Early astronomy:
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...
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Physical Description: | X, 268 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 354094107X 038794107X |
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
IX
1.
EARLY
STARGAZERS
1
THE
CELESTIAL
BOWL
1
THE
CONSTELLATIONS
2
THE
ROTATION
OF
THE
HEAVENS
4
SMALL
IRREGULARITIES
7
THE
SUN
8
THE
DIRECTIONS
OF
SUNRISE
AND
SUNSET
9
THE
IRREGULAR
SUN
11
THE
MOON
12
THE
DIRECTIONS
OF
MOONRISE
13
THE
CYCLES
OF
THE
MOON
15
THE
IRREGULAR
MOON
17
ECLIPSES
17
THE
LUNI
-SOLAR
CALENDAR
19
THE
PLANETS
20
VENUS
OBSERVED
21
RISING
AZIMUTHS
23
THE
STARS
24
HELIACAL
RISINGS
24
PRECESSION
24
PRECESSION
AND
THE
PYRAMIDS
25
THE
ASTRONOMER
'
S
TOOLS
26
CELESTIAL
LATITUDE
AND
LONGITUDE
32
ARMILLARIES
35
POLAR
ELEVATIONS
AND
THE
OBLIQUITY
OF
THE
ECLIPTIC
41
2.
MEGALITHIC
ASTRONOMY
45
STONEHENGE
45
OTHER
MEGALITHIC
STRUCTURES
55
3.
THE
BABYLONIANS
64
EARLY
PERIOD
64
V
VI
CONTENTS
THE
MUL-APIN
TABLETS
64
THE
ZODIAC
66
OBSERVATIONS
68
SEXAGESIMAL
NUMERALS
69
LATE
PERIOD
71
THE
SUN
71
THE
MOON
74
LATITUDE
74
THE
LENGTHS
OF
THE
MONTHS
75
SYSTEM
B
78
LENGTHS
OF
FUNDAMENTAL
PERIODS
FOR
THE
MOON
78
THE
PLANETS
79
4.
THE
EGYPTIANS
82
5.
THE
CHINESE
84
INTRODUCTION
84
CHINESE
UNITS
86
UNITS
OF
LENGTH
87
DATES
87
TIME
OF
DAY
90
COSMOLOGY
90
ALMANACS
91
THE
LENGTH
OF
THE
YEAR
92
OFFICIAL
RECORDS
93
NOON
SHADOWS
96
A
TANG
DYNASTY
SURVEY
96
THE
EXACT
INSTANT
OF
THE
SOLSTICE
97
LATER
DEVELOPMENTS
101
THE
LENGTH
OF
THE
YEAR
105
THE
OBLIQUITY
OF
THE
ECLIPTIC
105
CELESTIAL
MOTIONS
106
THE
END
OF
THE
STORY
109
6.
THE
GREEKS
110
THE
EARLY
THINKERS
110
THE
CLASSICAL
GREEKS
111
ME
TON
AND
EUCTEMON
111
THE
GREEK
ZODIAC
112
EUDOXUS
112
ARISTOTLE
117
THE
SIZE
OF
THE
EARTH
118
DOES
THE
EARTH
MOVE?
121
ARISTARCHUS
122
HIPPARCHUS
123
THE
LENGTH
OF
THE
YEAR
125
PERIODS
OF
THE
MOON
127
TABLE
OF
CHORDS
128
CONTENTS
VII
THE
SUN
'
S
MOTION
128
THE
MOON
'
S
MOTION
131
PRECESSION
135
A
POSSIBLE
ORIGIN
FOR
THE
CONSTELLATIONS
135
PTOLEMY
138
THE
SUN
I
40
THE
MOON
143
THE
DISTANCE
OF
THE
MOON
147
THE
DISTANCE
OF
THE
SUN
149
ECLIPSES
149
THE
STARS
130
THE
PLANETS
155
MERCURY
139
VENUS
163
MARS
166
ACCURACY
169
CALCULATIONS
FROM
THE
THEORY
170
LATITUDES
120
NOTE
ON
THE
EPICYCLE
THEORY
170
CLOSING
REMARKS
ON
THE
ALMAGEST
171
THE
PTOLEMAIC
UNIVERSE
171
7.
THE
ASTRONOMY
OF
ARYABHATA
178
THE
SUN
I
80
THE
MOON
11
THE
PLANETS
181
FURTHER
TOPICS
187
UNWRITTEN
ASTRONOMY
188
8.
ARABIC
ASTRONOMY
190
9.
THE
MAYAS
196
THE
MOON
L
98
VENUS
1"
ECLIPSE
TABLE
201
THE
ACCURACY
OF
THE
MAYA
CALENDAR
202
10.
THE
EUROPEAN
RENAISSANCE
205
COPERNICUS
205
TYCHO
BRAHE
210
KEPLER
217
THE
LATITUDE
OF
MARS
220
THE
FIRST
THEORY
OF
MARS
222
THE
EARTH
225
MARS
AGAIN:
IS
ITS
ORBIT
A
CIRCLE?
227
THE
ORBIT
OF
MARS
IS
AN
ELLIPSE
230
KEPLER
'
S
LAWS
232
VIII
CONTENTS
APPENDIX
1.
HIPPARCHUS
'
S
TABLE
OF
CHORDS
235
APPENDIX
2.
CALCULATION
OF
THE
ECCENTRIC-QUOTIENT
FOR
THE
SUN,
AND
THE
LONGITUDE
OF
ITS
APOGEE
237
APPENDIX
3.
PTOLEMY
'
S
TABLE
OF
CHORDS
239
APPENDIX
4.
CALCULATING
THE
RADIUS
OF
THE
MOON
'
S
EPICYCLE
240
APPENDIX
5.
THE
ECCENTRIC-QUOTIENT
AND
APOGEE
OF
MARS
244
APPENDIX
6.
REVERSED
EPICYCLES
246
FURTHER
READING
249
SOURCES
OF
INFORMATION
252
INDEX
259 |
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