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History of Astronomy

Forbes, George

Read by Larry Wilson, Jennifer Henry, Ian Virly, Ben Prince, realisticspeakers, Justin Ordway, Courtney Miller and KevinS · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Chapters

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00 - Preface (6:06)
01 - Chapter 1: Primitive Astronomy and Astrology (12:38)
02 - Chapter 2: Ancient Chinese and Chaldaeans (13:13)
03 - Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Astronomy (22:05)
04 - Chapter 4: The Reign of Epicycles - From Ptolemy to Copernicus (11:59)
05 - Chapter 5: The Discovery of the True Solar System - Tycho Brahe - Kepler (25:45)
06 - Chapter 6: Galileo and the Telescope - Notions of Gravity by Horrocks, etc (11:49)
07 - Chapter 7: Sir Issac Newton - Law of Universal Gravitation (15:54)
08 - Chapter 8: Newton's Successors - Haley, Euler, LaGrange, LaPlance, etc (9:26)
09 - Chapter 9: Discovery of New Planets - Herschel, Piazzi, Adams, and Le Verrier (17:43)
10 - Chapter 10: Instruments of Precision - Size of the Solar System (25:43)
11 - Chapter 11: History of the Telescope - Spectroscope (15:13)
12 - Chapter 12: The Sun (20:01)
13 - Chapter 13: The Moon and Planets (20:58)
14 - Chapter 14: Comets and Meteors (9:56)
15 - Chapter 15: The Stars and Nebulae (40:11)

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