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Title ......Page 1 Copyright ......Page 2 Dedication ......Page 3 Contents ......Page 5 Preface ......Page 11 PART A. The Origins of Scientific Cosmology ......Page 15 1.1 The Motions of Stars, Suns, and Planets ......Page 17 1.2 Plato's Problem ......Page 19 1.3 The Aristotelian System ......Page 20 1.4 How Big Is the Earth? ......Page 22 1.5 The Heliocentric Theory ......Page 24 1.6 Modified Geocentric Theories ......Page 25 1.7 The Success of the Ptolemaic System ......Page 28 2.2 The Copernican System ......Page 31 2.3 Bracing the System ......Page 36 2.4 The Opposition to Copernicus's Theory ......Page 37 2.5 Historic Consequences ......Page 39 3.1 The Purpose of Theories ......Page 41 3.2 The Problem of Change: Atomism ......Page 44 3.3 Theories of Vision ......Page 45 3.4 Criteria for a Good Theory in Physical Science ......Page 49 4.1 The Life of Johannes Kepler ......Page 54 4.2 Kepler's First Law ......Page 55 4.3 Kepler's Second Law ......Page 57 4.4 Kepler's Third Law ......Page 59 4.5 Kepler's Theory of Vision ......Page 60 4.6 The New Concept of Physical Law ......Page 61 5.1 The Life of Galileo ......Page 64 5.2 The Telescopic Evidences for the Copernican System ....

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Author

Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813529073

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Stem