Course Information and Handouts
Course Description and Requirements
Epicycle Demonstration Programs
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Lecture Supplements |
Laboratory Handouts |
Assignments |
| Chronology of early astronomy | Experiment 1 (Two Sphere Universe) | Paper 1 |
| Models of Planetary Motion | Experiment 2 (Retrograde Motion) | Paper 2 |
| "Worldview" of Renaissance | Experiment 3 (Galileo's inclined plane) | Paper 3 |
| Extract from Commentariolus | Paper 4 | |
| Equants and Minor Epicycles | ||
| Why did Copernicus put the sun at the center? (possible technical explanation) | ||
| Documents on the Trial of Galileo | ||
| Chronology: Tycho and Kepler | ||
| Notes on Newton | ||
| Excerpt from Principia (absolute space/time) | ||
| Reception of General Relativity | ||
| The Education of Albert Einstein | ||
| Planck and the Quantum | ||
| Michel Janssen's talk |