Greek Astronomy (Dover Books on Astronomy)
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Greek Astronomy
A History of Science — Volume 1. A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans. A History of Science Complete. Man's Place in the Universe.
Don't Know Much About the Universe. The Dialogues of Plato - Ion. Theories of the Universe. On the Philosophy of Discovery: Chapters Historical and Critical.
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A Very Short Introduction. Turn Left at Orion. Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy. A Grand and Bold Thing. Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution. The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way. Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy. The Little Book of Black Holes. Little Green Apples Publishing. A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. Night Sky With the Naked Eye.
Newton's Philosophy of Nature. Heath's history of astronomy ranges from Homer and Hesiod to Aristarchus and includes quotes from numerous thinkers, compilers, and scholasticists from Thales and Anaximander through Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclides. The Works of Archimedes. The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola.
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This edition offers an informative introduction with many valuable insights into the ancient mathematician's life and thought as well as the views of his contemporaries. Modern mathematicians, physicists, science historians, and logicians will find this volume a source of timeless fascination.
How Science was Born in B. The third and second centuries BC witnessed, in the Greek world, a scientific and technological explosion. Greek culture had reached great heights in art, literature and philosophy already in the earlier classical era, but it was in the age of Archimedes and Euclid that science as we know it was born, and gave rise to sophisticated technology that would not be seen again until the 18th century.
This scientific revolution was also accompanied by great changes and a new kind of awareness in many other fields, including art and medicine.
What were the landmarks in the meteoric rise of science years ago? Why are they so little known today, even among scientists, classicists and historians?
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What led to the end of ancient science? Preview — Greek Astronomy by Thomas L. Greek Astronomy by Thomas L. Astronomy as a science began with the Ionian philosophers, with whom Greek philosophy and mathematics also began. While the Egyptians and Babylonians had accomplished much of astronomical worth, it remained for the unrivalled speculative genius of the Greeks, in particular, their mathematical genius, to lay the foundations of the true science of astronomy. In this classic Astronomy as a science began with the Ionian philosophers, with whom Greek philosophy and mathematics also began.
In this classic study, a noted scholar discusses in lucid detail the specific advances made by the Greeks, many of whose ideas anticipated the discoveries of modern astronomy. Pythagoras, born at Samos about B. Heraclides of Pontus c.
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Secondly, Heraclides discovered that Venus and Mercury revolve around the sun like satellites. Perhaps the greatest astronomer of antiquity was Hipparchus, who flourished between and B. He compiled a catalog of fixed stars to the number or more, made great improvements in the instruments used for astronomical observations, and discovered the precession of the equinoxes, among other accomplishments. The astronomy of Hipparchus takes its definitive form in the Syntaxis commonly called the Almagest of Ptolemy, written about A. The extraordinary achievements of these and many more Greek theorists are given full coverage in this erudite account, which blends exceptional clarity with a readable style to produce a work that is not only indispensable for astronomers and historians of science but easily accessible to science-minded lay readers.
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Feb 15, mingusaum rated it it was ok Shelves: An anthology of early Greek cosmological thought prefaced by a sizeable introduction which summarises the reconstructed theories.
This, of course, is only partly true. The translations which make up the second half are serviceable and accessible. Overall, an informative book that gives a decent impression of the various ways Greek thinkers tried to explain the presence and movement of the heavenly bodies.
Leucippus' cosmology, which was innovative if only because it had to harmonise with his atomism, "show[s] no advance on those of his predecessors. However, if actually used, this criterion would have produced a wholly different book.