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A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple (Paperback, 2008)
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A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple (Paperback, 2008)
Series: Archimedes, 19
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Although the development of ideas about the motion and trajectory
of comets has been investigated piecemeal, we lack a comprehensive
and detailed survey of ph- ical theories of comets. The available
works either illustrate relatively short periods in the history of
physical cometology or portray a landscape view without adequate
details. The present study is an attempt to review - with more
details - the major physical theories of comets in the past two
millennia, from Aristotle to Whipple. My research, however, did not
begin with antiquity. The basic question from which this project
originated was a simple inquiry about the cosmic identity of comets
at the dawn of the astronomical revolution: how did natural
philosophers and astronomers define the nature and place of a new
category of celestial objects - comets - after Brahe's estimation
of cometary distances? It was from this turning point in the
history of cometary theories that I expanded my studies in both the
pre-modern and modern eras. A study starting merely from Brahe and
ending with Newton, without covering classical and medieval thought
about comets, would be incomplete and leave the fascinating
achievements of post-Newtonian cometology unexplored.
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