History of Astronomy

ISBN: E100000008172 出版年：2005 页码： Forbes, George, 1849-1936 Project Gutenberg

PREFACE BOOK I. THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 1. PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY 2. ANCIENT ASTRONOMY–CHINESE AND CHALDAANS 3. ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMY 4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES–FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS BOOK II. THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM–TYCHO BRAHE– KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE–NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS, ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON–LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION 8. NEWTON’S SUCCESSORS–HALLEY, EULER, LAGRANGE, LAPLACE, ETC. 9. DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANETS–HERSCHEL, PIAZZI, ADAMS, AND LE ∗PDF created by pdfbooks.co.za