Title
Understanding the heavens: Thirty centuries of astronomical ideas from ancient thinking to modern cosmology
Author(s)
Pecker, Jean-Claude
Publication
Berlin,
Springer
, 2001.
Description
597P.
Contents Note
This book stems from a series of lectures given to a select group of undergraduate students at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts where I taught at the kind invitation of Professor Jay Pasachoff in the fall of 1989.
ISBN,Price
3540631984 : EURO 74.95
Classification
52(091)"47-30"
Keyword(s)
1.
ARISTOTLE
2.
ASTRONOMY-HISTORY
3.
CLASSICAL GREEK ASTRONOMY
4.
CLASSICAL GREEK PERIOD
5.
MODERN COSMOLOGY
6.
PLATO
7.
POLITICS AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
8.
PRE-GALILEAN ASTRONOMY
9.
PTOLENY
10.
PYTHAGORAS
11.
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
12.
UNIVERSE-EVOLUTION
Item Type
Book
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Physical Location
018226
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