• Title of article

    The provenance of the expression for the sunʹs altitude

  • Author/Authors

    M.G. Davies، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    1421
  • To page
    1425
  • Abstract
    The relation between altitude of the sun and location and time of day at the point of observation and the time of year was probably known in its present form in the early 17th century and an example of its calculation given here demonstrates that it was well known by 1760.
  • Keywords
    Early use of logarithms , Sun’s latitude , Spherical triangles
  • Journal title
    Building and Environment
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Building and Environment
  • Record number

    409833

    • Link To Document
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