Planetary Astronomy

Subject(s): Physics | How science works | Age: 14-16 | Type: Textbook | Publication Year: 1960 - 1969

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This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on ideas in cosmology in the fifth year of the Nuffield Physics course.

This book, first published in 1969, was written to provide information and data which would enable students to trace the extraordinary story of how scientists, by clever thinking, slowly refined their model of the planetary world from the crude, magically endowed systems of the ancient civilisations to the great Newtonian design. The book includes a series of clear, black-and-white, line diagrams.

Contents
• Note to the teacher
• Introducing this book
• The evidence of man's naked eye
• Man's view of the stars
• Man's view of the moon
• Man's view of the sun
• Man's view of the planets
• Man's theories
• The Greeks and earlier
• Copernicus' simpler scheme
• Precession of the equinoxes
• Man's discoveries
• Kepler's laws
• Galileo's discoveries
• Newton's grand design
• Man beings to explore the solar system
• Appendix
• Further reading

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx7fd

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