Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Session 7 - some biographical details

Some background details will be discussed in class. Here are some dates of note:

Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 - 1543
De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium


Tycho Brahe
1546 - 1601


Johannes Kepler
1571 - 1630
Astronomia Nova

Galileo Galilei
1564 - 1642
Siderius Nuncius
Dialogue on Two Chief World Systems
Discourse on Two New Sciences


Isaac Newton
1642 - 1727
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)

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