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Author : John Louis Emil Dreyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Tycho Brahe written by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruthann Love
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781477430989
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book 16th-Century Astronomers written by Ruthann Love and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's so special about Nicolaus Copernicus?In this new, compelling book from author Ruthann Love, find out more about Nicolaus Copernicus ...Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist with a doctorate in law, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classics scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, governor, diplomat and economist.So, what seperates this book from the rest?A comprehensive narrative of Nicolaus Copernicus, this book gives a full understanding of the subject.A brief guide of subject areas covered in "16th-century Astronomers - Nicolaus Copernicus" include -- Nicolaus Copernicus- Copernican heliocentrism- Copernican Revolution- CoperniciumFind out more of this subject, it's intricacies and it's nuances. Discover more about it's importance. Develop a level of understanding required to comprehend this fascinating concept.Author Ruthann Love has worked hard researching and compiling this fundamental work, and is proud to bring you "16th-century Astronomers - Nicolaus Copernicus" ...Read this book today ...
Author : J. L. E. Dreyer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330133477
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Tycho Brahe written by J. L. E. Dreyer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century Astronomers are so frequently obliged to recur to observations made during former ages for the purpose of supporting the results of the observations of the present day, that there is a special inducement for them to study the historical development of their science. Much labour has accordingly been spent on the study of the history of astronomy, and in particular the progress of the science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has of late years formed the subject of many important monographs. The life of Copernicus has been written in considerable detail by Prowe, Hipler, and others. Of Kepler's numerous works we owe a complete edition to the patient industry and profound learning of the late Dr. Frisch of Stuttgart, while the life of Galileo, and particularly his persecution and trial, have called forth quite a library of books and essays. In the present volume I have attempted to add another link to the chain of works illustrating the birth of modem astronomy, by reviewing the life and work of Tycho Brahe, the reformer of observational astronomy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Copernicus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1804175714
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Concise Edition) written by Copernicus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversial at the time, Copernicus's discoveries led to the scientific revolution, and a greater understanding of our place in the universe. An accessible, abridged edition with a new introduction. Renaissance Natural philosopher Nicolaus Copernicus's pioneering discovery of the heliocentric nature of the solar system is one of the few identifiable moments in history that define the understanding of the nature of all things. His great work was the consequence of long observation and resulted in the first stage of the Scientific Revolution by correctly positing that the earth and other planets of the solar system revolved around the sun. Not only did this promote further study to understand the place of humanity in the world and the universe, it questioned the authority of the organised Christian Church in the West to be the keeper of fundamental truths. Ultimately this would lead to the Enlightenment, and the separation of religion, government and science. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.
Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198736770
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Astronomer & the Witch written by Ulinka Rublack and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one that takes us to the heart of his changing world.
Author : Robert Stawell Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086788501
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Great Astronomers written by Robert Stawell Ball and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the chapter on 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe from Sir Robert S. Ball's Great Astronomers, second edition, which begins: "The most picturesque figure in the history of astronomy ... Tycho Brahe was alike notable for his astronomical genius and for the extraordinary vehemence of a character which was by no means perfect. His romantic career as a philosopher, and his taste for splendour as a Danish noble, his ardent friendships and his furious quarrels, make him an ideal subject for a biographer, while the magnificent astronomical work which he accomplished has given him imperishable fame. ...
Author : J.L.E. Dreyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Tycho Brahe written by J.L.E. Dreyer and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Stawell Ball
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541166493
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Robert Stawell Ball - Great Astronomers written by Robert Stawell Ball and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the chapter on 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe from Sir Robert S. Ball's Great Astronomers, second edition, which begins: "The most picturesque figure in the history of astronomy ... Tycho Brahe was alike notable for his astronomical genius and for the extraordinary vehemence of a character which was by no means perfect. His romantic career as a philosopher, and his taste for splendour as a Danish noble, his ardent friendships and his furious quarrels, make him an ideal subject for a biographer, while the magnificent astronomical work which he accomplished has given him imperishable fame. ... "Before Tycho was seventeen he had commenced the difficult task of calculating the movements of the planets and the places which they occupied on the sky from time to time. He was not a little surprised to find that the actual positions of the planets differed very widely from those which were assigned to them by calculations from the best existing works of astronomers. With the insight of genius he saw that the only true method of investigating the movements of the heavenly bodies would be to carry on a protracted series of measurements of their places. This, which now seems to us so obvious, was then an entirely new doctrine. Tycho at once commenced regular observations in such fashion as he could." This book traces the life of Tycho Brahe (born 1546): the unusual way he was adopted by his uncle as an infant, his education, his productive years as inventor of precise astronomical instruments before telescopes, his meticulous observations, his personal life, his death as a prematurely aged man in 1601. Tycho's observations were accurate enough for the mathematical astronomer Kepler to calculate that the planets moved in elliptic orbits, and to discover Kepler's other laws, which gave Newton the facts he needed to establish his inverse-square law of gravitation.
