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Mathematical Theory of Stellar Eclipses
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Mathematical Theory of Stellar Eclipses Hardback - 1899 - 1st Edition

by Zdenek Kopal

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From the publisher

ASTRONOMICAL ECLIPSE PHENOMENA In looking over the long history of human science from time immemorial to our own times, it is impossible to overestimate the role played in it by the phenomena of eclipses of the celestial bodies-both within our solar system as well as in the stellar universe at large. Not later than in the 4th century B. C., the observed features of the shadow cast on the Moon by the Earth during eclipses led Aristotle (384-322 B. C. ) to formulate the first scientific proof worthy of that name of the spherical shape of the Earth; and only somewhat later, the eclipses of the Sun provided Aristarchos (in the early part of the 3rd century B. C. ) or Hipparchos (2nd half ofthe same century) with the geometric means to ascertain the distance which separates the Earth from the Sun. In the 17th century A. D. (in 1676, to be exact) the timings of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter by their central planet enabled Olaf Romer to discover that the velocity with which light propagates through space is finite.

Details

  • Title Mathematical Theory of Stellar Eclipses
  • Author Zdenek Kopal
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 172
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Springer
  • Publication date December 31, 1899
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780792306610 / 0792306619
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90030622
  • Dewey Decimal Code 523.844

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