MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aQB15$b.G563 1993
049 $aXIMM
100 1 $aGingerich, Owen.
245 14 $aThe eye of heaven :$bPtolemy, Copernicus, Kepler /$cOwen Gingerich.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bAmerican Institute of Physics,$cc1993.
300 $aviii, 442 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aMasters of modern physics ;$vv. 7
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPtolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler -- Was Ptolemy a fraud? -- Ptolemy revisited -- Zoomorphic astrolabes: Arabic star names enter Europe -- The "Abd-al-A" imma astrolabe forgeries / with D. King and G. Saliba -- Alfonso X as a patron of astronomy -- The 1852 "Theorica orbium" of Hieronymus Vulparius -- The search for a plenum universe -- The astronomy and cosmology of Copernicus -- Did Copernicus owe a debt to Aristarchus? -- "Crisis" versus aesthetic in the Copernican revolution -- Early Copernican ephemerides -- Erasmus Reinhold and the dissemination of the Copernican theory -- De revolutionibus: an example of Renaissance scientific printing -- The censorship of of Copernicus's De revolutionibus -- Heliocentrism as model and as reality -- Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy -- Kepler as a Copernican -- Kepler's place in astronomy -- The origins of Kepler's Third Law -- The computer versus Kepler -- The computer versus Kepler revisited -- The mercury theory from antiquity to Kepler -- Kepler, Galilei, and the harmony of the world -- Circumventing Newton. revolutionibus: an example of Renaissance scientific printing -- Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy -- Kepler as a Copernican -- Kepler's place in astronomy -- The origins of Kepler's Third Law -- The computer versus Kepler -- The computer versus Kepler revisited -- The mercury theory from antiquity to Kepler -- Kepler, Galilei, and the harmony of the world -- Circumventing Newton.
650 0 $aAstronomy$xHistory.
600 00 $aPtolemy,$d2nd cent.
600 10 $aCopernicus, Nicolaus,$d1473-1543.
600 10 $aKepler, Johannes,$d1571-1630.
994 $aC0$bXIM