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  • Calendars and Years

    Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East

    by John M. Steele ...
    Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated schematic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East

    by John M. Steele ...
    The Middle East is the birthplace of astronomy and the centre for its development during the medieval period. In this brief introduction John Steele offers an intriguing insight into Middle Eastern achievements in astronomy and their profound influence on the rest of the world. Amongst other things, the book traces the Late Babylonians' ingenious schemes for modelling planetary motion. It also ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calendars and Years II

    Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World

    Edited by John M. Steele ...
    Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history. Equally important, however, is understanding the basis upon which our current knowledge of these calendars rests. This second volume of Calendars and Years explores the calendars of ancient and medieval China, India, the ancient Jewish world, the medieval Islamic world, and the Maya. ... Read more

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  • Living the Lunar Calendar

    Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, John M. Steele ...
    Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars which rely on such observations to define the beginning of a new month therefore suffer from this lack of ... Read more

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  • Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757)

    by John M. Steele ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the moon’s ‘secular acceleration’, as this newly-discovered acceleration became known. This book contains the first detailed study of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy

    by John M. Steele ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at that point to rise above the eastern horizon. Schemes known as “rising time schemes” were used to give lengths of the celestial ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • A Mathematician's Journeys

    Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science

    Edited by Alexander Jones, Christine Proust, John M. Steele ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of science will head in the twenty-first century. Neugebauer, more than any other scholar of recent times, shaped the way we perceive ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
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  • Introducing Stephen Hawking

    A Graphic Guide

    by J.P. McEvoy ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - FocusStephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside of his academic field his work was little understood. To the public he was a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 13 Journeys Through Space and Time

    Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution

    by Colin Stuart, Tim Peake ...
    Series Book 1 - The RI Lectures
    An exploration of space and time and a journey of discovery, through thirteen of the most fascinating Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain over the last 200 years. With a foreword by ESA astronaut Tim Peake.Started at the Royal Institution (RI) in 1825 by Michael Faraday, the Christmas Lectures have been broadcast on television since the 1960s and have formed part of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology

    Edited by Patrick Bonner ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view of modern science as a straightforward successor to Aristotelian natural philosophy. It shows how astronomers dealt with celestial novelties by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Comet of the Enlightenment

    Anders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries

    by Johan C.-E. Stén ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The Finnish mathematician and astronomer Anders Johan Lexell (1740–1784) was a long-time close collaborator as well as the academic successor of Leonhard Euler at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Lexell was initially invited by Euler from his native town of Abo (Turku) in Finland to Saint Petersburg to assist in the mathematical processing of the astronomical data of the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD