The birth of modern astronomy

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2013

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Wolfe, David
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University of Cape Town

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by Emeritus Professor David Wolfe, University of New Mexico and visiting lecturer, Physics Department, UCT. Professor Wolfe explores the foundations of astronomy, beginning with the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Babylonians, to the early modern period and the works of Brahe, Kepler, Copernicus and Newton in condifying the mathematical and theoretical models that underpin modern astronomy.
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astronomy
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Johannes Kepler
Nicholas Copernicus
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Tycho Brahe

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Wolfe, D. 2013. The birth of modern astronomy [OER].University of Cape Town, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4102

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