Download or read book Islamic Astronomy and Geography written by David A. King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-02-13 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It continues with discussions of the importance of Islamic instruments and scientific manuscript illustrations. Three studies deal with the regional schools that developed in Islamic astronomy, in this case, Egypt and the Maghrib. Another focuses on a curious astrological table for calculating the length of life of any individual. The notion of the world centred on the sacred Kaaba in Mecca inspired both astronomers and proponents of folk astronomy to propose methods for finding the qibla, or sacred direction towards the Kaaba; their activities are surveyed here. The interaction between the mathematical and folk traditions in astronomy is then illustrated by an 11th-century text on the qibla in Transoxania. The last three studies deal with an account of the geodetic measurements sponsored by the Caliph al-Ma'mûn in the 9th century; a world-map in the tradition of the 11th-century polymath al-Bîrûnî, alas corrupted by careless copying; and a table of geographical coordinates from 15th-century Egypt.

Download or read book The Elements of Geography Astronomy and Chronology By W Plume written by ELEMENTS. and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Grammar of Modern Geography with an Introduction to Astronomy and the Use of the Globes Compiled for the Use of King s College School written by Aron ARROWSMITH (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Astronomy in India 1784 1876 written by Joydeep Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian scientific achievements in the early twentieth century are well known, with a number of heralded individuals making globally recognized strides in the field of astrophysics. Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, Sen explores the relationship between Indian astronomers and the colonial British. He shows that from the mid-nineteenth century, Indians were not passive receivers of European knowledge, but active participants in modern scientific observational astronomy.

Download or read book Questions and Answers on Geography the Globes and Astronomy written by J. J. Hooke and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to Astronomy Geography and the Use of Globes written by John Sharman and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empire of Extinction written by Ryan Tucker Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean, establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting marine mammal furs to Europe and China. In the process they radically transformed the North Pacific, causing environmental catastrophe. In one of the most hotly-contested imperial arenas of the day, the Russian empire organized a host of Siberian and Alaskan native peoples to rapaciously hunt for fur seals, sea otters, and other fur-bearing animals. The animals declined precipitously, and Steller's sea cow went extinct. This destruction captured the attention of natural historians who for the first time began to recognize the threat of species extinction. These experts drew upon Enlightenment and Romantic-era ideas about nature and imperialism but their ideas were refracted through Russian scientific culture and influenced by the region's unique ecology. Cosmopolitan scientific networks ensured the spread of their ideas throughout Europe. Heeding the advice of these scientific experts, Russian colonial governors began long-term management of marine mammal stocks and instituted some of the colonial world's most forward-thinking conservationist policies. Highlighting the importance of the North Pacific in Russian imperial and global environmental history, Empire of Extinction focuses on the development of ideas about the natural world in a crucial location far from what has been considered the center of progressive environmental attitudes.

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Download or read book Astronomy and History Selected Essays written by O. Neugebauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of papers assembled here on a variety of topics in ancient and medieval astronomy was originally suggested by Noel Swerdlow of the University of Chicago. He was also instrumental in making a selection* which would, in general, be on the same level as my book The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. It may also provide a general background for my more technical History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy and for my edition of Astronomi cal Cuneiform Texts. Several of these republished articles were written because I wanted to put to rest well-entrenched historical myths which could not withstand close scrutiny of the sources. Examples are the supposed astronomical origin of the Egyptian calendar (see [9]), the discovery of precession by the Babylonians [16], and the "simplification" of the Ptolemaic system in Copernicus' De Revolutionibus [40]. In all of my work I have striven to present as accurately as I could what the original sources reveal (which is often very different from the received view). Thus, in [32] discussion of the technical terminology illuminates the meaning of an ancient passage which has been frequently misused to support modern theories about ancient heliocentrism; in [33] an almost isolated instance reveals how Greek world-maps really looked; and in [43] the Alexandrian Easter computus, held in awe by many historians, is shown from Ethiopic sources to be based on very simple procedures.

Download or read book An Introduction to Astronomy Geography and the use of the Globes The second edition enlarged and improved written by John SHARMAN (Geographer) and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Questions and Answers on Geography the Globes and Astronomy With a Short Account of the Winds Tides Air Etc written by J. J. HOOKE and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A system of geography including also the elements of astronomy written by Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A System of Geography Including Also the Elements of Astronomy an Account of the Solar System and a Variety of Problems to be Solved by the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes written by Thomas Ewing (Teacher in Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of Canada written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated, region-by-region guide to the national parks of Canada, offering sample itineraries and site-by-site tours, and providing historical information, location and activity descriptions, tips for travelers, maps, and lodging information with addresses, phone numbers, and price ranges.

Download or read book New and Easy System of Geography and Popular Astronomy written by John O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New and Easy System of Geography and Popular Astronomy written by John O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: