From Geocentric to Heliocentric: How Discoveries Are Made

Author:   Yunbao Ge (葛云保) ,  Zhaocan Liu (刘兆灿) ,  Qian Xu (徐倩) ,  Hao Ge (葛颢)
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
ISBN:  

9789811677786


Pages:   174
Publication Date:   26 January 2022
Format:   Hardback
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From Geocentric to Heliocentric: How Discoveries Are Made


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Has anyone ever seen with their own eyes that the Earth goes around the sun? Even to this day, no one has. However, 500 and even 2000 years ago, some astronomers managed to point out that this is the case. At that time, people’s range of activities was strictly confined, the technology and tools used were extremely primitive, and many of the mathematical methods used today had not been developed. How did those astronomers make and verify this discovery? This book explains this exciting demonstration process. It enables anyone with a basic junior-high-school knowledge of geometry and a certain degree of spatial imagination to understand this and other interesting discoveries in the solar system. By demonstrating this interesting process, the book not only satisfies readers' curiosity using the simplest mathematics, but also inspires them to explore the new and unknown world.

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Author:   Yunbao Ge (葛云保) ,  Zhaocan Liu (刘兆灿) ,  Qian Xu (徐倩) ,  Hao Ge (葛颢)
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9789811677786


ISBN 10:   9811677786
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   26 January 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Observing the sky.- Why observe the sky.- Secret trail of the sun, the moon and the stars.- Puzzles about the earth.- Guess what the universe is like.- Ptolemy’s Geocentric system which had dominated for a thousand years.- The sun in the center of the universe.- Combination of the two major systems.- Triumph of the Heliocentric Theory.

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