Hoskin Michael: The History of Astronomy
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: Astronomy, perhaps the first of the sciences, was already well developed by the time of Christ. Seventeen centuries later, after Newton showed that the movements of the planets could be explained in terms of gravitation, it became the paradigm for the mathematical sciences. In the nineteenth century the analysis of star-light allowed astrophysicists to determine both the chemical composition and…