Tabulae Directionum et Profectionum - 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 Tabulae Directionum et Profectionum write by Regiomontanus. This book was released on 1584. Tabulae Directionum et Profectionum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Limits of Influence
The Limits of Influence - 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 The Limits of Influence write by Steven Broecke, vanden. This book was released on 2021-08-04. The Limits of Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a case study of astrology's changing status as an academic discipline in the sixteenth century. It provides fascinating new insights in the practice of Renaissance astrology, its social position, and its profound impact on the changes in early modern European science.
Regiomontanus: His Life and Work
Regiomontanus: His Life and Work - 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 Regiomontanus: His Life and Work write by E. Zinner. This book was released on 2014-06-28. Regiomontanus: His Life and Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 500th anniversary of Regiomontanus's birth has occasioned this depiction of his life and work. It is the first English translation of Ernst Zinner's monumental biography, plus a number of specially-written supplementary articles which help paint a more comprehensive picture of the current state of knowledge about Regiomontanus. The articles show the high regard in which the biography is still held by the community of scholars doing work on the mathematics of the Renaissance.Zinner's biography is a mine of information about early printing, astrolabes, tables of eclipses and the world of Henry of Langenstein, Johann of Gmunden, Georg Peuerbach, Cardinal Bessarion, Nicholas of Cusa and the extraordinary itinerant scholar, Johannes Müller of Königsberg — Regiomontanus. His contributions to mathematics are discussed (for example, he may have discovered the fifth and sixth perfect numbers) as well as the mysteries surrounding his life and death.
Simon Marius and His Research
Simon Marius and His Research - 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 Simon Marius and His Research write by Hans Gaab. This book was released on 2019-06-19. Simon Marius and His Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The margravial court astronomer Simon Marius, was involved in all of the new observations made with the recently invented telescope in the early part of the seventeenth century. He also discovered the Moons of Jupiter in January 1610, but lost the priority dispute with Galileo Galilei, because he missed to publish his findings in a timely manner. The history of astronomy neglected Marius for a long time, finding only the apologists for the Copernican system worthy of attention. In contrast the papers presented on the occasion of the Simon Marius Anniversary Conference 2014, and collected in this volume, demonstrate that it is just this struggle to find the correct astronomical system that makes him particularly interesting. His research into comets, sunspots, the Moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus led him to abandon the Ptolemaic system and adopt the Tychonic one. He could not take the final step to heliocentricity but his rejection was based on empirical arguments of his time. This volume presents a translation of the main work of Marius and shows the current state of historical research on Marius.
The Doctrine of Triangles
The Doctrine of Triangles - 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 The Doctrine of Triangles write by Glen Van Brummelen. This book was released on 2021-06-08. The Doctrine of Triangles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentieth The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument for understanding the heavens to a practical tool, used in fields such as surveying and navigation. In Europe, China, and America, trigonometry aided and was itself transformed by concurrent mathematical revolutions, as well as the rise of science and technology. Following its uses in mid-sixteenth-century Europe as the "foot of the ladder to the stars" and the mathematical helpmate of astronomy, trigonometry became a ubiquitous tool for modeling various phenomena, including animal populations and sound waves. In the late sixteenth century, trigonometry increasingly entered the physical world through the practical disciplines, and its societal reach expanded with the invention of logarithms. Calculus shifted mathematical reasoning from geometric to algebraic patterns of thought, and trigonometry’s participation in this new mathematical analysis grew, encouraging such innovations as complex numbers and non-Euclidean geometry. Meanwhile in China, trigonometry was evolving rapidly too, sometimes merging with indigenous forms of knowledge, and with Western discoveries. In the nineteenth century, trigonometry became even more integral to science and industry as a fundamental part of the science and engineering toolbox, and a staple subject in high school classrooms. A masterful combination of scholarly rigor and compelling narrative, The Doctrine of Triangles brings trigonometry’s rich historical past full circle into the modern era.
