AlmagestPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1484/j.almagest.5.134612
Christophe Schmit, Éric Chassefière
{"title":"Météorologie et sciences de l’observatoire à l’Observatoire royal de Paris (1671-1719)","authors":"Christophe Schmit, Éric Chassefière","doi":"10.1484/j.almagest.5.134612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.almagest.5.134612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":474346,"journal":{"name":"Almagest","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135595757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlmagestPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1484/j.almagest.5.134613
Éric Chassefière
{"title":"Interprétation des variations barométriques au tournant du XVIIIe siècle : allègement de l’atmosphère par les vapeurs et la pluie","authors":"Éric Chassefière","doi":"10.1484/j.almagest.5.134613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.almagest.5.134613","url":null,"abstract":"Nous analysons les tenants et les aboutissants du débat scientifique très intense qui s’est tenu dans la communauté savante européenne au tournant du XVIIIe siècle autour du paradoxe que représentait, pour ceux qui voyaient dans la montée des vapeurs et des exhalaisons et leur résolution en pluie la cause première des variations du baromètre, le fait que le baromètre soit généralement bas quand le ciel est chargé de nuages et le temps à la pluie, et au contraire plutôt haut quand le temps est beau et le ciel clair. Nous donnons les éléments du contexte de la pensée de l’époque en la matière, détaillons les idées alors dominantes sur le lien entre pluie et pression de l’air, présentons les observations confortant les partisans des vapeurs et de la pluie comme cause première des variations du baromètre, ainsi que leur propositions, expériences de laboratoire à l’appui, pour résoudre le paradoxe.","PeriodicalId":474346,"journal":{"name":"Almagest","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135595753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlmagestPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1484/j.almagest.5.134614
Paola Magrone, Ana Millán Gasca, Ilaria Zannoni
{"title":"Science for the Multitude: Jules Dalsème's (1845-1904) ‘Natural Geometry” for the Education of All","authors":"Paola Magrone, Ana Millán Gasca, Ilaria Zannoni","doi":"10.1484/j.almagest.5.134614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.almagest.5.134614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":474346,"journal":{"name":"Almagest","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135595448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlmagestPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1484/j.almagest.5.134609
Aristeidis Voulgaris, Christophoros Mouratidis, Andreas Vossinakis
{"title":"The Initial Calibration Date of the Antikythera Mechanism after the Saros Spiral Mechanical Apokatastasis","authors":"Aristeidis Voulgaris, Christophoros Mouratidis, Andreas Vossinakis","doi":"10.1484/j.almagest.5.134609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.almagest.5.134609","url":null,"abstract":"This work analyzes the phase correlation of the three lunar cycles and the Saros/Exeligmos cycle, after the study of the chapter About Exeligmos in Introduction to the Phenomena by Geminus. Geminus, refers that each Exeligmos cycle began on very specific and rare dates, when the Moon positioned at the points of the three lunar cycles beginning: New moon at Apogee and at the Node. The extremely large duration of the Annular Solar eclipse occurred on December 22 178BC (Saros series 58), marks the start of the Prominent Saros Cycle Apokatastasis. The next day, 23 December 178BC, the Winter Solstice started. During these two neighboring dates, the celebration of the religious festival of Isia started in Egypt and the Hellenistic Greece. After the analysis of the Mechanism's Parapegma events specific position, 22/23 December 178BC is an ideal, functional and representative initial date, in order to calibrate the initial position of the Mechanism's pointers.","PeriodicalId":474346,"journal":{"name":"Almagest","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135595463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlmagestPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1484/j.almagest.5.134611
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
{"title":"Introductory Notes on Addressing Issues and Problems of Multireligious-Ethnic Scholars in the Ottoman Science","authors":"Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu","doi":"10.1484/j.almagest.5.134611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.almagest.5.134611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":474346,"journal":{"name":"Almagest","volume":"48 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135595756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlmagestPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1484/j.almagest.5.134615
Dana Khaleb
{"title":"Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, <i>Abbasid House of Wisdom</i>","authors":"Dana Khaleb","doi":"10.1484/j.almagest.5.134615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.almagest.5.134615","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":474346,"journal":{"name":"Almagest","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135595751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlmagestPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1484/j.almagest.5.134610
Han Dongyang, Lu Dalong
{"title":"The Planetary Latitude Theory of Qizheng Tuibu (1477)","authors":"Han Dongyang, Lu Dalong","doi":"10.1484/j.almagest.5.134610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/j.almagest.5.134610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":474346,"journal":{"name":"Almagest","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135595449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}