Planetary Astronomy From the Renaissance to the Rise of - Astrophysics, Part A, Tycho Brahe to Newto

Klappentext The history of astronomy has never been tackled on this scale and depth and this major synthesis breaks wholly new ground. Zusammenfassung The history of astronomy has never been tackled on this scale and depth and this major synthesis breaks wholly new ground. The individual chapters of each volume have been prepared by leading experts in every field of the history of astronomy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Tycho, Gilbert and Kepler: Part II. The Impact of the Telescope: Part III. Planetary, Lunar and Cometary Theories Between Kepler and Newton: Part IV. The Newtonian Achievement in Astronomy: Glossary of technical terms; Illustrations: acknowledgements and sources; Index; Part V. Early Phases in the Reception of Newton's Theory: Part VI. Celestial Mechanics During the Eighteenth Century: Part VII. Observational Astronomy and the Application of Theory in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Part VIII. The Development of Theory During the Nineteenth Century: Part IX. The Application of Celestial Mechanics to the Solar System to the End of the Nineteenth Century.

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• Authors: Rene Wilson Taton
• Assisted by: Michael Hoskin (Editor), R. Taton (Editor), Reni Taton (Editor), C. Wilson (Editor), Curtis Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2003
• EAN: 9780521542050
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54205-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous