Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning

by Clemency Montelle

Lunar and solar eclipses have always fascinated human beings. Digging deep into history, Clemency Montelle examines the ways in which theoretical understanding of eclipses originated and how ancient and medieval cultures shared, developed, and preserved their knowledge of these awe-inspiring events.

Eclipses were the celestial phenomena most challenging to understand in the ancient world. Montelle draws on original research--much of it derived...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801896916
• ISBN13: 9780801896910
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher