Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical IntroductionMacDonald and Janes, 1974 - 413 oldal |
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... Ptolemy is able to develop a theory of eclipses comprising the whole of Book VI . The only serious flaw in Ptolemy's treatment of the motion of the Moon is that his model led to a variation of the distance of the Moon between the limits ...
... Ptolemy is able to develop a theory of eclipses comprising the whole of Book VI . The only serious flaw in Ptolemy's treatment of the motion of the Moon is that his model led to a variation of the distance of the Moon between the limits ...
98. oldal
... Ptolemy has to show that although the various models are derived mainly from observations of oppositions they will reproduce the retrograde move- ments and stationary points found by observation ( Fig . 7.20 ) . To this - East Fig ...
... Ptolemy has to show that although the various models are derived mainly from observations of oppositions they will reproduce the retrograde move- ments and stationary points found by observation ( Fig . 7.20 ) . To this - East Fig ...
99. oldal
... Ptolemy had made the planes of the epicycles parallel to the plane of the ecliptic . It is interesting that Ptolemy made this change in the models underlying the Handy tables composed after the Almagest had been finished . But it is ...
... Ptolemy had made the planes of the epicycles parallel to the plane of the ecliptic . It is interesting that Ptolemy made this change in the models underlying the Handy tables composed after the Almagest had been finished . But it is ...
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