Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical IntroductionMacDonald and Janes, 1974 - 413 oldal |
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... Hipparchos of Nicaea in Bithynia ( c . 190-120 B.C. ) , who worked partly in his native town , and partly on the island of Rhodes . Hipparchos was equally eminent as an observer and a theoreti- cal astronomer . Moreover , he was ...
... Hipparchos of Nicaea in Bithynia ( c . 190-120 B.C. ) , who worked partly in his native town , and partly on the island of Rhodes . Hipparchos was equally eminent as an observer and a theoreti- cal astronomer . Moreover , he was ...
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... Hipparchos is as follows . From the triangles TDP , and TDP , we have R R = e sin e - and sin λa sin p cos λa from which follows sin p e sin p tgλa = and sin q R sin " q The small angles p and q can be found from the lengths of the ...
... Hipparchos is as follows . From the triangles TDP , and TDP , we have R R = e sin e - and sin λa sin p cos λa from which follows sin p e sin p tgλa = and sin q R sin " q The small angles p and q can be found from the lengths of the ...
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... Hipparchos some 300 years earlier ( although in some cases he had older Babylonian data to go by ) Muslim astrono- mers were in a more fortunate position . Working in the ninth and tenth centuries , 700 years after Ptolemy and 1,000 ...
... Hipparchos some 300 years earlier ( although in some cases he had older Babylonian data to go by ) Muslim astrono- mers were in a more fortunate position . Working in the ninth and tenth centuries , 700 years after Ptolemy and 1,000 ...
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