Download or read book Planets Stars and Orbs written by Edward Grant and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Grant describes the extraordinary range of themes, ideas, and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology for approximately five hundred years, from around 1200 to 1700. Primary emphasis is placed on the world as a whole, what might lie beyond it, and the celestial region, which extended from the Moon to the outermost convex surface of the cosmos.
Download or read book The Orbs Around Us a Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets Meteors and Comets the Sun and Coloured Pairs of Stars written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orbs of Heaven Or The Planetary Stellar Worlds written by O. M. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orbs Around Us a Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets Meteors and Comets Etc written by Richard Anthony PROCTOR and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The orbs around us a series of essays on the moon and planets c written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orbs of Heaven written by Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Orbs of Heaven Or the Planetary and Stellar Worlds A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy 6th Ed written by Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Natural Philosophy written by Edward Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with mathematics. By contrast, the exact mathematical sciences were narrowly confined to various computations that did not involve physical causes, functioning totally independently of natural philosophy. Although this began slowly to change in the late Middle Ages, a much more thoroughgoing union of natural philosophy and mathematics occurred in the seventeenth century and thereby made the Scientific Revolution possible. The title of Isaac Newton's great work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, perfectly reflects the new relationship. Natural philosophy became the 'Great Mother of the Sciences', which by the nineteenth century had nourished the manifold chemical, physical, and biological sciences to maturity, thus enabling them to leave the 'Great Mother' and emerge as the multiplicity of independent sciences we know today.
Download or read book The Scientific Revolution written by Steven Shapin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shapin claims that there was no such thing as the "Scientific Revolution," neither as a coherent chronological event nor as a movement in science. Instead he writes about how reformed practices of making the same observations led to the creation of "new" ideas.
Download or read book Medieval Science Technology and Medicine written by Thomas F. Glick and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the flowering of the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. This reference work will be useful to scholars, students, and general readers researching topics in many fields of study, including medieval studies and world history.
Download or read book The Orbs Around Us written by Richard A. Proctor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Orbs Around Us: A Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets, Meteors and Comets, the Sun and Coloured Pairs of Suns The paper on the Gamut of Light' presents the subject of spectroscopic analysis in a way which I have found effective with those readers who are not desirous of discussing the details of this mode of research. In the next two papers on Other Habitable Worlds and Other Inhabited Worlds, ' a sketch is given on the subject of the Plurality of Worlds. The fourth paper relates to the application of the Rosse Telescope to determine the heat of the lunar surface. Then follow papers on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter; two essays on Meteors, one relating to the past history and the other to the present condition of meteoric researches; a paper on Tyndall's Theory of Comets (a subject de serving close examination), and another on the general phenomena of comets and comets' tails. The three papers on the Solar Corona might have been added, almost as they stand, to my chapter on What we learn from the Sun, m Other Worlds, ' but for the requirements of Space. Lastly, there is a paper on the Colours of the Double Stars, a subject which the same cause compelled me to leave almost untouched in that work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wandering Stars About Planets And Exo planets An Introductory Notebook written by George H A Cole and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The space vehicle spectaculars of recent years have been revealing the full scope and beauty of our own solar system but have also shown that a growing number of other stars too have planetary bodies orbiting around them. The study of these systems is just beginning. It seems that our galaxy contains untold numbers of planets, and presumably other galaxies will be similar to our own. Our solar system contains life, on Earth: do others as well? Such questions excite modern planetary scientists and astro-biologists. This situation is a far cry from ancient times when the five planets that can be seen from Earth without a telescope were called the “wandering stars”.This notebook-cum-workbook provides an introduction to those profound and still-developing modern studies. Written by an expert in the field, it is pitched at a level suitable for beginning students. It is designed particularly for self-study but can also provide background support for students attending lecture courses or teachers developing such courses. The reader is encouraged to add to the arguments of the book as the subject develops. A special feature here is a substantial glossary of terms and people which serves as a starting point for further entries. Wandering Stars is a key to unlock the door to an exciting and fascinating universe which is still the object of active discovery./a
Download or read book The Sacred and the Sinister written by David J. Collins, S. J. and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science. Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.
Download or read book The Orbs of Heaven Or The Planetary and Stellar Worlds written by Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Stars and Planets written by Carole Stott and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From our solar system neighbors to the mysteries of deep space, this remarkable book explores the planets and stars of our galaxy and beyond. Will interplanetary travel become routine? Why do stars explode? KFK Stars & Planets will motivate avid young astronomers and aspiring astronauts to consider all the biggest questions.
