Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Paris, Les Belles Lettres
Description
The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers. While tracing ideas from ancient Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the book places its greatest emphasis on the Greek period, when astronomers developed the geometric and philosophical ideas that have determined the subsequent character of Western astronomy. The author approaches this history through the concrete details of ancient astronomical practice. Carefully organized and generously illustrated, the book can teach reade
User reviews
LibraryThing member benjfrank
I have a pre-publication photocopy that I bought and made into a 3-volume set when I took Professor Evans' ancient astronomy class at Univ of Puget Sound in the mid1980s. I still remember making the sundials and celestial spheres -- the latter I still have in a box somewhere!
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1998
ISBN
9782251420233
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