Author | Hanson, Norwood Russell. author |
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Title | Constellations and Conjectures [electronic resource] / by Norwood Russell Hanson ; edited by Willard C. Humphreys |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1973 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2498-3 |
Descript | X, 285 p. online resource |
Book One - Part I -- Cosmological Explanation, B.C. -- The Conceptual Content of Book One, Part I -- The Historical Content of Book One, Part I -- Plato -- Eudoxos and โPlatoโs Problemโ -- Aristotle -- Book One - Part II -- Ptolemy and Prediction -- Pre-Ptolemaic Anticipations -- Three Dimensional Variations of Ptolemyโs Technique -- Book Two - Part I -- The Medieval Rediscovery of Ptolemyโs Tool Box -- โThe Ptolemaic Systemโ -- Supplementary Material for Book Two, Section A -- Book Two - Part II -- Copernicusโ Systematic Astronomy -- Further Aspects of Copernican Astronomy in Contrast to All that had Gone Before -- Supplement to Section on Copernican Theory -- Book Three - Part I -- Kepler and the โCleanโ Idea -- Supplementary Material for Book Three, Part I