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Acknowledgements
1. You'd Have to Be Crazy to Say the Earth Moves
Science or insanity?
Nothing new under the Sun
Astronomy rules, OK?
2. Why Did Copernicus Say the Earth Moves?
Heavenly orbs
Science or art?
Ptolemy and the decline of cosmology
How to avoid a crisis: the medieval stand-off
How to create a crisis: Nicolaus Copernicus, cosmologist
3. Who Was Copernicus?
Why Copernicus?
Life and times
Renaissance man
Renaissance mathematician
4. What Was the Reaction?
Small beginnings
Copernicus and the astronomers
Copernicus and the Churches
Copernicus and the Aristotelians
5. What Difference Did it Make?
A world of difference
One physics or two?
How the Earth moves
Space: the final frontier
6. Last Words
Glossary
Further Reading
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
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Fachbereich: | Astronomie |
Genre: | Physik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9781785782695 |
ISBN-10: | 178578269X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Henry, John |
Hersteller: | Icon Books |
Maße: | 129 x 196 x 21 mm |
Von/Mit: | John Henry |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.12.2017 |
Gewicht: | 0,172 kg |
Acknowledgements
1. You'd Have to Be Crazy to Say the Earth Moves
Science or insanity?
Nothing new under the Sun
Astronomy rules, OK?
2. Why Did Copernicus Say the Earth Moves?
Heavenly orbs
Science or art?
Ptolemy and the decline of cosmology
How to avoid a crisis: the medieval stand-off
How to create a crisis: Nicolaus Copernicus, cosmologist
3. Who Was Copernicus?
Why Copernicus?
Life and times
Renaissance man
Renaissance mathematician
4. What Was the Reaction?
Small beginnings
Copernicus and the astronomers
Copernicus and the Churches
Copernicus and the Aristotelians
5. What Difference Did it Make?
A world of difference
One physics or two?
How the Earth moves
Space: the final frontier
6. Last Words
Glossary
Further Reading
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Astronomie |
Genre: | Physik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9781785782695 |
ISBN-10: | 178578269X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Henry, John |
Hersteller: | Icon Books |
Maße: | 129 x 196 x 21 mm |
Von/Mit: | John Henry |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.12.2017 |
Gewicht: | 0,172 kg |