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71. James Bradley (1693 - 1762) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bradley/

    23 Nov 2023: According to the historian of astronomy, mathematical astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory Jean Baptist Joseph Delambre, in his 1821 history of astronomy in the 18th century:-. ... M Hoskin, The History of Astronomy (A Very Short Introduction)

72. Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514 - 1574) - Biography - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rheticus/

    23 Jan 2024: place in the history of mathematics is due precisely to his computation of innovative and monumental trigonometrical tables. ... R Hooykaas, Rheticus's lost treatise on Holy Scripture and the motion of the Earth, Journal for the history of astronomy 15

73. Otto Neugebauer - a biographical sketch - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Neugebauer_sketch/

    7 Mar 2023: G Waldo Dunnington edited a section of the National Mathematics Magazine entitled Humanism and History of Mathematics. ... Professor Neugebauer has announced a series of three volumes on the history of ancient astronomy and mathematics.

74. Theon of Alexandria (335 - 405) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Theon/

    30 Dec 2023: T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921). ... O Neugebauer, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (New York, 1975).

75. Dingle books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Dingle_books/

    12 Jul 2023: Dingle devotes his history of modern observational astronomy to Tycho, Galileo, Flamsteed, Bessel (one of three who discovered stellar parallax, an important confirmation of Copernican theory), Adams and Leverrier (co-discoverers ... become more critical

76. Adolphe Rome (1889 - 1971) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rome/

    11 Jan 2024: Died. 9 April 1971. Korbeek-Lo, Belgium. Summary. Adolphe Rome was a classical philologist who worked on the history of ancient Greek mathematics and astronomy, particularly the work of Archimedes, Ptolemy, ... His research interests were mainly in the

77. Pulkovo Observatory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Pulkovo_Observatory/

    7 Mar 2023: The following is taken from three sources: A I Eremeeva, Political Repression and Personality: The History of Political Repression Against Soviet Astronomers, Journal for the History of Astronomy (1995), 297-324; ... The arrests of Eropkin and the Deputy

78. Avicenna (980 - 1037) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Avicenna/

    30 Dec 2023: The second is the most famous single book in the history of medicine. ... Filos. (7) (1980), 62-75; 187. A U Usmanov, Ibn Sina and his contributions in the history of the development of the mathematical sciences (Russian), in Mathematics and astronomy in

79. William Herschel music - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Herschel_William_music/

    7 Mar 2023: In his honour, Burney wrote a long didactic poem entitled Poetical History of Astronomy, of which only a few lines have survived. ... has the same melancholy effect on me as the tones of Dr Franklin's musical glasses.".

80. Mina Fleming (1857 - 1911) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fleming/

    11 Jan 2024: Strategies and Compromises: Women in Astronomy at Harvard College Observatory, Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics. ... Honours Thesis, Harvard University, 1977). P E Mack, Strategies and Compromises: Women in Astronomy at