The General History of Astronomy: Volume 2, Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics (The General History of Astronomy, 2, Band 2) - Softcover

The General History of Astronomy : Volume 2, Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Part B of Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics is the sequel to Part A and continues the history of celestial mechanics and observational discovery through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Twelve different authors have contributed their expertise in some eighteen chapters, each of them intended to be accessible to the interested layman. An initial section deals with stages in the reception of Newton's inverse square law as exact. In the remainder of the book a large place is given to the development of the mathematical theory of celestial mechanics from Clairaut and Euler to LeVerrier, Newcomb, Hill and Poincaré - a topic rarely treated, at once synoptically and in some detail. Lists of further reading provide entrée to the literature of these several topics. Artikel-Nr. 9780521120098

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