J. L. E. Dreyer

History of the Planetary Systems

From Thales to Kepler

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1906, this book presents a study of 'the history of man's conception of the Universe'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781107432628
• ISBN-10: 1107432626
• Artikelnr.: 41526455

Inhaltsangabe

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.