Book ID: CBB001031330

Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning (2010)

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Montelle, Clemency (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 432 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “On how observers in Babylon, the Islamic Near East, Greece, and India developed new astronomical and mathematical techniques to predict and describe the features of eclipses.” (from the publisher)


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Review Bowen, Alan C. (2013) Review of "Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 385). unapi

Review Duke, Dennis (2012) Review of "Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 500-502). unapi

Essay Review Van Brummelen, Glen (2013) [Essay review]. Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (pp. 99-105). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Steele, John M.
Britton, John P.
Schiefsky, Mark
Yusta, Piedad
Williams, Clemency J.
Wang, Peng-yun
Concepts
Astronomy
Mathematics
Eclipses; transits; occultations; conjunctions
Astronomical chronology
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Cosmology
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
Greece
Egypt
Rome (Italy)
India
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