From geocentric to heliocentric: how discoveries are made / Yunbao Ge.
Ge, Yunbao.
2021
QB443
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Title
From geocentric to heliocentric: how discoveries are made / Yunbao Ge.
Author
Ge, Yunbao.
ISBN
9789811677793 (electronic bk.)
9811677794 (electronic bk.)
9811677786
9789811677786
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7779-3
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-7779-3 doi
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QB443
Dewey Decimal Classification
520
Summary
Has anyone ever seen with their own eyes that the Earth goes around the sun? Even to this day, no one has. However, 500 and even 2000 years ago, some astronomers managed to point out that this is the case. At that time, people's range of activities was strictly confined, the technology and tools used were extremely primitive, and many of the mathematical methods used today had not been developed. How did those astronomers make and verify this discovery? This book explains this exciting demonstration process. It enables anyone with a basic junior-high-school knowledge of geometry and a certain degree of spatial imagination to understand this and other interesting discoveries in the solar system. By demonstrating this interesting process, the book not satisfies readers curiosity using the simplest mathematics, but also inspires them to explore the new and unknown world.
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Introduction
Observing the sky
Why observe the sky
Secret trail of the sun, the moon and the stars
Puzzles about the earth
Guess what the universe is like
Ptolemy's Geocentric system which had dominated for a thousand years
The sun in the center of the universe
Combination of the two major systems
Triumph of the Heliocentric Theory.

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