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Chapter 1: Motion in a circle concentric with the Earth does not allow the Moon to change sizes. The fact that it DOES change sizes was problematic for Aristotle, Aristarchus, and others. See for yourself! Read about the phases of the Moon and watch the Lunation Movie linked at the bottom of that page.
Chapter 2: Pythagoras and Music of the Spheres; Heliocentric model Java demonstration showing retrograde motion of Mars; McGraw Hill index of Quick-Time animations
Chapter 3: Ancient Planetary Model Animations
The animations illustrate the models of planetary motion found in the Almagest, by Claudius Ptolemy, and some of the models formulated by Arabic astronomers that correct some of the (as felt at the time) theoretical shortcomings of the Almagest models.; Models of Planetary Motion from Antiquity to the Renaissance; Statue Hid Hipparchus Star Catalog Physics Today; Ptolemy Tilted Off His Axis LA Times
Chapter 4: de Revolutionibus scanned in its entirety and on-line; Copernican Model, A Sun-Centered Solar System; Nicholas Copernicus
Chapter 5: The Galileo Project; Galileo museum in Florence, Italy; Tycho Brahe from Rice University; Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer; The instruments of Tycho Brahe; Johannes Kepler's Polyhedra; Kepler's Laws through Flash (page down to the bottom)
Chapter 6: Newton's Mountain-top Cannon; Sir Isaac Newton and the Laws of Gravity The Apollo 15 Feather-Hammer Drop "Galileo was correct!"; Isaac Newton's Gravity: How a major new exhibition gets the scientist wrong.
"Newton was not the first of the age of reason," Keynes said. "He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago." Newton opened a door to our world, sure. But he belonged to the world we have left behind. http://slate.msn.com/id/2108438/ - accessed 01/16/09.
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10