Planetary motions
Subtitle: a historical perspective
By: Norriss Hetherington
Series: Greenwood guides to great ideas in science; Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
Publisher: Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780313027581
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Astronomy; History; Mathematics; Planetary science; Science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the history of science; title: Babylonian planetary astronomy; title: Plato and saving the phenomena; title: Eudoxus and concentric spheres; title: Eccentrics and epicycles; title: Equivalence; title: Astronomy and physics; title: Saving the phenomena quantitatively; title: Ptolemy's exposition of mathematical astronomy; title: Reality or mathematical fiction?; title: The greatest astronomer of antiquity or the greatest fraud in the history of science?; title: Islamic planetary astronomy; title: Revival in the west; title: Copernicus and planetary motions; title: The Copernican revolution; title: Breaking the circle; title: Isaac Newton and gravity; title: The Newtonian revolution.