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9780761414285

The Mystery of Gravity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761414285

  • ISBN10:

    0761414282

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-10-01
  • Publisher: Benchmark Books
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Summary

Defines gravity and discusses how our knowledge of the natural force has broadened and evolved.

Table of Contents

Crystal Spheres and Epicycles
6(10)
Pythagoras, Plato, and Eudoxus
Hipparchus and Ptolemy
The New Astronomy
16(11)
Copernicus: A New Home for the Sun
Kepler: Questions and an Answer
Kepler's War with Mars
The ``Secret'' of Gravity
Galileo's Gravity
27(11)
Early Ideas about Gravity
Aristotle's Fable and Galileo's Logic
Rolling Balls
Gravity and Inertia
Gravity and the Heavens
The Apple Must Fall
38(12)
Discovery of the Law of Gravity
Other Discoveries
Rediscovery of Newton's Law of Gravitation
Gravity as Curved Space--Time
50(8)
Einstein as a Youth
First Steps Toward a New Theory of Gravity
More Thought Experiments
A New Theory of Gravity
The Strange Results of Extreme Gravity
58(15)
Gravity's Effect on Time
Black Holes---Gravity in the Extreme
Falling into a Black Hole
Future of the Universe
Glossary 73(2)
Further Reading 75(1)
Index 76

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