Course Information and Handouts
Course Description and Requirements
Epicycle Demonstration Programs
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 |