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Author : John Louis Emil Dreyer
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book History Of The Planetary Systems From Thales To Kepler written by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1953 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Louis Emil Dreyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler written by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. L. E. Dreyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107432626
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book History of the Planetary Systems written by J. L. E. Dreyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1906, this book presents a study of 'the history of man's conception of the Universe from the earliest historical ages to the completion of the Copernican system by Kepler in the seventeenth century'. Detailed notes and illustrative figures are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in planetary systems and the history of astronomy.
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 : Theodor S. Jacobsen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295997591
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks to Kepler written by Theodor S. Jacobsen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks, Theodor S. Kepler seeks to present a bird’s-eye view of the astronomical nature of the work of Newton’s predecessors. Rather than dwelling only on the influence of each thinker’s great ideas, Jacobsen tracks the actual details of their development by investigating the various systems involved and how they were used. As such, this book is an attempt to describe the specific processes through which (pre-Newtonian) astronomers derived a knowledge of the cosmos by observing the heavens and trying out detailed models to account for their observations. Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks contributes to scholarship on historical astronomy by offering an approach between that of popular, exact astronomical information and formal, fully referenced scholarly investigation. Each chapter is organized around a key astronomer (Eudoxus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler) and offers relevant biographical introduction, exposition of the astronomical system, and assessment of their contributions. As Jacobsen suggests, the present elementary study of these historical astronomical systems also yields valuable insights for visualizing the salient facts of general astronomy.
Author : James Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019987445X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy written by James Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers. While tracing ideas from ancient Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the book places its greatest emphasis on the Greek period, when astronomers developed the geometric and philosophical ideas that have determined the subsequent character of Western astronomy. The author approaches this history through the concrete details of ancient astronomical practice. Carefully organized and generously illustrated, the book can teach readers how to do real astronomy using the methods of ancient astronomers. For example, readers will learn to predict the next retrograde motion of Jupiter using either the arithmetical methods of the Babylonians or the geometric methods of Ptolemy. They will learn how to use an astrolabe and how to design sundials using Greek and Roman techniques. The book also contains supplementary exercises and patterns for making some working astronomical instruments, including an astrolabe and an equatorium. More than a presentation of astronomical methods, the book provides a critical look at the evidence used to reconstruct ancient astronomy. It includes extensive excerpts from ancient texts, meticulous documentation, and lively discussions of the role of astronomy in the various cultures. Accessible to a wide audience, this book will appeal to anyone interested in how our understanding of our place in the universe has changed and developed, from ancient times through the Renaissance.
Author : Norwood Russell Hanson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Patterns of Discovery written by Norwood Russell Hanson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1979 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan C. Bowen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900424171X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions written by Alan C. Bowen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the digression closing Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo 2.12 has long been misread as a history of early Greek planetary theory, it is in fact a creative reading of Aristotle to maintain the authority of the De caelo as a sacred text in Late Platonism and to refute the polemic mounted by the Christian, John Philoponus. This book shows that the critical question forced on Simplicius was whether his school’s acceptance of Ptolemy’s planetary hypotheses entailed a rejection of Aristotle’s argument that the heavens are made of a special matter that moves by nature in a circle about the center of the cosmos and, thus, a repudiation of the thesis that the cosmos is uncreated and everlasting.
Author : Raffaele Pisano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319617125
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science written by Raffaele Pisano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his passing (in 2014), this special book features studies on Alexandre Koyré (1892–1964), one of the most influential historians of science of the 20th century, who re-evaluated prevalent thinking on the history and philosophy of science. In particular, it explores Koyré’s intellectual matrix and heritage within interdisciplinary fields of historical, epistemological and philosophical scientific thought. Koyré is rightly noted as both a versatile historian on the birth and development of modern science and for his interest in philosophical questions on the nature of scientific knowledge. In the 1940s and 1950s his activities in the United States established a crucial bridge between the European historical tradition of science studies and the American academic environments, and an entire generation of historians of science grew up under his direct influence. The book brings together contributions from leading experts in the field, and offers much-needed insights into the subject from historical, nature of science, and philosophical perspectives. It provides an absorbing and revealing read for historians, philosophers and scientists alike.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Barrado Navascués
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031298853
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Cosmography in the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution written by David Barrado Navascués and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward. During this time, cosmography—a science that combined geography and astronomy to inform us about our place in the universe—was deeply tied to ongoing developments in politics, exploration, culture, and technology. The book offers in-depth historical context over nearly four centuries, focusing in particular on the often neglected role that Portugal and Spain played in the development of cosmography. It details the great activity emerging from the Iberian and Italic peninsulas, including numerous voyagers of exploration, a clear commercial intention, and advancements in map-making techniques. In doing so, it provides a unique perspective on the “Longitude problem” not available in most other literature on the topic. Rigorously researched and sweeping in scope, this book will serve as an invaluable source for historians and readers interested in the history of science, of astronomy, and of exploration from a southern European perspective.
