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Author:

Gingerich, Owen.

Title:

The eye of heaven : Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler / Owen Gingerich.

Publisher:

American Institute of Physics,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

viii, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ptolemy,--2nd cent.
Copernicus, Nicolaus,--1473-1543.
Kepler, Johannes,--1571-1630.
Astronomy--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Masters of modern physics v. 7

ISBN:

9780883188637
0883188635

OCLC:

(OCoLC)24247242

LCCN:

91026227

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)