The Investigation of Difficult Things
Subtitle: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside
Contributors: Peter M. Harman (Editor); Alan E. Shapiro (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9780521374354
Subjects: History Of Science; History; History Of Physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Newton, Isaac; Newton, Isaac,--Sir,--1642-1727; Technology / General; Whiteside, D. T
First sentence: In ancient and medieval astronomy lunar velocity is used to compute the duration of eclipses and the time from mean syzygy to true syzygy.