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Patrick Moore’s Millennium Yearbook

The View from AD 1001

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Patrick Moore
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  2. Allan Chapman
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  • Patrick Moore is Britain's most widely known astronomer and television personality

  • His current regular TV show, The Sky at Night is the longest-running television programme in the world

  • The book contains History, Astronomy and humour in equal parts (well, perhaps more humour....)

  • Almost certainly this is the only book to celebrate the turn of the LAST millennium!

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Night Sky in 1000

    • Patrick Moore, Allan Chapman
    Pages 1-16

  3. Marvels in the heavens

    • Patrick Moore, Allan Chapman
    Pages 17-24

  4. The Astronomical Achievements of the first Millennium

    • Albert Pendleburiensis
    Pages 25-42

  5. Astronomical Instruments of the first Millennium

    • Allanus Salfordiensis
    Pages 43-55

  6. The Astrolabe

    • Aelfred Cliftoniensis
    Pages 57-74

  7. A Letter Relating the New and Most Wonderful Discoveries Regarding the Properties of Light

    • Alhazen
    Pages 75-89

  8. Book Review Book of the Constellations of the fixed Stars

    • Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sufi
    Pages 91-92

  9. Obituary

    • C.J.
    Pages 93-93

  10. Astronomy of the Next Millennium

    • Patrick Moore, Allan Chapman
    Pages 95-96

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 97-99
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About this book

In a year that will probably be remembered almost as much for books about the millennium as for the turn of 2000 A.D itself, Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook celebrates.....well, the wrong millennium! This thoroughly entertaining book - which is for everyone, not just astronomers - contains articles on King Alfred's chronological work, reviews of the new Star Catalogue by the Arab Al-Sufi and the latest edition of Ptolemy's Almagast. And foreshadowing the change to metric units by 1000 years, the book uses arabic numbers instead of Roman - but there is a conversion table if you have trouble with the idea of "zero" and prefer the older system.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Patrick Moore’s Millennium Yearbook

  • Book Subtitle: The View from AD 1001

  • Authors: Patrick Moore, Allan Chapman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0375-2

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-619-6Published: 22 October 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0375-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 100

  • Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles

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