TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lodge,Oliver
TI  - Pioneers of science
T2  - Cambridge library collection
SN  - 9781108052511
AV  - QB35 .L82 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Astronomers
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - History
KW  - Tides
KW  - fast
N1  - Digital reprint. Originally published: London : Macmillan and Co., 1893; Includes index; Herschel and the motion of the fixed stars -- The discovery of the asteroids -- Bessel--the distances of thpt. I. Copernicus and the motion of the Copernicus and the motion of the earth -- Tycho Brahé and the earliest observatory -- Kepler and the laws of planetary motion -- Galileo and the invention of the telescope -- Galileo and the Inquisition -- Descartes and his theory of vortices -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Newton and the law of gravitation -- Newton's "Principia" -- Roemer and Bradley and the velocity of light -- Lagrange and Laplace : the stability of the solar system and the nebular hypothesis -- Herschel and the motion of the fixed stars -- The discovery of the asteroids -- Bessel : the distances of the stars and the discovery of stellar planets -- The discovery of Neptune -- Comets and meteors -- The tides -- The tides and planetary evolution
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