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{{Short description|1650 book of astronomical tables by Maria Cunitz}} ...tia''''' ({{lit.|kind/beneficent [[Urania]]}}) is a book of [[astronomical tables]] written by [[Maria Cunitz]] and published in 1650. As Maria Cunitz was th ...

...S, St Andrews, Obit" /> He published many of his own tables ''Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation'', ''Reports of the British Association for ...of Mathematics" />}} lists Airey as one of the most prolific compilers of tables, with 49 to his credit. ...

...s background luminance for various target diameters (in arcmin). Data from tables 4 and 8 of Blackwell (1946), plotted in [[Andrew Crumey|Crumey]] (2014).]] ...hreshold and astronomical visibility |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=442 |issue=3 |pages=2600–2619|doi=10.1093/mnras/stu992 |doi ...

...|issn=0004-637X}} Note: See [https://zenodo.org/records/10086810 external tables]</ref> ...F, G, and K Dwarfs and Subgiants |bibcode=2017AJ....153...21L |journal=The Astronomical Journal |volume=153 |pages=21 |doi=10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/21 |doi-access=f ...

...body]] of the [[Solar System]] – thus completing a full cycle of [[season|astronomical season]]s. For example, it is the time from [[March equinox|vernal equinox] The tropical year is one type of [[astronomical year]] and particular [[orbital period]]. Another type is the [[sidereal ye ...

...igh and low tides to the nearest minute and tenth of a foot, respectively. Tables were printed for a year at a time and distributed prior to the start of the ...acquered, and reassembled in time to provide predictions for the 1914 tide tables.<ref name=":3" /> Comparisons of the accuracy of the mechanical predictions ...

...of [[Aryabhata]]. He was recognised as "the greatest authority on Kerala's astronomical tradition".<ref name=kch1>K. Chandra Hari (25 Oct 2007) [http://www.ias.ac. ...] || 825 - 900|| ''Laghubhāskarīya'' || References to the presence of an [[astronomical observatory]] at [[Mahodayapuram]] (modern day [[Kodungallur]]). || Student ...

...ref name="Meeus-transformation">{{cite book |first=Jean |last=Meeus |title=Astronomical Algorithms |publisher=Willmann Bell, Inc. |location=Richmond, VA |date=1991 These equations, from the ''[[Astronomical Almanac]]'',<ref> ...

...maic alphabets had enough letters to reach up to 9000. In mathematical and astronomical manuscripts, other methods were used to represent larger numbers. [[Roman n ...icative-additive and sometimes uses a base 1,000, and the Greek and Arabic astronomical notation systems. ...

...heatstone|Wheatstone]]; Thomson also credited Roberts with calculating the astronomical ratios embodied in the machine, and Légé with design of the drive gear deta ...e when calculations were done by hand and brain, with pencil and paper and tables, this was recognized as an immensely laborious and error-prone undertaking. ...

...ration of Maskelyne at Schiehallion|journal=Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=26|issue=3|pages=289–294|bibcode=1985QJRAS..26..289D|date=19 ...]] and estimates of the mass and density of the Earth. Since the masses of astronomical objects were known only in terms of relative ratios, the mass of the Earth ...

...e lunar cycle used by the Church to calculate the date for Easter, because astronomical new moons were occurring four days before the calculated dates. Whilst the ...page= 863|publisher=Springer |isbn=9783540688310 }}</ref> The increase of astronomical knowledge and the precision of observations towards the end of the 15th cen ...

...lipses of the [[Galilean moons]] for longitude measurements, and published tables predicting when eclipses would be visible from a given location. He was inv ...pt was written some time after January 1678, the date of the last recorded astronomical observation (an emergence of Io on 6&nbsp;January), and so was later than R ...

...tabulated in reference books such as the annual "Chronological Scientific Tables" (RCST1939(1938){{r|RCST1939|group="R"|p=E46}}), the "Dictionary of Physics ...e was no data table titled "clarke numbers" which showed Clarke's original tables. ...

...tion of chords]], while mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric ratios (also called [[trigonometric functions]] ...cal astronomy and geodesy, with logarithmic, trigonometrical, and nautical tables|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4FTAAAAYAAJ|year=1853|publisher=G. P ...

...se cases the need for [[trigonometric function]]s or [[trigonometric table|tables]] can be entirely dispensed with. ...as long as the [[major axis]] of the Earth's orbit or, equivalently, two [[astronomical unit]]s (AU). The distance to a star with a parallax angle of only one [[a ...

...entists and artists, accumulated a library of 400000 volumes, and built an astronomical ...}} ...a mathematical discipline in its own right rather than as just a tool for astronomical applications. In Treatise on the quadrilateral al-Tusi gave the first extan ...

...n metric (or any other) units were different when we looked them up in our tables of physical constants, but the value of α remained the same, this new world ...olume=31 |pages=e015 |doi=10.1017/pasa.2014.9 |journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia|arxiv = 1402.1534 |bibcode = 2014PASA...31...15M |s2ci ...

...14th and 15th centuries, before the development of [[celestial navigation|astronomical navigation]]. ...rigonometry]] was only in its infancy in Christian Europe, sine and cosine tables were already known in [[History of trigonometry#Islamic mathematics|Arab ma ...

...opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-28-22-4735 Revised optical air mass tables and approximation formula]. ''Applied Optics'' 28:4735&ndash;4738.</ref> ...r - at higher altitudes around 30&nbsp;km.<ref>R.L.F. Boyd (Ed.) (1992). ''Astronomical photometry: a guide'', section 6.4. Kluwer Academic Publishers. {{ISBN|0-79 ...