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61. Chinese overview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: R Calinger, A contextual history of mathematics (New York, 1999). C Cullen, Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China (Cambridge, 1996). ... Y Li, Materials for the Study of the History of Ancient Chinese Mathematics (Chinese) (Shanghai, 1963).

62. Callippus (370 BC - 310 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

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

63. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: S Drake, Galileo, Kepler, and the phases of Venus, Journal for the history of astronomy 15 (1984), 198-208. ... S Drake, Galileo and satellite prediction, Journal for the history of astronomy 10 (1979), 75-95.

64. Righini's publications - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Most of Guglielmo Righini's papers were on astronomy but, from 1962 onwards, he published some important material on the History of Science. ... In particular, Righini was a leading expert on Galileo Galilei and we give a list below of his main works on

65. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre (1749 - 1822) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    2 Nov 2023: In the last part of his career Delambre became interested in the history of mathematics and astronomy. ... in 1821, and his work on the history of astronomy in the eighteenth century was published by Claude Mathieu after Delambre's death.

66. Wilson effect - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: 1. Extract from: Agnes Mary Clerke, A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century (1887), 68-69. ... in November, 1769, a spot of extraordinary size engaged the attention of Alexander Wilson, professor of astronomy in the University of

67. Madhava (1350 - 1425) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: G G Joseph, The crest of the peacock (London, 1991). K V Sarma, A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (Hoshiarpur, 1972). ... R C Gupta, Madhava's rule for finding angle between the ecliptic and the horizon and Aryabhata's knowledge of it, in

68. Ginsburg books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Nov 2023: Interest in the history of scientific thought in American colonies is notable, particularly in medicine, chemistry, astronomy and mathematics. ... The last chapter gives the history of certain words in the terminology of arithmetic.

69. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    25 Jan 2024: the history of mathematics. . ... Glaisher wrote over 400 articles on his main interests of astronomy, special functions, calculation of numerical tables, number theory, and the history of mathematics.

70. 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)