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31. Egyptian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Egyptian_mathematics/

    18 Jan 2024: Knowing when the rainy season was about to arrive was vital and the study of astronomy developed to provide calendar information. ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

32. Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 May 2023: When she was fifteen years old she began to write her own history of astronomy. ... However she is perhaps best known for A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century (1885).

33. The Dynamics of the Solar System - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/dynamics/

    7 Mar 2023: See: Reaches of the Milky Way]. References:. A Berry, A short history of astronomy from the earliest times through the nineteenth century (New York, 1961). ... M Hoskin A Very Short Introduction: The History of Astronomy (New York, 2003).

34. Brinkley Astronomy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1813 Brinkley published his textbook The Elements of Astronomy. A second edition was published in 1819. ... 2. Preface to Brinkley's Astronomy (1871). The Elements of Astronomy of Bishop Brinkley has for more than sixty years been used as a textbook

35. Ulugh Beg (1393 - 1449) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    4 Jan 2024: enemies). Although in this archive we are primarily interested in Ulugh Beg's achievements in mathematics and astronomy, we need to examine the history of the area since it had such ... Beg (Russian), Questions on the history of mathematics and astronomy

36. Egyptian Papyri - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Egyptian_papyri/

    18 Jan 2024: G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... Inst. Math. Appl. 16 (10) (1980), 219-221. S Gandz, A few notes on Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics, in Studies and Essays in the History of

37. The Reaches of the Milky Way - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/galaxy/

    7 Mar 2023: 3. D Leverington, Encyclopaedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Cambridge, 2013). ... Revolutionizing Cosmology) (Chicago,2005). 5. M Hoskin, The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy (Ch 8.

38. Euclid on elementary astronomy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Although Euclid wrote a text on elementary astronomy, it is simply a work on spherical geometry, justified by its application to astronomy. ... in one body, while the eye is equidistant from the circumferences of the circles.

39. Giuseppe Piazzi (1746 - 1826) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: I Chinnici, The relationship between the Ramsden Circles at Palermo and Dunsink, Journal for the History of Astronomy 40 (2009), 321-333. ... M Hurn, Secrets of the 1814 Palermo Star Catalogue, Society for the History of Astronomy (Annual General Meeting,

40. The Infinite Universe - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/universe/

    7 Mar 2023: References:. M Longair, The Cosmic Century (New York, 2006). D Leverington, Encyclopaedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Cambridge, 2013). ... Revolutionizing Cosmology) (Chicago,2005). M Hoskin, The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy