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Contents 6 List of Tables 10 List of Figures 16 Preface 18 Introduction 22 Chapter One Chronology 34 1. Epochs and Intervals 35 2. Number of Days from the Beginning of an Era 37 3. Conversion of Dates 38 Chapter Two Trigonometry and Spherical Astronomy 40 1. Sines and Chords 40 2. Solar Declination 43 3. Shadow Table 45 4. Right Ascension 45 5. Oblique Ascension 49 6. Ascensional Difference 51 7. Length of Daylight 52 8. Meridian Altitude of the Sun 54 9. Time of Day from the Altitude of the Sun 55 Chapter Three Equation of Time 58 Chapter Four Precession and Apogees 64 1. Trepidation (Access and Recess) 65 2. Apogees 68 3. Parisian Alfonsine Tables 69 Chapter Five Mean Motions and Radices 74 1. Mean Motions 75 2. Radices 80 Chapter Six Equations 84 1. Sun 84 2. Moon 88 3. Planets 94 Chapter Seven True Positions 104 1. Sun 104 2. Moon 107 3. Planets 109 Chapter Eight Velocity 116 1. Sun and Moon 116 2. Planets 120 Chapter Nine Latitude 124 1. Moon 124 1.1 Ptolemaic tradition 124 1.2 Indian tradition 125 2. Planets 127 2.1 Ptolemaic tradition 127 2.2 Indian tradition 131 2.3 Further developments 133 Chapter Ten Stations and Retrogradations 138 Chapter Eleven Visibility of the Moon a

Author

Chabás, José, Goldstein, Bernard R.

Published

2012

Language

EN