The sleepwalkers : a history of man's changing vision of the universe
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The sleepwalkers : a history of man's changing vision of the universe
Arkana, 1989, c1959
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"First published by Hutchinson 1959"--t.p.verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A thought-provoking account of the scientific achievements and lives of cosmologists from Babylonians to Newton.
目次
The Sleepwalkers - Arthur Koestler Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Heroic Age
1. Dawn
2. The Harmony of the Spheres
3. The Earth Adrift
4. The Failure of Nerve
5. The Divorce from Reality
Chronological Table to Part One
Part Two: Dark Interlude
1. The Rectangular Universe
2. The Walled-in Universe
3. The Universe of the Schoolmen
Chronological Table to Part Two
Part Three: The Timid Canon
1. The Life of Copernicus
2. The System of Copernicus
Chronological Table to Part Three
Part Four: The Watershed
1. The Young Kepler
2. The "Cosmic Mystery"
3. Growing Pains
4. Tycho de Brahe
5. Tycho and Kepler
6. The Giving of the Laws
7. Kepler Depressed
8. Kepler and Galileo
9. Chaos and Harmony
10. Computing a Bride
11. The Last Years
Part Five: The Parting of the Ways
1. The Burden of Proof
2. The Trial of Galileo
3. The Newtonian Synthesis
Chronological Table to Parts Four and Five
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index
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