Geographic longitude in Latin Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

DOI10.1007/S00407-023-00316-YMaRDI QIDQ6145604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Philipp E. Nothaft

Publication date 9 January 2024

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-023-00316-y

zbMATH Keywords

eclipse methodgeographic longitude determinationpreserved estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) Research data for problems pertaining to history and biography (01-11) History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-02) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

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