Chasing shadows : mathematics, astronomy, and the early history of eclipse reckoning /

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. It also explores how observers in Baby...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Montelle, Clemency
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:	Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics.
Subjects:	Eclipses. Eclipses > History.