Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 348 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 557 g
Reihe: Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 348 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 557 g
Reihe: Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
ISBN: 978-1-4612-8788-9
Verlag: Springer
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1 The Stars of the Almagest.- 1.1 The Documents.- 1.2 The Arabic Revision of the Almagest.- 2 Accusations.- 2.1 Tycho Brahe.- 2.2 Laplace and Lalande.- 2.3 Delambre’s Investigations.- 3 The Rehabilitation of Ptolemy.- 3.1 The Number of Hipparchan Stars.- 3.2 Supplementary Catalogues.- 3.3 The Reconstruction of the Hipparchan Catalogue.- 3.4 Gundel’s List of Hipparchan Stars.- 3.5 Precession and Solar Theory.- 3.6 Accusations.- 4 The Analysis of the Star Catalogue.- 4.1 The Catalogue in the Almagest.- 4.2 Criticism of Vogt.- 4.3 Gundel’s Stars.- 5 Structures in Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue.- 5.1 Star Maps.- 5.2 Multiple Sources.- 5.3 Method of Selective Error Distribution.- 5.4 Errors of the Solar Theory.- 5.5 Fractions of Degree.- 5.6 Hipparchus’ Commentary on Aratus.- 5.7 Calculation of Phenomena.- 5.8 Deviations from Reality.- 5.9 Reconstruction.- 6 Theory and Observation.- 6.1 The Aristotelian Heritage.- 6.2 The Uncertainty of Empirical Data.- 6.3 Radical Empiricism.- 6.4 Holistic Rationalism.- 7 Appendix A.- 7.1 Stars and Constellations.- 7.2 Identifications.- 8 Appendix B.- 8.1 Transformation Formulae.- 8.2 Column Headings.- 9 Appendix C.- 9.1 Column Headings.- 10 Literature.- 11 Index.