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... COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TElescope - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- TATION 8. NEWTON'S ...
... COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TElescope - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- TATION 8. NEWTON'S ...
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... Copernicus in the sixteenth century claimed Pythagoras as the founder of the system which he , Copernicus , revived . Anaxagoras ( born 499 B.C. ) studied astronomy in Egypt . He explained the return of the sun to the east each morning ...
... Copernicus in the sixteenth century claimed Pythagoras as the founder of the system which he , Copernicus , revived . Anaxagoras ( born 499 B.C. ) studied astronomy in Egypt . He explained the return of the sun to the east each morning ...
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... Copernicus . After Ptolemy had published his book there seemed to be nothing more to do for the solar system except to go on observing and finding more and more accurate values for the constants involved - viz . , the periods of ...
... Copernicus . After Ptolemy had published his book there seemed to be nothing more to do for the solar system except to go on observing and finding more and more accurate values for the constants involved - viz . , the periods of ...
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... carried out in Germany by Müller , known as Regiomontanus , and Waltherus . Nicolai Copernicus , a Sclav , was born in 1473 at For definition see p . 18 . Thorn , in Polish Prussia . He studied at Cracow 24 THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD.
... carried out in Germany by Müller , known as Regiomontanus , and Waltherus . Nicolai Copernicus , a Sclav , was born in 1473 at For definition see p . 18 . Thorn , in Polish Prussia . He studied at Cracow 24 THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD.
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... Copernicus can be realised . He noticed that Nicetas and others had ascribed the apparent diurnal rotation of the heavens to a real daily rotation of the earth about its axis , in the opposite direction to the apparent motion of the ...
... Copernicus can be realised . He noticed that Nicetas and others had ascribed the apparent diurnal rotation of the heavens to a real daily rotation of the earth about its axis , in the opposite direction to the apparent motion of the ...
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