Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook : The View from Ad 1001
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Book Description
In a year that will probably be remembered almost as much for books about the millennium as for the turn of 2000 A.D itself, Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook celebrates.....well, the wrong millennium! This thoroughly entertaining book - which is for everyone, not just astronomers - contains articles on King Alfred's chronological work, reviews of the new Star Catalogue by the Arab Al-Sufi and the latest edition of Ptolemy's Almagast. And foreshadowing the change to metric units by 1000 years, the book uses arabic numbers instead of Roman - but there is a conversion table if you have trouble with the idea of "zero" and prefer the older system.
Book Info
Provides a compilation of a wide ranging review of the astronomical state of the art at the end of the millennium, specifically the one ending at 1000 A.D. Surveys achievements in Astronomy during the first millennium and examines the latest astronomical instruments of that period. Softcover. DLC: Astronomy, Miedeval.
Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook : The View from Ad 1001,Patrick Moore,Allan Chapman,Springer,1852336196,Astronomy - General,Astronomy, Ancient,Cosmology,Descriptive Astronomy,History Of Astronomy,Science,Science/Mathematics,History of science,Popular astronomy,Science / Astronomy
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