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51. Varahamihira (505 - 587) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Shukla states in [11]:-. The Pancasiddhantika of Varahamihira is one of the most important sources for the history of Hindu astronomy before the time of Aryabhata I I. ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the

52. Ptolemy's hypotheses of astronomy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Near the beginning of Book I of the Almagest, Ptolemy sets out the hypotheses of Ptolemaic astronomy:-. ... motion of each star is always seen to begin from the same point?

53. Sundials - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: xvi, 333 p : ill ; 28 cm. S Schechner, The Material Culture of Astronomy in Daily Life: Sundials, Science, and Social Change. ... Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2001. xxxii(108): p. 189-222. J Fermor, Timing the sun in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

54. Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Halley's other activities included studying archaeology, geophysics, the history of astronomy, and the solution of polynomial equations. ... Ed. 2 (4) (1986), 25-27. F Verbunt, M van der Sluys, Why Halley Did Not Discover Proper Motion and Why Cassini Did

55. Missing_Planet - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: C J Cunningham, B G Marsden and W Orchiston, Giuseppe Piazzi: The Controversial Discovery and Loss of Ceres in 1801, Journal for the History of Astronomy 42 (3) (2011), 283-306. ... L Weiss, Gauss and Ceres, History of Mathematics Term Paper (Rutgers,

56. Hellman's books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: The Comet of 1577: Its Place in the History of Astronomy, by C Doris Hellman (1944). ... Nevertheless the book is a very valuable contribution to the history of astronomy.

57. Al-Biruni (973 - 1048) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    30 Dec 2023: Shadows is an extremely important source for our knowledge of the history of mathematics, astronomy, and physics. ... M S Khan, An examination of al-Biruni's knowledge of Indian astronomy, in History of oriental astronomy (Cambridge, 1987), 139-145.

58. Indian numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    10 Jul 2023: In particular his account of Indian astronomy and mathematics is a valuable contribution to the study of the history of Indian science. ... show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

59. J Ruska on Heinrich Suter - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: In fact Suter might have been motivated by the example of the Zurich astronomer Rudolf Wolf, who prepared his history of astronomy at the same time. ... From that time on there appeared minor or major works about the history of Arabian mathematics and

60. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 - 1274) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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    30 Dec 2023: In his model Nasir, for the first time in the history of astronomy, employed a theorem invented by himself which, 250 years later, occurred again in Copernicus, "De Revolutionibus", III 4. ... Gos. Univ. (N.S.) Vyp. 229 (1972), 124-127. U Ataev, The