The treatment of observations in early astronomy

DOI10.1007/BF00375658zbMATH Open0787.01002MaRDI QIDQ1313404FDOQ1313404

Authors: O. B. Sheĭnin 

Publication date: 1 February 1994

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

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zbMATH Keywords

astronomyPtolemyHipparchusArchimedesKeplerAristarchuserror theoryLevi ben Gersonprinciple of minimax

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of statistics (62-03) History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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