astrolabe the missing manual - the astrolabe …（星盘失踪手册u2014u2014星盘u2026）.pdf

ASTROLABE The Missing Manual beta version 0.1 Timothy Mitchell Acknowledgements Part I cover and Part II cover: Illustrations adapted from: Johannes Stoeffler, Elucidatio Fabriquae Ususque Astrolabii. Made available by the Digital Rare Book Collection at the Vienna University Observatory, located at http://www.univie.ac.at/hwastro. Used with permission. Figure 1: A Slide Rule: From Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by user charlie42. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. (/wiki/File:Use_slide_rule_multi.jpg) Figure 2: The Celestial Sphere: Public domain clipart. Figure 6: Map projection: From Wikimedia Commons. Public domain art. (/wiki/File:National_Atlas_Mercator.gif) All other content in this manual is copyright © 201 1 Timothy J. Mitchell This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit /licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. In other words, copy and distribute this all you want; so long as I get credit, you don’t modify it and you don’t sell it. Version 0.1 – October 2011 This manual is a work in progress. The most current version is available for download from the Astrolabe Project website: 2 Table of Contents Part 1: An Overview 5 About this book 7 A note on the examples: 7 Introduction: A new manual for a very old computer 7 History 8 Why an Astrolabe? 9 2. Astrolabe Theory 10 The Celestial Sphere 10 The Local Sky 12