Kepler's Optical Part of Astronomy (1604): Introducing the Ecliptic Instrument

DOI10.1162/posc.2009.17.3.307zbMath1292.01014OpenAlexW2028353819MaRDI QIDQ5171456

Yaakov Zik, Giora Hon

Publication date: 27 July 2014

Published in: Perspectives on Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/posc.2009.17.3.307

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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• Kepler, Tycho, and the ``Optical part of astronomy: the genesis of Kepler's theory of pinhole images
• Egidius of Baisiu's theory of pinhole images
• The theory of pinhole images in the fourteenth century
• The theory of pinhole images from antiquity to the thirteenth century
• Kepler's Move from Orbs to Orbits: Documenting a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
• A study of the accuracy of scale graduations on a group of European astrolabes
• Distance and velocity in Kepler's astronomy
• Geometry of Light and Shadow: Francesco Maurolyco (1494–1575) and the Pinhole Camera

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