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(Paperback)
By: John M. Steele
ISBN: 9780863564284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Saqi Books
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Traces the development of the Late Babylonians' ingenious schemes for modelling planetary motion. This work reveals how medieval Islamic advances in the study of the heavens, and the design of precise astronomical instruments, led to breakthroughs by Renaissance practitioners such as Copernicus and Kepler.
