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Heavenly clockwork
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Joseph Needham |
"A reissue with a new foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and … |
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Tendōsetsu no ehon
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Mitsumasa Anno |
Discusses how medieval people viewed the world before it was widely understood and accepted that the world is round and rotates around the sun. |
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Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the earth
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Robert R. Newton |
The main purpose of this work is to obtain and assess a large body of observations of solar eclipses from medieval records (roughly the period from 400 to 1200), and to use the observations in improv… |
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