JISDM 2019 – Athens

The 4th JISDM Symposium starts today. The 4th Joint International Symposium on Deformation Monitoring (JISDM) held in Athens, Greece. (Link – jisdm).

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Buku A History of Optical Telescopes in Astronomy (2018)

Buku terbitan Springer tahun 2018.

Contents:

1B geobaca

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Buku A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (1975)

Buku terbitan Springer tahun 1975. Buku ‘A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy’ oleh Neugebauer.

A History

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction

Book 1 The Almagest and its Direct Predecessors

Introduction; A – Spherical Astronomy; B – Lunar Theory; C – Planetary Theory; D – Appolonius; E – Hipparchus

Book 2 Babylonian Astronomy

Introduction; A – Planetary Theory; B – Lunar Theory; C – Early Babylonian Astronomy

Part 2

Book 3 – Egypt

Book 4 – Early Greek Astronomy

Book 5 – Astronomy During the Roman Imperial Period and Late Antiquity

 

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Tesis Sains Islam Zaman Ibn Khaldun

Sebuah tesis phd bertajuk “The Fate of Islamic Science Between Eleventh and Sixteenth Centuries: A critical study of scholarship from Ibn Khaldun to the present” membincangkan tentang perkembangan sains Islam di zaman silam. Tesis oleh Mohamad Abdalla, School of Science, Griffith University pada tahun 2004.

Contents:

Introduction

The importance of Islamic Science – progressive understanding in the scholar community.

The scholarly community – ideal standards and constraining problems.

A comprehensive review of scholarship from Ibn Khaldun to the present.

The fate of Islamic mathematics in the Maghrib between the eleventh and sixteenth-centuries.

The fate of Islamic astronomy in Persia between the eleventh and sixteenth-centuries.

The fate of Islamic astronomy in Egypt and Syria between the eleventh and sixteenth-centuries.

The fate of Islamic medicine in Egypt and Syria between the eleventh and sixteenth-centuries.

A discussion on the quality of scholarship on the fate of Islamic science.

The fate of Islamic science – a possible adequate intellectual model.

Concluding remarks.

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2007)

Buku ‘Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers’ terbitan Springer 2007.

Encyclopedia of Astronomers

Contents:

Entri pertamanya adalah Abbas Wasim Effendi – Turkey (1689-1760). Diikuti Abbe, Cleveland (1838-1916).

Entri terakhir adalah Zarqali: Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Naqqash al-Tujibi al-Zarqali (d.15 Oct 1100 – Cordova)

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Persaraan KPU

KPU mula bersara pada 6 Mei 2019.

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Geodetic Heights (Sanso et al 2019)

A most recent book “Geodetic Heights’ written by Sanso, Reguzzoni and Barzaghi is already available. The book is published by Springer.

Geodetic Heights

Contents consist of seven chapters;

Introduction

General Coordinates in R (power 3)

The Earth Gravity Field: basics

The anomalous potential and its determination

Geodetic coordinate systems

The relation between levelling, geodetic and other unholonomic heights

The height datum problem

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Recent papers Jan-Apr 2019

Papers from recent journal;

Wang, Jianqiang & Wu, Keqiang “Construction of regional geoid using a virtual spherical harmonics model”. Journal of Applied Geodesy, Vol 13 No 2, April 2019.

Kermarrec, G., Neumann, I and Schon, S “The stochastic model for GNSS and TLS observations: a proposal to account for correlations in least squares adjustment. Journal of Applied Geodesy, Vol 13 No 2, April 2019.

Abrehdary, M., Sjoberg, LE and Sampietro, D “Contribution of satellite altimetry in modelling Moho density contrast in oceanic areas”. Journal of Applied Geodesy, Vol 13 No 1, Jan 2019.

Shengxiang Huang, Guangqing Li, Xinpeng Wang & Wen Zhang “Geodetic network design and data processing for Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau link immersed tunnel”. Survey Review, Vol 31, No 365, 2019.

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When the Earth was Flat

Buku terbitan Springer. Perlu perhati juga tajuk kecilnya … Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology.

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Stamping the Earth from Space

Buku yang ditemui apabila mengakses librari gedung buku Blackwells.

Stamping the Earth from Space

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