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Seidelmann, P. Kenneth, E. Myles Standish, Claude Froeschle, Heiner Schwan, Dennis McCarthy, Elena Schilbach, and Toshio Fukushima. "Division I: Fundamental Astronomy: (Astronomie Fondamentale)." Transactions of the International Astronomical Union 24, no. 1 (2000): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0251107x00002522.

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The last three years have been marked by changes, highlights and progress. Organizationally, commission 7 has joined Division I and plans proceed for commissions 8 and 24 to merge in 2000. They have had a common vice president during this triennium. Sadly, the Royal Greenwich Observatory was closed after over 200 years, but Her Majesty’s Nautical Almanac Office has continued at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In St Petersburg, Russia, the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy was abolished, with some of the personnel relocated to the Institute of Applied Astronomy and Pulkova Observatory. In Paris, France, the Bureau des Longitudes was reorganized as the Institute of Celestial Mechanics-Bureau des Longitudes as part of the Paris Observatory.
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Cardoso, Jorge, Décio Martins, Helmuth Malonek, and Carlos Fiolhais. "Manuel dos Reis e a Astronomia em Portugal de 1930 a 1970." História da Ciência e Ensino: construindo interfaces 20 (December 29, 2019): 550–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/2178-2911.2019v20p550-567.

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Resumo Descreve-se a evolução do Observatório Astronómico da Universidade de Coimbra de 1930 a 1970, destacando- se o exercício das funções de diretor por Manuel dos Reis (1900-1992), de 1934 a 1970. Fonte primordial é o espólio documental de Manuel dos Reis à guarda do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra, que inclui programas, lições, problemas, exames, estudos e notas, e outros manuscritos sobre História da Astronomia, Astronomia (Geral, Mecânica, Esférica e Geodésica), Astronomia Medieval, e Astronomia Náutica dos Descobrimentos. Engloba ainda listas bibliográficas, rascunhos das comunicações e discursos sobre Astronomia Náutica proferidos na Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. Apresenta-se, em particular, um documento datilografado, inédito, provavelmente da década de 30, com o título “Reorganização do ensino da Astronomia e da investigação astronómica”, onde Reis, após descrever brevemente a história da Astronomia, refere a Astrofísica como o “novo capítulo da Astronomia”, e reflete sobre o ensino e investigação da Astronomia, e sobre o funcionamento dos Observatórios Astronómicos de Coimbra e de Lisboa (Tapada da Ajuda), e do Observatório Meteorológico do Porto (Serra do Pilar).Palavras-chave: História da Astronomia em Portugal; Astrofísica, Observatório Astronómico da Universidade de Coimbra. Abstract The evolution of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra from 1930 to 1970 is described, highlighting Manuel dos Reis (1900-1992) role as director from 1934 to 1970. Main source is the collection of Manuel dos Reis documentation in the Archive of the University of Coimbra, which includes programs, lessons, problems, exams, studies and notes and other manuscripts on the History of Astronomy, Astronomy (General, Mechanical, Spherical and Geodesical), Medieval Astronomy, Nautical Astronomy of the Portuguese Discoveries. It also includes lists of bibliographical references, minutes of communications and speeches on Nautical Astronomy delivered at the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. A typewritten, unpublished document, with the title "Reorganization of the teaching of astronomy and astronomical investigation”, probabbly from the 1930s, is presented. Reis, after a brief description of the history of Astronomy, describes Astrophysics as the "new chapter of Astronomy", reflects on the teaching and research on Astronomy, and on the operation of the Astronomical Observatories of Coimbra and Lisbon (Tapada da Ajuda), and the Meteorological Observatory of OPorto (Serra do Pilar). Keywords: History of Astronomy in Portugal; Astrophysics; Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra.
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Fanning, A. E. "Astronomical Navigation Since 1884." Journal of Navigation 38, no. 02 (May 1985): 209–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300031325.

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In this technological age, when anartistof nautical astronomy is fast becoming a figure of history, there is a tendency to regard astro-navigation as something that went out with the dodo. It would be as well to remember, therefore, that despite the widespread use of radio navaids from the early years of World War II, astronomical navigation remained the only world-wide fixing system until the launch of the Transit navigation satellites during the 1960s. The truth is that the first half of the present century saw enormous advances in both its methods and practice and the fact that it is still in wide use can be judged by the large number of Nautical Almanacs sold annually.
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Seymour, P. A. H. "The Use of the Planetarium in Nautical and Field Astronomy Education." International Astronomical Union Colloquium 162 (1998): 157–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100115003.

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The universe of marine navigators and surveyors is basically a geocentric one. All calculations necessary for reducing celestial observations to obtain directional or positional information can be carried out within the pre- Copernican two sphere hypothesis. Some mature students on the degree courses have practical experience of navigation at sea but are not used to more abstract ways of thinking. However, most courses in navigation require students to understand the many corrections that have to be applied in astro-navigation. The planetarium can be used to illustrate the basic concepts of the two sphere hypothesis, although other methods are needed to understand the nautical almanac and the principles used in its calculation.
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Randles, W. G. L. "The Emergence of Nautical Astronomy in Portugal in the XVth century." Journal of Navigation 51, no. 1 (January 1998): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463397007674.

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Of the great oceans of the world, the Atlantic, because of its violence, was the last to be mastered by man. The task in its entirety had to wait for the Portuguese sailors of the Renaissance. Isidore of Seville (c. 570–636), a Christian writer of the late Roman Empire, had written of the Atlantic that it was ‘incommensurable and uncrossable’. Although Pliny (a.d. 23–79) refers vaguely to the Canary Islands, all knowledge of them disappears in the Middle Ages until a Portuguese expedition under the command of the Italian Lanzarotto Malocello ‘re- discovered’ them in 1336. Italian charts of the XIVth century begin progressively to show the Canaries, Madeira, Porto Santo and the Azores, but all aligned along a N/S axis without any appreciation of the relative distances between them or how far they lay from the European shore. The first written evidence of the Portuguese ‘discovery’ of the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo appears in 1419–20 and of the Azores in 1427, about the same time as they began to be colonised under the aegis of Prince Henry of Portugal, called the ‘Navigator’. The difficulties of returning to them on regular voyages was to motivate the Portuguese to develop methods of measurement using the Pole Star as a navigational aid and this led, not only to a greater accuracy in placing the islands on the charts, but also to a greater precision in the charting of the west African coastline which they were progressively exploring during the second half of the XVth century.Claims that Portuguese nautical astronomy originated in Aragon and was transmitted from there to Portugal or was introduced into Portugal from Germany by Regiomontanus and Martin Behaim have long ago been shown to be baseless.
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Almeida, Simone Ferreira Gomes de. "Escritos sobre o céu para homens ao mar - considerações e estudos sobre astrologia e astronomia dos séculos XV e XVI * Writings about the sky for men at the sea - considerations and studies about astrology and astronomy of the XV and XVI centuries." História e Cultura 7, no. 2 (December 2, 2018): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.18223/hiscult.v7i2.2677.

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A escrita da história da astronomia foi conduzida por alguns pontos chaves: a relação deste saber com as viagens de expansão e o aprimoramento da náutica, a diferenciação da astrologia e o questionamento do lugar da ciência e da superstição para o estudo do céu, bem como a construção das estruturas deste saber pelos escritos que desdobraram o assunto. Todas estas tópicas foram desenvolvidas em maior ou menor grau nos estudos historiográficos das décadas passadas que trataram da ciência do céu. Assim, este texto trata da astronomia dos séculos XV e XVI como objeto de estudos historiográficos que privilegiaram determinados aspectos deste saber, confluindo muitas vezes com a recusa – que já estava explícita nos escritos quatrocentistas – daquilo que veio se afirmar no futuro como algo totalmente desvinculado da astronomia – a astrologia.*The writing of the history of astronomy was conducted by a few key points: the relation of this knowledge to voyages of expansion and improvement of nautical, the differentiation of astrology and the questioning of the place of science and superstition for the study of the sky, as well as the construction of structures of this knowledge by the writings that unfolded the subject. All these topics were developed to a greater or lesser extent in the historiographical studies of the past decades about the science of the sky. Thus, this text deals with the astronomy of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as an object of historiographical studies that privileged certain aspects of this lore, often converging with the refusal - which was already explicit in the writings of the fourteenth century - of what came to be affirmed in the future as something totally unrelated to astronomy - astrology.
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Kennerley, Alston, and Percy Seymour. "Aids to the Teaching of Nautical Astronomy and its History from 1600." Paedagogica Historica 36, no. 1 (January 2000): 151–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0030923000360108.

