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Thomas L. Heath |
Greek astronomy |
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1932 |
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Steven Weinberg |
To explain the world: The Discovery of Modern Science |
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| Title | Greek astronomy |
| Author(s) | Thomas L. Heath |
| Publication | Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1932. |
| Description | lvii, 192p. |
| Series | (The Library of Greek Thought) |
| Abstract Note | From its beginnings in Babylonian and Egyptian theories, through its flowering into revolutionary ideas such as heliocentricity, astronomy proved a source of constant fascination for the philosophers of antiquity. In ancient Greece, the earliest written evidence of astronomical knowledge appeared in the poems of Homer and Hesiod. In the present work, first published in 1932, Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861â1940) collects some of the most notable essays and discussions of astronomical theory by Greek astronomers and mathematicians, presenting them in English translation for the modern reader. With chronological coverage, Heath's book features a thorough introduction, a doxography of what ancient authors said about the earliest theorists and longer excerpts exploring fundamental ideas. Among the pieces are extracts from Plato's Republic and Ptolemy's work on the impossibility of a moving Earth, alongside material from Aristotle, Euclid, Strabo, Plutarch and others. |
| ISBN,Price | 9781108062800 : UKP 18.99(PB) |
| Classification | 52(945)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - GREEK
2. ASTRONOMY - HISTORY
3. DOXOGRAPHY - GREEK ASTRONOMY
4. GREEK ASTRONOMY - DOXOGRAPHY
5. PLATO - PHILOSOPHY
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| Title | To explain the world: The Discovery of Modern Science |
| Author(s) | Steven Weinberg |
| Publication | New York, Harper Collins Publishing, 2015. |
| Description | xiv, 416p. |
| Abstract Note | In this rich, irreverent, compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we now know about the world, they did not understand what there is to be understood, or how to learn it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious apparent backward movement of the planets or the rise and fall of the tides, science eventually emerged as a modern discipline. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.
An illuminating exploration of how we have come to consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human understanding and development. |
| ISBN,Price | 9780062346650 : Rs. 1636(HB) |
| Classification | 52(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - GREEK
2. NEWTONIAN SYNTHESIS
3. PHYSICS - GREEK
4. PHYSICS - HISTORY
5. SCIENCE - HISTORY
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