History of the Planetary Systems
History of the Planetary Systems
From Thales to Kepler
J. L. E. Dreyer
October 2014
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Originally published in 1906, this book presents a study of 'the history of man's conception of the Universe from the earliest historical ages to the completion of the Copernican system by Kepler in the seventeenth century'. Detailed notes and illustrative figures are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in planetary systems and the history of astronomy.
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October 2014Paperback
9781107432628
444 pages
213 × 142 × 33 mm
0.56kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction. The earliest cosmological ideas
- 1. The early Greek philosophers
- 2. The Pythagorean school
- 3. Plato
- 4. The homocentric spheres of Eudoxus
- 5. Aristotle
- 6. Herakleides and Aristarchus
- 7. The theory of Epicycles
- 8. The dimensions of the world
- 9. The Ptolemaic system
- 10. Medieval cosmology
- 11. Oriental astronomers
- 12. The revival of astronomy in Europe
- 13. Copernicus
- 14. Tycho Brahe and his contemporaries
- 15. Kepler
- 16. Conclusion
- Index.