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van der Werf, Siebren. "Nautical Tables for Vasco da Gama, 1497–1500?" Journal for the History of Astronomy 50, no. 3 (August 2019): 326–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021828619864472.

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It is believed that Vasco da Gama carried nautical tables on his first voyage to the Indies, 1497–1499, that had especially been produced for the years 1497–1500 by Abraham Zacut, then Royal Astronomer in the service of the Portuguese court. Maritime history writers have suggested two manuscripts as surviving copies of these da Gama tables. One of them is a set of declination tables in the 1519 edition of Suma de Geographia by Martín Fernández de Enciso. Analysis of all available data shows that these tables are indeed good candidates, though their production from the 1505–1508 astronomical tables of Regiomontanus and of Stöffler and Pflaum would be about equally likely. The other candidate is a set of solar ecliptic longitudes, found in the Livro de Marinharia, attributed to André Pires. It is shown that with certainty these have been taken from 1505 to 1508 of Regiomontanus/Stöffler-Pflaum and therefore cannot have served da Gama on his first voyage.
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Zaman, Qomarus. "Terbit Fajar dan Waktu Subuh (Kajian Nash Syar’i dan Astronomi)." Mahakim: Journal of Islamic Family Law 2, no. 1 (June 7, 2022): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.30762/mahakim.v2i1.92.

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Fajr in syar’i concept is divided into two; Fajr Kazib and Fajar Shadiq. The Fajr Kazib is time to having breakfast before doing fasting and have no salah Subuh. The second is fajr Shadiq. It is time to have no having meal (because it is fasting time) and time to do salah Subuh. Fajr Kazib arises at the early morning whose the light is not bright, but it is longer to the top of East to West vertically. Then the sky comes dark like wolf tail. While Fajr Shadiq arises at the early morning whose light is bright spreading in East horizontally. It arises just before sunrise. Time between Fajr Shadiq and the sunrise is the time for salah Subuh. In Astronomy, the word Fajr means Morning Twilight. Twilight in Astronomy is divided into three; astronomical twilight, nautical twilight and civil twilight. First, astronomical twilight is as the end of night. That is when starlight is not bright because of sunrise. The sun position is level 18 below the horizon. At that time, there ios still dark because of the sun going to rise ( an hour and 12 minutes later the sun rises). The second is nautical twilight. It looks so bright is East horizon for the sailors who are going to land. The sun position is level 12 below the horizon (48 minutes later the sun rises). The third is civil twilight. It is Fajr whose the light is so bright in which the position is level 6 below the horizon. At that time, the sunlight is so really bright, and many people do their morning activities. And then 24 minutes later the sun rises.
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Tarantino, Piero. "La trattazione aristotelica delle scienze subordinate negli Analitici secondi." RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA, no. 3 (August 2012): 445–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sf2012-003001.

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This paper explores Aristotle's remarks in Posterior Analytics on certain special disciplines that are subordinate to pure mathematical sciences. Optics, harmonics and mechanics prove their own contents by means of premises belonging to arithmetic or geometry. Even though subaltern sciences are exceptions to the prohibition on kind crossing, the premises to their demonstrations are legitimately appropriate to the relative conclusions. In order to delineate the demonstrative structure of subordinate sciences, Aristotle introduces the distinction between knowledge of a fact and knowledge of the reason for it. In his view, these two different levels of knowledge, characterizing respectively empirical and theoretical approaches, are closely related. Nautical astronomy, for instance, deals with the observation and recording of the astral motions, which are made intelligible by mathematical astronomy. The Aristotelian ideal of an explanatory connection between appearances and mathematical principles seems to be the main aspect in the treatment of subordinate sciences in Posterior Analytics.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nautical Astronomy"

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Boistel, Guy. "L'astronomie nautique au XVIIIème siècle en France tables de la lune et longitudes en mer /." Lille : ANRT, Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/61502316.html.

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Garcia, Ortiz Gustavo Adolfo. "The Rincon Astrolabe Shipwreck." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3289.

