Author: Small, Robert
Title: An Account of the Astronomical Discoveries of Kepler
Description: Madison [WI], Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1963. orig.cloth. 21x13cm, xiii,386 pp. Some rubbing. Good. In a rubbed, chipped & torn dustwrapper. ¶ Consists of a 13-page Foreword by William Salman + the facsimile reprint of the London 1804 edition. Contents: Of the Principal Motions & Inequalities of the Celestial Bodies; Of the More Ancient Theories & Planetary Systems, & Especially of the Ptolemaic System; Of the Copernican System; Of the System of Tycho Brahé; Of the Preparations to Kepler's Discoveries, & of his Original Intentions; Of Kepler's Planetary Theory, Founded on Apparent Oppositions, & of its Total Failure; Of Kepler's Solar Theory, that is, His Theory of the Second Inequalities; Of the Theory of Mars Resumed, & the Application to this Planet of the Physical Method of Equations together with Its Important Consequences; Concordance of Notes & Text.

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