Gapaillard, Jacques (Author)
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Volume: 52
Issue: 4
Pages: 462-490
In his Astronomie populaire, Camille Flammarion points out that the heliocentric path of the Moon, which, according to him, has generally been represented as a sinuous curve, is actually concave everywhere towards the Sun. Flammarion’s observation is the starting point of this study which goes backwards in time, via often misinformed authors, to the mathematician who first established this counterintuitive property by means of a purely geometrical proof. The story also includes a heated debate between readers of a British periodical. Beginning in France at the end of the 19th century, the journey finishes in Scotland in the first half of the previous century.
...MoreArticle Gapaillard, Jacques (2022) Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’. Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 128-128).
Similar Citations
Article
Pier Franco Nali;
(2022)
Annibale Riccò and the catoptric proof of the Earth’s curvature
Article
K. Rupa;
S.K. Uma;
Padmaja Venugopal;
S. Balachandra Rao;
(2023)
References to 'Parallel Phenomenon’ in Indian Astronomy and Inscriptions
Book
Samos, Aristarco de;
Commandino, Federico;
Massa Esteve, María Rosa;
(2007)
Sobre los tamaños y las distancias del sol y la luna
Article
David Juste;
(2023)
The Alfonsine Tables mentioned in 1304
Book
Brunier, Serge;
Luminet, Jean-Pierre;
(2000)
Glorious Eclipses: Their Past, Present and Future
Article
Dirk L. Couprie;
(2022)
Solar Motion and Lunar Eclipses in Philolaus’ Cosmological System
Article
Thomas T. Gough;
(2018)
Refraction and Precise Lunar Alignments
Article
J. Anna Estaroth;
(2018)
The Clava Cairns of Scotland, Midsummer Full Moon and the Major Lunar Limit
Article
Hoskin, Michael;
(2008)
Orientations of Dolmens of Western Europe: Summary and Conclusions
Book
Feist, Ulrike;
(2013)
Sonne, Mond und Venus: Visualisierungen astronomischen Wissens im frühneuzeitlichen Rome
Book
Roos, Anna Marie E.;
(2001)
Luminaries in the Natural World: The Sun and the Moon in England, 1400-1720
Chapter
Steele, J. M.;
(2010)
Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon
Article
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette;
(1989)
Camille Flammarion: Prestige de la science populaire
Article
Keshavjee, Serena;
(2013)
Science and the Visual Culture of Spiritualism: Camille Flammarion and the Symbolists in fin-de-siècle France
Article
Wilson, Curtis;
(2008)
The Nub of the Lunar Problem: From Euler to G. W. Hill
Book
Wilson, Curtis;
(2010)
The Hill-Brown Theory of the Moon's Motion: Its Coming-to-Be and Short-Lived Ascendancy (1877--1984)
Article
Sebastiano Gino;
(2020)
Scottish Common Sense, Association of Ideas and Free Will
Article
Christian Maurer;
(2016)
Archibald Campbell and the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Natural Reason, Natural Religion, and Revelation
Article
Leneman, Leah;
(2002)
Smith v. Clark and Clark v. Smith: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Doctors in Dispute
Article
László Kontler;
(2013)
Mankind and its Histories: William Robertson, Georg Forster, and a Late Eighteenth-Century German Debate
Be the first to comment!