{"product_id":"constellations-and-conjectures-9789402423198","title":"Constellations and Conjectures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuote by W. H. Auden.- Prefatory Note for the First Edition.- Acknowledgments for the Second Edition.- Table of Contents.- Editor’s Introduction to the Second Edition.- The Conceptual Content of the Book.- Introduction to the Conceptual Content of the Book.- BOOK ONE – PART I: Cosmological Explanation, B.C.- The Great Facts of the Heavens.- Plato.- Eudoxus and ‘Plato’s Problem’.- Aristotle.- BOOK ONE – PART II: Ptolemy and Prediction.- Pre-Ptolemaic Anticipations.- The Power of the Epicycle-on-Deferent Technique.- Three-Dimensional Variations of Ptolemy’s Technique.- Ptolemy’s Ancient Legacy.- BOOK TWO – PART I: The Medieval Rediscovery of Ptolemy’s Tool Box.- ‘The Ptolemaic System’.- Supplementary Material for Book Two, Part I.- BOOK TWO – PART II: Copernicus’ Systematic Astronomy.- The Copernican System.- Further Aspects of Copernican Astronomy in Contrast to All that had Gone Before.- Tycho and Copernicus.- BOOK THREE – PART I: Kepler.- Kepler and the ‘Clean’ Idea.- Supplementary Material for Book Three, Part I.- Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53212602270039,"sku":"9789402423198","price":104.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constellations-and-conjectures-9789402423198","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}