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THE GENERAL HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY: VOLUME 2, PLANETARY ASTRONOMY FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE RISE OF ASTROPHYSICS
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| Volume: |
v. 2 |
| By: |
Rene Taton (Editor), Curtis Wilson (Editor), Michael Hoskin |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521120098 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521120098 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 June, 2009 |
| Series: |
General History of Astronomy |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
History of astronomy from Newton to Poincare. |
| Synopsis: |
Part B of Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics is the sequel to Part A and continues the history of celestial mechanics and observational discovery through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Twelve different authors have contributed their expertise in some eighteen chapters, each of them intended to be accessible to the interested layman. An initial section deals with stages in the reception of Newton's inverse square law as exact. In the remainder of the book a large place is given to the development of the mathematical theory of celestial mechanics from Clairaut and Euler to LeVerrier, Newcomb, Hill and Poincare - a topic rarely treated, at once synoptically and in some detail. Lists of further reading provide entree to the literature of these several topics. |
| Illustrations: |
26 line figures 25 tones 3 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |