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81. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713 - 1762) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    4 Oct 2023: A Berry, A Short History of Astronomy (Dover Publications, New York, 1961). ... D S Evans, Lacaille: astronomer, traveller; with a new translation of his journal (Pachart History of Astronomy Series, Tucson, 1992).

82. Teixeira on Rocha - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In his famous Portuguese book History of Mathematics in Portugal, which was published in 1934, the year after he died, Gomes Teixeira wrote about Monteiro da Rocha. ... Monteiro da Rocha and Olbers must therefore figure together in the history of

83. Levi ben Gerson (1288 - 1344) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: B R Goldstein, Levi ben Gerson : On instrumental errors and the transversal scale, Journal for the History of Astronomy 8 (1977), 102-112. ... J D North, Levi's astronomical tables, Journal for the History of Astronomy 7 (1976), 212-213.

84. Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: J L E Dreyer, A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler (New York, 1953). ... Hist. Astronom. 19 (4) (1988), 217-237. S Drake, Galileo, Kepler, and the phases of Venus, Journal for the history of astronomy 15 (1984), 198-208.

85. Heavens and their story - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH, ITS HISTORY AND WORK'. 'ASTRONOMY WITHOUT A TELESCOPE, '. 'THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE'. Preface. The present book, which stands in the joint names of my wife and ... It is not intended as a text-book to teach astronomy;

86. Hipparchus (190 BC - 120 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: D R Dicks, The geographical fragments of Hipparchus (London, 1960). J L E Dreyer, A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler (1953). ... O Neugebauer, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (New York, 1975).

87. Apostol Project - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The history of surveying instruments is outlined, from Hero's dioptra to modern orbiting satellites. ... As a teacher, I believe there is a need for good history of mathematics videotapes.

88. Constantin Le Paige (1852 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: During the 1890s he began teaching courses on 'Celestial mechanics and analytical mechanics', the 'Elements of astronomy and geodesy', the 'History of mathematical and physical science', and 'Physical astronomy'. ... Other topics in this area which

89. Otto Neugebauer (1899 - 1990) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: His contributions to the history of ancient mathematics and astronomy continued to astound. ... Among his classic texts we should mention The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (1951) and the three volume History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (1975).

90. Herschel South Africa - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: w-herschel/) which mostly consists of extracts from P Moore and P Collins, Astronomy in Southern Africa (Robert Hale, London, 1977), P Smits, A Brief History of Astronomy in Southern Africa ... This committee had far reaching impact on the history of