Istoriia astronomii. Velikie otkrytiia - Dreier D.

The book of the authoritative British scientist John Dreyer is devoted to the history of astronomy from ancient times to the 17th century. The author traces the evolution of ideas about the structure of the universe, starting with the views of the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Greeks, illuminates the cosmological theories of Fales, Anaximandra, Parmenid and other Greek naturphilosophers, introduces the teachings of the Pythagoreans and Plato's ideas. Dreyer describes in detail the theory of the concentric planetary spheres of Eudox and Kalipp and the geocentric system of Ptolemy's universe. Next, the author examines the scientific views of medieval scholars of the West and the East, the ideas of Nicholas Kuzansky, Regiomontana, Kalkanini and other Renaissance thinkers and concludes his exhaustive work by outlining the theories of Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Kepler.