Selections from Kepler's Astronomia Nova

Name: Selections from Kepler's Astronomia Nova
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ISBN: 9781888009286

ISBN-10: 1888009284

ISBN-13: 9781888009286

Edition: 2004

Authors: Johannes Kepler, William H. Donahue

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Johannes Kepler wrote Astronomia Nova (1609) in a single-minded drive to sweep away the ancient and medieval clutter of spheres and orbs and to establish a new truth in astronomy, based on physical causality. Thus a good part of the book is given over to a nontechnical discussion of how planets can be made to move through space by physical forces. This is the theme of the readings in the present module.

Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Green Lion Press
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 7.12" wide x 10.13" long x 0.33" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Editor's Preface


About Johannes Kepler


Acknowledgements


Kepler's Introduction



Introduction to the celestial motions*



Physical implications of theories of circular motion



How I came to work on Mars



The earth, like other planets, moves nonuniformly



The Physical reality behind nonuniform motion



The power that moves the planets is in the sun



The sun is a magnet, and rotates in its space



How can the planetary powers make a circular orbit?



A way to calculate using the physical speed rule



The orbit is not a circle



The physics and mathematics of a noncircular orbit


Epilogue: What about the ellipse?



Geometrical Planetary Models



Technical Notes


Glossary


Bibliographical Note


About this series: Scientific Classics for Humanities Studies