Author : Christopher B. Kaiser
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004474110
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The Creationist Tradition from Basil to Bohr written by Christopher B. Kaiser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the role of creational theology in discussions of natural philosophy, medicine and technology from the Hellenistic period to the early twentieth century. Four principal themes are the comprehensibility of the world, the unity of heaven and earth, the relative autonomy of nature, and the ministry of healing. Successive chapters focus on Greco-Roman science, medieval Aristotelianism, early modern science, the heritage of Isaac Newton, and post-Newtonian mechanics. The volume will interest historians of science and historians of the idea of creation. It simultaneously details the persistence of tradition and the emergence of modernity and provides the historical background for later discussions of creation and evolution.
Author : H.F. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401576866
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Quantifying Music written by H.F. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soul rejoices in perceiving harmonious sound; when the sound is not harmonious it is grieved. From these affects of the soul are derived the name of consonances for the harmonic proportions, and the name of dissonances for the unharmonic proportions. When to this is added the other harmonie proportion whieh consists of the longer or shorter duration of musical sound, then the soul stirs the body to jumping dance, the tongue to inspired speech, according to the same laws. The artisans accommodate to these harmonies the blows of their hammers, the soldiers their pace. As long as the harmonies endure, everything is alive; everything stiffens, when they are disturbed.! Thus the German astronomer, Johannes Kepler, evokes the power of music. Where does this power come from? What properties of music enable it to stir up emotions which may go far beyond just feeling generally pleased, and which may express themselves, for instance, in weeping; in laughing; in trembling over the whole body; in a marked acceleration of breathing and heartbeat; in participating in the rhythm with the head, the hands, the arms, and the feet? From the beginning of musical theory the answer to this question has been sought in two different directions.
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Publisher : PediaPress
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Total Pages : 313 pages
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Download or read book Astronomy written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anuj Misra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429015062
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Learning With Spheres written by Anuj Misra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides, for the very first time, a critical edition and an English translation (accompanied by critical notes and technical analyses) of the chapter on spheres (golādhyāya) from Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India. Readers will learn how terrestrial and celestial phenomena were understood by early modern Sanskrit astronomers using spherical geometry. The technical discussions in this book, supported by the critically edited Sanskrit text and geometric diagrams, offer an opportunity for historians of the astral sciences to understand developments in astronomy in seventeenth-century Mughal India from a more nuanced perspective. These are supplemented through explorations of modernity, mathematics, and mythology and how they thrived within Sanskrit astronomical discourse at the courts of the Mughal emperors. This book will be of interest to historians and philosophers of science, in particular those interested in the history of non-Western astral sciences. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars studying the general history of Sanskrit astronomy in the Indian subcontinent as well as those interested in the technical aspects of Sanskrit and Indo-Persian astronomy in Mughal India.
Author : Marco Piccolino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199554358
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Galileo's Visions written by Marco Piccolino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating and accessible style, Marco Piccolino and Nick Wade analyse the scientific and philosophical work of Galileo Galilei from the particular viewpoint of his approach to the senses (and especially vision) as a means of acquiring trustworthy knowledge about the constitution of the world
Author : John P. McCarthy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498295991
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Where Have All the Heavens Gone? written by John P. McCarthy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years before his famous trial, Galileo Galilei had spent two years carefully considering how the results of his own telescopic observations of the heavens as well as his convictions about the truth of the Copernican theory could be aligned with the Catholic Church's position on biblical interpretation and the authority of the magisterium. The product of these two years was an unpublished letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, the mother of his patron, Cosimo II de' Medici. Much has changed since this letter was written in 1615, but much has remained the same. This collection of articles by renowned international scholars provides the historical context of the letter as well as a description of the scientific world of Galileo. It also explores those issues that make this 1615 letter a document for our time: the public role of religious authority, the truth of the Bible, and the relationship of scientific inquiry to social justice. Galileo's letter to Christina has become a classic text in the history of the relationship between science and religion in the West for good reason; this volume explores why the letter has earned its rightful place as a classic even for today.
