Determination of the Sun's orbit. Hipparchus, Ptolemy, al-Battānī, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe

DOI10.1007/s004070050020zbMath0913.01002MaRDI QIDQ1389834

D. Massart

Publication date: 1 October 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004070050020

zbMATH Keywords

refraction; tropical year; solar parallax

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A30: History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam

01A40: History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance

01A20: History of Greek and Roman mathematics

01A05: General histories, source books

85-03: History of astronomy and astrophysics