From Darkness to Light

Subject(s): Physics | How science works | Age: 14-16 | Type: Textbook | Publication Year: 1970 - 1979

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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 historical reader traces the development of ideas about the Universe from early times to Galileo while touching on the origins of other important explanatory ideas. The book includes two quotations from translations of Galileo’s writings.

Contents
• The Dark Ages
• The Arab civilisation
• The Middle Ages
• The Renaissance
• Leonardo da Vinci
• The break with the past begins
• The Copernican system
• The Counter- Reformation
• Tycho Brahe and Kepler
• Galileo

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx7fe

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