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BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTOR

Noel Swerdlow

First name

Noel

Last name

Swerdlow

Bibliography entries by this contributor

King, David, George Saliba, and Noel Swerdlow. 1987. “Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ’s Interesting Method for Finding the Eccentricities and Direction of the Apsidal Line of a Superior Planet”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 501-12. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
Swerdlow, Noel. 1977. “A Summary of the Derivation of the Parameters in the Commentariolus from the Alfonsine Tables With an Appendix on the Length of the Tropical Year in Abraham Zacuto’s Almanach Perpetuum”. Centaurus 21 (3-4): 201-13.
Swerdlow, Noel. 1974. “The Origin of the Gregorian Civil Calendar”. Journal for the History of Astronomy 5: 48-49.
Swerdlow, Noel. 1973. “Al‐Battānī’s Determination of the Solar Distance”. Centaurus 17: 97-105.
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