Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical IntroductionMacDonald and Janes, 1974 - 413 oldal |
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... final cause is the purpose of the whole process . It is easy to apply these causal categories to many human activities . When a house is constructed , the material cause is bricks , and timber . The formal cause is the architect's ...
... final cause is the purpose of the whole process . It is easy to apply these causal categories to many human activities . When a house is constructed , the material cause is bricks , and timber . The formal cause is the architect's ...
91. oldal
... final result . The Moon ( Fig . 7.15 ) still moves in retrograde direction on an epicycle the centre of MS ecliptic deferent small epicycle ML Fig . 7.15 . Ptolemy's final lunar theory . circle which moves on a deferent circle . But ...
... final result . The Moon ( Fig . 7.15 ) still moves in retrograde direction on an epicycle the centre of MS ecliptic deferent small epicycle ML Fig . 7.15 . Ptolemy's final lunar theory . circle which moves on a deferent circle . But ...
98. oldal
... final Book XIII Ptolemy takes up the problem of latitudes . Here he first places the deferent of the planet in a plane in- clined to the plane of the ecliptic and intersecting it along the nodal line . In the superior planets the ...
... final Book XIII Ptolemy takes up the problem of latitudes . Here he first places the deferent of the planet in a plane in- clined to the plane of the ecliptic and intersecting it along the nodal line . In the superior planets the ...
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