Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983. Sleep walkers. New York, Macmillan, 1959 (OCoLC)647103914 |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arthur Koestler |
| OCLC Number: | 373901 |
| Description: | 624 p. illus. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Dawn -- The harmony of the spheres -- The earth adrift -- The failure of nerve -- The divorce from reality -- The rectangular universe -- The walled-in universe -- The universe of the schoolmen -- The life of Copernicus -- The system of Copernicus -- The young Kepler -- The "cosmic mystery" -- Growing pains -- Tycho de Brahe -- Tycho and Kepler -- The giving of the laws -- Kepler depressed -- Kepler and Galileo -- Chaos and harmony -- Computing a bride -- The last years -- The burden of proof -- The trial of Galileo -- The Newtonian synthesis. |
| Responsibility: | With an introd. by Herbert Butterfield. |
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Tags
Add tags for "The sleep walkers; a history of man's changing vision of the universe.".
Be the first.
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(3)
User lists with this item (3)
- Things to Check Out(5 items)
by sksionda3 updated 2012-09-20
- PHIL 173 - Harrington(28 items)
by jcurrie updated 2012-11-26
- arthur koestler(20 items)
by vertigo568
