Understanding the heavens : thirty centuries of astronomical ideas from ancient thinking to modern cosmology / Jean-Claude Pecker ; edited by Susan Kaufman.
Pubblicazione:
New York : Springer, 2001.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 597 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction and perspectives. 1. Before the classical Greek period 2. Classical Greek astronomy 3. Ptolemy's astronomy questioned 4. The period of the Renaissance 5. Dynamics enter astronomy: from Galileo to Newton 6. From pre-Galilean astronomy to the Hubble space telescope and beyond 7. Towards modern cosmology 8. Cosmologies of today and tomorrow 9. General conclusion. Further reading. Figure acknowledgements. Name index. Subject index
