Astronomy

Sir George Cornewall Lewis.. AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ASTRONOMY OF THE ANCIENTS. Todd Pratum, 2004.
Original 1862 London. 527p. This new high quality cloth reproduction of the original edition is a new experiment in producing high quality reprints of some of the older important books. This is NOT one of our spiral bound reprints, but a beautiful new hardcover book by Pratum Books. Selected Contents: Primitive Astronomy of the Greeks & Romans; Greek World Conception; Solar Year; Lunar Year & Month; Discordance of Greek Calendars; Carian, Acarnanian & Arcadian Years; Short Egyptian Year; Roman Year; Fixed Stars; Early Divination; Philosophical Astronomy of the Greeks from Thales to Democritus; Origin of Astronomy in Greece; Eclipse of Thales; Solon's Reform of Athenian Calendar; Astronomical Doctrines of Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Xenophanes; Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Apollonia, Socrates, Meton, Leucippus, Democritus; Trieteric & Octaeteric Intercalary Cycles; Astronomical Speculations of Pythagoras & His School; Philolaic System of the Universe; Pythagorean Cycles; Scientific Astronomy of the Greeks from Plato to Eratosthenes; Hypothesis of Planetary Motions; Astronomical Doctrines of Aristotle, Callippus, Hicetas, Ecphantus, Theophrastus, Eudemus, Autolycus, Euclid, Aristarchus, Archimedes, Aristyllus; Measures of Daily Time; Rotation of Earth on its Axis; The Phaenomena of Euclid; Heliocentric System of Aristarchus; Alexandrine School of Astronomers; Timaeus & The Motion of the Earth; On the Dials of the Ancients; Prediction of Eclipses; Uniform Calendar & Religious Festivals; Roman Measures of Time; Order of the Planets, Revolution of Inferior Planets Around Sun; Ptolemy; Geocentric System; Astronomy of Babylonians & Egyptians; Origin of Astronomical Observation; Chaldean & Egyptian Priests as Astronomical Observers; Egyptian Solar Year; Egyptian Astronomy Passed to Greece; Length of Egyptian Year; The Canicular or Sothiac Period; Astrological Divination of Chaledeans; Origins of Astrology; Early History & Chronology of Egyptians; Plato's Chronology; Early History & Chronology of Assyrians; Babylonian History; Nineveh & Babylon; Astronomical Canon; Evidence of Age of the World; Navigation of the Phoenicians; Phoenicians Originators of Astronomy..

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Davidson, Martin D.Sc., F.R.A.S. : THE STARS AND THE MIND. -- - A Study of the Impact of Astronomical Development on Human Thought - 19 photographs & 15 Illustrations in b & w ---. THE SCIENTIFIC BOOK CLUB, London, 1947
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x & 8 & 210 Seiten, Original-Pappeinband, Größe 8°, - Preface, List of Illustrations, List of Plates & 1. Chinese Astronomy 2. The Chaldeans 3. Egyptian Astronomy 4. Hindu Astronomy 5. Greek Astronomy 6. Hebrew Astronomy 7. Hebrew Astronomy {continued) 8. ASTRONOMY OF THE MlDDLE AGES 9. COPERNICUS 10. Tycho Brahe 11. Johann Kepler 12. Galileo de Galilei 13. Isaac Newton 14. From Newton to Recent Times 15. Impact of Astronomical Developments on the Christian Faith 16. Sir Edmund T. Whittaker on Cosmogony and Religion 17. The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the BEGINNING of THE UNIVERSE 18. The Expanding Universe 19. THE HEAT and LIGHT OF THE STARS ARE MAINTAINED 20. CONCLUSION & Index -Braun-Naturwissenschaft First Auflage,

[SW: - Astrophysik - Himmelskunde -]

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K.D. Abhayankar, B.G. Siddharth: Treasures of Ancient Indian Astronomy, Ajanta Books ,1993 ,New Delhi ISBN: 8120203542

The book arises out of a seminar held in 1987 at Birla Planetarium Hyderabad on Ancient Indian Astronomy. Divided in 5 sections-vedic astronomy, astronomy of vedanga jyotisa, siddhantic and calendaric astronomy, puranic astronomy, miscellaneous aspects of indian astronomy. 14 papers in all.Without dustjacket.; Hardbound

[SW: Ancient History, India, Astronomy]

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Milone, Eugene F./Kelley, David H. Exploring Ancient Skies A Survey of Ancient and Cultural Astronomy. Vorwort: Aveni, A. F. SPRINGER, BERLIN, Januar 2011 ISBN: 144197623X
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 A.D., the lion horoscope, and 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 as a text for students in both astronomy and archaeology, and will be of compelling interest to readers who seek a broad understanding of our collective intellectual history.

NEUBUCH! 2nd Edition. 2011. 611 S. 392 SW-Abb., 8 Farbabb. 279 mm 279 mm x 216 mm 392 schwarz-weiße und 8 farbige Abbildungen

[SW: Kosmologie]

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