Montelle, Clemency (Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
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)
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).
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).
Essay Review Van Brummelen, Glen (2013) [Essay review]. Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (pp. 99-105).
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