Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 224 p)
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ill
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25 cm
ISBN:
9798400697173
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0313027587
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9780313027581
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031333241X
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9780313332418
Series Statement:
Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index
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An introduction to the history of science -- Babylonian planetary astronomy -- Plato and saving the phenomena -- Eudoxus and concentric spheres -- Eccentrics and epicycles -- Equivalence -- Astronomy and physics -- Saving the phenomena quantitatively -- Ptolemy's exposition of mathematical astronomy -- Reality or mathematical fiction? -- The greatest astronomer of antiquity or the greatest fraud in the history of science? -- Islamic planetary astronomy -- Revival in the west -- Copernicus and planetary motions -- The Copernican revolution -- Breaking the circle -- Isaac Newton and gravity -- The Newtonian revolution.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9798216128649
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als ISBN 031333241X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798400697173
