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A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth /

This book provides a chronological introduction to the sciences of astronomy and cosmology based on the reading and analysis of significant selections from classic texts, such as Ptolemy's Almagest, Kepler's Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Shapley's Galaxies, and Lemaître's The...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kuehn, Kerry (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Nature, Number and Substance -- The Shape and Motion of the Heavens -- Harmony and Complexity -- Earth at the Center of the World -- The World of Ptolemy -- Measuring the Tropical Year -- Geometrical Tools -- The Sun, the Moon and the Calendar -- From Astronomy to Cartography -- Climates and Continents -- Heliocentrism: Hypothesis or Truth? -- Earth as a Wandering Star -- Re-ordering the Heavenly Spheres -- Celestial Physics -- Broken Spheres -- Kepler's Third Law -- Kepler's First and Second Laws -- Mountains on the Moon -- The Medician Stars -- The Luminosity of Variable Stars -- Galactic Spectra -- Measuring Astronomical Distances -- A New Theory of Gravity -- Euclid, Gauss and Mercury's Orbit -- A Finite Universe with No Boundary -- The Structure of the Universe -- Measuring the Potentially Infinite -- The Birth of the Big Bang -- The Primeval Atom. 
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