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Owen Gingerich
With exoplanets being discovered daily, Earth is still the only planet we know of that is home to creatures who seek a coherent explanation for the structure, origins, and fate of the universe, and of humanity's place within it. Today, science and re
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Owen Gingerich, James MacLachlan
Born in Poland in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church official. In his quest to discover a beautiful an
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Owen Gingerich
The Annotated Census lists and describes - on the basis of direct examination - all of the 560 located copies of the first and second editions of Copernicus'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium that survive in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australi
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Owen Gingerich
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Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings ISBN: 9783319599083
Celestial timekeeping relied in the first instance on the movements of the stars and planets. The principal systematic positions of planets are recorded in ephemerides, which are primarily predictions, not observations. Prior to the invention of prin
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_3
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_3
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Owen Gingerich
Publikováno v:
Journal for the History of Astronomy. 44:303-312
Consider for a moment the problem that the inferior planets posed to early cos- mologists such as Ptolemy or Copernicus. In principle, observations of Mercury or Venus at elongation could establish with fair accuracy the size and eccentricity of thei
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https://doi.org/10.1177/002182861304400304
https://doi.org/10.1177/002182861304400304
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Owen Gingerich
Soon after his return to Wittenberg, Rheticus was appointed dean of the university. This delayed his travel to the printer in Nuremberg, but after a year of teaching he was granted leave. By early spring of 1542, the printing of the six books of De r
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https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199330966.003.0008
https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199330966.003.0008
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Owen Gingerich
As Copernicus entered his sixties, he was still a busy canon, particularly with respect to his medical expertise. Martin Luther’s Reformation was gaining power at this time, and a young mathematician-astronomer from Wittenberg (home of Luther and h
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https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199330966.003.0007
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Owen Gingerich
The Ptolemaic system, created by Claudius Ptolemaeus around AD 150, for the first time in history introduced a comprehensive geometrical structure from which the positions of the planets (including the sun and moon) could be calculated for any time,
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https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199330966.003.0004