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No one recognises more than the mathematical astronomer this feebleness of the
human intellect, and no one is more conscious of the limitations of the logical
process called mathematics, which even now has not solved directly the problem
...
No one recognises more than the mathematical astronomer this feebleness of the
human intellect, and no one is more conscious of the limitations of the logical
process called mathematics, which even now has not solved directly the problem
...
Page 11
Since, however, the records of the libraries have been unearthed it has been
recognised that the Babylonians were in no way inferior in the matter of original
scientific investigation to other races of the same era. .TUr Chalrlapans. heinf the
...
Since, however, the records of the libraries have been unearthed it has been
recognised that the Babylonians were in no way inferior in the matter of original
scientific investigation to other races of the same era. .TUr Chalrlapans. heinf the
...
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He had the most profound respect for the knowledge, skill, determination, and
perseverance of the man who had reaped such a harvest of most accurate data ;
and though D Tycho hardly recognised the transcendent genius of the man who.
He had the most profound respect for the knowledge, skill, determination, and
perseverance of the man who had reaped such a harvest of most accurate data ;
and though D Tycho hardly recognised the transcendent genius of the man who.
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Contents
Ancient AstronomyChinese and Chaldeans | 7 |
Ancient Greek Astronomy | 13 |
The Reign of Epicycles From Ptolemy | 23 |
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accurate observations Airy ancient astro Astronomer Royal astronomical units attraction axis bright calculations Cape Cassini catalogue centre century Chinese comet compute Copernicus diameter discovered discovery earth eclipse Egyptian epicycles equatoreal error excentric explain fact fixed stars Galileo Greenwich Halley Halley's comet heavenly bodies heavens heliometer Hipparchus Huggins hydrogen hypothesis instruments Johann Kepler John Herschel Jupiter Jupiter's Kepler Lick Observatory light line of sight lunar Mars mathematical mean distance mean motion measured Mercury meteor miles a second moon moon's nebula Newton nodes noticed Observatory orbit parallax perihelion period photographic physical planet planetary pole position predicted proper motion proved Ptolemy R. S. Phil recognised records refractor retrograde retrograde motion revolve round ring rotation satellites seems seen showed Sirius solar system spectra spectroscope spectrum sphere spots stellar sun-spots supposed tables telescope theory tion Trans Tycho Brahe Uranus velocity Venus Verrier zenith
Bibliographic information
| Title | History of Astronomy The history of science series |
| Author | George Forbes |
| Publisher | Watts, 1921 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 5 Aug 2010 |
| Length | 150 pages |
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