And there was light : the discovery of the universe / Rudolf Thiel, translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
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| Other title: | Und es war Licht. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
Knopf,
1957.
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| Edition: | [1st American ed.] |
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Table of Contents:
- Tower of Babel
- Greek conception of the cosmos
- The triumph of Copernicus
- Observation with a cross-staff
- Kepler's law of areas
- Galileo's discovery of the law of falling bodies
- Galileo's discovery of the law of inertia
- Newton's calculation of the Earth's effect on the moon
- Path of a total solar eclipse
- Jeans's planetary cigar
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.