The development and transmission of 248-day schemes for lunar motion in Ancient astronomy

DOI10.1007/BF00535977zbMath0541.01002OpenAlexW2020880621MaRDI QIDQ794633

Alexander Jones

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00535977

zbMATH Keywords

approximate lunar ephemeriszigzag function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

Related Items (4)

Geminus and the concept of mean motion in Greco-Latin astronomy ⋮ The standard scheme of the moon and its mean quantities ⋮ Galen on the astronomers and astrologers ⋮ Studies in the Astronomy of the Roman Period.

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