Chasing shadows [electronic resource] : mathematics, astronomy, and the early history of eclipse reckoning / Clemency Montelle.
Material type: TextSeries: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 408 p. :) illContent type:- text
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- 9780801899102
- 0801899109
- QB175 .M65 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-391) and index.
Heavenly hide and seek: an introduction to eclipse reckoning in early times -- The rudiments of alignment: Basic eclipse theory -- An accountancy of appearances: Mesopotamian eclipse reckoning -- Beyond the appearances: Greek eclipse reckoning -- Recipient and remodeler: Indian eclipse reckoning -- A science of configuration: Arabic eclipse reckoning.
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