Astronomical use of pinhole images in William of Saint-Cloud's Almanach Planetarum (1292)

DOI10.1007/BF00374761zbMATH Open0769.01002MaRDI QIDQ1205972FDOQ1205972

Authors: J. L. Mancha 

Publication date: 1 April 1993

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

Tycho BraheErasmus ReinholdGemma FrisiusJohannes Kepleroptical theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics (01A75) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35)

Cites Work

• A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy
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• Kepler, Tycho, and the ``Optical part of astronomy: the genesis of Kepler's theory of pinhole images
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• Egidius of Baisiu's theory of pinhole images
• The theory of pinhole images in the fourteenth century

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• Tables for the radii of the Sun, the Moon, and the shadow from John of Gmunden to Longomontanus
• Egidius of Baisiu's theory of pinhole images

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