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Planetary motions
Norriss S. Hetherington
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Greenwood Press, ABC-CLIO, LLC
Language
English
Pages
224

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Subjects
Mathematics, History, Astronomy, Planetology, Science, Astronomy, history, Science, history

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2006, Greenwood Press, ABC-CLIO, LLC
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Planetary Motions: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science)
July 30, 2006, Greenwood Press
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Table of Contents

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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.

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Greenwood guides to great ideas in science, Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
Copyright Date
2006

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Dewey Decimal Class
520.9
Library of Congress
QB15 .H59 2006eb, QB15.H59 2006

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xvi, 224 pages
Number of pages
224

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OL44931812M
ISBN 10
0313027587
ISBN 13
9780313027581
OCLC/WorldCat
85436746

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