Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A, Tycho Brahe to Newton, Part 1

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R. Taton, C. Wilson, Michael Hoskin
Cambridge University Press, Sep 18, 2003 - Science - 300 pages
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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