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Babylon To Voyager And Beyond Covers Planetary Research From The Time Of The Babylonians And Ancient Greeks Through To Those Of Kepler, Galileo, Cassini, Newton And Herschel To The Modern Era Of Space Exploration. It Outlines The Key Observational Discoveries And Theoretical Developments In Their Historical Context, Covering Not Only The Numerous Successes But Also The Main Failures.--jacket. Introduction -- The Ancients -- Copernicus And The New Cosmology -- Kepler And Galileo: The Fall Of Epicycles And The Start Of Telescopic Astronomy -- The Mid And Late Seventeenth Century -- Consolidation -- The Solar System Expands -- The Inner Solar System In The Nineteenth Century -- The Outer Solar System In The Nineteenth Century -- Quiet Interlude -- The Twentieth Century Prior To The Space Age -- The Space Age -- Terrestrial Planets -- The Space Age -- The Outer Planets. David Leverington. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 523-532) And Indexes.

Author

Leverington, David, 1941-

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521808408

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, History