‎BAKER (R.H.)‎
‎Astronomy‎

‎A MANUAL OF SPHERICAL AND PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY‎

‎2E EDITION‎

‎A MANUAL OF SPHERICAL AND PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY. EMBRACING THE GENERAL PROBLEMS OF SPHERICAL ASTRONOMY, THE SPECIAL APPLICATIONS TO NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY, AND THE THEORYLAND USE OF FIXED AND PORTABLE ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS. WITH AN APPENDIXON THE METHOD OF LEAST QUARES. 2 VOLUMES , 1 : SPHERICAL ASTRONOMY, 2 : THEORY AND USE OF ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS. METHOD OF LEAST QUARES PHILADELPHIA. J.B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., & LONDON, TRUBNER & CO. 1864 SECOND EDITION 25.5 cm, sm4to, revised and corrected, 708 & 632 pp , + 15 diagram plates (inc. 3 folding), in the original diamond grain plumbcloth, spines slightly faded, gilt spine titles clears, library discardstamp on the title pages, armorial bookplates, a very good to fine soundset (cgc) William CHAUVENET, 1820-1870, an American mathematician, born in milford, Pennsylvania. He graduated at Yale in 1840. In 1841 he was appointed professor of mathematics in the Navy, and a year later succeded to the chair of mathematics at the naval in Philadelphia. He was very active in the movement that led to the establishment of the U.S naval academy at Annapolis. At first he was professor of mathematics and astronomy there, and later of astronomy, navigation, and surveying, and always the most prominent of the academic staff. In 1855, he was offered the professorship of mathematics, and in 1859 that of astronomy and natural philosophy at Yale, but both honors were declined. During the same year, he was elected to the chair of mathematics in Washington University, st louis, and in 1862, he was chosen chancellor of the university. This book is a detailed treatise combining contemporary European advancements along with new American methods using electric telegraph and the zenith telescope. Chauvenet has included his own method for reducing lunar distances, first published in the American ephemeris in 1855 along with the tables for its application. In-4, percale éditeur, couvertures état moyen‎

‎First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy?s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200), H. Zepeda‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2018 Hardback, X+662 p., 136 b/w ill., 12 b/w tables, 178 x 254 mm, Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503581378.‎

‎This volume presents a critical edition, translation, and study of one of the most important works of medieval science, the Almagesti minor, the earliest Latin commentary on Ptolemy?s Almagest. This summary of the first half of the Almagest incorporated the astronomy of Islamic astronomers and altered Ptolemy?s work to make it accord with the author?s scientific ideals. The Almagesti minor had a profound effect upon astronomical writings throughout the 13th-15th centuries, including the work of Georg Peurbach, Johannes Regiomontanus, and many others. The Almagesti minor is one of the most important works of medieval astronomy. Probably written in northern France circa 1200, it is a Latin summary of the first six books of Ptolemy?s astronomical masterpiece, the Almagest. Also known to modern scholars as the ?Almagestum parvum?, the Almagesti minor provides a clear example of how a medieval scholar understood Ptolemy?s authoritative writing on cosmology, spherical astronomy, solar theory, lunar theory, and eclipses. The author incorporated the findings of astronomers of the Islamic world, such as al-Batt?n?, into the framework of Ptolemaic astronomy, and he altered the format and style of Ptolemy?s astronomy in order to make it accord with his own ideals of a mathematical science, which were primarily derived from Euclid?s Elements. The Almagesti minor had a profound effect upon astronomical writing throughout the 13th-15th centuries, including the work of Georg Peurbach and Johannes Regiomontanus. In this first volume of the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus text series, Henry Zepeda offers not only a critical edition of this little-studied text, but also a translation into English, analysis of both the text and its geometrical figures, and a thorough study of the work?s origins, sources, and long-lasting influence. Henry Zepeda is a historian of science. He is a Teaching Fellow at Wyoming Catholic College, and he previously worked in the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research is focused upon medieval mathematics and astronomy of the 12th to 15th centuries. ‎

‎New techniques in space astronomy Symposium N°41 held in Munich, Germany, august 10-14, 1970 International astronomical union Sommaire: Gamma-Rays astronomy; X-ray astronomy...‎

‎D.Reidel. 1971. In-8. Relié. Très bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 418 pages augmentées de quelques graphiques et photos en noir et blanc dans texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Texte écrit en anglais. Etiquette sur coiffe en pied. Sommaire: Gamma-Rays astronomy; X-ray astronomy... Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Vistas in astronomy volume 15 Sommaire: Astronomy, the preople and the governments; Image tubes in astronomy; High-speed photometry ...‎

‎Pergamon press. 1973. In-8. Relié. Très bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 192 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 410-Linguistique‎

‎Texte écrit en anglais. Sommaire: Astronomy, the preople and the governments; Image tubes in astronomy; High-speed photometry ... Classification Dewey : 410-Linguistique‎

‎Wentzel M. Field Astronomy. Part 2. Practical Astronomy In Russian (ask us if in‎

‎Wentzel M. Field Astronomy. Part 2. Practical Astronomy In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Venttsel M. Polevaya astronomiya. Chast 2. Prakticheskaya astronomiyaApproved by the All-Union Committee for Higher School Affairs of the Soviet Peoples Congress of the USSR as a textbook for geodetic inspections of the Redbureau of the State Directorate of Civil Engineering of the Soviet Peoples Congress of the USSR in 1940 312 p.. SKUalb7e2f70013fa29376.‎