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The Birth of Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Scholars Who Sequentially Ignited the Scientific Revolution
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    Chapter 2 Was It an Apple, Moon, or Planets for Newton?
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    Chapter 3 Galileo’s Other Revolution
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    Chapter 4 Ancient Greece Contributions to the Scientific Revolution
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    Chapter 5 Nicolaus Copernicus and the Heliocentric Model
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    Chapter 6 Tycho Brahe—The Meticulous Celestial Recorder
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    Chapter 7 Johannes Kepler—The First Data Analyst
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    Chapter 8 Kepler’s Attempts to Fit Orbits Geometrically
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    Chapter 9 Kepler’s 1st Law—Discovery of Elliptical Orbits
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    Chapter 10 The Eccentricity of Elliptical Orbits
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    Chapter 11 Kepler’s 2nd Law—Differentiated Orbital Speeds
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    Chapter 12 Kepler’s 3rd Law—Harmony of the Planets
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    Chapter 13 Implication of the Third Law to Orbital Speed
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    Chapter 14 The Third Law Is Independent of Planets’ Mass
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    Chapter 15 Newly Invented Number System Facilitating Kepler’s Planetary Calculations
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    Chapter 16 Numerical Example of the Complexity of Roman Arithmetic (Optional)
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    Chapter 17 Galileo Galilei—The Father of Science
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    Chapter 18 Galileo’s Discoveries Regarding Falling Bodies
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    Chapter 19 Galileo’s Elimination of Speed in the Calculation of Acceleration (Optional)
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    Chapter 20 Galileo’s Experimental Confirmation of His Acceleration Theory
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    Chapter 21 Rate of Fall is Independent of Body’s Mass
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    Chapter 22 Galileo’s Analysis of Projectile Motion
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    Chapter 23 Galileo’s Hint at the Concept of the Vector
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    Chapter 24 Galileo’s Puzzling Hint at Celestial Application
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    Chapter 25 Galileo’s Discoveries About Pendulum Motion
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    Chapter 26 Galileo’s Astronomical Discoveries
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    Chapter 27 Galileo’s Trial and Imprisonment
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    Chapter 28 Galileo’s Writings on Relativity and Infinities
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    Chapter 29 Galileo’s Work on Sound and Speed of Light
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    Chapter 30 René Descartes—The Rationalist Mathematician
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    Chapter 31 Isaac Newton and the Birth of Modern Physics
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    Chapter 32 The Publication of Principia
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    Chapter 33 The Bitter Dispute with Leibniz over Calculus Priority
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    Chapter 34 The Scientific Split Between England and Continental Europe
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    Chapter 35 Newton’s Later Years and Royal Mint Work
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    Chapter 36 Newton’s Semi-heretical Christian Beliefs
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    Chapter 37 Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
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    Chapter 38 Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
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    Chapter 39 Deriving Kepler’s 3rd Law from Newton’s Laws (Optional)
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    Chapter 40 Newton’s Generic Laws Versus Kepler’s Specific Laws
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    Chapter 41 The Rationale Behind the Gravitational Formula
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    Chapter 42 Rationale of Newton’s Formula Depends on Relative Distances (Optional)
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    Chapter 43 The Observer, the Organizer, and the Theorist
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    Chapter 44 The European Nationalities of the Six Scholars
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    Chapter 45 The Supposed Vocations of the Six Scholars
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    Chapter 46 A Tale of Two Laws—Bode’s Law and Kepler’s Law
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    Chapter 47 Developments in the Sciences Following Newton’s Discoveries
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Title
The Birth of Science
Published by
Springer International Publishing, November 2020
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-51744-1
ISBNs
978-3-03-051743-4, 978-3-03-051744-1
Authors

Kossovsky, Alex Ely

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