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03063pam a2200469 a 4500 001 C642BC202AE711DE94715D06A8D7520A 005 200904161936.0 008 910724s1993 nyua b 001 0ceng 010 $a 91026227 020 $a 9780883188637 020 $a 0883188635 035 $a (OCoLC)24247242 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d OCL $d MZN $d IOG $d SILO 050 00 $a QB15 $b .G563 1993 082 00 $a 520/.9 $2 20 100 1 $a Gingerich, Owen. 245 1 $a The eye of heaven : $b Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler / $c Owen Gingerich. 260 $a New York, NY : $b American Institute of Physics, $c c1993. 300 $a viii, 442 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 440 0 $a Masters of modern physics $v v. 7 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler -- Was Ptolemy a fraud? -- Ptolemy revisited -- Zoomorphic astrolabes: Arabic star names enter Europe -- The "Abd-al-A" imma astrolabe forgeries / with D. King and G. Saliba -- Alfonso X as a patron of astronomy -- The 1852 "Theorica orbium" of Hieronymus Vulparius -- The search for a plenum universe -- The astronomy and cosmology of Copernicus -- Did Copernicus owe a debt to Aristarchus? -- "Crisis" versus aesthetic in the Copernican revolution -- Early Copernican ephemerides -- Erasmus Reinhold and the dissemination of the Copernican theory -- De revolutionibus: an example of Renaissance scientific printing -- The censorship of of Copernicus's De revolutionibus -- Heliocentrism as model and as reality -- Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy -- Kepler as a Copernican -- Kepler's place in astronomy -- The origins of Kepler's Third Law -- The computer versus Kepler -- The computer versus Kepler revisited -- The mercury theory from antiquity to Kepler -- Kepler, Galilei, and the harmony of the world -- Circumventing Newton. revolutionibus: an example of Renaissance scientific printing -- Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy -- Kepler as a Copernican -- Kepler's place in astronomy -- The origins of Kepler's Third Law -- The computer versus Kepler -- The computer versus Kepler revisited -- The mercury theory from antiquity to Kepler -- Kepler, Galilei, and the harmony of the world -- Circumventing Newton. 600 00 $a Ptolemy, $d 2nd cent. 600 10 $a Copernicus, Nicolaus, $d 1473-1543. 600 10 $a Kepler, Johannes, $d 1571-1630. 650 0 $a Astronomy $x History. 939 $a 2335721 941 $a 13 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525025840.0 952 $l UVAX975 $d 20240215011549.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214025253.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718062955.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926061037.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180201071446.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160813064557.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150509025452.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140415011344.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20100526125019.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C642BC202AE711DE94715D06A8D7520AInitiate Another SILO Locator Search