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Copernican revolution
- N. Swerdlow
- PhysicsNature
- 1975
Copernicus: Yesterday and Today*. (Proceedings of the commemorative conference held in Washington in honour of Nicolaus Copernicus, Vistas in Astronomy, Volume 17.) Edited by Arthur Beer and K. Aa.…
The Derivation and First Draft of Copernicus's Planetary Theory: A Translation of the Commentariolus with Commentary
- N. Swerdlow
- Physics
- 1 December 1973
Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
- S. Drake, N. Swerdlow, T. Levere
- Physics
- 1 November 1999
For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive…
Mathematical astronomy in Copernicus's De revolutionibus
- N. Swerdlow, O. Neugebauer
- Physics
- 1984
When I first laid out the framework for A History of Ancient Mathe matical Astronomy, I intended to carry the discussion down to the last applications of Greek astronomical methodology, i. e.…
The Empirical Foundations of Ptolemy's Planetary Theory
- N. Swerdlow
- Physics
- 1 August 2004
In beginning his consideration of the theory of the planets in Almagest 9.2, Ptolemy states that, just as he has already done for the Sun and Moon, he wishes now to show that the apparent, irregular…
An Essay on Thomas Kuhn's First Scientific Revolution, the Copernican Revolution
- N. Swerdlow
- History
- 1 March 2004
Abbreviations: CR Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution ET Kuhn, The Essential Tension SR Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions US Conant, On Understanding Science THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION,…
Copernicus’s Derivation of the Heliocentric Theory from Regiomontanus’s Eccentric Models of the Second Inequality of the Superior and Inferior Planets
- N. Swerdlow
- Physics, Geology
- 1 February 2017
A page of notes in Copernicus’s hand shows the origin of the numerical parameters in the Commentariolus from the Alfonsine Tables and provides evidence for the derivation of the heliocentric theory…
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