The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Hoskin, Michael (Fellow Of Churchill College, Cambridge)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192803069 ISBN 13: 9780192803061

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2003

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This lively and comprehensive book charts the developments in the history of western astronomy from prehistoric times, when farmers used the stars to predict the start of the seasons, through the merging of Babylonian and Greek astronomy, and on to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century applications of Newton's law.
Ending his history in the middle of the nineteenth century with the rise of astrophysics, Michael Hoskin looks at the achievements of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Halley, and Newton, whilst touching upon the first exciting post-war explorations of the universe of stars.

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Michael Hoskin taught History of Astronomy at Cambridge University for thirty years and was head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. He is a Fellow of Churchill College and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. In 1970 he founded the Journal for the History of Astronomy, which he has edited ever since. He is a former President of the History of Astronomy Commission of the International Astronomical Union, and the only historian to have given an Invited Discourse to the Union. In 2002 the Union named Minor Planet 12223 'Hoskin' in his honor.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0192803069
• ISBN 13: 9780192803061
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
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