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050 00 $aQC122$b.C6 1985
100 1 $aCohen, I. Bernard,$d1914-2003.
245 14 $aThe birth of a new physics /$cI. Bernard Cohen.
250 $aRev. and updated.
260 0 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$cc1985.
300 $axiv, 258 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aBibliography: p. 240-245.
505 0 $a1. The physics of a moving Earth -- 2. The old physics -- 3. The Earth and the universe -- 4. Exploring the depths of the universe -- 5. Toward an inertial physics -- 6. Kepler's celestial music -- 7. The grand design : a new physics -- SUPPLEMENTS -- 1. Galileo and the telescope -- 2. What Galileo "saw" in the heavens -- 3. Galileo's experiments on free fall -- 4. Galileo's experimental foundation of the science of motion -- 5. Did Galileo ever believe that in uniformly accelerated motion the speed is proportional to the distance? -- 6. The hypothetico-deductive model -- 7. Galileo and the medieval science of motion -- 8. Kepler, Descartes, and Gassendi on inertia -- 9. Galileo's discovery of the parabolic path -- 10. A summary of Galileo's major discoveries in the science of motion -- 11. Newton's debt to Hooke : the analysis of curvilinear orbital motion -- 12. The inertia of planets and comets -- 13. Proof that an elliptical planetary orbit follows from the inverse-square law -- 14. Newton and the apple : Newton's discovery of the v 2/r law -- 15. Newton on "gravitational" and "inertial" mass -- 16. Newton's steps to universal gravity.
520 $aRelates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.
650 0 $aMechanics.
650 0 $aCelestial mechanics.
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