Greek AstronomyCourier Corporation, 1.01.1991 г. - 192 страници Astronomy as a science began with the Ionian philosophers, with whom Greek philosophy and mathematics also began. While the Egyptians and Babylonians had accomplished much of astronomical worth, it remained for the unrivalled speculative genius of the Greeks, in particular, their mathematical genius, to lay the foundations of the true science of astronomy. In this classic study, a noted scholar discusses in lucid detail the specific advances made by the Greeks, many of whose ideas anticipated the discoveries of modern astronomy. |
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... seen nothing , heard nothing , and , by their neglect to calculate and observe the movements of the stars , have incurred the penalty of death . " Egyptians with whom the Ionian Greeks were in direct relations INTRODUCTION xiii.
... seen to be much greater than was formerly supposed . As early as the second millennium B.C. the Babylonians recognized the zodiac as the circle in which the planets move . They divided it into signs of 30 degrees each ; and , when we ...
... seen at one place only , where there is a circular vent through which the fire shines out , so producing the appearance of the heavenly body . Sun , moon , and stars are therefore like gas - jets , as it were . There is some doubt as to ...
... seen , Herodotus says that the Greeks learnt from the Babylonians about the polos and the gnomon and the twelve parts of the day . Anaximander has yet another claim to undying fame . He was the first to draw a map of the inhabited earth ...
... seen by us because the hemisphere on which we live is turned away from the counter - earth , and therefore from the centre . Incidentally this involves a rotation of the earth about its axis completed in the same time as it takes the ...
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