On Early Hellenistic Astronomy: Timocharis and the First Callippic Calendar

DOI10.1111/J.1600-0498.1989.TB00849.XMaRDI QIDQ3484781zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bernard R. Goldstein, Alan C. Bowen

Publication date 1989

Published in Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1989.tb00849.x

zbMATH Keywords

astronomical chronology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

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