Book:Rosa Maria Ros/Cosmic Calculations

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Rosa Maria Ros: Cosmic Calculations: Astronomy and mathematics

Published $\text {2017}$, National Geographic

ISBN 978-84-473-8936-0


National Geographic "Our Mathematical World" series: $30$


Contents

Preface


Chapter 1. Crucial Angles and Required Distances: the ABC of Astronomy
Chapter 2. But Where Are We?
Chapter 3. Eclipses and Transits: Meeting Points
Chapter 4. Measuring Time
Chapter 5. The Great Periods of Time


Appendix. Who Wants to Learn More and Do Some Calculations?
Bibliography
Index