Noel Swerdlow
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- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Noel Mark Swerdlow was a professor emeritus of history, astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. Career Swerdlow specialized in the history of exact sciences, astronomy in particular, from antiquity through the 17th century. He earned his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1968; his doctoral dissertation, Ptolemy's Theory of the Distances and Sizes of the Planets: A Study of The Scientific Foundations of Medieval Cosmology, was supervised by Asger Aaboe.
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- Copernican revolution (1975) (211)
- Mathematical astronomy in Copernicus's De revolutionibus (1984) (148)
- The Derivation and First Draft of Copernicus's Planetary Theory: A Translation of the Commentariolus with Commentary (1973) (101)
- Montucla's Legacy: The History of the Exact Sciences (1993) (54)
- Ptolemy’s Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses (2005) (34)
- Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science (1999) (34)
- The Babylonian theory of the planets (1999) (33)
- Technical Chronology and Astrological History in Varro, Censorinus and Others (1985) (27)
- Ancient astronomy and celestial divination (2001) (25)
- An Essay on Thomas Kuhn's First Scientific Revolution, the Copernican Revolution (2004) (24)
- Aristotelian Planetary Theory in the Renaissance: Giovanni Battista Amico's Homocentric Spheres (1972) (23)
- Book-Review - Ancient Planetary Observations and the Validity of Ephemeris Time (1976) (19)
- Regiomontanus on the Critical Problems of Astronomy (1990) (19)
- Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and their evidence for the Copernican theory (1998) (17)
- Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus (2001) (16)
- Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy’s Solar Observations and Theory, Precession of the Equinoxes, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic (2010) (13)
- Ptolemy's Theory of the Inferior Planets (1989) (12)
- The Enigma of Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars (1992) (12)
- Calendar Dates and Ominous Days in Ancient Historiography (1988) (12)
- The Horoscope of the Foundation of Rome (1986) (12)
- Hipparchus on the Distance of the Sun (1969) (11)
- Al-Battãn?'s Determination of the Solar Distance (1973) (11)
- Kepler's Iterative Solution to Kepler's Equation (2000) (11)
- Regiomontanus's Concentric-Sphere Models for the Sun and Moon (1999) (10)
- The Empirical Foundations of Ptolemy's Planetary Theory (2004) (10)
- Review Article: On the Cosmical Mysteries of Mithras (1991) (9)
- Acronychal Risings in Babylonian Planetary Theory (1999) (8)
- The Planetary Theory of François Viète 1. The Fundamental Planetary Models (1975) (8)
- Copernicus and Astrology, with an Appendix1 of Translations of Primary Sources (2012) (8)
- The Lunar Theories of Tycho Brahe and Christian Longomontanus in the Progymnasmata and Astronomia Danica (2009) (8)
- The Origin of the Gregorian Civil Calendar (1974) (8)
- Annals of Scientific Publishing: Johannes Petreius's Letter to Rheticus (1992) (7)
- Planetary distances and sizes in an anonymous arabic treatise preserved in Bodleian Ms. Marsh 621. (1971) (7)
- Hipparchus's determination of the length of the tropical year and the rate of precession (1980) (6)
- On Copernicus' Theory of Precession (1975) (6)
- Copernicus’s Derivation of the Heliocentric Theory from Regiomontanus’s Eccentric Models of the Second Inequality of the Superior and Inferior Planets (2017) (6)
- The Holograph of De Revolutionibus and the Chronology of its Composition (1974) (5)
- Not the earliest solar eclipse (1993) (5)
- Astronomy in the Renaissance. (1996) (5)
- On Establishing the Text of “De Revolutionibus” (1981) (5)
- Tycho Brahe's Early Lunar Theory and the Lunar Eclipse of 31 January 1599 (2004) (4)
- A Star Catalogue Used by Johannes Bayer (1986) (4)
- Long-period Motions of the Earth in De revolutionibus (1980) (4)
- Galileo’s Mechanics of Natural Motion and Projectiles (2013) (4)
- Essay Review: Alfonsine Tables of Toledo and Later Alfonsine Tables: The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo, Archimedes (2004) (4)
- The Length of the Year in the Original Proposal for the Gregorian Calendar (1986) (4)
- Greek Chronography in Roman Epic: The Calendrical Date of the Fall of Troy in the Aeneid (1986) (4)
- Astronomical Chronology and Prophecy: Jean-Dominique Cassini's Discovery of Josephus's Great Lunisolar Period of the Patriarchs (1990) (4)
- Js̄bir ibn Aflah's Interesting Method for Finding the Eccentricities and Direction of the Apsidal Line of a Superior Planet (1987) (3)
- Contributions to the study of Babylonian lunar theory (1979) (3)
- Eloge: Stillman Drake, 24 December 1910-6 October 1993 (1994) (3)
- A Summary of the Derivation of the Parameters in the Commentariolus from the Alfonsine Tables with an Appendix on the Length of the Tropical Year in Abraham Zacuto's Almanach Perpetuum (1977) (2)
- Urania Propitia, Tabulae Rudophinae faciles redditae a Maria Cunitia Beneficent Urania , the Adaptation of the Rudolphine Tables by Maria Cunitz (2011) (2)
- Olaf Pedersen, Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical Introduction . Rev. ed. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 413; many black-and-white figures, tables. $85 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Originally published by Macdonald and Janes and American Elsevier in 1974. (1997) (2)
- Book Review:Regiomontanus: His Life and Work Ernst Zinner, Ezra Brown (1992) (2)
