Pioneers of Science

Genre(s): Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

Narrators: Availle, Kathleen Nelson, James Christopher, Utek, Megan Argo, Amy Gramour, Edward W. LaBonte, John Kooz, Mark F. Smith, Michael Lipschultz, Ali Kazerani, J. M. Smallheer, Simon Dexter

Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 11 hours and 14 minutes

Language: English

This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of well known astronomers like Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. In the second part, the biographies take a back seat, while scientific discoveries are discussed more extensively, like the discovery of Asteroids and Neptune, a treatise on the tides and others. (Summary by Availle)

Preface (Availle)

Lecture I: Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth (Kathleen Nelson)

Lecture II: Tycho Brahe and the Earliest Observatory (James Christopher)

Lecture III: Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion (Utek)

Lecture IV: Galileo and the Invention of the Telescope (Megan Argo)

Lecture V: Galileo and the Inquisition (Megan Argo)

Lecture VI: Descartes and his Theory of Vortices (Availle)

Lecture VII: Sir Isaac Newton (Amy Gramour)

Lecture VIII: Newton and the Law of Gravitation (Edward W. LaBonte)

Lecture IX: Newton's "Principia" (John Kooz)

Lecture X: Roemer and Bradley and the Velocity of Light (Mark F. Smith)

Lecture XI: Lagrange and Laplace - The Stability of the Solar System, and the Nebular Hypothesis (Michael Lipschultz)

Lecture XII: Herschel and the Motion of the Fixed Stars (Kathleen Nelson)

Lecture XIII: The Discovery of the Asteriods (Ali Kazerani)

Lecture XIV: Bessel - The Distance of the Stars, and the Discovery of Stellar Planets (Availle)

Lecture XV: The Discovery of Neptune (Ali Kazerani)

Lecture XVI: Comets and Meteors (John Kooz)

Lecture XVII: The Tides (J. M. Smallheer)

Lecture XVIII: The Tides, and Planetary Evolution (Simon Dexter)

The audiobook Pioneers of Science falls under the genres of Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics. It is written by Oliver Lodge.

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