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Lee Yan Fong Library
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Lee Yan Fong Library |
QB15 H79 2003 (Browse shelf) | Available | 00016944 |
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QA353 T7 S74 2013 Essential calculus / | QA402 C35 2012 Networks : | QA460.P8 M3612 2015 畢氏定理四千年 / | QB15 H79 2003 The history of astronomy : | QB15 Z58 1966 天文考古錄 / | QB17 Z44 2008 古代天文歷法講座 / | QB500.262 S622 2012 Space exploration / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113) and index.
List of illustrations -- 1: Sky in prehistory -- 2: Astronomy in antiquity -- 3: Astronomy in the Middle Ages -- 4: Astronomy transformed -- 5: Astronomy in the age of Newton -- 6: Exploring the universe of stars -- Epilogue -- Further reading -- Glossary -- Index.
From the Publisher: This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the Greek geometrical approach to culminate in the Almagest of Ptolemy. This legacy was transmitted to the Latin West via Islam, and led to Copernicus's claim that the Earth is in motion. In justifying this Kepler converted astronomy into a branch of dynamics, leading to Newton's universal law of gravity. The book concludes with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century applications of Newton's law, and the first explorations of the universe of stars.