The Crime Of Claudius Ptolemy
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The Crime Of Claudius Ptolemy
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Author : Robert R. Newton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Crime Of Claudius Ptolemy written by Robert R. Newton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Business & Economics categories.
In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton shows that Ptolemy predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described.
The Mathematics Of The Heavens And The Earth
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Author : Glen Van Brummelen
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-10
The Mathematics Of The Heavens And The Earth written by Glen Van Brummelen and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Mathematics categories.
The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth is the first major history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry. Glen Van Brummelen identifies the earliest known trigonometric precursors in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and he examines the revolutionary discoveries of Hipparchus, the Greek astronomer believed to have been the first to make systematic use of trigonometry in the second century BC while studying the motions of the stars. The book traces trigonometry's development into a full-fledged mathematical discipline in India and Islam; explores its applications to such areas as geography and seafaring navigation in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance; and shows how trigonometry retained its ancient roots at the same time that it became an important part of the foundation of modern mathematics. The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth looks at the controversies as well, including disputes over whether Hipparchus was indeed the father of trigonometry, whether Indian trigonometry is original or derived from the Greeks, and the extent to which Western science is indebted to Islamic trigonometry and astronomy. The book also features extended excerpts of translations of original texts, and detailed yet accessible explanations of the mathematics in them. No other book on trigonometry offers the historical breadth, analytical depth, and coverage of non-Western mathematics that readers will find in The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth.
The Almagest
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Author : Claudius Ptolemaeus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Almagest written by Claudius Ptolemaeus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
Ptolemy S Almagest
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Author : Ptolemy
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1998-11-08
Ptolemy S Almagest written by Ptolemy and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-08 with Science categories.
Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.
A Proposed Explanation Of The Closed Indian Ocean On Some Ptolemaic Maps Of The Twelfth Fifteenth Centuries
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Author : Wilcomb E. Washburn
language : en
Publisher: UC Biblioteca Geral 1
Release Date : 1985
A Proposed Explanation Of The Closed Indian Ocean On Some Ptolemaic Maps Of The Twelfth Fifteenth Centuries written by Wilcomb E. Washburn and has been published by UC Biblioteca Geral 1 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Cosmography categories.
From Sight To Light
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Author : A. Mark Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-11-16
From Sight To Light written by A. Mark Smith and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-16 with History categories.
From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection, refraction, and diffraction. This dramatic shift—which A. Mark Smith characterizes as the “Keplerian turn”—lies at the heart of this fascinating and pioneering study. Breaking from previous scholarship that sees Johannes Kepler as the culmination of a long-evolving optical tradition that traced back to Greek antiquity via the Muslim Middle Ages, Smith presents Kepler instead as marking a rupture with this tradition, arguing that his theory of retinal imaging, which was published in 1604, was instrumental in prompting the turn from sight to light. Kepler’s new theory of sight, Smith reveals, thus takes on true historical significance: by treating the eye as a mere light-focusing device rather than an image-producing instrument—as traditionally understood—Kepler’s account of retinal imaging helped spur the shift in analytic focus that eventually led to modern optics. A sweeping survey, From Sight to Light is poised to become the standard reference for historians of optics as well as those interested more broadly in the history of science, the history of art, and cultural and intellectual history.
The History Of Ptolemy S Star Catalogue
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Author : Gerd Graßhoff
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-07
The History Of Ptolemy S Star Catalogue written by Gerd Graßhoff and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with Science categories.
Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was defined as what is described in the Almagest. The cautious emancipation of the late middle ages and the revolutionary creation of the new science in the 16th century are not conceivable without reference to the Almagest. This text lifted European astronomy to the high standard of knowledge on which the new science flourished. Before, the Ptolemaic models of the orbits of the sun, the moon, and the planets had been refined by Arabic astronomers. They provided the structural elements with which Copernicus and Kepler ushered in the era of modern astronomy. The Almagest survived the destruction of its epicyclic representation of the planetary orbits in the conceptual traces left behind in the theories of its successors. The clear separation of the sidereal from the tropical year, the celestial coordinate systems, the concepts of time, the forms of the constellations, and brightness classifications of celestial objects are, among many other things, still part of the astronomical canon even today.
Scientific Method In Ptolemy S Harmonics
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Author : Andrew Barker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000
Scientific Method In Ptolemy S Harmonics written by Andrew Barker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The science called 'harmonics' was one of the major intellectual enterprises of Greek antiquity. Ptolemy's treatise seeks to invest it with new scientific rigour; its consistently sophisticated procedural self-awareness marks it as a key text in the history of science. This book is a sustained methodological exploration of Ptolemy's project. After an analysis of his explicit pronouncements on the science's aims and the methods appropriate to it, it examines Ptolemy's conduct of his investigation in detail, concluding that despite occasional uncertainties, the declared procedure is followed with remarkable fidelity. Ptolemy pursues tenaciously his novel objective of integrating closely the project's theoretical and empirical phases and shows astonishing mastery of the concept, the design and the conduct of controlled experimental tests. By opening up this neglected text to historians of science, the book aims to provide a point of departure for wider studies of Greek scientific method.
Circumference
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Author : Nicholas Nicastro
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2008-11-25
Circumference written by Nicholas Nicastro and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-25 with History categories.
How do you measure the size of the planet you're standing on? "Circumference" is the story of what happened when one man asked himself that very question. Nicholas Nicastro brings to life one of history's greatest experiments when an ancient Greek named Eratosthenes first accurately determined the distance around the spherical earth. In this fascinating narrative history, Nicastro takes a look at a deceptively simple but stunning achievement made by one man, millennia ago, with only the simplest of materials at his disposal. How was he able to measure the land at a time when distance was more a matter of a shrug and a guess at the time spent on a donkey's back? How could he be so confident in the assumptions that underlay his calculations: that the earth was round and the sun so far away that its rays struck the ground in parallel lines? Was it luck or pure scientific genius? Nicastro brings readers on a trip into a long-vanished world that prefigured modernity in many ways, where neither Eratosthenes' reputation, nor the validity of his method, nor his leadership of the Great Library of Alexandria were enough to convince all his contemporaries about the dimensions of the earth. Eratosthenes' results were debated for centuries until he was ultimately vindicated almost 2000 years later, during the great voyages of exploration. "Circumference" is a compelling scientific detective story that transports readers back to a time when humans had no idea how big their world was--and the fate of a man who dared to measure the incomprehensible.
Dictionary Of African Biography
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Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Dictionary Of African Biography written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).