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Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England
Author | : Francis Rarick Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105004696733 |
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Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England
Author | : Francis R. Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : LCCN:37033234 |
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Astronomical thought in Renaissance England
Author | : Francis R. Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1067695199 |
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Astronomical thought in Renaissance England
Author | : Francis R. Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:164503095 |
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Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545 1622
Author | : Ernest R. Holloway |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004205390 |
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The intellectual legacy of Andrew Melville (1545-1622) as a leader of the Renaissance and a promoter of humanism in Scotland has been obscured by "the Melville legend." In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his life and thought within the broader context of the northern European Renaissance and French humanism and critically re-evaluates the primary historical documents of the period, namely James Melville's Autobiography and Diary and the Melvini epistolae. By considering Melville as a humanist, university reformer, ecclesiastical statesman, and man, an effort has been made to determine his contribution to the flowering of the Renaissance and the growth of humanism in Scotland during the early modern period.
Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon s Motion 1691 1757
Author | : John M. Steele |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2012-02-17 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781461421481 |
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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 the use of ancient and medieval astronomical observations in order to investigate the moon’s secular acceleration from its discovery by Halley to the establishment of the magnitude of the acceleration by Richard Dunthorne, Tobias Mayer and Jérôme Lalande in the 1740s and 1750s. Making extensive use of previously unstudied manuscripts, this work shows how different astronomers used the same small body of preserved ancient observations in different ways in their work on the secular acceleration. In addition, this work looks at the wider context of the study of the moon’s secular acceleration, including its use in debates of biblical chronology, whether the heavens were made up of æther, and the use of astronomy in determining geographical longitude. It also discusses wider issues of the perceptions and knowledge of ancient and medieval astronomy in the early-modern period. This book will be of interest to historians of astronomy, astronomers and historians of the ancient world.
Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe
Author | : Stephen C. McCluskey |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521778522 |
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This book provides an overview of the astronomical practices that continued through the so-called "Dark Ages." Like the astronomies of traditional societies, early medieval astronomies established a religious framework of sacred time and ritual calender; here Christian feasts tied to a pre-Christian ritual solar calender, the date of Easter tied to the Hebrew lunar calender; and the timing of monastic prayers in terms of the course of the stars. Coupled with the remnants of ancient geometrical astronomy, these provided the framework for the rebirth of astronomy with the rise of the medieval universities.
Marriage and Divorce of Astronomy and Astrology A History of Astral Prediction from Antiquity to Newton
Author | : Gordon Fisher |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781411683266 |
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This is a study of the union of astronomy and astrology, and relations to astral worship, from early Babylonian times, through medieval European times, up to and including the time of Isaac Newton, especially in relation to prediction, and with extensions into more recent times. There is also discussion of related matters in other cultures, such as Chinese, Indian, Native American and African.