Springer, Date: 2001. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked. 2001. Springer ISBN 0387951369 9780387951362 [US]

Springer New York. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Springer New York ISBN 0387951369 9780387951362 [US]

ISBN10: 0387951369, ISBN13: 9780387951362, [publisher: Springer New York] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Before streets were brightly illuminated at night, astronomy was accessible to everyone and was a matter of great importance: for divination; for setting appropriate dates for planting, harvest, and festivals; for regulating lives. Phenomena in the heavens are still of great importance to many, and much of the lore of astronomy and astrology dates back to the earliest days of civilization. The astronomy of the ancients is thus of interest not only as history but also as the basis for much of what is known or believed about the heavens today. Because phenomena in the heavens are less familiar today than in earlier eras, this book begins with a brief description of what one can see in the sky on dark nights with the naked eye. It then turns to the astronomy of the Babylonians, who named many of our constellations, who are responsible for many of the fundamental insights of early astronomy, and who married mathematics to astronomy to make it an exact science. A chapter on Greek astronomy discusses various models of planetary motion, showing that the cycles and epicycles used by the Greeks have their modern counterparts in the computations used to compute the ephemeredes listed in the Nautical Almanac. The book then turns to a detaileddiscussion of Ptolemy's cosmology, the first to include quantitative models in an integral way. ...
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Springer, Date: 2001. 1st. Paperback. New/New. 2001. Springer ISBN 0387951369 9780387951362 [IN]

Paperback / softback. New. Phenomena in the heavens are of great importance to many, and much of the lore of astronomy and astrology dates back to the earliest days of civilisation. The astronomy of the ancients is thus of interest not only as history but also as the basis for much of what is known or believed about the heavens today. ISBN 0387951369 9780387951362 [GB]

Springer, Date: 2001. 1st. Paperback. New. 2001. Springer ISBN 0387951369 9780387951362 [IN]

ISBN10: 0387951369, ISBN13: 9780387951362, [publisher: Springer] Softcover pp. 192
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]