LIBROS DEL AUTOR: bruce stephenson

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  • Portland’s Good Life
    R. Bruce Stephenson
    In Portland's Good Life, R. Bruce Stephenson discusses how Portland’s investment in sustainability helped stave off climate change and COVID-19. Stephenson tells the timeless story of the city’s private citizens who, devoted to the public good and grounded in the good life, built a city that honors their humanity. ...
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  • The Music of the Heavens
    Bruce Stephenson
    Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts to discern a Creator’s plan for the planetary system--an arrangement thought to be based on harmonic relationships. Challenging critics who characterize Kepler’s theories of harmonic astronomy as 'mystical,' Bruce Stephenson offers th...
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  • Kepler S Physical Astronomy
    Bruce Stephenson
    Kepler’s Physical Astronomy is an account of Kepler’s reformulation of astronomy as a physical science, and of his successful use of (incorrect) physics as a guide in his astronomical discoveries. It presents the only reliable account of the internal logic of Kepler’s so-called first and second laws, showing how and to what extent Kepler thought he ha...
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  • Kepler’s Physical Astronomy
    Bruce Stephenson
    From Hipparchus and Ptolemy in the ancient world, through Copernicus and Brahe in the sixteenth century, astronomers had used geometrical models to give a kinematic account of the movements of the sun, moon, and planets. Johannes Kepler revolutionized this most ancient of sciences by being the first to understand astronomy as a part of physics. By closely and clearly analyzing ...
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    86,28 €