An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients Tapa dura - 2004

Martino Pub, 2/1/2004. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor soot stain on side page end and front cover.

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… Leer más