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On the boredom of science: positional astronomy in the nineteenth century

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To those not engaged in the practice of scientific research, or telling the story of this enterprise, the image of empirical observation may ...
Hackaday

Star Track: A Lesson In Positional Astronomy With Lasers

[gocivici] threatened us with a tutorial on positional astronomy when we started reading his tutorial on a Arduino Powered Star Pointer and he delivered. We’d pick him to help us take the One Ring to ...
insider.si.edu

Discovery of the universe : an outline of the history of astronomy from the origins to 1956 / by Gérard de Vaucouleurs

pt. I. Ancient astronomy, from its origins to the end of the Middle Ages. The origins of astronomy -- Primitive astronomy in China, Chaldea and Egypt -- The cosmology of primitive peoples -- The ...
insider.si.edu

Stamping Through Astronomy

Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter-1; The Origins of Astronomy; Human Experience of the Sky; Figures in the Sky: The Constellations; The Ancients' Astronomy; Chapter-2; The Babylonians; The ...