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History
- Copernicus: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical
Center in Warsaw; Space.com pages;
Complete text
of De revolutionibus from the Jagiellonian University.
- Leonardo da Vinci: University of St Andrews page.
- Tycho Brahe: 15 Sept 1996 APOD;
Fredric Ihrén's page;
Rice University page.
- Christopher Clavius: University of St Andrews page;
Rice University page.
- Johannes Kepler: 6 June 1999 APOD;
Galileo Project page;
University of St Andrews page;
Rice University page;
University of Bonn links.
- Galileo: 13 Sept 1998 APOD;
14 Oct 2001 APOD;
Rice University Galileo
Project, ExploreZone page;
Space.com pages;
Alwyn Botha's quizzes;
University of St Andrews page;
The leaning tower experiment (PhysicsWeb article)
and NASA's feather drop page;
Mizar and heliocentric theory (C.M. Graney article);
Stellar Parallax (Graney article).
See also the general resource
page on History of astronomy and the Newton page.
Specific Topics
- Kepler's Laws: NASA Observatorium simulations;
Windows to the Universe page;
NASA page
on orbits and ellipses; U of Oregon 1st,
2nd,
and 3rd law pages.
- Sacred Geometry and Platonic Solids: Crystalinks page.
References
- Nicholas Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium,
1543.
- Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius (Starry Messenger);
includes his observations of the Moon, the Milky Way, and the
four moons around Jupiter.
- Tycho Brahe: J.R. Christianson, On Tycho's Island:
Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601, Cambridge University
Press 2000.
- Christoph Clavius: J.M. Lattis, Between Copernicus
and Galileo: Christopher Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic
Cosmology, University of Chicago Press 1994.
- Copernicus: Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican
Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western
Thought Harvard University Press 1957.
- Galileo: Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter: A Historical
Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, Penguin USA 2000.
- Kepler: Kitty Ferguson, The Nobleman and His Housedog: Tycho
Brahe and Johannes Kepler – The Strange Partnership that Revolutionised
Science Review 2002.
- History: D. Boccaletti, "From the epicycles of
the Greeks to Kepler's ellipse – The breakdown of the circle
paradigm," physics/0107009.
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