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INTRODUCTION PART ONE: ASTRONOMY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 1. Life and the Stars 2. Agriculture and the Calendar 3. Old Babylonian Sky-Lore 4. Assyrian Astrology 5. New-Babylonian Science 6. Chaldean Tables 7. Egypt 8. China 9. Greet Poets and Philosophers 10. Calendar and Geometry 11. Systems of World Structure 12 Hellenistic Astronomy 13. The Epicycle Theory 14. The Close of Antiquity 15. Arabian Astronomy PART TWO: ASTRONOMY IN REVOLUTION 16. Dark Europe 17. The Renascence of Science 18. Copernicus 19. Astronomical Computing 20. Tycho Brahe 21. The Reform of the Calendar 22. The Struggle over the World System 23. Kepler 24. Mechanics and Philosophy 25. The Telescope 26. Newton 27. Practical Astronomy 28. Astronomers on the Move 29. Refined Practice 30. Refined Theory PART THREE: ASTRONOMY SURVEYING THE UNIVERSE 31. The World Widens 32. The Technical Basis 33. Distances and Dimensions 34. Celestial Mechanics 35. Plurality of Worlds 36. Cosmogony and Evolution 37. The Sun 38. Passing Luminaries 39. Peculiar Stars 40. Common Stars 41. The Galactic System 42. Into Endless Space 43. The Life of the Stars APPENDICES REFERENCES INDEX

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Natural history Popular astronomy & space

• Full title: History of Astronomy
• Author: A. Pannekoek
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 521
• EAN: 9780486659947
• ISBN: 0486659941
• ID: 02569628
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Weight: 658 g
• Dimensions: 144 × 217 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 1990

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