- A Lost Monument of Indian Astronomy (1973) (1)
- Galileo's Horoscopes (2004) (1)
- Translating Copernicus (1981) (1)
- A history of ancient mathematical astronomy: Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Vol. 1, in 3 parts. By O. Neugebauer. Berlin/Heidelberg/New York (Springer-Verlag). 1975. 1456 + xxi pp. (incl. figs., plates). $124.70 (1979) (1)
- Babylonian Astronomy and Celestial Divination (2013) (1)
- Essay Review: Ptolemy's Geography, An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones (2003) (1)
- [Introduction to] Ptolemy in Perspective : Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (2010) (1)
- Book Review:Galileo's Planet: Observing Jupiter before Photography Thomas A. Hockey (2001) (1)
- Essay Review: Judgement on Ptolemy: Ancient Planetary Observations and the Validity of Ephemeris Time (1981) (1)
- Galileo’s Discoveries After 400 Years (2011) (1)
- On the Retrogradations of Planets (1984) (1)
- Early Responses to Copernicus: An Essential Edition (2017) (1)
- Essay Review: Empirical Foundations of Babylonian Lunar Theory: Zur Entstehung der babylonischen Mondtheorie, Beobachtung und theoretischen Berechnung von Mondphasen (1999) (0)
- Two Programs, for Ephemeris and Visibility Calculations, Useful for Historical Applications (2005) (0)
- Planetary Theory of Longitude (1984) (0)
- Part 3. Alignment to the Zodiac, Initial Position, Elongation, Subdivision of the Synodic Arc and Time (1998) (0)
- Book Review: The Planetary Theory of Campanus: Campanus of Novara and Medieval Planetary Theory: Theorica Planetarum (1973) (0)
- Notation and symbols (2019) (0)
- Optical Profusion (1986) (0)
- Abu Shaker's "Chronography": A Treatise of the Thirteenth Century on Chronological, Calendrical, and Astronomical Matters, Written by a Christian Arab, Preserved in Ethiopic.O. Neugebauer (1990) (0)
- Part 1. Periodicity and Variability of Synodic Phenomena (1998) (0)
- HISTORY OF SCIENCE: Ptolemy on Trial (2016) (0)
- Book-Review - Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus' de Revolutionibus (1984) (0)
- Newton's demonstration of the system of the world (Invited Paper) (1992) (0)
- "Translating Copernicus" (1981) (0)
- Isaac Newton's "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica". Alexandre Koyré , I. Bernard Cohen , Anne WhitmanIntroduction to Newton's "Principia". I. Bernard Cohen (1974) (0)
- Calendrical Calculations [Reviews] (1998) (0)
- Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics. Part A: Tycho Brahe to Newton. René Taton , Curtis Wilson (1991) (0)
- The Copernican Question Revisited: A Reply to (2013) (0)
- Essay Review: Babylonian Astronomy and Celestial Divination: In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and its Legacy (2013) (0)
- Trigonometry and Spherical Astronomy (1984) (0)
- The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus [Book Review] (2017) (0)
- Feature ReviewsThe Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. John North (1997) (0)
- Essay Review: Rheticus: NARRATIONES PRIMA ET SECUNDA: G. J. Rheticus' Treatise on Holy Scripture and the Motion of the Earth: With translation, annotations, commentary and additional chapters on Ramus-Rheticus and the development of the problem before 1650 (1986) (0)
- The Ancient World (1999) (0)
- Lunar Theory and Related Subjects (1984) (0)
- Thomas Gold's Deep Hot Biosphere and the Origin of Petroleum (2000) (0)
- Book Review:Chronology of Eclipses and Comets A. D. 1-1000 Justin Shove (1988) (0)
- Cardano’s Malicious Horoscope and Gaurico’s Morbid Horoscope of Regiomontanus (2016) (0)
- Part 2. Derivation of the Parameters for Synodic Arc and Time from the Dates of Phenomena (1998) (0)
- Astronomical Cuneiform Texts, Vols. I, II, and III. By O. Neugebauer, Astronomy and History, Selected Essays. By O. Neugebauer (1986) (0)
- The Most Complex Homocentric Astronomy (2017) (0)
- Essay Review: Kepler and the Theory of Music: Der Musiktheoretiker Johannes Kepler (Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, Band 5 (1976) (0)
- Astronomical Cuneiform Texts.@@@Astronomy and History, Selected Essays. (1986) (0)
- Thomas Hockey (Editor).The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. 2 volumes. xlv + 1,341 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. New York: Springer, 2007. $499 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- The Motions of the Earth (1984) (0)
- and Selected Essays (2013) (0)
- Astronomy - The Astronomical Tables of Levi ben Gerson . By Bernard R. Goldstein. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences , xlv (1974). Archon Books: Hamden, Connecticut, 1974. Pp. 285. $15.00. (1976) (0)
- Chandrasekhar's Research on Newton's Principia (1997) (0)
- Book-Review - Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's De-Revolutionibus (1985) (0)
- Early Responses to Copernicus: An Essential Edition [Book Review] (2017) (0)
- Review: O. Neugebauer, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (1978) (0)
- Planetary Theory of Latitude (1984) (0)
- Blackstone’s “Newtonian” Dissent (1994) (0)
- Physical Science in the Middle Ages. Edward Grant (1973) (0)
- On Professor Westman's Reply to Copernicus and Astrology, with an Appendix of Translations of Additional Primary Sources1 (2013) (0)
- Book Review:Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow: A Census of Manuscript Sources (XIVth-XVIth Centuries) Grazyna Rosinska (1985) (0)
- The Almagest in the Manner of Euclid (2021) (0)
- Sarton Medals (1986) (0)
- Essay Review: The New Principia, the Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (2001) (0)
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