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'''Aristarchus's inequality''' (after the Greek [[Ancient Greek astronomy|astronomer]] and [[Greek mathematics|mathematician]] [[Aris ...w2.math.uconn.edu/~leibowitz/math2720s11/Greek_Trig.pdf |title=Hellenistic Astronomers and the Origins of Trigonometry |first=Gerald M. |last=Leibowitz |access-da ...

...He is famous as the author of the ''[[Jigu Suanjing]]'' (''Continuation of Ancient Mathematics'') one of the ''[[Ten Computational Canons]]''. His major contribution was the ''Jigu suanjing'' ("Continuation of Ancient Mathematics" 缉古算经), written before year 626. Jigu Suanjing became a text f ...

...st=Ossendrijver |first=Mathieu |date=29 Jan 2016 |title=Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from the area under a time-velocity graph |jo ...

...ent forms of Bhāskara I's formula have been given by almost all subsequent astronomers and mathematicians of India. For example, [[Brahmagupta]]'s (598–668& ...requirements of astronomy. The search for more accurate formulas by Indian astronomers eventually led to the discovery of the [[Madhava series|power series]] expa ...

...itle=The biographical dictionary of women in science pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. |date=2000 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415- ...es for women as scientists, because she could be so easily compared to the ancient Greek astronomer.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schiebinger|first=Londa|title=Fem ...

...t=Ossendrijver |first=Mathieu |date=Jan 29, 2016 |title=Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from the area under a time-velocity graph |jo ...odicals/convergence/on-squares-rectangles-and-square-roots-square-roots-in-ancient-chinese-mathematics |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=www.maa.org}}</ref> ...

...ing counterparts known as [[intermediate-velocity cloud]]s (IVCs). Several astronomers proposed hypotheses (which later proved to be inaccurate) regarding the nat ...tory|Dwingeloo radio telescope]] in the [[Netherlands]]. From this survey, astronomers were able to detect more HVCs. ...

...ze and brightness in visible light.<ref name="PlanetarySociety"/> This led astronomers to suspect that Makemake must have extra dark surface area that is contribu ...e to circular, which would suggest that S/2015 (136472) 1 was formed by an ancient impact event, or if it is significantly eccentric, which would suggest that ...

...012/12/ancient-quasar-imaged-when-the-universe-lacked-heavy-metal/ |title= Ancient quasar imaged when the Universe lacked heavy metal |date= 5 December 2012 | ...p://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-astronomers-universe-distant-quasar.html "Astronomers find universe's most distant quasar (w/ video)"] ...

...rst=Joanna | last2=Lewis | first2=Chris | title=Why stargazers, modern and ancient, covet a tract of land in Australia's arid heart | website=ABC News|publish .... ASKAP's combination of fast survey speed and high sensitivity will allow astronomers to answer some fundamental questions about the creation and early evolution ...

...| first17=M. G.| journal=Nature| volume=444 Supplement| title=Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism| bibcode=2 In the 1910s, several astronomers calculated the precession of perihelion according to special relativity. Th ...

...nd-its-source/ |archivedate=4 August 2023 |accessdate=5 August 2023 |quote=Astronomers are now seeking to pinpoint the origins of an exciting new form of gravitat ...

...et|Arabic abjad]]'s 28 consonant signs could represent numbers up to 1000. Ancient Aramaic alphabets had enough letters to reach up to 9000. In mathematical a ...pted astronomical fractions directly from the Greeks, and similarly Hebrew astronomers used sexagesimal fractions, but Greek numeral signs were replaced by their ...

Astronomers and great thinkers of the past were able to record observations and attempt ...e]] has also been proposed.<ref name=nyt>{{Cite news|title=How Old Is This Ancient Vision of the Stars?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/science/nebra-s ...

=== Ancient and imperial era === ...an spirits representing 11 pm to 1 am (left) and 5 am to 7 am (right); the ancient Chinese, although discussing it in supernatural terms, acknowledged [[circa ...

...h religious ("Islamic") topics and non-religious or secular subjects ("the ancient sciences")."</ref> His works include the definitive Arabic versions of the ...is considered by many{{who|date=April 2014}} to be one of the most eminent astronomers of his time. His famous student [[Shams al-Din al-Bukhari]]<ref name="Shams ...

...similar method.<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto Neugebauer |title=A history of ancient mathematical astronomy. 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vO5FCVIxz2 ...t'' as well as the works of [[Astronomy in medieval Islam|Persian and Arab astronomers]] such as [[Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī|Al Battani]] and [[Nas ...

*'''[[Boris Farmakovsky]]''', archaeologist of [[Ancient Greek]] colony [[Olbia, Ukraine|Olbia]] *'''[[Lev Gumilev]]''', historian and ethnologist, prominent researcher of ancient [[Central Asia]]n peoples, related [[ethnogenesis]] and [[biosphere]], infl ...

* '''Structural components of the Milky Way''': Using stellar kinematics, astronomers construct models which seek to explain the overall galactic structure in te In July 2019, astronomers reported finding an A-type star, [[S5-HVS1]], traveling {{convert|1755|km/s ...

...Gregorian year. Thus Pitatus's solution would have commended itself to the astronomers.{{sfnp|Swerdlow|1986}} ...gle.com/books?id=nS51_7qbEWsC&pg=PA169 |title= The history and practice of ancient astronomy |location= Oxford |publisher= Oxford University Press | year=1998 ...