Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution

by Crowe, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780486261737
• ISBN10: 0486261735
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-04-01
• Publisher: Dover Pubns

Summary

Revised edition re-creates the change from an earth- to a sun-centered conception of the solar system by focusing on an examination of the evidence available in 1615.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
The Celestial Motions	p. 1
Greek Astronomy before Ptolemy	p. 21
Some Mathematical Techniques of Ancient Astronomy	p. 30
The Ptolemaic System	p. 42
Philosophical Interlude: The "Save the Phenomena" Position	p. 66
The Copernican System	p. 82
The Tychonic System	p. 136
Johannes Kepler	p. 146
Galileo Galilei	p. 156
Epilogue: Some Quotations Concerning Astronomy in the Copernican Revolution Period	p. 173
Archaeoastronomy	p. 197
Select Bibliography	p. 220
Index	p. 227
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