Vortex Theory of Planetary Motions (History of Science)

Science & Math

Aiton, E.J

Astronomy & Space Science

American Elsevier / MacDonald

A comprehensive biography analysing the development of Leibniz's thought on the major 17th and 18th century themes of mathematics, natural philosophy and metaphysics. It draws on the most authoritative publications of Leibniz's works and on modern scholarship. Intended for historians of science, especially of mathematics and philosophy and science - educated general readers with an interest in the origins of modern science and philosophy, or in the lives of great innovators of the Age of Enlightenment.

Leibniz A Biography

Physics

CRC-Press

<p>Johannes Kepler is remembered today chiefly for the 3 laws of planetary motion known after him. Rejecting the view of those who regarded astronomical hypotheses as mathematical fictions, Kepler sought to derive the true motions of the planets from physical causes. Yet he combined his search for physical causes with a vision of the world as a manifestation of divine harmony. This led him to consider the formal causes or archetypes underlying the world's construction. Kepler's favorite astronomical work, Harmony of the World (Harmonice mundi), was planned in 1599 as a sequel to the Mysterium cosmographicum, although it was not completed &amp; published until 1619. In this vol., the translators have put the Harmony of the World into the kind of clear but earnest language which they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today. Illus.</p>

Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 209) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Biographies & Memoirs

Johannes Kepler

Field, J.V.

Duncan, A. M.

Professionals & Academics

The American Philosophical Society Press

Leibniz: Una Biografia (Spanish Edition)

Historical

Alianza Editorial Sa

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