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001 2011033632
003 DLC
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008 110915s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011033632
020 $a9780199891009 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0199891001 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn752069062
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dYDX$dBTCTA$dIAD$dBDX$dYDXCP$dBWX$dABG$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQB361$b.B46 2012
082 00 $a523.2$223
100 1 $aBenson, Donald C.
245 14 $aThe ballet of the planets :$bon the mathematical elegance of planetary motion /$cDonald C. Benson.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$cc2012.
300 $axiv, 178 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe survival of the valid. Peer review ; The scientific method -- Birth. The bowl of night. The two-sphere universe ; Coordinate systems l The sun -- Epicycles and relative motion. A mechanical linkage ; Relative motion -- The deferent-epicycle model. Retrograde motion ; Ptolemy ; The deferent-epicycle model ; Intimations of numerology ; The equant -- Making money, et cetera. Epicyclic curves as decorative patterns ; Cycloidal curves -- Rebirth. The reluctant revolutionary. Adjusting the Ptolemaic theory ; Copernicus ; Galileo -- Circles no more. The ellipse ; Two pearls ; Tracking planets -- The war with Mars. Tycho Brahe ; Kepler -- Enlightenment. The birth of mechanics. Archimedes ; Galileo -- The astronomical alchemist. Newton's dynamics ; Rotational dynamics ; The law of universal gravitation -- The Greek alphabet -- Vectors.
650 0 $aPlanetary theory$xHistory.