Author : Adam Mosley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521838665
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Bearing the Heavens written by Adam Mosley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the astronomical culture of sixteenth-century Europe, focusing on the astronomer Tycho Brahe.
Author : Robert Ball
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515372233
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Great Astronomers written by Robert Ball and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the chapter on 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe from Sir Robert S. Ball's Great Astronomers, second edition, which begins: "The most picturesque figure in the history of astronomy ... Tycho Brahe was alike notable for his astronomical genius and for the extraordinary vehemence of a character which was by no means perfect. His romantic career as a philosopher, and his taste for splendour as a Danish noble, his ardent friendships and his furious quarrels, make him an ideal subject for a biographer, while the magnificent astronomical work which he accomplished has given him imperishable fame. ... "Before Tycho was seventeen he had commenced the difficult task of calculating the movements of the planets and the places which they occupied on the sky from time to time. He was not a little surprised to find that the actual positions of the planets differed very widely from those which were assigned to them by calculations from the best existing works of astronomers. With the insight of genius he saw that the only true method of investigating the movements of the heavenly bodies would be to carry on a protracted series of measurements of their places. This, which now seems to us so obvious, was then an entirely new doctrine. Tycho at once commenced regular observations in such fashion as he could." This book traces the life of Tycho Brahe (born 1546): the unusual way he was adopted by his uncle as an infant, his education, his productive years as inventor of precise astronomical instruments before telescopes, his meticulous observations, his personal life, his death as a prematurely aged man in 1601. Tycho's observations were accurate enough for the mathematical astronomer Kepler to calculate that the planets moved in elliptic orbits, and to discover Kepler's other laws, which gave Newton the facts he needed to establish his inverse-square law of gravitation.
Author : Kitty Ferguson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144816723X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Tycho and Kepler written by Kitty Ferguson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary, unlikely tale of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler and their enormous contribution to astronomy and understanding of the cosmos is one of the strangest stories in the history of science. Kepler was a poor, devoutly religious teacher with a genius for mathematics. Brahe was an arrogant, extravagant aristocrat who possessed the finest astronomical instruments and observations of the time, before the telescope. Both espoused theories that seem off-the-wall to modern minds, but their fateful meeting in Prague in 1600 was to change the future of science. Set in one of the most turbulent and colourful eras in European history, when medieval was giving way to modern, Tycho and Kepler is a double biography of these two remarkable men.
Author : J. L. E. Dreyer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486600793
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (866 download)
Download or read book A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler written by J. L. E. Dreyer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1953-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterpiece of historical insight and scientific accuracy and the definitive work on Greek astronomy and the Copernican Revolution. Includes surveys of European and Islamic cosmologies of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Author : Pierre Duhem
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022638165X
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book To Save the Phenomena written by Pierre Duhem and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics–an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Christian scholasticism, and, finally, the astronomers of the Renaissance.
Author : Leonard Digges
Publisher : Archival Facsimiles
ISBN 13 : 9781852970222
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A Prognostication Everlasting written by Leonard Digges and published by Archival Facsimiles. This book was released on 1987 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Gingerich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674023703
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (237 download)
Download or read book God’s Universe written by Owen Gingerich and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Johannes Kepler as his guide, Gingerich argues that an individual can be both a creative scientist and a believer in divine design--that indeed the very motivation for scientific research can derive from a desire to trace God's handiwork.
Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691002606
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ptolemy's Almagest written by Ptolemy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-08 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.
Author : Alexandre Koyre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135028346
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Astronomical Revolution written by Alexandre Koyre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in English in 1973. This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered man’s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "astronomical revolution" was accomplished in three stages, each linked with the work of one man. With Copernicus, the sun became the centre of the universe. With Kepler, celestial dynamics replaced the kinematics of circles and spheres used by Copernicus. With Borelli the unification of celestial and terrestrial physics was completed by abandonment of the circle in favour the straight line to infinity.
