Astronomicon: The Beginning
Title | Astronomicon: The Beginning PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Vincent |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2012-03-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1471088383 |
3 Space craft, 240 colonists, 25 trillion miles and an unexpected discovery that changes everything. Classic science fiction that will appeal to fans of Arthur C. Clarke. Astronomicon: The Beginning follows the human race's intrepid first steps into interstellar space, a colonisation mission to Proxima Centauri. The colossal distance and harsh environment are not all that stand between them and survival. This first volume in the epic Astronomicon series is the story of their desperate adventures and the political machinations that are unfolding back on Earth, which threaten to end space exploration permanently. With established colonies on Mars and a thriving mining community around Jupiter, will everyone want to come home?
Astronomicon: Volume 4, Liber Quartus
Title | Astronomicon: Volume 4, Liber Quartus PDF eBook |
Author | M. Manilius |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2011-11-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107648068 |
This volume contains the Latin text of the fourth book of Manilius, first published in 1920 and then reissued in a second edition in 1937.
Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: II. An Examination of Their Scientific Content
Title | Alessandro Piccolomini’s Early Astronomical Works: II. An Examination of Their Scientific Content PDF eBook |
Author | Elly Dekker |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 266 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031563301 |
Lectures on Astronomy; illustrated by the Astronomicon, or a series of moveable diagrams ... With an appendix containing ... questions ... and ... problems on the Astronomicon
Title | Lectures on Astronomy; illustrated by the Astronomicon, or a series of moveable diagrams ... With an appendix containing ... questions ... and ... problems on the Astronomicon PDF eBook |
Author | W. H. PRIOR (Teacher of Navigation.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1826 |
Genre | |
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The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in England
Title | The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in England PDF eBook |
Author | Foster Watson |
Publisher | London : Pitman |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
Manili Astronomicon Liber II
Title | Manili Astronomicon Liber II PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Manilius |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Astrology |
ISBN |
Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe
Title | Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Matteo Valleriani |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2022-05-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3030866009 |
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from manuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform of scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring Sacrobosco’s treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, represents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological worldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the process of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material infrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the premises for the foundation of modern scientific communities.