Dan Burton

Nicole Oresme's de Visione Stellarum (on Seeing the Stars)

A Critical Edition of Oresme's Treatise on Optics and Atmospheric Refraction, with an Introduction, Commentary, and English Translation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 164mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9789004153707
• ISBN-10: 9004153705
• Artikelnr.: 22558644

Autorenporträt

Dan Burton, Ph.D. (2000) in History of Science, Indiana University, is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Alabama. He has recently co-authored Magic, Mystery and Science: The Occult in Western Civilization (2003).