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- catalog abstract "Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.".
- catalog contributor b478859.
- catalog created "c1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "c1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1985.".
- catalog description "1. The physics of a moving Earth -- 2. The old physics -- 3. The Earth and the universe -- 4. Exploring the depths of the universe -- 5. Toward an inertial physics -- 6. Kepler's celestial music -- 7. The grand design : a new physics -- SUPPLEMENTS -- 1. Galileo and the telescope -- 2. What Galileo "saw" in the heavens -- 3. Galileo's experiments on free fall -- 4. Galileo's experimental foundation of the science of motion -- 5. Did Galileo ever believe that in uniformly accelerated motion the speed is proportional to the distance? -- 6. The hypothetico-deductive model -- 7. Galileo and the medieval science of motion -- 8. Kepler, Descartes, and Gassendi on inertia -- 9. Galileo's discovery of the parabolic path -- 10. A summary of Galileo's major discoveries in the science of motion -- 11. Newton's debt to Hooke : the analysis of curvilinear orbital motion -- 12. The inertia of planets and comets -- 13. Proof that an elliptical planetary orbit follows from the inverse-square law -- 14. Newton and the apple : Newton's discovery of the v 2/r law -- 15. Newton on "gravitational" and "inertial" mass -- 16. Newton's steps to universal gravity.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 240-245.".
- catalog description "Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 258 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393019942".
- catalog identifier "0393300455 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "c1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog subject "Celestial mechanics.".
- catalog subject "Mechanics.".
- catalog subject "QC122 .C6 1985".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The physics of a moving Earth -- 2. The old physics -- 3. The Earth and the universe -- 4. Exploring the depths of the universe -- 5. Toward an inertial physics -- 6. Kepler's celestial music -- 7. The grand design : a new physics -- SUPPLEMENTS -- 1. Galileo and the telescope -- 2. What Galileo "saw" in the heavens -- 3. Galileo's experiments on free fall -- 4. Galileo's experimental foundation of the science of motion -- 5. Did Galileo ever believe that in uniformly accelerated motion the speed is proportional to the distance? -- 6. The hypothetico-deductive model -- 7. Galileo and the medieval science of motion -- 8. Kepler, Descartes, and Gassendi on inertia -- 9. Galileo's discovery of the parabolic path -- 10. A summary of Galileo's major discoveries in the science of motion -- 11. Newton's debt to Hooke : the analysis of curvilinear orbital motion -- 12. The inertia of planets and comets -- 13. Proof that an elliptical planetary orbit follows from the inverse-square law -- 14. Newton and the apple : Newton's discovery of the v 2/r law -- 15. Newton on "gravitational" and "inertial" mass -- 16. Newton's steps to universal gravity.".
- catalog title "The birth of a new physics / I. Bernard Cohen.".
- catalog type "text".