A famous mathematician of the twentieth century once lamented," The algebraic topologist
has practically ceased to communicate with the point-set topologist!" This remark is …

2The Ptolemaic and the Tychonic systems also predicted much larger variations brightness
for these planets than had been observed; in the former case this resulted fr the large …

It would seem that S. Munk was the first modern scholar to draw attention to the significance
of Levi ben Gerson's Astronomy, surely the most original work on astronomy written in …

In a somewhat polemical article on 'Solstices, Equinoxes, and the Presocratics' DR Dicks
has recently challenged the usual view that the Presocratics in general, and the Milesians in …

The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important
surviving treatise on early mathematical astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into …

THE STANDARD HISTORY OF GREEK ASTRONOMY emphasizes the role of planetary
theory in its earlier stages, by supposing that the early astronomers aimed primarily to …

Before streets were brightly illuminated at night, astronomy was accessible to everyone and
was a matter of great importance: for divination; for setting appropriate dates for planting …

When investigating the teaching of astronomy in the medieval universities, a number of
considerations must be held in mind. In the first place, it has always to be remembered that …

In April of 1464 Johannes Müller of Königsberg (1436–1476) in Franconia, generally known
by the Latin form of his name as Regiomontanus, gave a series of lectures at the University …

THE most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various
branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences …