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The ballet of the planets : on the mathematical elegance of planetary motion /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The survival of the valid. Peer review ; The scientific method
- Birth. The bowl of night. The two-sphere universe ; Coordinate systems l The sun
- Epicycles and relative motion. A mechanical linkage ; Relative motion
- The deferent-epicycle model. Retrograde motion ; Ptolemy ; The deferent-epicycle model ; Intimations of numerology ; The equant
- Making money, et cetera. Epicyclic curves as decorative patterns ; Cycloidal curves
- Rebirth. The reluctant revolutionary. Adjusting the Ptolemaic theory ; Copernicus ; Galileo
- Circles no more. The ellipse ; Two pearls ; Tracking planets
- The war with Mars. Tycho Brahe ; Kepler
- Enlightenment. The birth of mechanics. Archimedes ; Galileo
- The astronomical alchemist. Newton's dynamics ; Rotational dynamics ; The law of universal gravitation
- The Greek alphabet
- Vectors.