(Ebook) Chasing Shadows Mathematics Astronomy and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning 1st edition by Clemency Montelle 0801899109 9780801899102

(Ebook) Chasing Shadows Mathematics Astronomy and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning 1st edition by Clemency Montelle 0801899109 9780801899102

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0801899109 

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780801899102

Author: Clemency Montelle 

Lunar and solar eclipses have always fascinated human beings. Digging deep into history, Clemency Montelle examines the ways in which theoretical understanding of eclipses originated and how ancient and medieval cultures shared, developed, and preserved their knowledge of these awe-inspiring events.

Eclipses were the celestial phenomena most challenging to understand in the ancient world. Montelle draws on original research—much of it derived from reading primary source material written in Akkadian and Sanskrit, as well as ancient Greek, Latin, and Arabic—to explore 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. She identifies the profound scientific discoveries of these four cultures and discusses how the societies exchanged information about eclipses. In constructing this history, Montelle establishes a clear pattern of the transmission of scientific ideas from one culture to another in the ancient and medieval world.

Chasing Shadows is an invitingly written and highly informative exploration of the early history of astronomy.

Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning 1st Table of contents:

Chapter One Heavenly Hide and Seek: An Introduction to Eclipse Reckoning in Early Times
1.1 Development and Cross-Cultural Transmission
1.2 Eclipses and Their Human Significance
1.3 Observation and Theory
1.4 Aims of This Study
Chapter Two The Rudiments of Alignment: Basic Eclipse Theory
2.1 The Moon and the Sun
2.2 Eclipses
2.3 Prediction and Patterns of Eclipses
2.4 The Celestial Sphere
2.5 Mathematical Conventions
Chapter Three An Accountancy of Appearances: Mesopotamian Eclipse Reckoning
3.1 Overview
3.2 The Earliest Accounting for Eclipses: Enūma Anu Enlil
3.3 Assyrian Eclipse Reckoning: The Letters and Reports
3.4 Babylonian Eclipse Reckoning
Chapter Four Beyond the Appearances: Greek Eclipse Reckoning
4.1 Overview
4.2 Early Greek Geometrical Celestial Conceptions
4.3 Sizes, Distances, and Measurement: Aristarchus and Archimedes
4.4 Early Greek Mathematical Astronomy
4.5 The Peak of Greek Mathematical Astronomy
4.6 Omens in Greek and Hellenistic Sources
Chapter Five Recipient and Remodeler: Indian Eclipse Reckoning
5.1 Overview
5.2 General Features of Eclipse Reckoning in India
5.3 Eclipses as Omens
5.4 Eclipse Observation Records in Inscriptions
5.5 Eclipse Reckoning in Indian Texts with Greco-Babylonian Influence: The Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira
5.6 Eclipse Reckoning from the Fifth to the Tenth Century
5.7 Parameśvara and the Astronomical School in Kerala
Chapter Six A Science of Configuration: Arabic Eclipse Reckoning
6.1 Overview
6.2 General Features of Eclipse Reckoning in the Islamic Near East
6.3 Major Contributions to Islamic Eclipse Reckoning
Chapter Seven Concluding Remarks
Appendixes
A Abbreviations and Conventions
B A Comparison of NMAT and MAT Eclipse Predictions
C The Eclipse Tables in the Wajīz of alKhāzinī
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography

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