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Author | : Derek Miller |
Publisher | : BookRix |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2014-07-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3736826060 |
We all know that Nicolaus Copernicus corrected an old error, the belief that the sun revolves aroud the earth. It is much less known that Copernicus’ development of his heliocentric was based on another error. This short e-book describes productive errors of Copernicus and his successor Kepler. Derek Miller is an experienced science journalist. He wrote several articles on productive errors in science and history.
Author | : Wrangler (pseudonym) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : N.M. Swerdlow |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1461382629 |
When I first laid out the framework for A History of Ancient Mathe matical Astronomy, I intended to carry the discussion down to the last applications of Greek astronomical methodology, i. e. Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler. But as the work proceeded, it became evident that this plan was much too ambitious, and so I decided to terminate my History with late antiquity, well before Islam. Nevertheless, I did not discard the running commentary that I had prepared when studying De revolutionibus in its relation to the methodology of the Almagest. Only recently, E. S. Kennedy and his collaborators had opened access to the" Maragha School" (mainly Ibn ash-Shalir), revealing close parallels to Copernicus's procedures. Accordingly, it seemed useful to make available a modern analysis of De revolutionibus, and thus in 1975 I prepared for publication "Notes on Copernicus. " In the meantime, however, Noel Swerdlow, also starting from Greek astronomy, not only extended his work into a deep analysis of De revolu tionibus, but also systematically investigated its sources and predecessors (Peurbach, Regiomontanus, etc. ). I was aware of these studies through his publications as well as from numerous conversations on the subject at The Institute for Advanced Study and at Brown University. It became clear to me that my own investigations lay at too superficial a level, and I therefore withdrew my manuscript and suggested to Swerdlow that he undertake a thoroughgoing revision and amplification of my "Notes. " His acceptance of my proposal initiated the present publication.
Author | : Charles Bossut |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
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Author | : Hans Reichenbach |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780486239408 |
One of the most highly regarded popular accounts of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Simply yet authoritatively, the text traces the consequences of Copernican astronomy and advances in the study of light and electricity, then precisely describes the development of the Special and General Theories of Relativity. Reprint of 1942 ed.
Author | : William Pinnock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Pietro Daniel Omodeo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2019-09-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319673785 |
This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements – epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual. With contributions ranging from fields as diverse as the histories of physics, astronomy, astrology, medicine, mechanics, physiology, and natural philosophy, it explores the transformation of the notion of contingency across the late-medieval, Renaissance, and the early modern period. Underpinned by a necessitated vision of nature, seventeenth century mechanism widely identified apparent natural irregularities with the epistemological limits of a certain explanatory framework. However, this picture was preceded by, and in fact emerged from, a widespread characterization of contingency as an ontological trait of nature, typical of late-Scholastic and Renaissance science. On these bases, this volume shows how epistemological categories, which are preconditions of knowledge as “historically-situated a priori” and, seemingly, self-evident, are ultimately rooted in time. Contingency is intrinsic to scientific practice. Whether observing the behaviour of a photon, diagnosing a patient, or calculating the orbit of a distant planet, scientists face the unavoidable challenge of dealing with data that differ from their models and expectations. However, epistemological categories are not fixed in time. Indeed, there is something fundamentally different in the way an Aristotelian natural philosopher defined a wonder or a “monstrous” birth as “contingent”, a modern scientist defines the unexpected result of an experiment, and a quantum physicist the behavior of a photon. Although to each inquirer these instances appeared self-evidently contingent, each also employs the concept differently.
Author | : Charles Bossut |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pietro Daniel Omodeo |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004254501 |
In Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo presents a general overview of the reception of Copernicus’s astronomical proposal from the years immediately preceding the publication of De revolutionibus (1543) to the Roman prohibition of heliocentric hypotheses in 1616. Relying on a detailed investigation of early modern sources, the author systematically examines a series of issues ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics. In addition to offering a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective on post-Copernican astronomy, the study goes beyond purely cosmological and geometrical issues and engages in a wide-ranging discussion of how Copernicus’s legacy interacted with European culture and how his image and theories evolved as a result.
Author | : Robert Westman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0520312899 |