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001 2006005043
003 DLC
005 20070424083219.0
008 060214s2006 ctua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006005043
020 $a031333241X (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aQB15$b.H59 2006
082 00 $a520.9$222
100 1 $aHetherington, Norriss S.,$d1942-
245 10 $aPlanetary motions :$ba historical perspective /$cNorriss Hetherington.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bGreenwood Press,$cc2006.
300 $axvi, 224 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aGreenwood guides to great ideas in science
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index.
505 0 $aAn 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.
650 0 $aAstronomy$xHistory.
650 0 $aAstronomy$xMathematics$xHistory.
650 0 $aPlanetology.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006005043.html