THE Cawthron Lecture for 1947, with the title of "Problems in Astronomy, Solved and Unsolved", was delwered by F. G. Gibbs, curator of the Atkinson Qbservatroy, Nelson, N.Z., and gives a very ...

The usual description of Chinese mathematical astronomy as a fundamentally practical, empirical collection of techniques reflects not national character but a conscious choice at a certain point in ...

THE traditional view that the knowledge of astronomy of the Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, a view to which the writings of the Greeks themselves lent support, has lost ...

In Polynesia and Micronesia, where concepts are virtually identical, astronomy and navigation form one inseparable science. Sky `domes', stellar zones, the seasons, yam growth and the Pleiades, as ...