4
Carlo Rovelli, The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy (Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2011), 57–60, 104. Additional information on the Milesians can be found in F. M. Cornford, “Pattern of Ionian Cosmogony,” in Munitz, Theories of the Universe, 21–31; and G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield, eds., The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 76–142.
5
John Vardalas, “A History of the Magnetic Compass,” Institute, member newspaper of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, November 8, 2013, http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-history/a-history-of-the-magnetic-compass. John Huth’s recent The Lost Art of Finding Our Way (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
6
R. C. Taliaferro приводит перевод Альмагеста в Great Books of the Western World, vol. 16 (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952). Обзор космологии древних греков начиная от Птолемея см. в: F. M. Cornford, Plato’s Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato (New York: Humanities Press, 1937); and of W. K. C. Guthrie, Aristotle: On the Heavens,Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939).
7
Ali Abdullah al-Daffa, The Muslim Contribution to Mathematics (London: Croom, 1977).
8
Petra G. Schmidl, “Two Early Arabic Sources on the Magnetic Compass,” Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 1 (1997–98): 85.
9
Catalan Atlas and by Andreas Cellarius, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, and Bernard Picart – are included in Michael Benson’s comprehensive compendium of images Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time (New York: Abrams, 2014), which I reviewed in “Revelations from Outer Space.”
10
Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read (New York: Penguin, 2005), 146.
11
В действительности Аристарху (310–230 до н. э.) приписывают открытие гелиоцентрической модели. Хотя его работа не сохранилась, на нее ссылается Архимед в своих вычислениях.
12
Gingerich, Book Nobody Read, 170–85.
13
Детали плодотворного сотрудничества Браге и Кеплера можно найти в: Kitty Ferguson’s Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens (New York: Walker, 2002).
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