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  • "Mathematical Disquisitions"

    The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo

    Mathematical Disquisitions:The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones Mathematicae, which Johann Georg Locher wrote under the guidance of the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner. The booklet, an anti-Copernican astronomical work, is of interest in large part because Galileo Galilei, who came into conflict with Scheiner over the ... Read more

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  • Setting Aside All Authority

    Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo

    Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M. Graney challenges the long-standing ideas that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition, and that they were in continual retreat in the ... Read more

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  • A Universe of Earths

    Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA

    Planet Earth has been a familiar concept for a mere fraction of recorded history. Until about the mid-1600s, most humans thought of Earth as immobile, likely either dim or simply invisible from the Moon or anywhere else in the heavens, and not (like the planets) participating in what Galileo called "the dance of the stars." A Universe of Earths: Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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    A Universe of Earths

    Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    Planet Earth has been a familiar concept for a mere fraction of recorded history. Until about the mid-1600s, most humans thought of Earth as immobile, likely either dim or simply invisible from the Moon or anywhere else in the heavens, and not (like the planets) participating in what Galileo called "the dance of the stars." A Universe of Earths retraces the exhilarating story of how all that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • To Explain the World

    The Discovery of Modern Science

    The Nobel Prize–winner shares "a masterful journey through humankind's scientific coming-of-age" from the Greeks to modern times (Brian Greene).In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries of human striving to unravel the mysteries of the world. This sweeping saga ranges from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archives of the Universe

    100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos

    Edited by Marcia Bartusiak ...
    An unparalleled history of astronomy presented in the words of the scientists who made the discoveries. Here are the writings of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Halley, Hubble, and Einstein, as well as that of dozens of others who have significantly contributed to our picture of the universe.From Aristotle's proof that the Earth is round to the 1998 paper that posited an accelerating universe ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The History of Astronomy

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Astronomy, perhaps the first of the sciences, was already well developed by the time of Christ. Seventeen centuries later, after Newton showed that the movements of the planets could be explained in terms of gravitation, it became the paradigm for the mathematical sciences. In the nineteenth century the analysis of star-light allowed astrophysicists to determine both the chemical composition and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

    Translated by Albert Van Helden ...
    The "revolutionary, scintillating book" in which Galileo revealed his wondrous astronomical discoveries, with accompanying notes and historical context (Metascience).Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, "unheard of through the ages," revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Star Atlas

    by Wil Tirion ...
    This classic star atlas is ideal for both beginning astronomers and more experienced observers worldwide. The clear, full-color maps show stars, clusters and galaxies visible with binoculars or a small telescope. The atlas also features constellation boundaries and the Milky Way, and lists objects that are interesting to observe. This new edition features a clearer map of the Moon's surface, ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The History of Science

    by Hope Merlin ...
    Series series Scientific Inquiry: Concepts, Methods, and Theories
    Today we have countless scientific laws and principles that help explain our observations of the natural world. However, this was not always the case. Although individuals have long sought to understand their surroundings, it was not until around 2500 BCE that scientific activity began to assume a more prominent place in civilizations around the world. The journey from early investigation through ... Read more

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  • Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks

    How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be

    The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesisThis lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus