Copernicus : a very short introduction / Owen Gingerich.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2016.
Descrizione fisica:
98 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. Prologue. 1. Copernicus, the young scholar 2. The architecture of the heavens 3. Copernicus's vision 4. Canon days and the little commentary 5. Competing with Ptolemy 6. Rheticus 7. De revolutionibus 8. The book nobody read. Appendix 1: Copernicus's alternative to the equant. Appendix 2: De revolutionibus as a recipe book for planetary positions. references. Further reading. Index
