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- 2011033632 contributor B12139271.
- 2011033632 created "c2012.".
- 2011033632 date "2012".
- 2011033632 date "c2012.".
- 2011033632 dateCopyrighted "c2012.".
- 2011033632 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2011033632 description "The survival of the valid. Peer review ; The scientific method -- Birth. The bowl of night. The two-sphere universe ; Coordinate systems l The sun -- Epicycles and relative motion. A mechanical linkage ; Relative motion -- The deferent-epicycle model. Retrograde motion ; Ptolemy ; The deferent-epicycle model ; Intimations of numerology ; The equant -- Making money, et cetera. Epicyclic curves as decorative patterns ; Cycloidal curves -- Rebirth. The reluctant revolutionary. Adjusting the Ptolemaic theory ; Copernicus ; Galileo -- Circles no more. The ellipse ; Two pearls ; Tracking planets -- The war with Mars. Tycho Brahe ; Kepler -- Enlightenment. The birth of mechanics. Archimedes ; Galileo -- The astronomical alchemist. Newton's dynamics ; Rotational dynamics ; The law of universal gravitation -- The Greek alphabet -- Vectors.".
- 2011033632 extent "xiv, 178 p. :".
- 2011033632 identifier "0199891001 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- 2011033632 identifier "9780199891009 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- 2011033632 issued "2012".
- 2011033632 issued "c2012.".
- 2011033632 language "eng".
- 2011033632 publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- 2011033632 subject "523.2 23".
- 2011033632 subject "Planetary theory History.".
- 2011033632 subject "QB361 .B46 2012".
- 2011033632 tableOfContents "The survival of the valid. Peer review ; The scientific method -- Birth. The bowl of night. The two-sphere universe ; Coordinate systems l The sun -- Epicycles and relative motion. A mechanical linkage ; Relative motion -- The deferent-epicycle model. Retrograde motion ; Ptolemy ; The deferent-epicycle model ; Intimations of numerology ; The equant -- Making money, et cetera. Epicyclic curves as decorative patterns ; Cycloidal curves -- Rebirth. The reluctant revolutionary. Adjusting the Ptolemaic theory ; Copernicus ; Galileo -- Circles no more. The ellipse ; Two pearls ; Tracking planets -- The war with Mars. Tycho Brahe ; Kepler -- Enlightenment. The birth of mechanics. Archimedes ; Galileo -- The astronomical alchemist. Newton's dynamics ; Rotational dynamics ; The law of universal gravitation -- The Greek alphabet -- Vectors.".
- 2011033632 title "The ballet of the planets : on the mathematical elegance of planetary motion / Donald C. Benson.".
- 2011033632 type "text".