Title: Dividing the Circle: the development of critical angular measurement in astronomy 1500-1850.
Publisher: Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1990.
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 013217555X
ISBN 13: 9780132175555
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Dividing the Circle examines the history of angular measuring instruments and their central role in astronomy from 1500-1850. During this period the principle intellectual interests in astronomy lay in the ability of astronomers to measure angles with increasing precision, to investigate phenomena such as Earth's motion in space, its oblate shape and the Newtonian laws of gravitation. Emphasis is placed on the important link that existed between astronomical theory and the need to develop progressively improved technologies whereby the theory could be tested and validated. The second edition is fully revised and updated and contains additional plates, an extended bibliography with new scholarship, and two new appendices.

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