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Asger Aaboe |
Episodes from the early history of astronomy |
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2001 |
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| Title | Episodes from the early history of astronomy |
| Author(s) | Asger Aaboe |
| Publication | New York, Springer, 2001. |
| Description | xv,172p. |
| Contents Note | In this book, Asger Aaboe selects a few significant "episodes" from early astronomy and treats them in details, rather than attempting a general survey. However, first he gives a descriptive account of what one should see when one looks at the sky with the naked eye, unbiased by received knowledge, and with curiosity and wit. He then turns to the arithmetical astronomy of ancient Mesopotamia, where astronomy first became an exact science. Next are treated Greek geometrical devices accounting for planetary motion, culminating in Ptolemy's planetary models in his Almagest. Aaboe concludes with an elementary discussion of Kepler motion and shows that Ptolemy's models are excellent approximations to how planets in fact move relative to the earth. |
| ISBN,Price | 0387951369 : Euro 56.95 |
| Classification | 52(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY
2. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY - BIBLIOGRAPHY
3. BABYLONIAN ARITHMETICAL ASTRONOMY
4. EARLY ASTRONOMY
5. GREEK GEOMETRICAL PLANETARY MODELS
6. KEPLER MOTION
7. Ptolemy's cosmology
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