Euclids Phaenomena

Download or read book Euclid's Phaenomena written by J. L. Berggren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996, this book contains a translation and study of Euclid's Phaenomena, a work which once formed part of the mathematical training of astronomers from Central Asia to Western Europe. Included is an introduction that sets Euclid's geometry of the celestial sphere, and its application to the astronomy of his day, into its historical context for readers not already familiar with it. So no knowledge of astronomy or advanced mathematics is necessary for an understanding of the work. The book shows mathematical astronomy shortly before the invention of trigonometry, which allowed the calculation of exact results and the subsequent composition of Ptolemy's Almagest. This work and the (roughly) contemporaneous treatises of Autolycus and Aristarchos form a corpus of the oldest extant works on mathematical astronomy. Together with Euclid's Optics one has the beginnings of the history of science as an application of mathematics.

Download or read book The Cambridge Ancient History: The Hellenistic monarchies and the rise of Rome written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Ancient History ... written by John Bagnell Bury and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements written by Thomas L. Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1926, this book contains the first volume of a three-volume English translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements.

Download or read book The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements written by Euclid and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Path of the Moon written by Francesca Rochberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy. "The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination." Lorenzo Verderame, "Sapienza" Università di Roma "The reader interested in the multifaceted presentation of the problems related to the explanation of Babylonian celestial divination and well equipped with the knowledge of Akkadian will certainly be rewarded by the study of Rochberg’s latest publication." Henryk Drawnel, SDB

Download or read book The Cambridge Ancient History written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: