History of Astronomy A Very Short Introduction

Name: History of Astronomy A Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192803061

ISBN-10: 0192803069

ISBN-13: 9780192803061

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Hoskin

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This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the Greek geometrical approach to culminate in the Almagest of Ptolemy. This legacy was transmitted to the Latin West via Islam, and led to Copernicus's claim that the Earth is in motion. In justifying this Kepler converted astronomy into a branch of dynamics, leading to Newton's universal law of gravity. The book concludes with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century applications of Newton's law, and the…

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List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



List of illustrations



The sky in prehistory



Astronomy in antiquity



Astronomy in the Middle Ages



Astronomy transformed



Astronomy in the age of Newton



Exploring the universe of stars


Epilogue


Further reading


Glossary


Index