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Author : Katherine E. Northrup
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book An Illumination of the Treatise of Aristarchus of Samos written by Katherine E. Northrup and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Little Sir Heath
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Copernicus of Antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos) written by Thomas Little Sir Heath and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Copernicus of Antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos)" by Thomas Little Sir Heath. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Thomas Heath
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974249664
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus written by Thomas Heath and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work owes its inception to a desire expressed to me by my old schoolfellow Professor H. H. Turner for a translation of Aristarchus's extant work On the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon. Incidentally Professor Turner asked whether any light could be thrown on the grossly excessive estimate of 2� for the angular diameter of the sun and moon which is one of the fundamental assumptions at the beginning of the book, I remembered that Archimedes distinctly says in his Psammites or Sand-reckoner that Aristarchus was the first to discover that the apparent diameter of the sun is about i/720th part of the complete circle described by it in the daily rotation, or, in other words, that the angular diameter is about which is very near the truth. The difference suggested that the treatise of Aristarchus which we possess was an early work...
Author : Sir Thomas Heath
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048615081X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Aristarchus of Samos written by Sir Thomas Heath and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A most welcome addition to the literature of astronomical history." — Nature "A most important contribution to the early history of Greek thought and a notable monument of English scholarship." — Journal of Hellenic Studies This classic work traces Aristarchus of Samos's anticipation by two millennia of Copernicus's revolutionary theory of the orbital motion of the earth. Heath's history of astronomy ranges from Homer and Hesiod to Aristarchus and includes quotes from numerous thinkers, compilers, and scholasticists from Thales and Anaximander through Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclides. 34 figures.
Author : Thomas Heath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108062334
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus written by Thomas Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prefaced by a history of ancient Greek astronomy, this 1913 edition of Aristarchus' only surviving treatise includes a facing-page translation.
Author : Christián C. Carman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000869865
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Aristarchus of Samos: On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon written by Christián C. Carman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samos’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, accompanied by a full introduction, detailed commentary, and relevant scholia. Aristarchus of Samos was active in the third century BC. He was one of the first Greek astronomers to apply geometry to the solution of astronomical problems as we can see in his only extant text, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon. Alongside the Greek text and new English translation, the book offers readers the Latin text and English translation of Commandino’s notes on the text. Readers will also benefit from a comprehensive introductory study explaining the value of Aristarchus’s calculations and methodology throughout history, as well as detailed analyses of each part of the treatise. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars working on ancient science and astronomy and the general reader interested in the history of science.
Author : Miguel A. Granada
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004512640
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Michael Maestlin’s Manuscript Treatise on the Comet of 1618 written by Miguel A. Granada and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Maestlin was a main protagonist of the astronomical and cosmological revolution between Copernicus and Galileo. This book presents the first-ever edition of his German manuscript treatise on the Great Comet of 1618, accompanied by an English translation with a full introduction and commentary.
Author : Archimedes
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517349844
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)
Download or read book The Sand-Reckoner written by Archimedes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CLASSIC WORK OF ARCHIMEDES The Sand-Reckoner Dimensio Circuli of Archimedes Translated by Thomas L. Heath (Original publication: Cambridge University Press, 1897). The Sand Reckoner is a work by Archimedes in which he set out to determine an upper bound for the number of grains of sand that fit into the universe. In order to do this, he had to estimate the size of the universe according to the contemporary model, and invent a way to talk about extremely large numbers. The work, also known in Latin as Archimedis Syracusani Arenarius and Dimensio Circuli, which is about 8 pages long in translation, is addressed to the Syracusan king Gelo II (son of Hiero II), and is probably the most accessible work of Archimedes; in some sense, it is the first research-expository paper. Archimedes died during the Siege of Syracuse when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed. Cicero describes visiting the tomb of Archimedes, which was surmounted by a sphere and a cylinder, which Archimedes had requested to be placed on his tomb, representing his mathematical discoveries. Unlike his inventions, the mathematical writings of Archimedes were little known in antiquity. Mathematicians from Alexandria read and quoted him, but the first comprehensive compilation was not made until c. 530 AD by Isidore of Miletus in Byzantine Constantinople, while commentaries on the works of Archimedes written by Eutocius in the sixth century AD opened them to wider readership for the first time. The relatively few copies of Archimedes' written work that survived through the Middle Ages were an influential source of ideas for scientists during the Renaissance, while the discovery in 1906 of previously unknown works by Archimedes in the Archimedes Palimpsest has provided new insights into how he obtained mathematical results.
