The Sleepwalkers A History Of Man's Changing Vision Of The UniversePDF电子书下载

Preface 9

Introduction 15

PART ONE：THE HEROIC AGE 17

1 Dawn 19

2 The Harmony of the Spheres 26

3 The Earth Adrift 43

4 The Failure of Nerve 53

5 The Divorce from Reality 66

Chronological Table to Part One 84

PART TWO：DARK INTERLUDE 85

1 The Rectangular Universe 87

2 The Walled-in Universe 97

3 The Universe of the Schoolmen 107

Chronological Table to Part Two 117

PART THREE：THE TIMID CANON 119

1 The Life of Copernicus 121

2 The System of Copernicus 194

Chronological Table to Part Three 223

PART FOUR：THE WATERSHED 225

1 The Young Kepler 227

2 The ＇Cosmic Mystery＇ 249

3 Growing Pains 270

4 Tycho de Brahe 286

5 Tycho and Kepler 305

6 The Giving of the Laws 317

7 Kepler Depressed 349

8 Kepler and Galileo 357

9 Chaos and Harmony 384

10 Computing a Bride 405

11 The Last Years 411

PART FIVE：THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 429

1 The Burden of Proof 431

2 The Trial of Galileo 471

3 The Newtonian Synthesis 504

Chronological Table to Parts Four and Five 518

EPILOGUE 521

Selected Bibliography 557

Notes 561

Index 617