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9780486600796

A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486600796

  • ISBN10:

    0486600793

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-12-08
  • Publisher: Dover Publications

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Complete, thorough history: Near Eastern, early Greeks, homocentric theories, Ptolemaic system, medieval cosmology, Copernicus, Kepler, etc.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.
  THE EARLIEST COSMOLOGICAL IDEAS
CHAPTER I.
  THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS.
CHAPTER II.
  THE PYTHAGOREAN SCHOOL.
CHAPTER III.
  PLATO.
CHAPTER IV.
  THE HOMOCENTRIC SPHERES OF EUDOXUS.
CHAPTER V.
  ARISTOTLE.
CHAPTER VI.
  HERAKLEIDES AND ARISTARCHUS.
CHAPTER VII.
  THE THEORY OF EPICYCLES.
CHAPTER VIII.
  THE DIMENSIONS OF THE WORLD.
CHAPTER IX.
  THE PTOLEMAIC SYSTEM.
CHAPTER X.
  MEDIEVAL COSMOLOGY.
CHAPTER XI.
  ORIENTAL ASTRONOMERS.
CHAPTER XII.
  THE REVIVAL OF ASTRONOMY IN EUROPE.
CHAPTER XIII.
  COPERNICUS.
CHAPTER XIV.
  TYCHO BRAHE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
CHAPTER XV.
  KEPLER.
CHAPTER XVI.
  CONCLUSION.
SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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