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

Arthur Koestler ; with an introduction by Herbert Butterfield

Arkana, 1989, c1959

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"First published by Hutchinson 1959"--t.p.verso

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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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