History of Astronomy by George FORBES read by Various | Full Audio Book

Описание: History of Astronomy by George FORBES (1849 - 1936)
Genre(s): Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

Read by: Larry Wilson, Jennifer Henry, Ian Virly, Ben Prince, Availle, realisticspeakers, Justin Ordway, Courtney Miller, KevinS in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Preface
00:06:05 - 01 - Chapter 1: Primitive Astronomy and Astrology
00:18:43 - 02 - Chapter 2: Ancient Chinese and Chaldaeans
00:31:57 - 03 - Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Astronomy
00:54:03 - 04 - Chapter 4: The Reign of Epicycles - From Ptolemy to Copernicus
01:06:02 - 05 - Chapter 5: The Discovery of the True Solar System - Tycho Brahe - Kepler
01:31:48 - 06 - Chapter 6: Galileo and the Telescope - Notions of Gravity by Horrocks, etc
01:43:37 - 07 - Chapter 7: Sir Issac Newton - Law of Universal Gravitation
01:59:31 - 08 - Chapter 8: Newton's Successors - Haley, Euler, LaGrange, LaPlance, etc
02:08:58 - 09 - Chapter 9: Discovery of New Planets - Herschel, Piazzi, Adams, and Le Verrier
02:26:41 - 10 - Chapter 10: Instruments of Precision - Size of the Solar System
02:52:25 - 11 - Chapter 11: History of the Telescope - Spectroscope
03:07:38 - 12 - Chapter 12: The Sun
03:27:39 - 13 - Chapter 13: The Moon and Planets
03:48:38 - 14 - Chapter 14: Comets and Meteors
03:58:35 - 15 - Chapter 15: The Stars and Nebulae

An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by recognising the different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit even to the ancients. No one can expect, in a history of astronomy of limited size, to find a treatise on 'practical' or on 'theoretical astronomy,' nor a complete 'descriptive astronomy,' and still less a book on 'speculative astronomy.' Something of each of these is essential, however, for tracing the progress of thought and knowledge which it is the object of this History to describe. - Summary from the Preface

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