Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers
Eclipses have long been seen as important celestial phenomena, whether as omens affecting the future of kingdoms, or as useful astronomical events to help in deriving essential parameters for theories of the motion of the moon and sun. This is the first b
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Archimedes NEW STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 4
EDITOR JED Z. BUCHWALD, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science at MIT, and
Director of The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. ADVISORY BOARD HENK Bos, University of Utrecht MORDECHAI FEINGOLD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute ALLAN D. FRANKLIN, University of Colorado at Boulder KOSTAS GAVROGLU, National Technical University ofAthens ANTHONY GRAFfON, Princeton University FREDERIC L. HOLMES, Yale University PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE, University of Hannover EVELYN Fox KELLER, MIT TREVOR LEVERE, University of Toronto JESPER LOTZEN, Copenhagen University WILLIAM NEWMAN, Harvard University JURGEN RENN, Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte ALAN SHAPIRO, University of Minnesota NANCY SIRAISI, Hunter College of the City University of New York MERRITT ROE SMITH, MIT NOEL SWERDLOW, University of Chicago
Archimedes has three fundamental goals; to further the integration of the histories of science and technology with one another: to investigate the technical, social and practical histories of specific developments in science and technology; and finally, where possible and desirable, to bring the histories of science and technology into closer contact with the philosophy of science. To these ends, each volume will have its own theme and title and will be planned by one or more members of the Advisory Board in consultation with the editor. Although the volumes have specific themes, the series itself will not be limited to one or even to a few particular areas. Its subjects include any of the sciences, ranging from biology through physics, all aspects of technology, broadly construed, as well as historically-engaged philosophy of science or technology. Taken as a whole, Archimedes will be of interest to historians, philosophers, and scientists, as well as to those in business and industry who seek to understand how science and industry have come to be so strongly linked.
Archimedes Volume 4 New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers
by
JOHN M. STEELE University of Durham, United Kingdom
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
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