| Title: | Instruments - Observations - Theories: Studies in the History of Astronomy in Honor of James Evans |
| Other Titles: | 01 Alan Thorndike Triangular Gear Teeth 02 Paul Iversen The Antikythera Mechanism, Rhodes, and Epeiros 03 J. H. Seiradakis Is there a connection between the 1897 Cretan Revolt and the discovery of the Antikythera Shipwreck? 04 Denis Savoie Three examples of ancient “universal” portable sundials 05 Karlheinz Schaldach Buchner’s findings at the Horologium 06 Robert Hannah Putting the astronomy back into Greek calendrics: the parapegma of Euctemon 07 Daryn Lehoux Image, Text, and Pattern: Reconstructing Parapegmata 08 Dennis W Duke The Equant in India Redux 09 N. M. Swerdlow A curiosity: Did Ptolemy see Uranus? 10 Alexander Jones Limits of observation and pseudoempirical arguments in Ptolemy’s Harmonics and Almagest 11 Christián Carman On the distances of the sun and moon according to Hipparchus 12 J. M. Steele Geminos and Babylonian Astronomy 13 Nathan Sidoli Mathematical discourse in philosophical authors: Examples from Theon of Smyrna and Cleomedes on mathematical astronomy 14 F. Jamil Ragep The Origins of the Ṭūsī-Couple Revisited 15 J. L. Berggren What every young astronomer needs to know about spherical astronomy: Jābir ibn Aflaḥ’s “Preliminaries” to his Improvement of the Almagest 16 Michel-Pierre Lerner Traduttore-traditore: Thomas Digges as Translator and Interpreter of Copernicus’ Cosmology in De revolutionibus 17 Owen Gingerich Gallucci’s pseudo Copernican equatorium, Venice, 1593 18 Michael Hoskin The Georgian Star |
| Authors: | Jones, Alexander Carman, Christián |
| Keywords: | Greek astronomy;Greco-Roman technology;history of astronomy;Greek astrology;Babylonian astronomy;Babylonian astrology;Greece, modern, history;Greco-Roman time reckoning;Ptolemy;Hipparchus;Antikythera Mechanism;astronomy, modern;Islamic astronomy |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/61288 |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.3928498 |
| Rights: | Open access distribution under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) license |
| Appears in Collections: | Alexander Jones' Publications |
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| 00. Preface.pdf | Christián Carman Preface | 112.96 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 01. Thorndike.pdf | Alan Thorndike Triangular Gear Teeth | 809.18 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 02. Iversen.pdf | Paul Iversen The Antikythera Mechanism, Rhodes, and Epeiros | 740.84 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 03. Seiradakis.pdf | J. H. Seiradakis Is there a connection between the 1897 Cretan Revolt and the discovery of the Antikythera Shipwreck? | 1.29 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 04. Savoie.pdf | Denis Savoie Three examples of ancient “universal” portable sundials | 4.93 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 05. Schaldach.pdf | Karlheinz Schaldach Buchner’s findings at the Horologium | 1.09 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 06. Hannah.pdf | Robert Hannah Putting the astronomy back into Greek calendrics: the parapegma of Euctemon | 403.55 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 07. Lehoux.pdf | Daryn Lehoux Image, Text, and Pattern: Reconstructing Parapegmata | 3.27 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 08. Duke.pdf | Dennis W Duke The Equant in India Redux | 1.12 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 09. Swerdlow.pdf | N. M. Swerdlow A curiosity: Did Ptolemy see Uranus? | 296.56 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 10. Jones.pdf | Alexander Jones Limits of observation and pseudoempirical arguments in Ptolemy’s Harmonics and Almagest | 807.05 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 11. Carman.pdf | Christián Carman On the distances of the sun and moon according to Hipparchus | 1.78 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 12. Steele.pdf | J. M. Steele Geminos and Babylonian Astronomy | 140.06 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 13. Sidoli.pdf | Nathan Sidoli Mathematical discourse in philosophical authors: Examples from Theon of Smyrna and Cleomedes on mathematical astronomy | 228.24 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 14. Ragep.pdf | F. Jamil Ragep The Origins of the Ṭūsī-Couple Revisited | 1.15 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 15. Berggren.pdf | J. L. Berggren What every young astronomer needs to know about spherical astronomy: Jābir ibn Aflaḥ’s “Preliminaries” to his Improvement of the Almagest | 685.97 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 16. Lerner.pdf | Michel-Pierre Lerner Traduttore-traditore: Thomas Digges as Translator and Interpreter of Copernicus’ Cosmology in De revolutionibus | 190.8 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 17. Gingerich.pdf | Owen Gingerich Gallucci’s pseudo Copernican equatorium, Venice, 1593 | 3.66 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| 18. Hoskin.pdf | Michael Hoskin The Georgian Star | 161.03 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| Instruments Observations Theories.pdf | Entire book | 21.13 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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