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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Study of Wretched Subjects
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    Chapter 2 Some Fundamental Concepts in Ancient Astronomy
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    Chapter 3 Exact Science in Antiquity
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    Chapter 4 The History of Ancient Astronomy: Problems and Methods
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    Chapter 5 Mathematical Methods in Ancient Astronomy
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    Chapter 6 The Transmission of Planetary Theories in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy
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    Chapter 7 The Survival of Babylonian Methods in the Exact Sciences of Antiquity and Middle Ages
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    Chapter 8 Zur Transkription mathematischer und astronomischer Keilschrifttexte
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    Chapter 9 Die Bedeutungslosigkeit der ‚Sothisperiode‘ für die älteste ägyptische Chronologie
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    Chapter 10 The Origin of the Egyptian Calendar
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    Chapter 11 The Egyptian “Decans”
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    Chapter 12 On the Orientation of Pyramids
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    Chapter 13 Über eine Untersuchungsmethode astronomischer Keilschrifttexte
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    Chapter 14 Studies in Ancient Astronomy. VII. Magnitudes of Lunar Eclipses in Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy
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    Chapter 15 Studies in Ancient Astronomy. VIII. The Water Clock in Babylonian Astronomy
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    Chapter 16 The Alleged Babylonian Discovery of the Precession of the Equinoxes
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    Chapter 17 Problems and Methods in Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy Henry Norris Russell Lecture, 1967
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    Chapter 18 The Origin of »System B« of Babylonian Astronomy
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    Chapter 19 On Two Astronomical Passages in Plutarch’s De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo
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    Chapter 20 The Early History of the Astrolabe
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    Chapter 21 The Astronomical Origin of the Theory of Conic Sections
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    Chapter 22 Astronomical Fragments in Galen’s Treatise on Seven-Month Children
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    Chapter 23 The Horoscope of Ceionius Rufius Albinus
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    Chapter 24 On the “Hippopede” of Eudoxus
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    Chapter 25 Apollonius’ Planetary Theory
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    Chapter 26 Notes on Hipparchus
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    Chapter 27 Ptolemy’s Geography, Book VII, Chapters 6 and 7
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    Chapter 28 The Equivalence of Eccentric and Epicyclic Motion According to Apollonius
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    Chapter 29 Melothesia and Dodecatemoria
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    Chapter 30 Decem Tulerunt Fastidia Menses
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    Chapter 31 On Some Aspects of Early Greek Astronomy
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    Chapter 32 On the Allegedly Heliocentric Theory of Venus by Heraclides Ponticus
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    Chapter 33 A Greek World Map
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    Chapter 34 The Astronomy of Maimonides and its Sources
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    Chapter 35 Hindu Astronomy at Newminster in 1428
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    Chapter 36 Tamil Astronomy
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    Chapter 37 Regula Philippi Arrhidaei
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    Chapter 38 Notes on Kepler
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    Chapter 39 Notes on Ethiopic Astronomy
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    Chapter 40 On the Planetary Theory of Copernicus
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    Chapter 41 Appendix C: Astronomical and Calendrical Data in the Tres Riches Heures
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    Chapter 42 Tentyon
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    Chapter 43 Ethiopic Easter Computus
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Title
Astronomy and history : selected essays
Published by
Springer-Verlag, January 1983
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-5559-8
ISBNs
978-0-387-90844-1, 978-1-4612-5559-8
Authors

Neugebauer, O, Neugebauer, O.

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Country Count As %
Switzerland 1 9%
Unknown 10 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 27%
Researcher 2 18%
Professor 2 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 9%
Lecturer 1 9%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 3 27%
Philosophy 1 9%
Mathematics 1 9%
Computer Science 1 9%
Physics and Astronomy 1 9%
Other 2 18%
Unknown 2 18%