A Survey of the Almagest: With Annotation and New Commentary by Alexander Jones

Pedersen, Olaf, Jones, Alexander

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2010-11-19
  • 售價: $7,190
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 470
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0387848258
  • ISBN-13: 9780387848259
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- Forward to the revised edition.- Preface.- The almagest through the ages.- Physics and philosophy in the almagest.- Ptolemy as a mathematician.- Spherical astronomy in the almagest.- The motion of the sun.- The theories of the moon.- Parallaxes and eclipses.- The fixed stars.- The superior planets.- The inferior planets.- Retrograde motions and maximum elongations.- Latitudes and visibility periods.- Epilogue-the other ptolemy.- Apendix A: dated observations.- Appendix B: numerical parameters.- Bibliography.- Index of names.- Index of subjects.- Supplementary notes.- Supplementary bibliography.