Copernicus
| Titel: | Copernicus : a very short introduction / Owen Gingerich |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016] |
| Umfang: | 98 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 18 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Very short introductions ; 487 |
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| ISBN: | 9780199330966 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Hinweise zum Inhalt
Inhaltsverzeichnis |
X
- List of illustrations
- p. xiii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xv
- Prologue
- p. 1
- 1
- Copernicus, the young scholar
- p. 3
- 2
- The architecture of the heavens
- p. 10
- 3
- Copernicus's vision
- p. 15
- 4
- Canon days and the Little Commentary
- p. 24
- 5
- Competing with Ptolemy
- p. 37
- 6
- Rheticus
- p. 44
- 7
- De revolutionibus
- p. 51
- 8
- The book nobody read
- p. 58
- Appendix 1
- Copernicus's alternative to the equant
- p. 73
- Appendix 2
- De revolutionibus as a recipe book for planetary positions
- p. 77
- References
- p. 87
- Further reading
- p. 93
- Index
- p. 95
