Allan Chapman et Patrick Moore - PATRICK MOORE' S MILLENIUM YEARBOOK. - The View from AD 1001.

PATRICK MOORE' S MILLENIUM YEARBOOK. - The View from AD 1001 (Broché)

Name: PATRICK MOORE' S MILLENIUM YEARBOOK.
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Author: Allan Chapman
ISBN: 9781852336196

Allan Chapman, Patrick Moore

Springer
Paru le : 11/01/2000

Doctor Moore and Chapman were given the job of compiling a wide-ranging review of the astronomical state of the art at the end of the millennium. Whether... > Lire la suite

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Doctor Moore and Chapman were given the job of compiling a wide-ranging review of the astronomical state of the art at the end of the millennium. Whether they chose the millennium ending at 1000 A.D. by accident or design is unclear, but the outcome of their labour is particularly fascinating. The Yearbook surveys achievements in Astronomy during the first millennium, and looks at the latest astronomical instruments. It also features a review of a new Star Atlas, and a seminal paper on the properties of light. Allan Chapman is a historian at the University of Oxford. All the history in this book - as far as can be known - is accurate. Neither of the authors would have it otherwise.

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- The New Millennium and the Christian Calendar
- The Night Sky in 1000
- Marvels in the heavens
- The Astronomical Achievements of the first Millennium
- Astronomical Instruments of the first Millennium
- The Astrolabe
- A Letter Relating to the Properties of Light, as Made by Alhazen
- Book Review: Book of the Constellations of the fixed Stars
- Obituary: Abul Wafa
- Astronomy of the Next Millennium.