The treatment of observations in early astronomy
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Publication:1313404
DOI10.1007/BF00375658zbMath0787.01002MaRDI QIDQ1313404
Publication date: 1 February 1994
Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
astronomyKeplerPtolemyHipparchusArchimedesAristarchuserror theoryLevi ben Gersonprinciple of minimax
History of statistics (62-03) Roundoff error (65G50) History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)
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