Chapter ID: CBB000054187

Shadow measurement: The Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus--a translation with commentary (1992)

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Description “The title Sciametria means `Shadow measurement'. The work does contain a good deal concerning the shadow of the earth and the shadow and penumbra of the moon, and one purpose is surely to determine the size of the shadow of the earth, for which no less than four methods are given. But there is far more, namely, the vaious relations between the distances and parallaxes of the sun and moon, the apparent diameters of the sun, the moon, the earth's shadow, the moon's shadow and penumbra, and the magnitudes of eclipses.”


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Authors & Contributors
Thorvaldsen, Steinar
Granada, Miguel A.
Boner, Patrick J.
van der Werf, Siebren
Rothman, Aviva Tova
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Copernicanism
Celestial mechanics
Stars; stellar astronomy
Physics
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Places
Europe
Russia
Italy
Germany
Institutions
Tübingen. Universität
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