Criticism of trepidation models and advocacy of uniform precession in medieval Latin astronomy
A characteristic hallmark of medieval astronomy is the replacement of Ptolemy’s linear precession with so-called models of trepidation, which were deemed necessary to account for divergences between parameters and data transmitted by Ptolemy and those found by later astronomers. Trepidation is commo...
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2016
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