by the ancients and the tools and methods that they employed. This book has all kinds of information on the Ptolemaic system which even though cast aside by the Copernican revolution was a great achievement. It also|.com |In Ptolemy's The Almagest, the earth is placed at the center of the universe and the planets move in crystal spheres against a backdrop of fixed stars. While these ideas have been swept away since the scientific revolution, Ptolemy's influence on a

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers. While tracing ideas from ancient Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the book places its greatest emphasis on the Greek period, when astronomers developed the geometric and philosophical ideas that have determined the subsequent character of Western astronomy. The author approaches this history through th...

You easily download any file type for your device.The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy   |  James Evans. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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