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| Preface | 5 | |
| 1 | Planetary Theories Before Copernicus | 17 |
| 1 | Antiquity | 18 |
| 2 | The Middle Ages | 37 |
| 2 | The Life Story of Copernicus | 45 |
| 1 | Birth and Parentage | 45 |
| 2 | Youthful Studies and Travels | 48 |
| 3 | The Canon of Frauenburg | 53 |
| 4 | The Composition and Publication of the De Revolutionibus | 62 |
| 3 | The Mobility of the Earth | 68 |
| 1 | The Scope and Plan of the De Revolutionibus | 69 |
| 2 | The Apologia of Copernicus | 70 |
| 3 | The New Astronomy and the Old Physics | 72 |
| 4 | The Copernican Universe | 78 |
| 5 | The Status of the Copernican Theory | 83 |
| 6 | Precursors of Copernicus | 87 |
| 7 | A General Survey of the Copernican System | 90 |
| 4 | The Copernican System: Theory of the Earth's Motion | 94 |
| 1 | Diurnal and Annual Motions of the Earth | 94 |
| 2 | The Precession of the Equinoxes | 97 |
| 3 | The Earth's Eccentric | 108 |
| 5 | The Copernican System: Theory of the Moon's Motion | 116 |
| 1 | The Lunar Inequalities | 116 |
| 2 | The Moon's Motion in Latitude | 123 |
| 3 | The Distances of the Sun and Moon from the Earth | 124 |
| 6 | The Copernican System: Theory of the Planetary Motions | 131 |
| 1 | Sidereal and Synodic Motions of the Planets | 131 |
| 2 | Motions of the Planets in Longitude | 134 |
| 3 | Planetary Tables | 152 |
| 4 | Motions of the Planets in Latitude | 154 |
| 7 | The Establishment of the Copernican Theory | 162 |
| 1 | The Wittenberg School and the Prutenic Tables | 162 |
| 2 | Some English Disciples | 165 |
| 3 | Giordano Bruno and the Unbounded Universe | 170 |
| 4 | Tycho Brahe and the Revival of Observation | 172 |
| 5 | Johannes Kepler and the Transition to Dynamical Astronomy | 176 |
| 6 | Galileo and the Attack on the Traditional Cosmology | 184 |
| 7 | Rene Descartes and the Law of Inertia | 194 |
| 8 | Isaac Newton and Universal Gravitation | 198 |
| 8 | The Physical Verification of the Copernican Theory | 205 |
| 1 | The Deviation of Falling Bodies | 206 |
| 2 | The Variation of Gravity and the Figure of the Earth | 209 |
| 3 | The Circulation of the Atmosphere and Foucault's Experiments | 212 |
| 4 | The Variation of Latitude | 215 |
| 5 | The Aberration of Light | 215 |
| 6 | Annual Stellar Parallax | 217 |
| Epilogue | 219 | |
| Notes | 221 | |
| Select Bibliography | 229 | |
| Index | 233 |
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