The Birth of a New PhysicsRelates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion. |
Contents
THE PHYSICS OF A MOVING EARTH | 3 |
THE OLD PHYSICS | 11 |
THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE | 24 |
Copernicus and the Birth of Modern ScienceThe System | 50 |
Uniform Linear MotionA Locomotives Smokestack and a Moving | 117 |
KEPLERS CELESTIAL MUSIC | 127 |
The Ellipse and the Keplerian UniverseThe Three Laws | 144 |
Supplements 185 | 159 |
Galileos Experiments on Free Fall | 194 |
The HypotheticoDeductive Method | 207 |
A Summary of Galileos Major Discoveries in the Science | 214 |
The Analysis of Curvilinear Orbital | 218 |
Proof that an Elliptical Planetary Orbit Follows from | 224 |
Newtons Steps to Universal Gravity | 234 |
A GUIDE TO FURTHER READING | 240 |
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