ABSTRACT
Originally published in English in 1973. This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered man’s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "astronomical revolution" was accomplished in three stages, each linked with the work of one man. With Copernicus, the sun became the centre of the universe. With Kepler, celestial dynamics replaced the kinematics of circles and spheres used by Copernicus. With Borelli the unification of celestial and terrestrial physics was completed by abandonment of the circle in favour the straight line to infinity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|58 pages
Copernicus And The Cosmic Overthrow
part II|259 pages
Kepler and the new Astronomy
part I|31 pages
The Beginnings
part II|123 pages
Celestial Physics or Astronomia nova
part III|95 pages
From Celestial Physics to Cosmic Harmony
part III|47 pages
J. A. Borelli and Celestial Mechanics