Todd Timberlake, Paul Wallace

Finding Our Place in the Solar System

The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Details the science behind the Copernican Revolution, the transition from the Earth-centered cosmos to a modern understanding of planetary orbits.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 939g
• ISBN-13: 9781107182295
• ISBN-10: 1107182298
• Artikelnr.: 54018349

Autorenporträt

Todd Timberlake has taught physics and astronomy at Berry College, Georgia since 2001. He teaches courses on the Copernican Revolution, the history of galactic astronomy and cosmology, and extra-terrestrial life, among others. Although he usually teaches college students, he has taught audiences ranging from kindergarten children in the USA to Tibetan Buddhist monks in India. He is passionate about incorporating the history and philosophy of science into the teaching of science and he is an expert at using computers as a tool for teaching physics and astronomy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: mysterious skies
2. Two spheres: modeling the heavens and the Earth
3. Wanderers: the Moon and the planets
4. An Earth-centered cosmos: astronomy and cosmology from Eudoxus to Regiomontanus
5. Moving the Earth: the revolutions of Copernicus
6. Instruments of reform: Tycho's restoration of observational astronomy
7. Physical causes: Kepler's new astronomy
8. Seeing beyond Aristotle: Galileo's controversies
9. The system of the world: Newton's universal physics
10. Confirming Copernicus: evidence for Earth's motions
Appendix A. Mathematical details
Notes
References
Index.