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His instruments included armillae like those which had been used in Alexandria ,
and other armillae designed by himself -. * When the writer visited M . D ' Arrest ,
the astronomer , at Copenhagen , in 1872 , he was presented by D ' Arrest with ...
His instruments included armillae like those which had been used in Alexandria ,
and other armillae designed by himself -. * When the writer visited M . D ' Arrest ,
the astronomer , at Copenhagen , in 1872 , he was presented by D ' Arrest with ...
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From the time of Galileo onwards , for some time , opponents of religion included
the theory of the Earth ' s motion in their disputations , not so much for the love , or
knowledge , of astronomy , as for the pleasure of putting the Church in the ...
From the time of Galileo onwards , for some time , opponents of religion included
the theory of the Earth ' s motion in their disputations , not so much for the love , or
knowledge , of astronomy , as for the pleasure of putting the Church in the ...
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... and explaining , or indicating the explanation of , all the known heavenly
motions and their irregularities ; showing that all of these were included in his
simple statement about the law of universal gravitation ; and proceeding to
deduce from ...
... and explaining , or indicating the explanation of , all the known heavenly
motions and their irregularities ; showing that all of these were included in his
simple statement about the law of universal gravitation ; and proceeding to
deduce from ...
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Contents
Ancient GREEK ASTRONOMY | 3 |
INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISIONSIZE OF THE SOLAR | 10 |
GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPENOTIONS OF GRAVITY | 46 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | History of Astronomy Hist. of sci. series History of science series |
| Author | George Forbes |
| Publisher | Watts, 1909 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2011 |
| Length | 154 pages |
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