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Timeby Katinka Ridderbos
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 70.00Eminent researchers in fields ranging from the arts and humanities to the natural sciences discuss the subject of time. Asking questions such as 'is it possible to travel in time?' and 'how do biological clocks work?', these essays are written in a clear style accessible to the educated general reader. more...
Cleomedes' Lectures On Astronomyby Cleomedes; Alan C. Bowen; Robert B. Todd
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was The Heavens (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact from the first two centuries A. more...
In synchrony with the heavens Volume 1, The call of the muezzin /by D.A. King
BRILL 2004; US$ 302.00King (history of science, F.W. Goethe U., Frankfurt, Germany), in the first of two volumes, presents an analysis of over 500 manuscripts that document the use of the sun and stars to keep time, an essential task in determining the hour of prayer, which is called by the muezzin in the Islamic world. (Volume 2 will be devoted to the instruments used more...
Minding the Heavensby Leila Belkora
CRC Press 2002; US$ 32.95This text is about how we discovered that we live in a galaxy, in fact a universe full of galaxies. It tells the story of the discovery of our own and other galaxies through the lives of seven astronomers, who contributed greatly to our present understanding of where we live in the cosmos. more...
A Window on the Future of Geodesyby F. Sanso
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 309.00This book collects the proceedings of the symposia held during the 36th IAG General Assembly. This international event, held every fourth year, serves as a forum to announce and record new achievements and the primary research directions of the worldwide geodetic community. The actual date of this assembly, on the verge of the 3rd millennium, adds a particular accent to the results and proposals collected here, which is especially exemplified by the new perspectives derived by the advanced tools and techniques of earth observation from space platforms. Not to be overlooked are the enhanced capabilities of the now classic navigation and positioning systems, under the collective name GNSS. Together with classic techniques like SLR, VLBI, Doris,... more...
In Synchrony with the Heavens, Volume 2: Instruments of Mass Calculationby David A. King
BRILL 2005; US$ 245.00'This is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen. The materials presented provide new insights into the early development of the prayer ritual in Islam. They also call into question the popular notion that religion could not inspire serious scientific activity. Only one of the hundreds of astronomical tables discussed here was known in medieval Europe,... more...
Solving Algebraic Computational Problems in Geodesy and Geoinformaticsby Joseph L. Awange; Erik W. Grafarend
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 159.00The book presents modern and efficient methods for solving Geodetic and Geoinformatics algebraic problems using computer algebra techniques of Ring, polynomials, Groebner basis, resultants, Gauss-Jacobi combinatorial and Procrustes algorithms. Although these problems are traditionally solved by approximate methods, this book presents alternative algebraic techniques based on computer algebra tools. This new approach meets such modern challenges as resection by laser techniques, solution of orientation in robotics, transformation and bundle block adjustment in geoinformatics, densification of engineering networks, analytical solution for GPS-meteorology and many other problems. For mathematicians the book provides some practical examples of... more...
Mathematical Foundation of Geodesyby Kai Borre
Springer 2006; US$ 219.00Contains selected papers by Torben Krarup, one of the most important geodesists of the 20th century. This book demonstrates his innovative ability to present significant topics and concepts. It is suitable for modern students of geodesy, who can learn a lot from his selection of mathematical tools for solving actual problems. more...
VI Hotine-marussi Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Geodesyby Peiliang Xu; Jingnan Liu; Athanasios Dermanis
Springer 2008; US$ 199.00This volume of proceedings is a collection of refereed papers resulting from the VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Geodesy. The papers cover almost every topic of geodesy, with particular emphasis on satellite gravity modelling, geodynamics, GPS data processing and applications, statistical estimation and prediction theory, and geodetic inverse problem theory and geodetic boundary value problems. Particular attention is paid to topics of fundamental importance in the next one or two decades in Earth Science, seafloor geodesy, for example, and in statistics, mixed integer linear models, for example, and even goes beyond traditional geodetic topics, environmental monitoring by geodetic methods, for example. It serves... more...









