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  title info:
    title: Chasing shadows
    sub title: mathematics, astronomy, and the early history of eclipse reckoning
  name:
    name part: Montelle, Clemency.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 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.
  table of contents: Heavenly hide and seek: an introduction to eclipse reckoning in early times -- The rudiments of alignment: Basic eclipse theory -- An accountancy of appearances: Mesopotamian eclipse reckoning -- Beyond the appearances: Greek eclipse reckoning -- Recipient and remodeler: Indian eclipse reckoning -- A science of configuration: Arabic eclipse reckoning.
  note: Clemency Montelle.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-391) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Eclipses
  subject:
    topic: Eclipses
    topic: History
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics
  identifier: 9780801896910
  identifier: 0801896916
  identifier: 2009943460
  record info:
    record content source: TOH
    record creation date: 110322
    record change date: 20151202143348.0
    record identifier: in00002726145