The `regiments' of Sun and pole star: on declination tables in early modern England

DOI10.1007/S13137-010-0005-7zbMATH Open1204.86003OpenAlexW2003900195MaRDI QIDQ623743FDOQ623743

Authors: Thomas Sonar 

Publication date: 8 February 2011

Published in: GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13137-010-0005-7

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zbMATH Keywords

declination tableshistory of navigation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) History of geophysics (86-03) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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