Predicting the Eclipse: A Multimillennium Tale of Computation -- Stephen Wolfram, Paperback Inner Traditions International 59 episodes on 10 discs

59 episodes on 10 discs

grimy and weird

Squeeze and others

recorded when Lori was 19

Time 03/09/2009 pg

Predicting the Eclipse: A Multimillennium Tale of Computation -- Stephen Wolfram, Paperback Inner Traditions International 59 episodes on 10 discsTotal eclipses of the Sun are rare and dramatic and on April 8, 2024, one will cross the US. But when exactly will it happen? In this short but richly illustrated book, prominent scientist and computation pioneer Stephen Wolfram tells the triumphant and hard won story spanning more than two thousand years of how science, mathematics and computation have brought us to the point where we can now predict the time of the eclipse to within one second.