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Abraham Ibn Ezra The Book of Reasons
BRILL 2007; US$ 167.00Offers a critical Hebrew text of the two versions of Ibn Ezra's "Sefer ha-Te'amim", the "Book of Reasons", accompanied by an annotated translation and commentary. This work presents two treatises that were designed by Ibn Ezra to offer reasons, explanations, or meanings of the raw astrological concepts formulated in the... more...
Abraham Ibn Ezra Book of the World
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00This volume offers the first critical edition, translated and annotated, of the two versions of Abrahan Ibn Ezra?s Book of the World, the first Hebrew work, unique in medieval Jewish science, to discuss the theories and techniques of historical and meteorological astrology. more...
Algebraic Geodesy and Geoinformatics
Springer 2010; US$ 169.99The book presents modern and efficient methods for solving Geodetic and Geoinformatics algebraic problems illustrated with Mathematica using computer algebra techniques of Ring, Polynomials, Groebner basis, Resultants including Dixon resultant, Gauss-Jacobi combinatorial and Procrustes algorithms as well as homotopy methods. These problems are traditionally... more...
Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries
Springer 2011; US$ 31.99This title offers a unique combination of informative text, magnificent illustrations and stylish design. It examines the 100 most important discoveries since the invention of the telescope. It features spectacular photographs, taken with the largest telescopes on Earth and in space, that portray distant corners of the universe. Author Govert Schilling... more...
A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East
Saqi 2012; US$ 10.19The Middle East is the birthplace of astronomy and the centre for its development during the medieval period. In this brief introduction John Steele offers an intriguing insight into Middle Eastern achievements in astronomy and their profound influence on the rest of the world. Amongst other things, the book traces the Late Babylonians? ingenious... more...
Cleomedes' Lectures On Astronomy
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...
Data Processing in Precise Time and Frequency Applications
Springer 2007; US$ 179.99Physical processes, involving atomic phenomena, allow more and more precise time and frequency measurements. This progress is not possible without convenient processing of the respective raw data. The book describes the data processing at various levels: design of the time and frequency references, characterization of the time and frequency references,... more...
Deformations of an elastic earth
Elsevier Science 1983; US$ 81.00Deformations of an elastic earth more...
Full Meridian of Glory
Springer 2008; US$ 27.50The Paris Meridian is the name of the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to determine and measure this line in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers and geodesists. This book discusses about what they did and why. more...









