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Table of Contents: “…Astronomy before history / Clive Ruggles and Michael Hoskin -- Astronomy in antiquity / Michael Hoskin -- Astronomy in China / Christopher Cullen -- Islamic astronomy / Michael Hoskin and Owen Gingerich -- The astrolabe / Michael Hoskin -- Medieval Latin astronomy / Michael Hoskin and Owen Gingerich -- From geometry to physics : astronomy transformed / Michael Hoskin -- The telescope in the seventeenth century / J.A. …”

Table of Contents: “…Themes and Issues -- Methods and Practice -- Pre-Columbian and Indigenous North America -- Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Mesoamerica -- Indigenous and Islamic Astronomy in Africa Pre-Columbian and Indigenous South America -- Prehistoric Europe (Western Part) -- Prehistoric Europe (Central and Eastern Part) and Central Asia -- Ancient Egypt and the Classical World -- Traditional Astronomies in Medieval and Modern Europe -- Ancient Near East -- India and the Islamic Near East -- China and the Far East -- Oceania (Including Australasia and Malay Archipelago).…”
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