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... 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 PAGE vii I 7 13 23 333 46 51 SUCCESSORS HALLEY , --- EULER , LA- 60 ...
... 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 PAGE vii I 7 13 23 333 46 51 SUCCESSORS HALLEY , --- EULER , LA- 60 ...
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... SOLAR + SYSTEM · II . HISTORY OF THE Telescope - SpECTROSCOPE Book IV . THE PHYSICAL PERIOD 12. THE SUN · 13. THE MOON AND PLANETS PAGE 73 86 3883 94 107 14. COMETS AND METEORS 15. THE STARS AND NEBULÆ - 120 125 BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX · 147 ...
... SOLAR + SYSTEM · II . HISTORY OF THE Telescope - SpECTROSCOPE Book IV . THE PHYSICAL PERIOD 12. THE SUN · 13. THE MOON AND PLANETS PAGE 73 86 3883 94 107 14. COMETS AND METEORS 15. THE STARS AND NEBULÆ - 120 125 BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX · 147 ...
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... solar system as a geometrical problem ; 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 ...
... solar system as a geometrical problem ; 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 ...
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... solar system , and to identify it in the Chinese observations of comets as far back as 12 B.C. Cowell and Cromellin extended the date to 240 B.C. In the same way the comet 1861.i. has been traced back in the Chinese records to 617 A.D.2 ...
... solar system , and to identify it in the Chinese observations of comets as far back as 12 B.C. Cowell and Cromellin extended the date to 240 B.C. In the same way the comet 1861.i. has been traced back in the Chinese records to 617 A.D.2 ...
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... 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 by its going under the flat earth in the night . He held that in a solar ...
... 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 by its going under the flat earth in the night . He held that in a solar ...
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