Analysis Quote by W. W. Rouse Ball

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

— Otto E. Neugebauer

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member…

— James R Newman

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius…

— Dominic Cummings

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

— Cornelius Lanczos

“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.' Kepler was…

— C. Smoryński

“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to the furtherance…

— G.H. Hardy

“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of them by…

— George F. Hourani

“Al-Kind¯ı (ca. 800 – ca. 870), the first to develop philosophical thought as such in Arabic, was a polymath in the translated sciences and…

— Dimitri Gutas