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On 30 December 1986, a local fisherman incidentally discovered the remains of a seventeenth-century merchantman off the coast of Rincon, a small municipality on Puerto Rico's west coast. Some days later, he and some acquaintances extracted objects from the site and stored them in a nearby restaurant. The assemblage of artifacts recovered included, among other items, pins, scissors, ordnance, pewter ware, woodworking tools, a myriad of concretions and a nautical astrolabe. It is from the last that the wreck site took its name. The operation continued for months until local authorities, alerted by a member of the salvage group, issued a cease and desist order. At that point, the whole affair entered a legal process that on the summer of 2005 had not reached its conclusion. The purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, the author presents the story of the shipwreck from the moment it was found until the court ruled regarding ownership of the artifacts. Since this was the first time ownership of a shipwreck was debated in Puerto Rican courts in recent history, this gives the reader an idea of how legal precedence was established concerning the island's submerged cultural resources. Second, based on what was popularly perceived to be the site's most remarkable find, a study was developed on the sea or mariner's astrolabe, a navigation instrument that played a fundamental role in the process of European maritime expansion during the late fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reader of this text will learn that, during the fifteenth century, Portuguese navigators saw the need to gradually depart from the traditional Mediterranean navigation technique known as "dead reckoning." As their explorations along the West African coast forced them to sail far into the Atlantic Ocean for prolonged periods, a new method was developed that consisted of measuring the angle of certain heavenly bodies above the horizon in order to determine the latitude of the observer with reasonable precision. For this purpose, instruments that traditionally belonged to the field of astronomy were adapted to be used by seamen. Among them was the astrolabe, which became the most popular by the turn of the sixteenth century. After discussing the instrument's origin and development, the author analyzes how a renewed interest on the nautical astrolabe, which emerged in Portugal in the early twentieth century, introduced the instrument to the field of modern scholarly research. This work also presents a catalogue of sixteen sea astrolabes, some of which have never been published. The catalogue shows statistics and other relevant information, while placing the artifacts in the context of the previously existing data.
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Books on the topic "Nautical Astronomy"

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Gargiulo, R. La navigazione astronomica. Roma]: Rivista marittima, 2001.

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D, Davies Thomas. The navigator's almanac: Sun, moon, star, and planet data, 1988. Chestertown, Md: Backstaff Press, 1987.

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Bruce, Paulk Wm. Basic and intermediate celestial navigation. New York: Hearst Marine Books, 1989.

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Dutton, Benjamin. Dutton's Navigation & piloting. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1985.

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Tursi, Tom. Celestial navigation for sailors. 2nd ed. [Rock Hall, Md.?]: Tursi, 2000.

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Slocum, Jonah. Celestial navigation. 3rd ed. Palos Verdes Estates, Calif: Basic Science Press, 1985.

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Roy, Williams. Geometry of navigation. Chichester: Horwood Pub., 1998.

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Amilcar José São Miguel Oliveira. Navegação astronómica para os patrões de alto mar. Barcarena (Portugal): Arte Mágica, 2003.

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Orchiston, D. Wayne. Nautical astronomy in New Zealand: The voyages of James Cook. Wellington, N.Z: Carter Observatory, 1998.

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Yallop, B. D. Compact data for navigation and astronomy for the years 1991-1995. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "Nautical Astronomy"

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Seidelmann, P. Kenneth. "Before the Nautical Almanacs." In Historical & Cultural Astronomy, 1–20. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43631-5_1.

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Bennett, Jim. "The First Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris." In Historical & Cultural Astronomy, 145–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43631-5_4.

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Bell, Steven A., John A. Bangert, and George H. Kaplan. "Evolution of The Nautical Almanac & Celestial Navigation Today." In Historical & Cultural Astronomy, 263–311. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43631-5_9.

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Perkins, Adam J., and Steven J. Dick. "The British and American Nautical Almanacs in the 19th Century." In Historical & Cultural Astronomy, 157–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43631-5_5.

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"nautical astronomy, n." In Oxford English Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oed/2817138049.

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Waters, David W. "NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY AND THE PROBLEM OF LONGITUDE." In The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton, 143–70. University of California Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8441732.11.

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Seymour, P. A. H. "The Use of the Planetarium in Nautical and Field Astronomy Education." In New Trends in Astronomy Teaching, 157–60. Cambridge University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511628993.036.

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