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Numerical modeling of lunar disk shape changes (according to the manuscript copy of the XVII century "And when the Moon will be")

Authors: Simonov R.A. Published: 30.09.2016
Published in issue: #9(47)/2016  
DOI: 10.18698/2306-8477-2016-9-384  
Category: The Humanities in Technical University | Chapter: Historical Sciences and Archaeology  
Keywords: medieval Russian mathematics, phases of the moon, "Explanatory Paleya"

The article considers a mathematical model of a lunar disk medieval geometry in the treatise "And when the Moon will be" according to the manuscript copy "Explanatory Paleya" of the late XVII century. It provides reason to believe that in Muscovy there existed theoretical (mathematical) knowledge.


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