Catalogue Of Stars
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| Author | : Gerd Graßhoff |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2013-03-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1461244684 |
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.
| Author | : Caroline Lucretia Herschel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 1798 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John Flamsteed |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John Louis Emil Dreyer |
| Publisher | : Sky Publishing Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : |
This essential amateur astronomer's reference is an updated and expanded edition of J. L. E. Dreyer's famous New General Catalogue, providing visual data and notes for 13,226 deep-sky objects.
| Author | : Richard Hinckley Allen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 1899 |
| Genre | : Constellations |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Ptolemy |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 712 |
| Release | : 1998-11-08 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0691002606 |
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.
| Author | : Ian Ridpath |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2018-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0718894782 |
Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos of the night sky. Modern science tells us that these twinkling points of light are glowing balls of gas, but the ancient Greeks, to whom we owe many of our constellations, knew nothing of this. Ian Ridpath, award-winning astronomy writer and popularizer, has been intrigued by the myths of the stars for many years. Star Tales is the first modern guide to combine all the fascinating myths in one book, illustrated with the beautiful and evocative engravings from two of the leading star atlases: Johann Bode’s Uranographia of 1801 and John Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis of 1729. This classic book, now in a revised and expanded edition, presents additional information on the constellations with new and enchanting illustrations. For anyone interested in the stars and classical mythology, for anyone who is an armchair astronomer, this is the perfect gift.
| Author | : Sherburne Wesley Burnham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1900 |
| Genre | : Double stars |
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| Author | : G. Contopoulos |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 543 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9401022119 |
The year 1973 marked the highest peak of IAU activity up to now. Besides the Gen eral Assembly in Sydney, and the Extraordinary General Assembly in Poland, there were held eleven IAU Symposia and one Colloquium. Several IAU Publications cover this activity. The Proceedings of the Symposia are published in separate Volumes, while the Transactions of the General Assembly and of the Extraordinary General Assembly contain short reports of the Commission meetings, the administrative sessions, and the opening ceremonies. The present Volume covers some of the scientific Highlights of the General As sembly and of the Extraordinary General Assembly. It contains five Invited Dis courses given in Sydney and Poland, some selected papers, and the Joint Discussions at the General Assembly of Sydney. Of course, there were many more papers of special interest presented in Sydney that could not be included in this Volume. Their titles can be seen in the reports of the various Commissions. It is regrettable that the Invited Discourses of C. H. Townes (Interstellar Molecules) and F. J. Low (Infrared Astronomy) were not submitted for publication. Also only five papers or abstracts of the Joint Discussion on the 'Origins of the Moon and Satellites' have been available. Despite these minor shortcomings, I believe that the present Volume is faithful to its title: it gives a substantial part of the Highlights of Astronomy in 1973.
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| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Stars |
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