Early Astronomy

Hugh Thurston

Springer Science & Business Media, 1994 - 268 من الصفحات

The earliest investigations that can be called scientific are concerned with the sky; they are the beginnings of astronomy. Many early civilizations produced astronomical texts, and several cultures that left no written records left monuments and artifacts - ranging from rock paintings to Stonehenge - that show a clear interest in astronomy. Civilizations in China, Mesopotamia, India, and Greece had highly developed astronomies, and the astronomy of the Mayas was by no means negligible.
Greek astronomy, as developed by medieval Arab philosophers, evolved into the astronomy of Copernicus. This displaced the Earth from the stationary central position that almost all earlier astronomies had assumed. Soon thereafter, in the first decades of the seventeenth century, Kepler found the true shape of the planetary orbits and Galileo introduced the telescope for astronomical observations.
This book covers the history of astronomy from its earliest beginnings to this point, which marks the beginning of modern instrumental and mathematical astronomy. The work of earlier astronomers, of all civilizations, remains as a triumph of the human intellect.

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معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: Early Astronomy; Springer Series in Statistics; Springer Study Edition
• المؤلف: Hugh Thurston
• الإصدار: مزود بصور توضيحية
• الناشر: Springer Science & Business Media, 1994
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 038794107X, 9780387941073
• عدد الصفحات: 268 من الصفحات