Chapter 3: Key Words

You should be familiar with the following terms as well as terms from previous chapters:
  • Mesopotamia
  • Fertile Crescent
  • Sumer
  • sexagesimal number system
  • Babylon
  • Alexander the Great
  • Thales of Miletus
  • Pythagoras of Samos
  • Plato
  • Eudoxus of Cnidus
  • Archimedes of Syracuse
  • Aristotle
  • Eratosthenes of Cyrene
  • Apollonius of Perga
  • Hipparchus of Nicaea
  • Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)
  • Philolaus of Croton
  • Ptolemy’s Geometry
  • Ptolemy’s Almagest
  • epicycle
  • deferent
  • eccentric
  • equant
  • geocentric
  • heliocentric
  • Anticthon
  • parallax
  • Roman Empire
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullāh
  • Islam
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Roman numeral system
  • Hindu-Arabic numeral system
  • Mohammed ibn-Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
  • Ibn al-Shātir
  • Johannes Müller (Regiomontanus)
  • celestial sphere
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • prime meridian
  • Greenwich mean time (GMT)
  • Coordinated universal time (UTC)
  • Global positioning system (GPS)
  • Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)
  • equatorial coordinate system
  • right ascension (RA)
  • declination (dec)
  • precession of the equinoxes
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