Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A, Tycho Brahe to Newton, Part 1R. Taton, C. Wilson, Michael Hoskin The International Astronomical Union and the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science have sponsored a major work on the history of astronomy, which the Press publishs are in four volumes, three of which will be divided into two parts. Publication commenced with volume 4, part A. The history of astronomy has never been tackled on this scale and depth and this major synthesis breaks wholly new ground. The individual chapters of each volume have been prepared by leading experts in every field of the history of astronomy. |
Contents
Tycho Brake | 7 |
The contemporaries of Tycho Brahe | 16 |
The Tychonic and semiTychonic world systems | 28 |
Magnetical philosophy and astronomy 16001650 | 39 |
Johannes Kepler | 48 |
The impact of the telescope | 73 |
Galileo telescopic astronomy and the Copernican system | 75 |
The telescope and cosmic dimensions | 100 |
Planetary lunar and cometary theories between Kepler and Newton | 153 |
Predictive astronomy in the century after Kepler | 155 |
The Cartesian vortex theory | 201 |
Magnetical philosophy and astronomy from Wilkins to Hooke | 216 |
The Newtonian achievement in astronomy | 225 |
The Newtonian achievement in astronomy | 227 |
A glossary of technical terms | 269 |
acknowledgements and sources | 275 |
Selenography in the seventeenth century | 113 |
The Galilean satellites of Jupiter from Galileo to Cassini Romer and Bradley | 138 |
Index | 277 |
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