Cometary Theory in Fifteenth-Century EuropeSpringer Science & Business Media, 31. okt. 1985 - 209 síður |
Efni
Cometary theory in antiquity | 11 |
The medieval tradition of cometary theory to 1400 | 22 |
The fifteenthcentury astronomical context | 34 |
Jacobus Angelus | 37 |
Paolo Toscanelli | 43 |
Georg Peurbach | 86 |
Johannes Regiomontanus | 93 |
Epilogues the sixteenth century | 121 |
Tractauts de cometis facsimile | 129 |
B Toscanellis mathematical computations | 162 |
C Regiomontanus Sixteen Problems facsimile | 170 |
D De cometa attributed to Regiomontanus Latin text | 195 |
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Polish Summary by Grazyna Rosinska | 202 |
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Common terms and phrases
afpectus Albertus Magnus Albumasar alignments Almagest angle angulus anno apparent place apparet apparuit appeared arcus Aristotle Aristotle's astrological astronomical autem azimuth Bernardino Baldi cauda Celoria centro chapter charts comet comet's apparent comet's position comet's tail cometary observations cometary positions cometary theory determined diameter discussion distance earth earth's radius ecliptic ecliptica edition effe eius enim erit etiam Ferrari d'Ochieppo ficut fixed stars Folio fuit funt gradus Hellman instrument Jacobus January John of Damascus known komet Latin latitude longitude magis manuscript Mars measure Menelaos meridian miles motu nature Nicholas of Cusa numbers orbit Paolo parallax Peurbach Pingré planetary planets proper motion Ptolemy Ptolemy's quia quod Regiomontanus region Sarton Seneca Sixteen Problems sixteenth century sphere Spica stella terra terræ Thorndike 1950 torquetum Toscanelli translation treatise triangle true place tunc Uzielli vapor vero vifus vnde Wrocław Zinner