Three Copernican Treatises

Three Copernican Treatises
Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1959
Genre: Astronomy
ISBN:

"The "Commentariolus" is Copernicus's most lucid exposition of his system. The "Letter against Werner" throws light on development of Copernicus's thought. The "Narratio prima" is earliest printed presentation of the new astronomy." --Dover publications.

Three Treatises on Copernican Theory

Three Treatises on Copernican Theory
Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486827755

Includes "Commentariolus," Copernicus' hypotheses for heavenly motions; "Narratio Prima," popular introduction to Copernican theory; and "The Letter Against Werner," refutation of the views of a contemporary. Extensive editorial apparatus.

Three Treatises on Copernican Theory

Three Treatises on Copernican Theory
Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486835332

Includes "Commentariolus," Copernicus' hypotheses for heavenly motions; "Narratio Prima," popular introduction to Copernican theory; and "The Letter Against Werner," refutation of the views of a contemporary. Extensive editorial apparatus.

Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition

Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition
Author: André Goddu
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004181075

Drawing on a half century of scholarship, of Polish studies of Copernicus and Cracow University, and of Copernicus's sources, this book offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of Copernicus's achievement, and explains his commitment to the uniform, circular motions of celestial bodies, and his views about hypotheses.

The Birth of a New Physics

The Birth of a New Physics
Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1985
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393019940

Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.

Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy And Science

Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy And Science
Author: Saul Fisher
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004119965

This study of Gassendi's philosophy and science puts forth the view that his atomism follows from his empiricism: as an outgrowth of our best theory of knowledge and sound scientific method, we get evidence that warrents the micorphysical theory.