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

 
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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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9781493913596: A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts: Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth: 1 (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)

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ISBN 10:  149391359X ISBN 13:  9781493913596
Publisher: Springer, 2014
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