AuthorLinton, C. M. (Christopher M.)
TitleFrom Eudoxus to Einstein : a history of mathematical astronomy / C.M. Linton
Imprint Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Descript xii, 516 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Spheres and circles -- The Ptolemaic universe -- Develpments in geocentric astronomy -- The heliocentric universe -- Tycho Brahe, Kepler, and the ellipse -- Galileo, the telescope, and Keplerian astronomy -- The universal theory of gravitation -- The asteroids and the outer planets -- New methods -- Mercury and relativity


SUBJECT

  1. Astronomy -- Mathematics -- History

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