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Published 1972 by Torun. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Great insight!
This is a small book but has great insight into the subject matter. I found the last chapter especially helpful. Because of the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment and yet the positive result of the Michelson-Gale experiment, it is about time the geocentric view point was given greater respect. The Tyconic system might be closer to reality after all.

explodes the myths, beautifully and clearly written
The only brief account, using understandable modern terminology, of what Ptolemy and Copernicus really did. Epicycles are just data anaylsis (Fourier series), they don't imply any underlying theory of mechanics(Mainzer got this wrong!). Copernicus did not prove that the earth moves,he made the equivalent of a coordinate transformation and showed that anearth-centered system and a sun-centered system describe the data withabout the same number of epicycles. For the reader who wants to understandthe history of ideas of motion, this is the only book aside from Barbour'sfar more exhaustive treatment. ... Read more

Book Description
The essays in Copernirus and his Successors deal both with the influences on Copernicus, including that of Greek and Arabic thinkers, and with his own life and attitudes. They also examine how he was seen by contemporaries and finally describe his relationship to other scientists, including Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. ... Read more