Planetary Motions: A Historical Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313332418)

Students in an introductory physics class learn a variety of different, and seemingly unconnected, concepts. Gravity, the laws of motion, forces and fields, the mathematical nature of the science - all of these are ideas that play a central role in understanding physics. And one thing that connects all of these physical concepts is the impetus the great scientists of the past had to develop them - the desire to understand the motion of the planets of the solar system. This desire led to the revolutionary work of Copernicus and Galileo, Kepler and Newton. And their work forever altered how science is practiced and understood.

Author: Norriss S. Hetherington
ISBN-10: 031333241X
ISBN-13: 9780313332418
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2006
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 10.50h x 7.37w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Science Books & Films 03/01/2007 pg. 59
Scitech Book News 12/01/2006 pg. 36