Astro Navigation Demystified

Astro Navigation Demystified
Author: Jack Case
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2011-11
Genre: Nautical astronomy
ISBN: 9780954133122

Written in plain language, 'Astro Navigation Demystified' aims to make the art of astro navigation easy and enjoyable to learn.

Celestial Navigation Made Easy

Celestial Navigation Made Easy
Author: Francois Meyrier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-11
Genre: Nautical astronomy
ISBN: 9781592280261

A modern, "easy" approach to the ancient science of navigating by the stars.

Exploring Ancient Skies

Exploring Ancient Skies
Author: David H. Kelley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2005-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 038726356X

Exploring Ancient Skies brings together the methods of archaeology and the insights of modern astronomy to explore the science of astronomy as it was practiced in various cultures prior to the invention of the telescope. The book reviews an enormous and growing body of literature on the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, the Far East, and the New World (particularly Mesoamerica), putting the ancient astronomical materials into their archaeological and cultural contexts. The authors begin with an overview of the field and proceed to essential aspects of naked-eye astronomy, followed by an examination of specific cultures. The book concludes by taking into account the purposes of ancient astronomy: astrology, navigation, calendar regulation, and (not least) the understanding of our place and role in the universe. Skies are recreated to display critical events as they would have appeared to ancient observers - events such as the supernova of 1054, the 'lion horoscope' or the 'Star of Bethlehem.' Exploring Ancient Skies provides a comprehensive overview of the relationships between astronomy and other areas of human investigation. It will be useful as a reference for scholars and students in both astronomy and archaeology, and will be of compelling interest to readers who seek a broad understanding of our collective intellectual history.

Time: A Bibliographic Guide

Time: A Bibliographic Guide
Author: Samuel L. Macey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2018-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0429685130

Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 existing academic disciplines and about 100 subdisciplines which have a wide application to time studies.

Spherical Geometry and Its Applications

Spherical Geometry and Its Applications
Author: Marshall A. Whittlesey
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1000627527

Spherical Geometry and Its Applications introduces spherical geometry and its practical applications in a mathematically rigorous form. The text can serve as a course in spherical geometry for mathematics majors. Readers from various academic backgrounds can comprehend various approaches to the subject. The book introduces an axiomatic system for spherical geometry and uses it to prove the main theorems of the subject. It also provides an alternate approach using quaternions. The author illustrates how a traditional axiomatic system for plane geometry can be modified to produce a different geometric world – but a geometric world that is no less real than the geometric world of the plane. Features: A well-rounded introduction to spherical geometry Provides several proofs of some theorems to appeal to larger audiences Presents principal applications: the study of the surface of the earth, the study of stars and planets in the sky, the study of three- and four-dimensional polyhedra, mappings of the sphere, and crystallography Many problems are based on propositions from the ancient text Sphaerica of Menelaus

Mathematical Modelling

Mathematical Modelling
Author: Murray S. Klamkin
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0898712041

Mathematics of Computing -- Miscellaneous.

James Turrell

James Turrell
Author: Craig Adcock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520331451

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived