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Finding our Place in the Solar System
The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution
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Finding our Place in the Solar System
The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution
About this book
Finding our Place in the Solar System gives a detailed account of how the Earth was displaced from its traditional position at the center of the universe to be recognized as one of several planets orbiting the Sun under the influence of a universal gravitational force. The transition from the ancient geocentric worldview to a modern understanding of planetary motion, often called the Copernican Revolution, is one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind. This book provides a deep yet accessible explanation of the scientific disputes over our place in the solar system and the work of the great scientists who helped settle them. Readers will come away knowing not just that the Earth orbits the Sun, but why we believe that it does so. The Copernican Revolution also provides an excellent case study of what science is and how it works.
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Yes, you can access Finding our Place in the Solar System by Todd Timberlake,Paul Wallace in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Astronomy & Astrophysics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: mysterious skies
- 2 Two spheres: modeling the heavens and the Earth
- 3 Wanderers: the Moon and the planets
- 4 An Earth-centered cosmos: astronomy and cosmology from Eudoxus to Regiomontanus
- 5 Moving the Earth: the revolutions of Copernicus
- 6 Instruments of reform: Tycho's restoration of observational astronomy
- 7 Physical causes: Kepler's new astronomy
- 8 Seeing beyond Aristotle: Galileo's controversies
- 9 The system of the world: Newton's universal physics
- 10 Confirming Copernicus: evidence for Earth's motions
- Appendix Mathematical details
- Notes
- References
- Index