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

Hoskin, Michael (Fellow Of Churchill College, Cambridge)

 
9780192803061: The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192803069 ISBN 13: 9780192803061
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192803069
ISBN 13 
9780192803061
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
136
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
productsafety@penguin.co.uk

Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street
Dublin
Irland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780195681758: The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0195681754 ISBN 13:  9780195681758
Softcover