AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ASTRONOMY OF THE ANCIENTS
by Sir George Cornewall Lewis
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1578984629
- ISBN 13
- 9781578984626
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
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; Solons 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; Platos 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.
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- Bookseller
- Sacred Science Institute (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 497
- Title
- AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ASTRONOMY OF THE ANCIENTS
- Author
- Sir George Cornewall Lewis
- Format/Binding
- H Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Privately Printed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1578984629
- ISBN 13
- 9781578984626
- Publisher
- Todd Pratum
- Place of Publication
- Mansfield Centre, Ct
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- ANCIENT ASTRONOMY METAPHYSICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Metaphysical; Science Stock;
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