The Firmament of Odysseus: Musings on the Precession of Equinoxes

• Autores: Gaetano Zampieri
• Localización: Materials matemàtics, ISSN-e 1887-1097, Nº. 0, 2024
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper introduces the precession of the equinoxes in an elementary way and presents a formula for calculating the angle between the star Polaris and the Celestial North Pole over the years.

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