The only review in this instance will, unfortunately, be of little value to other readers. This is because I purchased this title during study research, and out of a general interest in this profoundly, intellectually diverse, historic figure. In…
Cet ouvrage d'histoire des idées et de philosophie des sciences rassemble plusieurs études dont le point commun est d'analyser les conséquences majeures de la découverte scientifique de l'infini. Ainsi, Alexandre Koyré montre comment la révolution…
L’Histoire de l’Astronomie vous conte toutes les prodigieuses étapes de cette merveilleuse histoire, depuis les premiers observateurs célestes jusqu’aux instruments modernes les plus complexes, depuis la Chine antique à l’Angleterre de Newton, et…
A masterpiece of historical insight and scientific accuracy, this is the definitive work on Greek astronomy and the Copernican Revolution. Beginning with the ancient Egyptians, it ranges from the Pythagoreans and Plato to medieval European and…
Complete, thorough history: Near Eastern, early Greeks, homocentric theories, Ptolemaic system, medieval cosmology, Copernicus, Kepler, etc. This volume is a Dover republication of Dreyer's "History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler"…