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Proceedings of the Joint Discussion-17 at the 23rd IAU General Assembly, organised by the Commission 41, held in Kyoto, Japan, August 25-26, 1997
Author : S.M. Ansari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401598622
Proceedings of the Joint Discussion-17 at the 23rd IAU General Assembly, organised by the Commission 41, held in Kyoto, Japan, August 25-26, 1997
Author : S. M. Ansari
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2014-01-15
Category :
ISBN : 9789401598637
Author : Zhenoao Xu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2000-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789056993023
Historical astronomical records can play an important role in modern research, especially in the case of ancient Chinese observational data: sunspot and aurora records are important for the study of solar variability; solar and lunar eclipse records for the study of the Earth's rotation; records of Comet Hally for the study of orbital evolution; "guest star" records for the study of supernova remnants; planetary conjunction records for research in astronomical chronology. In the past, Western scientists have not been able to exploit these valuable data fully because the original records were difficult to gather and interpret, and complete English translations have not been available. East-Asian Archaeoastronomy is the first comprehensive translation into English of such historical records for modern research. The book also features an introduction to East Asian astronomy and offers guidance on how to use the records effectively. It will not only be a valuable research tool for astronomers but should also be of great interest to historians of China and Chinese science.
Author : A. K. Bag
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Astronomy, Arab
ISBN :
Author : Wayne Orchiston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030627772
This edited volume contains 24 different research papers by members of the History and Heritage Working Group of the Southeast Asian Astronomy Network. The chapters were prepared by astronomers from Australia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Scotland, Sweden, Thailand and Vietnam. They represent the latest understanding of cultural and scientific interchange in the region over time, from ethnoastronomy to archaeoastronomy and more. Gathering together researchers from various locales, this volume enabled new connections to be made in service of building a more holistic vision of astronomical history in Southeast Asia, which boasts a proud and deep tradition.
Author : Wayne Orchiston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2011-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 1441981616
With just 400 pages, this title provides readers with the results of recent research from some of the world's leading historians of astronomy on aspects of Arabic, Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and North and South American astronomy and astrophysics. Of particular note are the sections on Arabic astronomy, Asian applied astronomy and the history of Australian radio astronomy, and the chapter on Peruvian astronomy. This title is of particular appeal to those with research interests in applied historical astronomy; archaeoastronomy; calendars, manuscripts, and star charts; historical instruments and observatories, and the history of radio astronomy.
Author : Christopher Cullen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521550890
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Author : Shigeru Nakayama
Publisher :
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 1969-01
Category : Astronomie - Histoire - Japon
ISBN : 9780196265339
Author : Anton Pannekoek
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486659941
Well-balanced, carefully reasoned study covers such topics as Ptolemaic theory, work of Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Eddington's work on stars, much more. Illustrated. References.
Author : Nathan Sivin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387789561
China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.