Author: G. P. PaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
An Elementary Introduction to the Nautical Almanac, and Astronomical Ephemeris, ... forming a complete epitome of astronomy
Author: G. P. PayneAn Elementary Introduction to the Nautical Almanac, and Astronomical Ephemeris, ... forming a complete epitome of astronomy
Author: G. P. PaynePiloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland, compiled chiefly from the Swedish and Russian surveys, particularly those of Klint and General L. Spafarieff. ... Fifth edition
Author: John William NorieThe Nautical Almanac for the Year ...
Author: The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
Author: United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year
Author: The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris
Author: Great Britain. Nautical Almanac OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
On Their Own Terms
Author: Benjamin A. ElmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris
Author: The History of Mathematical Tables
Author: Martin Campbell-KellyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019154521X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The oldest known mathematical table was found in the ancient Sumerian city of Shuruppag in southern Iraq. Since then, tables have been an important feature of mathematical activity; table making and printed tabular matter are important precursors to modern computing and information processing. This book contains a series of articles summarising the technical, institutional and intellectual history of mathematical tables from earliest times until the late twentieth century. It covers mathematical tables (the most important computing aid for several hundred years until the 1960s), data tables (eg. Census tables), professional tables (eg. insurance tables), and spreadsheets - the most recent tabular innovation. The book is presented in a scholarly yet accessible way, making appropriate use of text boxes and illustrations. Each chapter has a frontispiece featuring a table along with a small illustration of the source where the table was first displayed. Most chapters have sidebars telling a short "story" or history relating to the chapter. The aim of this edited volume is to capture the history of tables through eleven chapters written by subject specialists. The contributors describe the various information processing techniques and artefacts whose unifying concept is "the mathematical table".