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A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts - Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts - Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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This book provides a chronological introduction to the sciences of
astronomy and cosmology based on the reading and analysis of
significant selections from classic texts, such as Ptolemy's The
Almagest, Kepler's Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Shapley's
Galaxies and Lemaitre's The Primeval Atom. Each chapter begins with
a short introduction followed by a reading selection. Carefully
crafted study questions draw out key points in the text and focus
the reader's attention on the author's methods, analysis, and
conclusions. Numerical and observational exercises at the end of
each chapter test the reader's ability to understand and apply key
concepts from the text. The Heavens and the Earth is the first of
four volumes in A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts.
This book grew out of a four-semester undergraduate physics
curriculum designed to encourage a critical and circumspect
approach to natural science, while at the same time preparing
students for advanced coursework in physics. This book is
particularly suitable as a college-level textbook for students of
the natural sciences, history or philosophy. It also serves as a
textbook for advanced high-school students, or as a
thematically-organized source-book for scholars and motivated
lay-readers. In studying the classic scientific texts included
herein, the reader will be drawn toward a lifetime of
contemplation.
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