AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ASTRONOMY OF THE ANCIENTS

Todd Pratum. 2004. Privately Printed. H Hardcover. New. Original 1862 London. 527p. This new high quality cloth reproduction of the original edition is a new experiment in producing high quality reprints of some of the older important books. This is NOT one of our spiral bound reprints, but a beautiful new hardcover book by Pratum Books. Selected Contents: Primitive Astronomy of the Greeks & Romans; Greek World Conception; Solar Year; Lunar Year & Month; Discordance of Greek Calendars; Carian, Acarnanian & Arcadian Years; Short Egyptian Year; Roman Year; Fixed Stars; Early Divination; Philosophical Astronomy of the Greeks from Thales to Democritus; Origin of Astronomy in Greece; Eclipse of Thales; Solon’s Reform of Athenian Calendar; Astronomical Doctrines of Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Xenophanes; Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Apollonia, Socrates, Meton, Leucippus, Democritus; Trieteric & Octaeteric Intercalary Cycles; Astronomical Speculations of Pythagoras & His School; Philolaic System of the Universe; Pythagorean Cycles; Scientific Astronomy of the Greeks from Plato to Eratosthenes; Hypothesis of Planetary Motions; Astronomical Doctrines of Aristotle, Callippus, Hicetas, Ecphantus, Theophrastus, Eudemus, Autolycus, Euclid, Aristarchus, Archimedes, Aristyllus; Measures of Daily Time; Rotation of Earth on its Axis; The Phaenomena of Euclid; Heliocentric System of Aristarchus; Alexandrine School of Astronomers; Timaeus & The Motion of the Earth; On the Dials of the Ancients; Prediction of Eclipses; Uniform Calendar & Religious Festivals; Roman Measures of Time; Order of the Planets, Revolution of Inferior Planets Around Sun; Ptolemy; Geocentric System; Astronomy of Babylonians & Egyptians; Origin of Astronomical Observation; Chaldean & Egyptian Priests as Astronomical Observers; Egyptian Solar Year; Egyptian Astronomy Passed to Greece; Length of Egyptian Year; The Canicular or Sothiac Period; Astrological Divination of Chaledeans; Origins of Astrology; Early History & Chronology of Egyptians; Plato’s Chronology; Early History & Chronology of Assyrians; Babylonian History; Nineveh & Babylon; Astronomical Canon; Evidence of Age of the World; Navigation of the Phoenicians; Phoenicians Originators of Astronomy.