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... KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TElescope - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- TATION 8. NEWTON'S PAGE vii I 7 13 23 333 46 51 SUCCESSORS HALLEY , --- EULER , LA- 60 GRANGE , LAPLACE , ETC. 9 ...
... KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TElescope - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- TATION 8. NEWTON'S PAGE vii I 7 13 23 333 46 51 SUCCESSORS HALLEY , --- EULER , LA- 60 GRANGE , LAPLACE , ETC. 9 ...
Page vii
... Kepler and Newton converted the point of view into a dynamical one . Aristotle's mental capacity to understand the meaning of facts or to criticise a train of reasoning may have been equal to that of Kepler or Newton , but the point of ...
... Kepler and Newton converted the point of view into a dynamical one . Aristotle's mental capacity to understand the meaning of facts or to criticise a train of reasoning may have been equal to that of Kepler or Newton , but the point of ...
Page viii
... Kepler's three laws ( B , C , D ) were identical with Newton's law of gravitation ( A ) . No one recognises more than the mathe- matical astronomer this feebleness of the human intellect , and no one is more conscious of the limitations ...
... Kepler's three laws ( B , C , D ) were identical with Newton's law of gravitation ( A ) . No one recognises more than the mathe- matical astronomer this feebleness of the human intellect , and no one is more conscious of the limitations ...
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... Kepler , how he was able - by observations taken from a moving platform , the earth , of the directions of a moving ... Kepler's masterpiece is one of the most interesting books that was ever written , combining wit , imagination ...
... Kepler , how he was able - by observations taken from a moving platform , the earth , of the directions of a moving ... Kepler's masterpiece is one of the most interesting books that was ever written , combining wit , imagination ...
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... Kepler's day we have had a dynamical astronomy . 2. Ancient Astronomy - The Chinese and Chaldæans . The last section must have made clear the difficulties in the way of assigning to the ancient nations their B proper place in the ...
... Kepler's day we have had a dynamical astronomy . 2. Ancient Astronomy - The Chinese and Chaldæans . The last section must have made clear the difficulties in the way of assigning to the ancient nations their B proper place in the ...
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