Narrow your search

Library

UCLouvain (4)

KBR (3)

LUCA School of Arts (2)

Odisee (2)

Thomas More Kempen (2)

Thomas More Mechelen (2)

UCLL (2)

UGent (2)

ULiège (2)

VIVES (2)

More...

Resource type

book (5)


Language

English (4)

French (1)


Year
From To Submit

2014 (1)

2012 (1)

2007 (1)

2004 (1)

1994 (1)

Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by

Book
Le ballet des planètes
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9782804184926 2804184927 Year: 2014 Volume: *11 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

A history of Arabic astronomy : planetary theories during the golden age of Islam
Author:
ISBN: 081477962X 0814780237 9780814780237 9780814779620 Year: 1994 Volume: 19 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): New York University press,

Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, ca. 800-1500
Authors: ---
ISSN: 00659746 ISBN: 0871699435 9780871699435 Year: 2004 Volume: 94/3 Publisher: Philadelphia American Philosophical Society

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
The ballet of the planets : on the mathematical elegance of planetary motion
Author:
ISBN: 1280685727 9786613662668 019989101X 9780199891016 9781280685729 9780199891009 0199891001 0199939292 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion, revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Mathematician Donald Benson shows that ancient theories of planetary motion were based on the assumptions that the Earth was the center of the universe and the planets moved in a uniform circular motion. Since ancient astronomers noted that occasionally a planet would exhibit retrograde motion--would seem to reverse its direction and move briefly westward--they concluded that the planets moved in epicyc

Ordering the heavens : Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian renaissance
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9789004161863 9004161864 9786611936563 1281936561 9047431073 9789047431077 9781281936561 6611936564 Year: 2007 Volume: 8 4 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The astronomy of the Carolingian era has commonly been represented as concerned exclusively with computus , the science of calendar construction as well as arithmetical calculation in general. This volume shows the error of that portrayal by exploring the study and teaching of four Roman texts on astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian world and the diagrams connected to those texts. As each of these works came into use over the Carolingian era, its contributions merged into a progressively more ordered picture of the heavens. Both eccentrics and epicycles appeared by the 840s. These techniques were subsequently introduced clearly and qualitatively to complete the Carolingian enterprise. The primary tool for understanding this effort is the analysis of their diagrams. Medieval and Early Modern Science , volume 8

Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by