Author : Freya Hardy
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ISBN 13 : 1782407383
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Book of Big Science Ideas written by Freya Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated celebration of science from the clever people who bring you AQUILA magazine. Ideas are important. They change things. A single idea can start a war, save billions of lives, even rearrange whole planetary systems, or simply make a person giggle until they pee a little bit. They can be totally wrong but widely believed, or undoubtedly right and completely ignored. What's more, they're free, and anyone can have one-including you! The Book of Big Science Ideas looks at 15 brilliant science ideas and more than 50 ingenious thinkers who have helped shape our understanding of the world - whether they were right or wrong! Thinkers include, Wang Zhenyi, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, James Joule, Rosalind Franklin, Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Edith Clarke, Isaac Newton, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and many, many more! From established ideas like atoms, electricity and the solar system, and ideas that are still evolving such as gravity, energy and classification, right up to recent discoveries like AI and genetics - this jam-packed book takes a fresh approach to science.
Author : James Maynard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411653351
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Light of Alexandria written by James Maynard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Light of Alexandria is the story of the first thousand years of science, from the birth of the world's first two scientists, Thales and Anaximander, until the final destruction of the greatest library of the ancient world in the year 415.The life stories of the most famous and important people in history from 600 BCE to 415 CE are also told: Cleopatra, Caesar and Marc Antony, Draco and Spartacus, Caligula and Hannibal. The development of many aspects of life that we associate with the modern day are told about as well: shopping malls, pipe organs, machine guns, vending machines, robots for war, even an analog computer built 2100 years ago and much more.The human mind never stops wondering, and this is the story of the first thousand years of our commitment to that wonder.
Author : Joseph ibn Nahmias
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520287991
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Light of the World written by Joseph ibn Nahmias and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an editionÑwith an extensive introduction, translation and commentaryÑof The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The textÕs most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua in the early sixteenth century. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, The Light of the World is an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy.
Author : American Mathematical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Abstracts of Papers Presented to the American Mathematical Society written by American Mathematical Society and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Heath
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486240746
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book A History of Greek Mathematics: From Aristarchus to Diophantus written by Thomas Heath and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of an authoritative two-volume set that covers the essentials of mathematics and features every landmark innovation and every important figure, including Euclid, Apollonius, and others.
Author : Charles G. Fraser
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148759724X
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Half-Hours with Great Scientists written by Charles G. Fraser and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1948-12-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present age is sometimes called the Scientific Age. This does not imply that every member of the community is an expert scientist—far from it. It does mean, however, that the labours of the scientists have given the age certain features which influence the life of every citizen to some degree. Accordingly it is desirable that as many as possible should have some understanding of the scientists' work, of their aims, their point of view, and their methods. If we had a wishing-rug or some sort of spare-time car that could transport us at will to any place and time, we might visit the scientists of every age, see them at work, listen to their discussions, and even take a hand in the proceedings. The wishing-rug is not available but the literature of science will serve the purpose for anyone who will do the necessary searching, reading, and thinking. Unfortunately, some of that literature is decidedly inaccessible. To meet the difficulty this book has been written in the hope of bringing some of the most important passages of the literature of science within the reach of everyone. Every past of the vast edifice of science is necessarily the work of some human being, and most of us become more interested in the building, and are able to understand and appreciate it better when we know who were the architects and builders and when, how, and why they did their work. The story of science is a noble epic of the struggle of man from ignorance toward knowledge and wisdom and toward the mastery of nature and of himself. One purpose of science is to systematize experience, and a knowledge of the story of science has helped many in that process of organization. This book, therefore, offers the reader a cordial invitation to embark on a tour of visits with great scientists to learn from them the parts they played in the advancement of science and of the human race. Here is a treasure-house of fascinating information for all who are interested in the world around us, and the history of man's understanding of it.
Author : John Freely
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857731017
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Light from the East written by John Freely and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began with the translation of Greek manuscripts into Arabic in eighth-century Baghdad, preserved and enhanced the knowledge acquired from Greece, Mesopotamia, India and China. Through the astrologers, physicians, philosophers, mathematicians and alchemists of the Muslim world, this knowledge was carried from Samarkand and Baghdad to Cordoba and beyond, influencing western thinkers from Thomas Aquinas and Copernicus and helping to inspire the cultural phenomenon of the Renaissance. John Freely tells this spellbinding story against a background of the melting pot of cultures involved and concludes with the decline of Islam's Golden Age, which led the West to forget the debt it owed to the Muslim world and the influence of medieval Islamic civilisation in forging the beginnings of modern science.
Author : Robert Stawell Ball
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy written by Robert Stawell Ball and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adriana Destro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004337660
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book From Jesus to his First Followers: Continuity and Discontinuity written by Adriana Destro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jesus to His First Followers examines to what extent early Christian groups were in continuity or discontinuity with respect to Jesus. Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce concentrate on the transformation of religious practices. Their anthropological-historical analysis focuses on the relations between discipleship and households, on the models of contact with the supernatural world, and on cohabitation among distinct religious groups. The book highlights how Matthew uses non-Jewish instruments of legitimation, John reformulates religious experiences through symbolized domestic slavery, Paul adopts a religious practice diffused in Roman-Hellenistic environments. The book reconstructs the map of early Christian groups in the Land of Israel and explains their divergences on the basis of an original theory of the local origin of Gospels’ information.
