Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical IntroductionMacDonald and Janes, 1974 - 413 oldal |
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... Ptolemy's major achievements . As a result of this discovery Ptolemy was forced to change the lunar model of Hipparchos into another model able to simulate both the first and the second anomalies of the Moon . There is no space for the ...
... Ptolemy's major achievements . As a result of this discovery Ptolemy was forced to change the lunar model of Hipparchos into another model able to simulate both the first and the second anomalies of the Moon . There is no space for the ...
99. oldal
... Ptolemy's theories agreed suffic- iently with observations to be acceptable to practical astronomers , although the variation of the apparent diameter of the Moon ( p . 81 ) showed that improvements were still possible . Finally , Ptolemy ...
... Ptolemy's theories agreed suffic- iently with observations to be acceptable to practical astronomers , although the variation of the apparent diameter of the Moon ( p . 81 ) showed that improvements were still possible . Finally , Ptolemy ...
302. oldal
... Ptolemy's theory which corresponded better with the observed pheno- menon . Yet , although Ptolemy's system fits the numerical data , Copernicus maintains that it still presents several difficulties . For these theories , that is Ptolemy's ...
... Ptolemy's theory which corresponded better with the observed pheno- menon . Yet , although Ptolemy's system fits the numerical data , Copernicus maintains that it still presents several difficulties . For these theories , that is Ptolemy's ...
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