Phaenomena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phaenomena write by Aratus (Solensis.). This book was released on 2010-07. Phaenomena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Phaenomena was the most widely read poem in the ancient world. Its fame was immediate. It was translated into Latin by Ovid and Cicero and quoted by St. Paul in the New Testament, and it was one of the few Greek poems translated into Arabic. Aratus’ Phaenomena is a didactic poem—a practical manual in verse that teaches the reader to identify constellations and predict weather. The poem also explains the relationship between celestial phenomena and such human affairs as agriculture and navigation. Despite the historical and pedagogical importance of the poem, no English edition suitable for students and general readers has been available for decades. Aaron Poochigian’s lively translation makes accessible one of the most influential poets of antiquity. Poochigian's interpretation of the Phaenomena reestablishes the ancient link between poetry and science and demonstrates that verse is an effective medium for instruction. Featuring references to Classical mythology and science, star charts of the northern and southern skies, extensive notes, and an introduction to the work’s stylistic features and literary reception, this dynamic work will appeal to students of Ancient Greece who want to deepen their understanding of the Classical world.
Constellation Myths
Constellation Myths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constellation Myths write by Eratosthenes. This book was released on 2015. Constellation Myths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This translation brings together ancient classical texts derived from Eratosthenes' handbook of astral mythology, Hyginus' guide to astronomy, and Aratus's astronomical poem Phaenomena to provide a complete collection of Greek astral myths.
Illustrating the Phaenomena
Illustrating the Phaenomena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illustrating the Phaenomena write by Elly Dekker. This book was released on 2013. Illustrating the Phaenomena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume all extant celestial maps and globes made before 1500 are described and analysed. It also discusses the astronomical sources involved in making these artefacts in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Islamic world and the European Renaissance before 1500.
Sections and Views, Illustrative of Geological Phaenomena
Sections and Views, Illustrative of Geological Phaenomena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sections and Views, Illustrative of Geological Phaenomena write by Henry Thomas de La Beche. This book was released on 1830. Sections and Views, Illustrative of Geological Phaenomena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Euclid's Phaenomena
Euclid's Phaenomena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Euclid's Phaenomena write by J. L. Berggren. This book was released on 2019-05-29. Euclid's Phaenomena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1996, this book contains a translation and study of Euclid's Phaenomena, a work which once formed part of the mathematical training of astronomers from Central Asia to Western Europe. Included is an introduction that sets Euclid's geometry of the celestial sphere, and its application to the astronomy of his day, into its historical context for readers not already familiar with it. So no knowledge of astronomy or advanced mathematics is necessary for an understanding of the work. The book shows mathematical astronomy shortly before the invention of trigonometry, which allowed the calculation of exact results and the subsequent composition of Ptolemy's Almagest. This work and the (roughly) contemporaneous treatises of Autolycus and Aristarchos form a corpus of the oldest extant works on mathematical astronomy. Together with Euclid's Optics one has the beginnings of the history of science as an application of mathematics.
