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Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region: Proceedings of the ICOA-6 Conference

By Wayne Orchiston , F. Richard Stephenson (auth.) , Tsuko Nakamura , Richard G. Strom (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
2011
ISBN
978-1-4419-8160-8, 978-1-4419-8161-5
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-8161-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33050211 bytes)
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
Edition
1
Pages
660\659
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
AstronomyAstrophysics and Cosmology; History of Science; Ar

Description

This book provides readers with the results of recent research from some of the world's leading historians of astronomy on aspects of Arabic, Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and North and South American astronomy and astrophysics. It contains peer-reviewed papers gathered from the International Conferences on Oriental Astronomy 6 (ICO-6) with the chosen theme of "Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region." Of particular note are the sections on Arabic astronomy, Asian applied astronomy and the history of Australian radio astronomy, and the chapter on Peruvian astronomy. This title is a valuable complement for those with research interests in applied historical astronomy; archaeoastronomy; calendars, manuscripts, and star charts; historical instruments and observatories, and the history of radio astronomy.

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