ASTRONOMICAL ECLIPSE PHENOMENA In looking over the long history of
human science from time immemorial to our own times, it is
impossible to overestimate the role played in it by the phenomena
of eclipses of the celestial bodies-both within our solar system as
well as in the stellar universe at large. Not later than in the 4th
century B. C. , the observed features of the shadow cast on the
Moon by the Earth during eclipses led Aristotle (384-322 B. C. ) to
formulate the first scientific proof worthy of that name of the
spherical shape of the Earth; and only somewhat later, the eclipses
of the Sun provided Aristarchos (in the early part of the 3rd
century B. C. ) or Hipparchos (2nd half ofthe same century) with
the geometric means to ascertain the distance which separates the
Earth from the Sun. In the 17th century A. D. (in 1676, to be
exact) the timings of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter by
their central planet enabled Olaf Romer to discover that the
velocity with which light propagates through space is finite.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer
|
| Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
| Release date: |
October 2011 |
| First published: |
1990 |
| Authors: |
Zdenek Kopal
|
| Dimensions: |
244 x 170 x 9mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
172 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-9401067294 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Astronomy, space & time >
General
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| LSN: |
9401067295 |
| Barcode: |
9789401067294 |
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